Trivia Quiz?

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Trivia: Test Your Civil War Knowledge

On April 12, 1861, the Civil War officially began with the first shot fired at Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina. How much do you know about the first battle in the War Between the States?

Who Were the Commanders for Each Side?

Which Side Won the Battle?

How Many Men Fought On Each Side?

How Many Soldiers Died During the Battle?

Two Soldiers Died During the Surrender Ceremonies of the Battle. How Did They Die?

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Which of these was NOT a Civil War battle?

Battle of Gettysburg Battle of Shiloh Battle of the Bulge The First Battle of Bull Run

I'd say Battle of the Bulge

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20 hours ago, phkrause said:

Hibernation means sleeping through the cold winter weather, of course. But what is the word for sleeping through the summer months?

A. Anternation
B. Bernation
C. Estivation
D. Preservation

C. Estivation

Estivation is the name for being in a state of torpor, or hibernation, during the summer.

Source: various web sites.

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20 hours ago, phkrause said:

Who was the President of the Confederacy during the Civil War?

Ulysses S. Grant Robert E. Lee Stonewall Jackson Jefferson Davis

I'm thinking Jefferson Davis!!

Answer: Jefferson Davis was best known as the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. After a distinguished military career, Davis served as a Democratic U.S. senator from Mississippi and as Secretary of War under Franklin Pierce before his election as the president of the secessionist Confederate States of America. He was later indicted for treason, though never tried, and remained a symbol of Southern pride until his death in 1889.

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19 hours ago, phkrause said:

Who Were the Commanders for Each Side?

Everybody knows about Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, the final commanders of the Union and Confederate armies, respectively. But do you know who was in charge at the very beginning of the war? At the battle of Fort Sumter, the Northern Army was led by Commander Robert Anderson, an exotic name if ever there was one. The South actually had themselves a cool-sounding leader though, in General Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard. Southern sympathizer or not, you have to admit that’s an awesome name to say over and over again, for no good reason at all.

 

19 hours ago, phkrause said:

Which Side Won the Battle?

As you well know, since the United States is still around and the Confederacy isn’t, the South lost the war. These kinds of things tend to happen when your opponent has literally twice as many soldiers as you do.

But what many might not remember is that the losers drew first blood. The Confederate States of America started the Battle of Fort Sumter by firing upon it, and actually won the thing. After 36 hours of fighting, the North retreated and gave the fort up to the South. This is proof positive that, sometimes, first impressions don’t matter one bit. Having almost six times as many men as the other side probably didn’t hurt much either. If they had thought to do that every battle, they might have actually won this thing.

 

19 hours ago, phkrause said:

How Many Men Fought On Each Side?

That’s right, the Southern forces at Sumter were six times larger than Northern squad. Even though the Confederates were famous for being greatly outnumbered during the war, they absolutely weren’t on this day. They had over 500 men that day (exact numbers are unknown), while the Union had to make do with just 85 soldiers. Clearly, instead of making do, they made doo-doo.

 

19 hours ago, phkrause said:

How Many Soldiers Died During the Battle?

We’ve already established that, in a war where Side A trounced Side B, Side B actually gained the first point on the scoreboard. In a related story, one of the bloodiest, most fatal wars in American history saw exactly ZERO deaths its first battle. That’s right, not a single person died during battle at Fort Sumter.

Afterwards, on the other hand…

 

19 hours ago, phkrause said:

Two Soldiers Died During the Surrender Ceremonies of the Battle. How Did They Die?

The South allowed the North to hold a 100-cannon salute in honor of their lost fort. Unfortunately, something horrible happened at cannon 47. Soldier Daniel Hough was in charge of firing the cannon, which went off prematurely and exploded. Hough died instantly, while another soldier (Edward Galloway) suffered catastrophic wounds and died five days later.

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19 hours ago, phkrause said:

Which of these was NOT a Civil War battle?

