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Linda Anderson · 11-16-2012, 10:51 AM

Frederick Merserve, collector of Lincoln memorabilia?

RJNorton · 11-16-2012, 11:15 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.

J. Beckert · 11-16-2012, 11:43 AM

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

RJNorton · 11-16-2012, 11:50 AM

Nope, not him, Joe.

BettyO · 11-16-2012, 12:02 PM

The man who was the last surviving witness of the assassination and who was on that game show in the 1950s.....Samuel Seymour?

RJNorton · 11-16-2012, 05:11 PM

Nope, not him, Betty.

Hint #2: The person was moving about, not standing still, in the previous photo I mentioned.

RJNorton · 11-17-2012, 06:22 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:

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."

LincolnMan · 11-22-2012, 01:49 PM

The Confederate First National Flag (the Stars and Bars) derived much of it's design from what existing flag at that time?

Rsmyth · 11-22-2012, 05:24 PM

Canadian flag?

Jim Page · 11-22-2012, 05:49 PM

Texas?

LincolnMan · 11-22-2012, 08:05 PM

It was based on the National Flag of Austria-the blue field with the stars being the only difference.

LincolnMan · 11-25-2012, 09:59 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.

Linda Anderson · 11-25-2012, 12:16 PM

Theodore Dreiser?

LincolnMan · 11-25-2012, 02:29 PM

Linda: You're right! Great answer!

Linda Anderson · 11-25-2012, 02:52 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?