Historical Trivia II

[WSUCougar]

The list if events below is in alphabetical order. The events occurred at least 5 years apart. Can you place them in chronological order?

Boston opens first U.S. subway

Charles Darwin publishes Origin of the Species

Clara Barton becomes President of the American Red Cross

Ellis Island starts processing immigrants

Erie Canal opens

Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick

John Styth Pemberton introduces Coca-Cola

Missouri Compromise

Nullification Crisis

Sioux and other tribes defeat General Custer at Little Bighorn

U.S.-Mexican War begins

Victoria becomes Queen of Great Britain

William Seward signs treaty to buy Alaska from Russia

[WSUCougar]

dola

No research or cheating, please.

[Desnudo]

On a side trivia note, rumor has it that Clara Barton and Susan B. Anthony were both hot. Ms. Anthony's ugly dollar aside.

[digamma]

Coke was around 1884, give or take a year or two.

[digamma]

On a side trivia note, rumor has it that Clara Barton and Susan B. Anthony were both hot. Ms. Anthony's ugly dollar aside.
pics?

[clintl]

Guessing on quite a few of these:

Erie Canal Opens
Missouri Compromise
Nullification Crisis
Victoria becomes Queen of Great Britain
US-Mexican War begins
William Seward signs treaty to buy Alaska from Russia
Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick
Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species
Sioux and other tribes defeat General Custer at Little Bighorn
Ellis Island begins processing immigrants
Clara Barton becomes president of the American Red Cross
John Styth Pemberton introduces Coca-Cola
Boston opens first US subway

[WSUCougar]

Clara. Hot or not?
http://www.wtv-zone.com/civilwar/images/barton.jpg

[sachmo71]

Clara. Hot or not?
http://www.wtv-zone.com/civilwar/images/barton.jpg

Yes, if you like the mothering type.

[sachmo71]

Victoria becomes Queen of Great Britain
Missouri Compromise
Nullification Crisis
Erie Canal Opens
John Styth Pemberton introduces Coca-Cola
Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick
Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species
William Seward signs treaty to buy Alaska from Russia
Sioux and other tribes defeat General Custer at Little Bighorn
Clara Barton becomes president of the American Red Cross
Boston opens first US subway
US-Mexican War begins
Ellis Island begins processing immigrants

[WSUCougar]

Discussion? Consensus?

[sachmo71]

If I'm right, it's a consensus.

:D

[WSUCougar]

If I'm right, it's a consensus.
FYI, you're shooting a Shaq-like 46%. :eek:

[judicial clerk]

complete guess without research:

Victoria becomes Queen of Great Britain
Erie Canal opens
Nullification Crisis
U.S.-Mexican War begins
Missouri Compromise
Ellis Island starts processing immigrants
Clara Barton becomes President of the American Red Cross
Sioux and other tribes defeat General Custer at Little Bighorn
Charles Darwin publishes Origin of the Species
Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick
William Seward signs treaty to buy Alaska from Russia
John Styth Pemberton introduces Coca-Cola
Boston opens first U.S. subway

[Wolfpack]

First stab:

Missouri Compromise
Erie Canal
Nullification Crisis
Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick
Victoria becomes Queen of Great Britain
US-Mexican War begins
William Seward signs treaty to buy Alaska from Russia
Sioux and other tribes defeat General Custer at Little Bighorn
Clara Barton becomes President of the American Red Cross
Charles Darwin publishes Origin of the Species
Boston opens first U.S. subway
Ellis Island starts processing immigrants
John Styth Pemberton introduces Coca-Cola

[WSUCougar]

complete guess without research:

Victoria becomes Queen of Great Britain
Erie Canal opens
Nullification Crisis
U.S.-Mexican War begins
Missouri Compromise
Ellis Island starts processing immigrants
Clara Barton becomes President of the American Red Cross
Sioux and other tribes defeat General Custer at Little Bighorn
Charles Darwin publishes Origin of the Species
Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick
William Seward signs treaty to buy Alaska from Russia
John Styth Pemberton introduces Coca-Cola
Boston opens first U.S. subway
4/13

[WSUCougar]

First stab:

Missouri Compromise
Erie Canal
Nullification Crisis
Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick
Victoria becomes Queen of Great Britain
US-Mexican War begins
William Seward signs treaty to buy Alaska from Russia
Sioux and other tribes defeat General Custer at Little Bighorn
Clara Barton becomes President of the American Red Cross
Charles Darwin publishes Origin of the Species
Boston opens first U.S. subway
Ellis Island starts processing immigrants
John Styth Pemberton introduces Coca-Cola
4/13

[Wolfpack]

Second go around:
Erie Canal
Missouri Compromise
Nullification Crisis
Victoria becomes Queen of Great Britain
US-Mexican War begins
Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick
Charles Darwin publishes Origin of the Species
William Seward signs treaty to buy Alaska from Russia
Sioux and other tribes defeat General Custer at Little Bighorn
Clara Barton becomes President of the American Red Cross
Boston opens first U.S. subway
John Styth Pemberton introduces Coca-Cola
Ellis Island starts processing immigrants

