Extra Credit Questions

[Lincoln Wonk]

(07-22-2012 04:14 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Today I am starting a new section in the Trivia category. I hope it catches on...we'll see. Teachers often ask their students extra credit questions on tests, in homework, or even over a weekend...."your answer must be in by Monday at 8:00 A.M." type of situation.

In other words the questions here might not involve the detail of what Joe may ask in his Stump the Yankee column or what I have been asking in the Trivial Trivia category.

Anybody can ask a question here.

I will start out with:

Name the city and circumstances where Abraham Lincoln first met Edwin Stanton.

They were trying a patent case as a team in Cincinnati. Stanton, hardly out of earshot of Lincoln, called his future president a long-armed ape.