Battle of Gettysburg Battle of Shiloh Battle of the Bulge The First Battle of Bull Run

I'd say Battle of the Bulge

Answer: The Civil War consisted of nearly 50 major battles and about 100 others that had major significance including the Battle of Gettysburg, the Battle of Shiloh, and the First Battle of Bull Run. However, the Battle of the Bulge was the largest and bloodiest battle fought by the U.S. during World War II. It involved 610,000 Americans, 55,000 British, and 72,000 Free French, fighting along Europe's Western Front for nearly 40 days. There were 89,000 American casualties and over 100,000 German casualties.

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What is the highest waterfall in North America?

A. Shoshone Falls
B. Ruby Falls
C. Niagara Falls
D. Yosemite Falls

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Who was the first president born in a hospital?

Ronald Reagan Jimmy Carter Gerald Ford John F. Kennedy

I got no idea, so I'm gonna guess JFK??

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How Much Do You Know About Apollo 13?

On April 13, 1970, on oxygen tank exploded aboard Apollo 13, damaging the ship and changing the crew's mission from one of reaching the moon to one of survival. See how much you know about the space mission with a story straight out of Hollywood!

Crew Member Jack Swigert Forgot to Fulfill What Civic Duty Before Leaving for Space?

Sam Greenberg of the Grumman Aerospace Corporation Sent a Joke Invoice for What Service after Apollo 13 Successfully Made it Home?

What Jim Lovell Possession Fetched Almost 400 Grand at Auction?

How Did One 23-Year-Old Justify the Negative Review on His Comment Card after Seeing a Test Screening of the Apollo 13 Movie?

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What is the rival gang of the Sharks in West Side Story?

The Eagles The Jets The Chiefs The Giants

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21 hours ago, phkrause said:

What is the highest waterfall in North America?

A. Shoshone Falls
B. Ruby Falls
C. Niagara Falls
D. Yosemite Falls

D. Yosemite Falls

Yosemite Falls in California is the highest waterfall on the continent at 2,450 feet. It's the fifth-highest in the world.

Source: various web sites.

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20 hours ago, phkrause said:

Who was the first president born in a hospital?

Ronald Reagan Jimmy Carter Gerald Ford John F. Kennedy

I got no idea, so I'm gonna guess JFK??

Answer: Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital. He was born James Earl Carter, Jr. on October 1, 1924 at the Wise Sanitarium in Plains, Georgia – now the Lillian G. Carter Nursing Center – which is still in use today. Carter served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for work to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.

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21 hours ago, phkrause said:

Crew Member Jack Swigert Forgot to Fulfill What Civic Duty Before Leaving for Space?

48 hours before takeoff, one of the Apollo 13 crew members was accidentally exposed to rubella and consequently pulled from the mission. He was replaced by Jack Swigert who, in all the commotion, apparently forgot to do that thing every American always puts off doing until mid-April: file his income taxes. According to NASA transcripts, he asked for a bit more time while aboard the shuttle, saying "things kind of happened real fast down there, and I do need an extension."

 

21 hours ago, phkrause said:

Sam Greenberg of the Grumman Aerospace Corporation Sent a Joke Invoice for What Service after Apollo 13 Successfully Made it Home?

The Grumman Aerospace Corporation's lunar module was critical in getting the three crew members of Apollo 13 home safely. The men had to move from their spaceship into the lunar module, which would carry them and their spaceship home. This was that vessel we mentioned earlier meant to carry two people for 45 hours, but that performed a task twice as long for three. When everyone was back home safe, Sam Greenberg, a pilot for Grumman, sent an invoice to the parties involved for towing the NASA ship back from the moon. Charging $4 for the first mile and $1 for each additional one of the 400,000 miles back home, along with a few surcharges, the bill came to 400,540.05. But Greenberg threw in a commercial discount and offered to knock off another 2% if it was paid in cash.

 

21 hours ago, phkrause said:

What Jim Lovell Possession Fetched Almost 400 Grand at Auction?

We're guessing you already know this, but they made a movie about the Apollo 13 mission. And one item featured in the movie was a checklist astronaut Jim Lovell used throughout the mission, on which he took notes and made calculations crucial to the flight's survival. That book became famous enough that when the real-life version of it went up for auction in 2011, it brought in $388,375 for Lovell. Well, except for one problem: NASA argued the checklist and other similar spacecraft materials were their property, meaning Lovell wouldn't be entitled to the nearly $400,000 payout. No problem. In 2012, a law was passed saying astronauts owned any such materials.

