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month's question:
Who is the only president to renounce his United States citizenship?
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Last month's
question: What
are the State of Illinois' three nicknames?
Last month's answer:
Not necessarily in order
of importance: The Prairie State, Land of Lincoln, the
Sucker State. But a century before its fame as Lincoln's
home or its reputation for prairies, Illinois was known as
the Sucker State.
Depending on the source, this might be due to the spreading habit of
the ubiquitous tobacco plants found in southern Illinois; or, that
to access water in the dry areas, hollow reeds were used to suck it up;
or. due to the influx of immigrants from other states who came to Illinois
to work in the iron mines, or to claim the advertised rich and free land,
which often was neither.
More
Trivia:
40. Who was the
biggest fool on April Fool's Day of 1865? (answer
here)
39. Who
defined an honest politician as someone who, "once bought,
stays bought"? (answer
here)
38. What was known
as a "shinplaster?" (answer
here)
37. Name another
member of the Lincoln family who served as president.
(answer
here)
36. Name the two
songs known best to General Ulysses S. Grant.
(answer
here)
35. Who said, "No
pack of whining, snarling, ill-fed, vagabond street dogs ...
ever more strongly produced the impression of forlorn, outcast,
helpless, hopeless misery."
(answer
here)
34. Who was known
as the dictator of Congress? (answer
here)
33. Who called baseball
"America's game"? (answer
here)
32. Who was known
as the "Calico Colonel"?(answer
here)
31. Why did Stagger
Lee shoot Billy--AND--what's that got to do with Civil War history?(answer
here)
30.
What is an FFV?(answer
here)
29. What was Abraham
Lincoln’s first official act as President?(answer
here)
28. Who said, “Lee
should have been hanged”? Extra credit if you can tell
us why, where, and when it was said.(answer
here)
27. What did Abraham
Lincoln refer to as being both made up of “bean poles
and corn stalks,” as well as “the most remarkable
structure that human eyes ever rested upon.”(answer
here)
26. In 1862, why
was Abraham Lincoln’s October salary less than it was
in September?(answer
here)
25. What was a “hire
badge”?(answer
here)
24. President Lincoln
ordered work on the capitol dome to continue throughout the
Civil War as a symbol of the Union…NOT! We learned this
is just another Civil War urban legend. What was the real reason
work continued?(answer
here)
23.
A prize to the reader who visits the new Smithsonian Associates
CivilWarStudies.org web page and can identify the most photographs
in our new logo!(answer
here)
22. Name the individual
who was once a slave to the attorney who prosecuted the Dred
Scott case in St. Louis, and later worked in the Lincoln White
House.(answer
here)
21. Who is buried
in the largest mausoleum in North America?(answer
here)
20. Who
was known as the "Cleopatra of the Confederacy"?(answer
here)
19. What is a "doggery"?(answer
here)
18. Name the ex-Union
general who motivated Jesse & Frank James along with the
Younger Brothers, to rob the First National Bank in Northfield,
Minnesota in 1876.(answer
here)
17. Confederate dynamite
couldn't blow it up and it still stands today. What now threatens
to destroy the Monocacy Aqueduct?(answer
here)
16. How many times
was Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest wounded during
the Civil War?(answer
here)
15. For what was
Civil War Colonel Charles Ellet most famous?(answer
here)
14. Among the possessions
found with John Wilkes Booth when he was captured were photographs
of five women. Who were they?(answer
here)
13. Where is Traveler?(answer
here)
12. What is a sockdolager?(answer
here)
11. Who is the only
Confederate general with a statue in the District of Columbia?(answer
here)
10. Who said, "The
office of the President of the United States is not fit for
a gentleman!"?(answer
here)
9. Which Civil War
general was nicknamed "Kill Cavalry"?(answer
here)
8. He had an unusual
and renown Civil War career, but for what is Holt Collier most
famous?(answer
here)
7. Who said Sir Walter
Scott was the cause of the Civil War?(answer
here)
6. Who did both Northern
and Southern soldiers call the "graybacks"?(answer
here)
5. How did Pea Patch
Island get its name?(answer here)
4. (In commemoration
of the 140th anniversary of the August 2, 1861 passage of the
first income tax legislation): How did the Form 1040 get its
name?(answer
here)
3. What is the origin
of the word "deadline?"(answer
here)
2. What was the original
name proposed for the State of West Virginia?(answer
here)
1. What is the origin
of the word Antietam?(answer
here)
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