A few months ago we attempted to restart our trivia game, and unfortunately, it didn’t work the way I had intended. Now, I think it’s time we gave this another go, and see if we can make the Daily Trivia Game the fun time everyone would enjoy.

Now I understand that there have been concerns that running trivia from the blog is a bit different from what we ran in the forum, and I understand that concern, but from a my point of view this is the best all-around solution to running trivia.

It is my intention to have a variety of easy, moderate and hard questions each week.

We will begin new trivia games on November 21st, and will run for 6 weeks! (Game Will End on December 31st) Be ready!

Here are our rules:

Trivia is FREE and OPEN to ALL! You don’t need to register to play, just post your answers in the comment area with your chosen username and email address. (Please use the same username throughout the game so we may accurately keep score!)

Answers will be posted every Monday for the prior week.

The 6 best players of each game will be eligible to win a monthly prize drawing!

HAVE FUN!

On April 17, 1861 Jefferson Davis offered letters of marque to any southern shipowner who wished to turn privateer. By July, 1861 how many Northern ships had been seized by these privateers?

In the fall of 1861 this person bought a fast steamer in Liverpool,  loaded it with 11,000 Enfield rifles,  400 barrels of gunpowder, several cannons, and large quantities of ammunition. He took command of her himself, and ran her through the Federal blockade into Savannah. The steamer was then converted into the CSS Atlanta. Who was this person?

Who was most responsible for obtaining the iron for the building and construction of ironclads for the Confederate navy?

The Confederacy sent the world’s first combat submarine into battle. What is the name of this vessel, and how many times did it sink with its crew, before it sank a Federal blockade ship off Charleston in 1864?

Recognizing that he could never challenge the Union navy on its own terms, this person bought tugboats, revenue cutters, river steamboats to convert into harbor patrol gunboats. He authorized the development of torpedoes (mines) to be planted at the mouths of harbors and rivers.  Who is this man?

Although the Confederacy possessed no adequate shipyards except for the captured naval yard at Norfolk the Confederate navy did possess three particularly talented men to help form their navy. Who are these three?

By the end of 1861, how many warships were on active duty in the US navy, and approximately how many were under construction?

From what primary source did the US navy recruit most of the replacements for those who went South?

Of the 1554 officers in the US navy at the beginning of the war, how many left to serve in the South?