[WSUCougar]

Second go around:
Erie Canal
Missouri Compromise
Nullification Crisis
Victoria becomes Queen of Great Britain
US-Mexican War begins
Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick
Charles Darwin publishes Origin of the Species
William Seward signs treaty to buy Alaska from Russia
Sioux and other tribes defeat General Custer at Little Bighorn
Clara Barton becomes President of the American Red Cross
Boston opens first U.S. subway
John Styth Pemberton introduces Coca-Cola
Ellis Island starts processing immigrants
8/13...getting there!

[Wolfpack]

In that case, I'm somewhat up against it. The ones I'm not sure about I don't have a good clue what the date might be so I can't be sure which ones to shuffle, since I get the feeling moving one might trigger either the list going askew or straightening itself out more and I don't really want to get into a hot/cold kind of guessing game where I'm just picking one to shuffle to see how you'd react.

I've dropped the list from this post and disqualified myself by looking things up and finding out I had shuffled the wrong items. Oh, well. It was a good try.

[mordhiem]

Victoria was 1837, don't have a clue about the others. Obscure US history is not my cup of tea. :p

[pennywisesb]

Clara. Hot or not?
http://www.wtv-zone.com/civilwar/images/barton.jpg
is it just me, or does it look like she has two right hands?

[Poli]

Off Wolfpack's 2nd go:

Missouri Compromise
Erie Canal opens
Nullification Crisis
Victoria becomes Queen of Great Britain
U.S.-Mexican War begins
Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick
Charles Darwin publishes Origin of the Species
Sioux and other tribes defeat General Custer at Little Bighorn
Clara Barton becomes President of the American Red Cross
John Styth Pemberton introduces Coca-Cola
Ellis Island starts processing immigrants
Boston opens first U.S. subway
William Seward signs treaty to buy Alaska from Russia

[JeeberD]

is it just me, or does it look like she has two right hands?

I think she has gloves in her left hand...

[JeeberD]

Dola-

Susan B Anthony

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/rbk/women/sba4.gif

Ermmm...not so hot.

[Poli]

Coug, what's up? What's the score like?

[WSUCougar]

Off Wolfpack's 2nd go:

Missouri Compromise
Erie Canal opens
Nullification Crisis
Victoria becomes Queen of Great Britain
U.S.-Mexican War begins
Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick
Charles Darwin publishes Origin of the Species
Sioux and other tribes defeat General Custer at Little Bighorn
Clara Barton becomes President of the American Red Cross
John Styth Pemberton introduces Coca-Cola
Ellis Island starts processing immigrants
Boston opens first U.S. subway
William Seward signs treaty to buy Alaska from Russia
Your first seven are correct, and if you relocate one event you'll have the rest.

[Wolfpack]

The one that's wrong is wrong by a lot, if that helps any.

[Wolfpack]

Dola...learned from this game that I know my 1800s to 1860s much better than my 1870s to 1890s (aside from Little Big Horn). Makes sense. I was always more interested in the antebellum period and the Civil War than in Reconstruction or the settling of the West.

[WSUCougar]

Dola...learned from this game that I know my 1800s to 1860s much better than my 1870s to 1890s (aside from Little Big Horn). Makes sense. I was always more interested in the antebellum period and the Civil War than in Reconstruction or the settling of the West.
Ditto!

[Poli]

Your first seven are correct, and if you relocate one event you'll have the rest.

Your hint made it a little easy. I probably screwed Seward's folly up, based off what I saw from Wolfpack's answers.

Missouri Compromise
Erie Canal opens
Nullification Crisis
Victoria becomes Queen of Great Britain
U.S.-Mexican War begins
Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick
Charles Darwin publishes Origin of the Species
William Seward signs treaty to buy Alaska from Russia
Sioux and other tribes defeat General Custer at Little Bighorn
Clara Barton becomes President of the American Red Cross
John Styth Pemberton introduces Coca-Cola
Ellis Island starts processing immigrants
Boston opens first U.S. subway

[WSUCougar]

Bingo.

[Wolfpack]

We have a winnah!

I don't know what's worse playing this game. To know nothing of the dates, or to know a few dates and then have to shoehorn the rest of the items around the ones you know. Or worse yet, being convinced of the wrong date and having that hose you. I could have sworn the Nullification Crisis happened in 1829, but maybe I'm mixing that up with some other damn fool thing South Carolina did that year. Botching that one cost me on the Erie Canal, which I thought was in the 1820s, but didn't fit between the Missouri Compromise in 1820 and what I thought was the Nullification Crisis of 1829. The other dates I thought I knew I turned out to be correct on. Everything else was just a murky idea that sounded plausible.