Trivia Game # 62 - Week 1

[samgrant]

Trivia Game # 62 - Week 1


Time to begin a new game. New players are welcome to join the game at any time, but the first week of any game is always an especially good time to join.


Here are the questions for Week 1 of Game # 62


1. What flag-bearer of a Rhode Island infantry regiment was born in what is now the Republic of South Africa?



2. What commissioner for a battlefield National Park had been a division commander in the battles which the park was to commemorate?



3. What American-born general died in Scotland in the last decade of the 19th century?



4. Give a nine letter word for a device used as a defense against enemy miners attempting to tunnel under a siege works or trenches.



5. What executive department (cabinet level) of the Federal government did not exist in the Confederate government?



Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, August 22. Good Luck!

 

[samgrant]

Bumping the thread.

 

[sarladaise]

1. Kady Brownell
2. Alexander P. Stewart
3. Charles Thomas Campbell
4. Camouflet
5. Department of the Interior

 

[sockknitter]

1. Kady Brownell
2. Alexander Peter Stewart
3. Charles Thomas Campbell
4. camouflet
5. Interior

 

[Larry]

Trivia Answers

How embassassing can it get? Make the first division , then can't come up with the answers. Nonetheless, here's what I have -
1) Kady Southwell Brownell
2) Nothing! INCORRECT
3) This should have been the second easiest question - but somehow I made it impossible. INCORRECT
4) Camouflet
5) Interior
Larry Gebing

 

[hoosier]

1. can't even come up with a guess INCORRECT

2. Charles H. Grosvenor INCORRECT (Close, no cigar.)

3. Charles Thomas Campbell

4. periscope INCORRECT

5. Dept. of the Interior

 

[samgrant]

Answers for Week 1 of Game #62:

(Please see my note below the scores.)


1. Kady Brownell

http://civilwartalk.com/Resource_Center/General_Resources/Women/kady-brownell-soldier-1842-a250.html


http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Kady.html


http://civilwarlogowear.com/articles/vivandier.shtml


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

http://civilwarwomen.blogspot.com/2006/07/kady-brownell-heroine-of-new-bern.html


http://www.civilwar.com/union-women/mrs-kady-brownell.html


http://www.essortment.com/all/womencivilwar_rnad.htm

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EXI/is_2_19/ai_84542212/



2. Alexander Peter (A. P.) Stewart

http://www.vic.com/tnchron/class/APstewart.htm

http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/chch/adhi2.htm

http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=S098

http://www.alexandria.lib.va.us/lhsc_online_exhibits/generals/stewart.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=hbsl1KxAGC4C&pg=PA286&lpg=PA286&dq=stewart+commissioner+%22Chickamauga+and+Chattanooga+National+Military+Park%22&source=bl&ots=pIqKFl7I2L&sig=igAK30xZJpoF4qL4F0F3E2L6LPk&hl=en&ei=0PyGSpP8N4awNt7PhfsO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8#v=onepage&q=stewart%20commissioner%20%22Chickamauga%20and%20Chattanooga%20National%20Military%20Park%22&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=Nh1z9f4UDRUC&pg=PA272&lpg=PA272&dq=stewart+commissioner+%22Chickamauga+and+Chattanooga+National+Military+Park%22&source=bl&ots=wbGPtGB6PO&sig=e_oG0QuCWiUFtBxQOqW2kcIWzSY&hl=en&ei=0PyGSpP8N4awNt7PhfsO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onepage&q=&f=false

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_P._Stewart


3. Charles Thomas Campbell

http://www.berkeleycitizen.org/scotland.html

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/world/scotland_dk.htm

http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/Biographies/BiosCharlesThomasCampbell.htm

http://www.pareserves.com/?q=node/2193

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

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5893945



4. Camouflet

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


http://www.beyondthecrater.com/about/siege-terms/


http://www.patriotfiles.com/index.php?module=pnEncyclopedia&func=display_term&id=174&vid=10


http://www.ut1859.com/TERMS.cfm


http://www.mogenweb.org/mocivwar/cwtermmeanning.htm


http://www.onlinelittlerock.com/content/historic/civil-war-terminology.htm


http://www.beacivilwarreenactor.com/glossaryofterms.php


http://www.20thtexas.com/troopersglossary1.html


http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/camouflet?db=luna


5. Department of the Interior

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

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

http://www.csawardept.com/history/Cabinet/index.html

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

http://books.google.com/books?id=I_0cTQo8t7oC&pg=PA202&lpg=PA202&dq=confederate++%22a+department+of+the+interior%22&source=bl&ots=pYAcUFZZe_&sig=yBaPAhIiBIkBAu6f4GUMAhETZZY&hl=en&ei=LxqHSuzYE5WwNpjE1fsO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=confederate%20%22a%20department%20of%20the%20interior%22&f=false




Only four players this week. Oxkern has informed me that he will be traveling and otherwise unavailable for some weeks.



Here are the scores after Week 1 of Game #62:


FIRST DIVISION

Sarladaise - 5
Sockknitter - 5
Larry - 3


SECOND DIVISION

Hoosier - 2
Oxkern - 0



After just over 2 years as Trivia Moderator, I have decided it is time for me to step down. It has become an obligation that I can no longer do justice to, as circumstances have developed which require more of my time.
I hope all the players over the years have enjoyed the game, I tried to make sort of fun, sort of interesting, and sort of difficult. While not always achieving those goals, I hope that you have enjoyed the past two years.
I have hinted to Mike and Ami my intentions, but not made it official with them. I wanted to inform the players first, especially the five of you stalwart regulars who have sustained the game over the period of my tenure.
I don't know if M&A will be able to find a new Trivia Moderator (any volunteers?). If they cannot, it is a possibility that I can return from time to time, but not regulary, with an occasional 4 or 6 week game, if a bunch of good questions occur to me that I can collect over time.
Well, while we see how things work out, I'll try to do my best in the next four weeks to complete Game #62.

sam



Thanks for playing. See you next week!