Trivia Game # 60 - Week 3

[samgrant]

Trivia Game # 60 - Week 3

Posting the questions early, going to the Chicago Historical Society's Lincoln exhibition on Saturday (a handwritten Gettysburg Address, his writing desk, his death-bed, etc.).



Here are the questions for Week 3 of Game # 60


1. What landmark Civil War structure was destroyed by a storm on May 23, 1921?



2. What Union Army officer was awarded the "Thanks of Congress" for services he performed while at the rank of lieutenant colonel?



3. Her husband was a cousin of Robert E. Lee. One of her brothers was for a time a cabinet member, and another brother was a general. Name her.



4. In a Richmond, Virginia cemetery, in a section dedicated to Confederate soldiers killed at Gettysburg stands a memorial, not to a Confederate soldier, but to a civilian who was born 63 years after the war and who is buried in Florida. To whom is the memorial dedicated?



5. The entourage of one CW general included a player of a five stringed musical instrument which had been popularized by his late brother. Name the general and his musician pal.



Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, May 9. Good Luck!

 

[lauren777]

This one had some hard ones!

1) The Dunkard Church
2) Lieut. Col. Joseph Bailey
3) Elizabeth Blair Lee
4) Michael Shaara
5) General J.E.B Stuart and Sam Sweeney


Lauren

 

[sarladaise]

1. Dunker Church, Antietam Battlefield
2. Joseph Bailey
3. Elizabeth Blair Lee
4. Memorial bench to Michael Shaara
5. JEB Stuart, Samuel Sweeney

 

[Larry]

Trivia Answers

1) Dunker Church
2) Joseph Bailey
3) Elizabeth Blair
4) No answer- I hate when that happens. me too INCORRECT
5) J.E.B. Stuart / Sam Sweeney
Larry Gebing

 

[hoosier]

1. --- INCORRECT

2. Joseph Bailey

3. --- INCORRECT

4. --- INCORRECT

5. J. E. B. Stuart and Sam Sweeney

 

[Oxkern]

1. The Dunker Church at Antietam

2. Joseph Bailey

3. Elizabeth Blair Lee

4. Michael Shaara

5. J.E.B. Stuart and Sam Sweeney

 

[sockknitter]

1. Dunkard church at Antietam
2. Joseph Bailey
3. Cremora Cave Kemper INCORRECT
4. Michael Shaara
5. J.E.B. Stuart, Sampson D. Sweeny

 

[samgrant]

Answers for Week 3 of Game #60:



1. Dunker Church (Dunkard)


http://rockhay.tripod.com/peace/dunkerchurch/ankrum/incidents.htm


http://www.nps.gov/anti/historyculture/dunkerchurch.htm


http://www.libraries.psu.edu/do/digitalbookshelf/26832841/26832841_part_02.pdf


http://www.graveaddiction.com/dunkerch.html


http://www.brotherswar.com/Antietam-2.htm


http://www.ferenzi.com/MADDIE/trip/antietam01.htm




2. Joseph Bailey


http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/sources/recordview.cfm?content=/061/0406


http://www.civilwarhome.com/xanredriver.htm


http://famousamericans.net/josephbailey/


http://www.civilwarhome.com/baily.htm


http://www.civilwarhome.com/bailybio.htm


http://www.sonofthesouth.net/civil-war-pictures/photography/joseph-bailey.htm

http://www.crt.state.la.us/archaeology/BAILEYS/dam.htm


http://cenlamar.com/2008/02/25/historic-alexandria-baileys-dam/


http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wlhba/articleView.asp?pg=1&orderby=&id=14322


http://www.civilwar.org/historyclassroom/hc_baileysdamhist.htm




3. Elizabeth Blair Lee


http://civilwarwomen.blogspot.com/2009/01/elizabeth-blair-lee.html


http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Samuel_Phillips_Lee


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


http://www.boalmuseum.com/genealogy/1954.html


http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Francis_Preston_Blair


http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/sphlee.htm


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




4. Michael Shaara


http://www.pickettsociety.com/events/2008_07_03/index.html


http://cwmemory.com/2009/01/22/why-does-hollywood-cemetery-need-a-michael-shaara-memorial-bench/


http://www.southernsoldiers.org/hollywood_cemetery.htm


http://www.pickettsociety.com/


http://www.flickr.com/photos/justme_findingmyway/3195004823/in/set-72157612543248760/


http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9131721




5. Sam Sweeney (Samuel, Sampson) (Sweeny)


http://homepage.mac.com/heuerdesign/rootsofrock/sweeny.htm


http://www.cgim.org/sweeneyclan/misc/musical.html


http://www.drhorsehair.com/history.html


http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMKA7


http://www.trussel.com/bti/banjhist.htm


http://bluegrassbanjo.org/banhist.html




Here are the scores after Week 3 of Game #60:

FIRST DIVISION

Sarladaise - 14
natek1029 - 9
Rad2duhbone53 - 0
Susan Sweet - 0


SECOND DIVISION

lauren777 - 15
Sockknitter - 13
Oxkern - 12
Larry - 11
Hoosier - 10
kate_09 - 4


Thanks for playing. See you next week!


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