 

21 hours ago, phkrause said:

How Did One 23-Year-Old Justify the Negative Review on His Comment Card after Seeing a Test Screening of the Apollo 13 Movie?

The Ron Howard film about the famed spacecraft was a big hit, and everyone loved it. Well, except for one 23-year-old viewer at a test screening who wrote a less than favorable comment card. His complaint? The movie was too unrealistic. If a crew had landed in the ocean as they did in the film, they wouldn't have survived. He called it, "Terrible. More Hollywood BS."

Hey, we don't blame him for not thinking it was real. It's a pretty unbelievable story.

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20 hours ago, phkrause said:

What is the rival gang of the Sharks in West Side Story?

The Eagles The Jets The Chiefs The Giants

Answer: West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, and music by Leonard Bernstein. The story is set in the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City in the mid-1950s, an ethnic, blue-collar neighborhood. The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds. The members of the Sharks, from Puerto Rico, are taunted by the Jets, a white gang. The young protagonist, Tony, a former member of the Jets and best friend of the gang leader, Riff, falls in love with Maria, the sister of Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks. It was inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

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The slang term "drinking the Kool-Aid" refers to what mass tragedy?

A. Heaven's Gate
B. Jonestown
C. Branch Davidian Massacre
D. Order of the Solar Temple

Who knew?? Well I don't believe it was C or A, because that phrase was already being used!! Never heard of D! Gonna go with B??

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What did John Wilkes Booth shout after shooting President Lincoln?

Semper fidelis! Carpe diem! Ceteris paribus! Sic semper tyrannis!

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4 Trivia Questions about the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

On the night of April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth. On the anniversary of his assassination, honor Lincoln's memory by trying your luck with these trivia questions about the final days of America's 16th president.

What Warnings Were There Regarding Lincoln's Safety?

The Story Goes That Booth Wanted to Kill Lincoln, but What Did Booth Really Want to Do?

Why Was Lincoln's Private Box Unguarded?

How Did the Assassination Change the Theater Scene in Washington?

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Which of these men conspired with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Abraham Lincoln?

Lewis Powell Andrew Johnson Salmon P. Chase William Seward

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17 hours ago, phkrause said:

The slang term "drinking the Kool-Aid" refers to what mass tragedy?

A. Heaven's Gate
B. Jonestown
C. Branch Davidian Massacre
D. Order of the Solar Temple

Who knew?? Well I don't believe it was C or A, because that phrase was already being used!! Never heard of D! Gonna go with B??

B. Jonestown

Drinking the Kool-Aid refers to the Jonestown Massacre, in which 909 followers of Jim Jones willingly drank a concoction of Kool-Aid, cyanide, Valium, Phenergan and chloral hydrate.

Source: various web sites.

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17 hours ago, phkrause said:

What did John Wilkes Booth shout after shooting President Lincoln?

Semper fidelis! Carpe diem! Ceteris paribus! Sic semper tyrannis!

Answer: On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. At 10:15, Booth slipped into the box and fired his .44-caliber single-shot derringer pistol into the back of Lincoln’s head. After stabbing an army officer who rushed at him, Booth leapt onto the stage and shouted, “Sic semper tyrannis!” (“Thus ever to tyrants!”–the Virginia state motto). The phrase is meant to signify that tyrants will always be overthrown and removed from power. Timothy McVeigh was wearing a T-shirt with this phrase and a picture of Lincoln on it when he was arrested on April 19, 1995, the day of the Oklahoma City bombing.

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17 hours ago, phkrause said:

What Warnings Were There Regarding Lincoln's Safety?

There had been some concern that someone would try to hurt Lincoln because less than a week earlier, Robert E. Lee, the general in charge of the Confederate Army, had surrendered at the Appomattox courthouse, effectively ending the Civil War (though there were still Confederate officers and troops fighting on their own). However, there had been no direct threats; the concern was simply a good guess. 

