Topic: Diplomatic_Means's trivia 7

Gunner13 · February 14th, 2004

OK, she was the first woman to enlist in the Marine Corps (legally anyway).

diplomatic_means · February 14th, 2004

Gunner you can have the five if you give me her rank.

Gunner13 · February 15th, 2004

Corporal.

Have to guess here as none of the sources I can locate give that information. I know that she handled publicity duties, but not where.

Oddly enough, none of the official USMC sites list her at all - they list Opha Mae Johnson as the first of 305 women to be accepted for duty in the Marine Corps Reserve on 12 August 1918. Lela Rogers' obituary states that she was one of the first 10 women to enlist in the Marine Corps.

diplomatic_means · February 15th, 2004

Corporal is incorrect, but I'm giving you 5 anyways since you were the only one responding to that question with any amount of accuracy. She was a Marine Sergeant. I want to do another question now.

Here's an appropriate question:
How did wartime conservation efforts affect the Oscars handed out at the Academy Awards during World War 2?

And for extra credit(another five milbucks) tell me whatever happened to those Oscars in question and how much they would fetch at an auction. And I'll need a source for that.

diplomatic_means · February 17th, 2004

You don't have to respond to the extracredit in order to answer the original question. even if we move on to another question before the extra credit is answered the extra credit will still be a valid way to earn 5 milbucks.

D_Plus_One · February 17th, 2004

During the War, the Oscars were made out of plaster instead of the usual gold-plating and britanium, and they were exchanged for the normal statues after the war. No idea about the extra credit

D_Plus_One · February 17th, 2004

I'm not sure about how much they would be worth, but I saw that they only had one known to exist in the academies vault, and since they are against selling OScars, if that is the only one, I would have no idea how much they would be worth. The originla plater ones cost $10.

diplomatic_means · February 17th, 2004

Plaster is not the correct answer according to the book. If you give me a website that says that the one remaining WW2 era Oscar is in a vault I'll give you the extra credit.

D_Plus_One · February 19th, 2004

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...lm/2641441.stm

There's the one that says they were mad eof plaster during the metal shortage.

http://www.oscars.org/academyawards/awards/index01.html

There's the official Oscar's site that says plaster.

http://www.ara.org/articles/oscar.htm

There's the one that says they recently found one in the Academy vault.

diplomatic_means · February 20th, 2004

Ok then does anyone want to guess what material the book says they were made of? D_Plus_One the 5 was for the extra credit.

February 14th, 2004	Post 61
Gunner13 Centurion Gear	OK, she was the first woman to enlist in the Marine Corps (legally anyway). __________________ "Americans are so hard to fight because they do not know their doctrine, and if they do, they do not feel compelled to follow it" - Unknown, but attributed to a Soviet Officer. Mortui Non Mordent - Pro Libertate Patriae - Celeritas Et Accuratio

February 17th, 2004	Post 66
D_Plus_One Optio	During the War, the Oscars were made out of plaster instead of the usual gold-plating and britanium, and they were exchanged for the normal statues after the war. No idea about the extra credit __________________ Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori -Wilfred Owen

February 14th, 2004	Post 62
diplomatic_means Centurion	Gunner you can have the five if you give me her rank.

February 15th, 2004	Post 63
Gunner13 Centurion Gear	Corporal. Have to guess here as none of the sources I can locate give that information. I know that she handled publicity duties, but not where. Oddly enough, none of the official USMC sites list her at all - they list Opha Mae Johnson as the first of 305 women to be accepted for duty in the Marine Corps Reserve on 12 August 1918. Lela Rogers' obituary states that she was one of the first 10 women to enlist in the Marine Corps.

February 15th, 2004	Post 64
diplomatic_means Centurion	Corporal is incorrect, but I'm giving you 5 anyways since you were the only one responding to that question with any amount of accuracy. She was a Marine Sergeant. I want to do another question now. Here's an appropriate question: How did wartime conservation efforts affect the Oscars handed out at the Academy Awards during World War 2? And for extra credit(another five milbucks) tell me whatever happened to those Oscars in question and how much they would fetch at an auction. And I'll need a source for that.

February 17th, 2004	Post 65
diplomatic_means Centurion	You don't have to respond to the extracredit in order to answer the original question. even if we move on to another question before the extra credit is answered the extra credit will still be a valid way to earn 5 milbucks.

February 17th, 2004	Post 67
D_Plus_One Optio	I'm not sure about how much they would be worth, but I saw that they only had one known to exist in the academies vault, and since they are against selling OScars, if that is the only one, I would have no idea how much they would be worth. The originla plater ones cost $10.

February 17th, 2004	Post 68
diplomatic_means Centurion	Plaster is not the correct answer according to the book. If you give me a website that says that the one remaining WW2 era Oscar is in a vault I'll give you the extra credit.

February 19th, 2004	Post 69
D_Plus_One Optio	http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...lm/2641441.stm There's the one that says they were mad eof plaster during the metal shortage. http://www.oscars.org/academyawards/awards/index01.html There's the official Oscar's site that says plaster. http://www.ara.org/articles/oscar.htm There's the one that says they recently found one in the Academy vault.

February 20th, 2004	Post 70
diplomatic_means Centurion	Ok then does anyone want to guess what material the book says they were made of? D_Plus_One the 5 was for the extra credit.