# How well can you do on this 50 question Civil War quiz? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 29, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533 "2017-04-29T22:53:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533/1 "2017-04-29T22:53:35Z")
On review it may actually be 62 questions. Not super hard but a decent challenge. I did pathetically with 44 out of 62. I would probably fail a citizenship test. I hope you can do better. > **[Consider Yourself a Civil War Buff? Take This Quiz and Put Your Knowledge to...](https://definition.org/civil-war-quiz/1/)** > > What battle started the war and what famous proclamation ended it? Prove that you remember your history by taking this Civil War quiz. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533/2 "2017-04-29T23:06:30Z")
1. Not too bad. ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533/3 "2017-04-29T23:10:08Z")
I missed a couple I should have gotten, but went with first impulse instead of thinking it out. And guessed on a couple I didn’t know and got those right. And some were obvious on process of elimination. Got 51 out of 62. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533/4 "2017-04-29T23:14:46Z")
I did a little better with 46. But, as with so many of these internet “tests” the questions are an uncertain mixture of easy ones (including where they give away the answer in the photo), things that folks ought to know, and nearly meaningless trivia. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533/5 "2017-04-30T00:39:40Z")
I did pretty well with 55, but there was some guessing involved. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533/6 "2017-04-30T01:06:11Z")
47, with some guessing. I’m not TOO ashamed. Never been a big Civil War fan, and most of my misses were “What was the EXACT DATE…” types. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533/7 "2017-04-30T01:38:52Z")
42, which is always the best number. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533/8 "2017-04-30T02:03:03Z")
53 of 62, but there were a couple I would argue with. ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533/9 "2017-04-30T13:14:06Z")
> [@Tzigone](#): > > I missed a couple I should have gotten, but went with first impulse instead of thinking it out. And\*\* guessed on a couple I didn’t know and got those right. And some were obvious on process of elimination\*\*. Got 51 out of 62. My bolding above – similarly for me. (And largely, the questions were easier than I’d been expecting.) Confess to feeling a bit smug at having got 52 – I being non-American, but with some interest in the ACW. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533/10 "2017-04-30T13:22:12Z")
1. I will note that this was an unusually well-designed quiz, with some really obscure questions. Most of these ‘you can’t pass’ clickbait quizzes are rather dumb. Not this one. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533/11 "2017-04-30T14:32:10Z")
45/62. Fun quiz, but I wish they wouldn’t make you click to get to every single question. ---
**Author:** ![Athabasca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Athabasca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athabasca)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533/12 "2017-04-30T14:43:56Z")
I got 41 out of 62. I’m Canadian, and watch a lot of American history stuff on PBS (yay Ken Burns! Yay PBS) I should also add I got my B.A in Canadian-American international relations so I’ve always had a ‘thing’ for the US. And I’ve loved Civil War history since I was wee, and saw the tearjerker movie Shenandoah in the theatre. Call me a fan girl. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533/13 "2017-04-30T14:55:10Z")
1. I’m surprised at myself. ---
**Author:** ![ticker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@ticker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ticker)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533/14 "2017-04-30T14:57:22Z")
1. Not too shabby for a Brit, though I did watch the Ken Burns documentary some years ago. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533/15 "2017-04-30T14:59:28Z")
Aced it. Couple were guesses, including “Tar Heels” and which states currently have confederate flags. One or two had two correct options. For example the Jeff Davis alma mater had both West Point and US Military Academy as options: ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533/16 "2017-04-30T15:48:07Z")
I only knew the “Tar Heel” bit, from having encountered it years ago in a novel, narrated from the point of view of a section of the Confederate army, in the field with Stonewall Jackson. The North Carolinian units fail in some way – by omission or commission – to please Stonewall; who throws quite a tantrum about the Tar Heels, and what insubordinate bastards they are. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533/17 "2017-04-30T15:48:30Z")
52 out of 62. Fairly challenging quiz. I made Colonel! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533/18 "2017-04-30T16:00:29Z")
1. Got nearly all the dates wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533/19 "2017-04-30T16:11:26Z")
58 out of 62. > [@AK84](#): > > One or two had two correct options. For example the Jeff Davis alma mater had both West Point and US Military Academy as options: I noticed that one. I was trying to figure out if it was just an error or if there was some subtle thing I was missing. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533/20 "2017-04-30T16:23:47Z")
Did well enough on relevant historical questions, not so well on things on the order of “what was Beauregard’s favorite hot beverage?”. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-can-you-do-on-this-50-question-civil-war-quiz/785533.md?page=2)