Interestingly, though, Booth had tried earlier in the year to kill Lincoln. Lee's surrender was only one part of an extensive list of reasons why Booth wanted Lincoln dead. So while the fear that someone would try to kill Lincoln was well-founded, it was based on the wrong event. Lincoln had actually been in danger for weeks from Booth, who had previously tried to shoot him during the inauguration. A witness who stopped Booth said it would have been possible for Booth to shoot the president then. Amazingly, Booth wasn't ejected from the inauguration -- he was seen watching it. Note that in the 1860s, the Secret Service was not present as a protective barrier; they didn't start protecting presidents until the early 1900s.

 

17 hours ago, phkrause said:

The Story Goes That Booth Wanted to Kill Lincoln, but What Did Booth Really Want to Do?

Booth did want Lincoln dead, but he wanted much more than just that one death. He wanted to destroy the Union (and technically the U.S.) government completely as revenge for what they were doing to the South. Booth had a couple of groups of co-conspirators; one group went with him to try to kidnap Lincoln in March of that year; another was assigned to carry out simultaneous murders on April 14. Booth was going to shoot Lincoln; as an actor, Booth knew Ford's Theater well and had acted there before, so it wouldn't have been strange for Booth to show up there. He also knew which line in the play would get peals of laughter from the audience, which he thought would mask the sound of the gun.

Booth's plan was to take out Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and William Seward, the secretary of state. He thought that if he killed the president, and the replacement president (Johnson, he could demoralize and paralyze the Union. Two of Booth's cronies were assigned to kill Johnson and Seward; neither succeeded. In fact, the man who was supposed to kill Johnson chickened out. However, Seward was badly wounded, though he recovered. Booth had hoped to also kill Ulysses S. Grant, who was supposed to go to the theater with the Lincolns. However, Grant canceled.

 

17 hours ago, phkrause said:

Why Was Lincoln's Private Box Unguarded?

John Frederick Parker, a Washington, D.C., policeman, was assigned to stand guard at the door to the theater box occupied by Lincoln and his party. Not long after the play got under way, Parker abandoned his post for a seat in the first gallery from which vantage point he could actually see the play. When intermission time rolled around, Parker went even farther afield, joining the coachman and footman for Lincoln's carriage in a trip next door to the Star Saloon for some liquid refreshment. With Lincoln's box no longer guarded, Booth had no trouble gaining access to his target.

 

17 hours ago, phkrause said:

How Did the Assassination Change the Theater Scene in Washington?

Ford's Theater had been a popular venue, but after the assassination, the Secretary of War had to place the theater under constant guard. People were so upset at Lincoln's death that there were threats to destroy the theater itself. The theater was readied for a re-opening, but the populace wasn't having any of that -- there was a strong movement against ever using the theater again. The government bought the building and used it for offices for several years; after a severe structural collapse that killed workers, the building was fixed up and became a warehouse. In the 1960s, however, the building was remodeled again as a theater and began putting on performances. Eventually, the theater was assigned to the National Park Service, and it is now Ford's Theatre National Historic Site. It's also still a working theater.

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17 hours ago, phkrause said:

Which of these men conspired with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Abraham Lincoln?

Lewis Powell Andrew Johnson Salmon P. Chase William Seward

Answer: Lewis Powell was an American citizen who attempted to assassinate United States Secretary of State William H. Seward on April 14, 1865. He was a conspirator with John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln the same night. Booth assigned Powell to kill Secretary of State William Seward. He entered the Seward home and severely injured Seward, Seward’s son, and a bodyguard. Powell and three others, including Mary Surratt, were sentenced to death by a military tribunal and were executed by hanging in July 1865.

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In 1892, which product did the William Wrigley begin including with the Wrigley Company's baking powder?

A. Chewing gum
B. A baseball
C. Life Savers
D. Soap

I'm thinking "gum!"

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Who bought a ticket for the Titanic but ended up not boarding the ship?

Babe Ruth Mark Twain Henry Ford Milton Hershey

Pretty sure it wasn't Ruth! My thought is, is that its Hershey??

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Who bought a ticket for the Titanic but ended up not boarding the ship?

Babe Ruth Mark Twain Henry Ford Milton Hershey

Pretty sure it wasn't Ruth! My thought is, is that its Hershey??