Assassination Trivia

[RJNorton]

I am prepared for this to be a complete dud. Occasionally, when I was teaching, I would give extra credit assignments like this for over the weekend. The vast majority of students ignored them, but there were always a few who enjoyed the challenge. We will see if anyone responds. If not, I promise not to try something like this ever again.

1. Start with the year John Wilkes Booth was born.

2. Add the room number George Atzerodt was assigned when he got a room at the Kirkwood House.

3. Subtract Lewis Powell's age when he was hanged.

4. Add this number: Secretary Seward had his carriage accident on April ?, 1865.

5. Add the room number JWB stayed in when he was at St. Lawrence Hall in October of 1864.

6. Add the year in which Dr. Mudd was expelled from Georgetown College.

7. Subtract this number: Anna Surratt got married on June ?, 1869.

8. Subtract this number: Dr. Mudd's attempted Ft. Jefferson escape attempt happened on September ?, 1865.

9. Add the number of letters in the last name of the printer who printed Ford's Theatre's playbills.

10. Subtract the number in the street address of the Greenback Saloon on 10th Street.

11. Subtract Lewis Powell's room number at the Herndon House.

12. Add the number (not the current one; the one at the time of the assasination) in Mary Surratt's street address on H Street.

13. Add the exhibit number (at the conspiracy trial) of the photograph of John Wilkes Booth found behind another image at the Surratt boardinghouse.

14. Add Abraham Lincoln's age when he was assassinated.

15. Add Mary Lincoln's age at the time of the assassination.

What number do you now have?