Extra Credit Questions

[Linda Anderson]

Frederick Merserve, collector of Lincoln memorabilia?

[RJNorton]

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]

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

[RJNorton]

Nope, not him, Joe.

[BettyO]

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

[RJNorton]

Nope, not him, Betty.

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

[RJNorton]

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]

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

[Rsmyth]

Canadian flag?

[Jim Page]

Texas?

[LincolnMan]

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

[LincolnMan]

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]

Theodore Dreiser?

[LincolnMan]

Linda: You're right! Great answer!

[Linda Anderson]

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?