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RE: Extra Credit Questions - Linda Anderson - 11-16-2012
Frederick Merserve, collector of Lincoln memorabilia?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-16-2012
Excellent guess, Linda, but it's not him.
Hint #1: A much younger photo of this person has been previously posted in the Trivia section. This is the gentleman when he was much older.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 11-16-2012
The guy who was holding Booth's Deringer? I forget his name.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-16-2012
Nope, not him, Joe.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - BettyO - 11-16-2012
The man who was the last surviving witness of the assassination and who was on that game show in the 1950s.....Samuel Seymour?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-16-2012
Nope, not him, Betty.
Hint #2: The person was moving about, not standing still, in the previous photo I mentioned.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-17-2012
I am out of clues. It's a 1936 photo of Isaac Diller, the neighbor who played with the Lincoln boys and actually knew Fido. Diller was 82 in 1936. Here is another photo of a young Diller:
![[Image: isaacdiller1.jpg]](http://rogerjnorton.com/isaacdiller1.jpg)
The movement in that previous picture I posted was described by Carl Sandburg as follows: "A squeaking farm wagon coming down the side street caused the lad on the sidewalk (Diller) to turn his head while the picture was being taken."
RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnMan - 11-22-2012
The Confederate First National Flag (the Stars and Bars) derived much of it's design from what existing flag at that time?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rsmyth - 11-22-2012
Canadian flag?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Jim Page - 11-22-2012
Texas?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnMan - 11-22-2012
It was based on the National Flag of Austria-the blue field with the stars being the only difference.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnMan - 11-25-2012
What famous novelist had actually considered returning home from vacation in Europe aboard the Titanic (but boarded a less expensive ship instead)? During his career he had interviewed Robert Todd Lincoln.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Linda Anderson - 11-25-2012
Theodore Dreiser?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnMan - 11-25-2012
Linda: You're right! Great answer!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Linda Anderson - 11-25-2012
Thanks, Bill! It's interesting to know that taking a less expensive ship may have saved Dreiser's life. On the other hand, if he did survive the disaster, he would have probably written a wonderful novel about it. Is the Robert Lincoln interview still available?
Dreiser wrote Sister Carrie which was made into a film called Carrie starring Laurence Olivier and Jennifer Jones, and An American Tragedy.
Is there a prize for getting the correct answer?