Ask about any person, place, thing or event since 1492. You must completely rely on your own memory - you can’t consult any book, teh internets, or ask someone else, either in formulating or answering a question. Number your question(s) (no more than five at a time, please), sequentially after those which came before. You can’t post questions of your own until you’ve correctly answered at least one earlier question.
I’ll start the ball rolling:
Abigail Adams described which Founding Father as “modest, wise and good”?
George Washington went out and commanded troops in the field, as President, during the Whiskey Rebellion. Who is the only other president to actually command troops in the field during a time of war?
Helen Keller was from which state?
This East Liverpool, Ohio-born composer wrote the hymn “Softly and Tenderly,” so popular there are still dozens of versions available on iTunes (including by Elvis Presley, k.d. lang and Garrison Keillor)?
This general was named to command the non-existent army created to keep Hitler guessing about where the D-Day invasion would land.
Sorry – I didn’t read that preamble. But I knew about Woodrow Wilson from visiting his tomb, in Washington National Cathedral, as well as his birthplace, in Staunton, Virginia.
Abraham Lincoln actually did direct troops during the Civil War while President, though only once, mostly to get a few twits moving in the absence of capable commanders, and he didn’t do much with the actual battle-plans or get in the fight. He did, however, personally give orders to advance and take specific ground near Norfolk, VA while nearby, and stayed to make sure the troops were able to do so.
Good point. I read that story in Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals not long ago. Most historians only credit Washington and Madison with actual in-the-field presidential command of troops, however.