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1. The 1970 television movie "The Andersonville Trial" was an adaptation of Saul Levitt's successful play "The Andersonville Trial". At the time which former captain of the starship Enterprise appeared as Lt. Colonel Norton P. Chipman?
2. This classic movie is better known for Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, but it would also feature a future Superman and the first African-American to win an Academy Award. What is the name of the film?
3. A classic of the silent era, "The General" stars Buster Keaton as Johnnie Gray, a Southerner who tries to enlist at the start of the war but is turned down as being too valuable in his current occupation. What real event inspired Keaton to make this movie?
4. The Andrews' Raid inspired more than just one movie as a few decades later Walt Disney would make the movie "The Great Locomotive Chase" based on the raid. Which "King of the Wild Frontier" and "coonskin cap on the top of ol' Dan" actor would play James Andrews?
5. Technically a TV miniseries rather than a movie, "The Blue and the Gray" covers the war from start to finish. Which of these did it not depict in some form or another?
6. The movie "The Conspirator" is set after Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House. Although the movie is centered on Frederick Aiken, who does the title actually refer to?
7. Considered one of the longest films to ever be released in theaters, "Gettysburg" was based on which book?
8. 1992's "Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune" is a collection of letters which served as a partial basis for which movie, set mostly on Massachusetts and South Carolina, released three years before the book?
9. Coming off 1984's "Red Dawn", Patrick Swazye appeared in 1985's TV miniseries "North and South: Book 1, North and South" and the 1986 sequel miniseries "North and South: Book 2, Love and War". Which character did he play?
10. In 1999 the network TNT aired a movie starring Armand Assante and Donald Sutherland about a vessel that would go down in history for a very famous first. A little over a year later this vessel would be raised from it's watery grave just outside Charleston Harbor. What was the title of the 1999 movie?
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