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RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - L Verge - 03-06-2015 08:39 PM
(03-06-2015 08:12 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Kudos, Laurie! That is correct!
To conceal the true ownership the later British "HMS Wivern" was being constructed as the Egyptian warship "El Monassir" and was to have been named "Mississippi" upon delivery to the Confederates, and the "El Tousson" was to have been named North Carolina but was named "HMS Scorpion" under British flag.
For pictures and more, please go here:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Scorpion_%281863%29
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Wivern_(1863)
Laurie, you win an exciting Nile cruise:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_zEfPyO14J4
As soon as someone settles the crisis in the Middle East, I will be happy to book a voyage down the Nile!
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Rsmyth - 03-09-2015 11:18 AM
Ok, Rock Stars - What rock anthology (song) sometimes lasting 10 – 15 minutes long, was written about the wife of a Confederate Army Captain?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Anita - 03-09-2015 01:05 PM
"In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed" by the the Allman Brothers Band and the guitarist, Dickey Betts.
If this is the one, it's a great story in song. If it's not I like it anyway!
http://www.uofmusic.com/blog/4205/elizabeth-reed-the-allman-brothers-band-immortalized-under-pale-moonlight
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Rsmyth - 03-09-2015 01:57 PM
Great job Anita! Great song and great story.
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Gene C - 03-09-2015 02:25 PM
Here is the short version, only 5 minutes. Other versions are up to 16 minutes.
(it's an instrumental)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp1nyDF9Wak
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Eva Elisabeth - 04-30-2015 05:13 AM
Not a challenge I guess, but let's try...What is this (that makes it a trivia question on this forum)?
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RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - RJNorton - 04-30-2015 05:52 AM
The Lincoln "courting couch" that was in the parlor of the Ninian Edwards home in Springfield?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Eva Elisabeth - 04-30-2015 07:06 AM
Excellent guess, Roger, this is indeed a couch, but, sorry, not the one in the Edwardsens parlor.
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Gene C - 04-30-2015 08:02 AM
Looks familiar, but I just want everyone to know, I am not responsible for that large spot on the right side corner. - Fido
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - STS Lincolnite - 04-30-2015 08:23 AM
(04-30-2015 07:06 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Excellent guess, Roger, this is indeed a couch, but, sorry, not the one in the Edwardsens parlor.
Is it the couch in the parlor of the Samuel Mudd home where Booth once sat?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Eva Elisabeth - 04-30-2015 02:09 PM
Kudos, Scott - this is correct, and Fido is right, too, he wasn't responsible for any spots on this couch. I took this photo back in March:
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Since Fido spotted a spot on the couch, "less is more", and I know you have a link to the Aachen area, instead of a sofa you win Mies van der Rohe's 1929 Barcelona chair:
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[For background info on Mies v.d. Rohe (who was born in Aachen and died in Chicago), please go here:
http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-1313-post-36454.html?highlight=mies#pid36454 ]
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - L Verge - 05-02-2015 12:53 PM
What well-known woman of the Civil War era had a famous great-aunt on her father's side and a famous (later infamous) aunt on her mother's side?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - RJNorton - 05-02-2015 03:24 PM
Clara Barton?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - L Verge - 05-02-2015 07:19 PM
Sorry, but no, Roger. This lady never achieved the high degree of fame that Clara did.
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - RJNorton - 05-03-2015 08:54 AM
Oriana Moon Andrews?