47. Sun, Apr 20, 2008 - Question:
“The Defence of Fort McHenry” was the original title of what musical composition?
(Lyrics by Francis Scott Key, Sep, 1812; set to the music of a 1780 English drinking song
“To Anacreon in Heaven” by John Stafford Smith and renamed in Oct, 1812 )
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46. Sat, Apr 19, 2008 - Question:
On April 2, 1876, “Crooked Nose” Jack McCall shot and killed (from behind) James Butler “Wild Bill”
Hickok in Nuttal & Mann’s Saloon No. 10 in Deadwood in the Black Hills, Dakota Territory
What poker hand was Hickok holding?
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46. Sat, Apr 19, 2008 - Answer:
Aces & Eights
(A pair of aces and a pair of eights
[tradition had a queen as the fifth card] - from this event known as the “Dead man’s hand”)
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