Any tips on finding the answers?
As much as we’d like to make it tougher for you, our players insisted we post these helpful tips. Take them to heart… some of these people have been playing for years, and are consistent top scorers. It annoys the hell out of us…. My first mode of attack is to take all the key terms in the question and dump them all at one time into a google search. Then I check out the hits that seem promising. If necessary, I start to eliminate wide-reaching terms to find a more likely hit. Another way, if I’m reasonably sure the answer is a general is to open up the CW generals website http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/generals.html and use the “find” feature. It works well if you know a specific year or place to search on If I want to try and confirm a guess I also use http://www.famousamericans.net/ and search the name. Find-a-grave http://www.findagrave.com/ and the political graveyard http://politicalgraveyard.com/ are also good sites if the subject is a politician or other well-known charact
