+- Lincoln Discussion Symposium (https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium)
+-- Forum: Lincoln Discussion Symposium (https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/forum-1.html)
+--- Forum: Trivia Questions - all things Lincoln (https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/forum-8.html)
+--- Thread: Extra Credit Questions (/thread-3582.html)
Pages:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219
220
221
222
223
224
225
226
227
228
229
230
231
232
233
234
235
236
237
238
239
240
241
242
243
244
245
246
247
248
249
250
251
252
253
254
255
256
257
258
259
260
261
262
263
264
265
266
267
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280
281
282
283
284
285
286
287
288
289
290
291
292
293
294
295
296
297
298
299
300
301
302
303
304
305
306
307
308
309
310
311
312
313
314
315
316
317
318
319
320
321
322
323
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 02-02-2019
The Lincolns stayed in the Astor House in NYC during the inaugural journey. So I shall guess the Astor House.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 02-02-2019
Hotel is correct, Roger, but not the Astor.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 02-02-2019
How about the Fifth Avenue Hotel where Mary Lincoln stayed?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 02-02-2019
Mary is hot, but still not the correct place.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 02-02-2019
Perhaps the Metropolitan?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 02-02-2019
What about the hotel where she stayed during the clothing sale "scandal?" Was it the St. Denis?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Steve - 02-02-2019
There are current plans to demolish what remains of the St. Denis
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 02-02-2019
Kudos, Laurie, that is correct. I found the image here - the article is entertaining and well worth reading:
http://americanpast.blogspot.com/2013/04/mary-lincoln-in-new-york_23.html?m=1
This is a nowadays photo of the hotel:
https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/a-desperate-mrs-lincoln-visits-new-york-in-1867/
Laurie, you win a trip to the original St. Denis, which actually means a trip to Paris:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Saint-Denis
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 02-02-2019
(02-02-2019, 05:50 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Kudos, Laurie, that is correct. I found the image here - the article is entertaining and well worth reading:
http://americanpast.blogspot.com/2013/04/mary-lincoln-in-new-york_23.html?m=1
This is a nowadays photo of the hotel:
https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/a-desperate-mrs-lincoln-visits-new-york-in-1867/
Laurie, you win a trip to the original St. Denis, which actually means a trip to Paris:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Saint-Denis
That works for me. My last trip to Paris was in 1971.
The history of the Basilica is amazing!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 02-03-2019
As is the list of VIP burials!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 02-09-2019
Let's try this one without Googling: What film was the highest grossing of the silent film era? What book was it based on? Who authored the book?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 02-09-2019
I'll guess "Birth of a Nation", but I can't say what book it was based on.
Yankee - .5
Laurie - 0
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Steve - 02-09-2019
Birth of a Nation was based on the novel The Clansman by Thomas Dixon.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 02-09-2019
I agree with Joe and Steve...Birth of a Nation seems like the logical answer. But maybe Laurie asked this because the answer is not the logical one; so I will say Ben-Hur based on the book by Lew Wallace who was on the 1865 military commission that tried the Lincoln conspirators.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 02-09-2019
The New Jersey Yankee gets .5 for correctly answering "Birth of a Nation" as the highest grossing film. Southern me is outnumbered, because a Pennsylvania Yankee earned the other .5 for completing the question with "The Clansman" and Thomas Dixon.
Dixon wrote a number of things that are probably totally banned today. He put the capital letters in "racism" during a time when American society was more than ready to read his work in order to reinforce their attitudes on the situation.