Trivia Game # 59 - Week 4

[samgrant]

Trivia Game # 59 - Week 4




Here are the questions for Week 4 of Game # 59


1. What traditional Irish game did Union soldiers play in West Virginia in their spare time? (left over from last week)


2. After the war, this captain who served in John Singleton Mosby's regiment, founded a school for boys in north central Virginia which still exists today as a college preparatory boarding school. Name him.


3. Name the common ancestor (according to sources) of both Abraham Lincoln and Elvis Presley. (left over from the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Extravaganza)


4. What general, who was killed early in the war, was the son of a former Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State?


5. Name the future brothers-in-law who some credit with saving an important position at Gettysburg.



Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, March 28. Good Luck!

 

[samgrant]

Bumping the thread.

 

[samgrant]

Bump ..... 2.

 

[traveller]

1. Rugby INCORRECT

2. Robert Stringfellow Walker

3. Lincoln's great-great grandfather, Isaiah Harrison.

4. John R. Meigs INCORRECT

5. Alonzo B. Whitney and Alpheus Cheney INCORRECT

 

[Larry]

Trivia Answers

1) Irish Road Bowling
2) Robert Stringfellow Walker
3) Isiah Harrison
4) Banard Elliott Bee Jr.
5) :noway: No idea at all INCORRECT
Larry Gebing

 

[Oxkern]

1. Irish Road Bowling

2. Robert Stringfellow Walker

3. Isaiah Harrison

4. ? INCORRECT

5. Washington A. Roebling & General G. K. Warren

 

[sarladaise]

1. Irish Road Bowling
2. Robert Stringfellow Walker
3. Isiah Harrison
4. Barnard Elliot Bee, jr.
5. Gouverneur K. Warren, Washington A. Roebling

 

[hoosier]

1. Irish road bowling

2. no answer INCORRECT

3. Elvis was descended from Abe's great-great-grandfather, Isaiah Harrison

4. Thought I could grind this one out, but can't find anyone who held all three positions. INCORRECT

5. Gouverneur Warren and Washington Roebling

 

[sockknitter]

1. Irish road bowling
2. Robert Stringfellow Walker
3. Isaiah Harrison
4.stumped and bumped INCORRECT

5.AWOL INCORRECT

 

[samgrant]

Answers for Week 4 of Game #59:


1. (Irish) Road Bowling

http://www.wvirishroadbowling.com/653004.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/23/sunday/main965282.shtml

http://statejournal.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=10564

http://www.wvirishroadbowling.com/751372.html

http://tullysaranbullets.blogspot.com/

http://www.wvirishroadbowling.com/653070.html

http://civilwartalk.com/forums/campfire-chat-general-discussions/29914-st-patricks-day-poem.html



2. Robert Stringfellow Walker

http://www.mosocco.com/companyb.html

http://www.historicmosbysrangers.org/brian.html

http://www.businessnc.com/index.php?src=directory&view=articles&query=Category.eq.Education&refno=628&srctype=businessnc_articles


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodberry_Forest_School

http://wikimapia.org/2000780/Woodberry-Forest-School



3. Isaiah Harrison

http://elvisthevoice.blogspot.com/2007/03/elvis-was-related-to-abraham-lincoln.html

http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/archive/oldnews6/elvis.htm

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000062/bio

http://www.elvisthevoice.com/elvisresourcesencyclopaedia.htm



4. Bernard Elliot Bee, Jr.

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMJWT

http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Barnard:E:Bee:Sr.html

http://www.bambooweb.com/articles/b/a/Barnard_E._Bee,_Sr..html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard_E._Bee,_Sr.

http://www.gardeningdaily.com/flowers-and-plants/Barnard_E._Bee,_Sr.



5. Gouverneur Kemble Warren and Washington Augustus Roebling

http://www.gdg.org/Research/People/Chamberlain/savior1.html

http://www.inventionfactory.com/history/RHAgen/warbio.html

http://civilwarstudies.org/articles/vol_3/augustus-roebling.shtm

http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Roebling__Washington.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=nSnw3YPGN-0C&pg=PA281&lpg=PA281&dq=roebling+warren+%22little+round+top%22&source=bl&ots=YR-SjUKQDC&sig=hUkR6m8P76NM5Oruk3HsAzDIhSU&hl=en&ei=sBDFSd_FE6TnnQeV2uWdDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result




I guess I can keep using those Republic of Texas government posts as clues as long as the players keep falling for it.

Welcome back to traveller who, when not travelling, joins the game from time to time.

Congrats to sarladaise, another perfect week!


Here are the scores after Week 4 of game #59:

FIRST DIVISION

Sarladaise - 19
Rad2duhbone53 - 0
natek1029 - 0
Susan Sweet - 0


SECOND DIVISION

Larry - 16
Oxkern - 16
Sockknitter - 14
Hoosier - 8
traveller - 2
EMPOWERS - 0
hurryuphill - 0


Thanks for playing. See you next week!