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RE: Extra Credit Questions - Linda Anderson - 11-16-2012 09:51 AM

Frederick Merserve, collector of Lincoln memorabilia?

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-16-2012 10:15 AM

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 10:43 AM

The guy who was holding Booth's Deringer? I forget his name.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 11-16-2012 10:50 AM

Nope, not him, Joe.

RE: Extra Credit Questions - BettyO - 11-16-2012 11:02 AM

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 04:11 PM

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 05:22 AM

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]

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 12:49 PM

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 04:24 PM

Canadian flag?

RE: Extra Credit Questions - Jim Page - 11-22-2012 04:49 PM

Texas?

RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnMan - 11-22-2012 07:05 PM

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 08:59 AM

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 11:16 AM

Theodore Dreiser?

RE: Extra Credit Questions - LincolnMan - 11-25-2012 01:29 PM

Linda: You're right! Great answer!

RE: Extra Credit Questions - Linda Anderson - 11-25-2012 01:52 PM

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?