June 11, 2015

Finest Hour 101, Winter 1998-99

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By Curt Zoller ([email protected])


Test your knowledge! Most questions can be answered in back issues of Finest Hour or other Churchill Center publications, but it’s not really cricket to check. 24 questions appear each issue, answers in the following issue. Questions are in six categories: Contemporaries (C), Literary (L), Miscellaneous (M), Personal (P), Statesmanship (S) and War (W).

913. How many Prime Ministers did John Colville serve? (C)

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914. Frederick Woods wrote about “Churchill’s Method of Writing.” Where can you find this piece? (L)

915. How did Churchill compare the American Constitution with the British Socialist Parry? (M)

916. When did Churchill buy Chartwell? (P)

917. At the Casablanca Conference with Churchill and FDR, what key issue was presented by a slip of the tongue? (S)

918. In WSC’s comment on the Polish Fighter Squadron, how many Frenchmen was one Pole worth? (W)

919. Nellie Hozier, Clementine Churchill’s sister, served in World War I. What was her position? (C)

920. What was the title of the despatches Churchill sent to the Daily Telegraph when attached to the Malakand Field Force, and how did he sign them? (L)

921. What was the name of the architect of Blenheim? (M)

922. Where is Sir Winston buried? (P)

923. What was Churchill’s position on the use of bacteriological weapons? (S)

924. What was Sir Roger Keyes’s position during the Dardanelles affair? (W)

925. After Neville Chamberlain met Hitler he was asked to bring Churchill into the Government. What was his response? (C)

926. What was WSC’s pen-name when writing to The Harrovian in 1891 ? (L)

927. When did Churchill have his first heart attack? (M)

928. When did Sir Winston receive the Williamsburg Award? (P)

929. Which military leader defined leadership as “The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose, and the character which inspires confidence”? (S)

930. What was Operation “Felix”? (W)

931. Who was “Goonie” Churchill? (C)

932. Where did Churchill quote “Pretty Polly Oliver”? (L)

933. What happened to his Insignia of the Garter after Churchill’s death? (M)

934. How many of Churchill’s speeches were broadcast from the House of Commons? (P)

935. Where did Churchill utter, “Never give in, never give in…”? (S)

936. Whom did Churchill characterize when he said, “It was by men like him in whom fire and force of valiance burnt, that our Island was guarded during perilous centuries”? (W)

Answers to Churchilltrivia in FH 100:

(889) Admiral David Beatty was appointed by Churchill as his Naval Secretary in 1911. (890) Churchill received the Nobel Prize for Literature on 16 October 1953; he was 79 years old. (891) King Albert of the Belgians commented on the Antwerp and Gallipoli campaigns. (892) Clementine’s mother’s maiden name was Blanche Ogilvie. (893) The moral and political virtues are justice, courage or strength of soul, prudence, perseverance, imagination and self-restraint. (894) Lord Mountbatten replaced Admiral Roger Keyes, DCO.

(895) Churchill called Sir John Cunningham “Dismal Jimmy.” (896) Robert Rhodes James was the editor of Winston Churchill: His Complete Speeches. (897) Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound was First Sea Lord. (898) The Williamsburg Award was created “to serve as a continual reminder that there are today, as there were yesterday, vigorous, courageous and eloquent leaders, and is presented to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to the historic struggle of men to live free and self-respecting in a just society.” (899) What Churchill said about the House of Lords was: ” This second chamber as it is— one-sided, hereditary, unpurged, unrepresentative, irresponsible, absentee.” (900) On 30 January 1919, 5000 British troops, who had just arrived from England, mutinied and demanded to be sent back at once.

(901) Marigold Churchill died on 24 August 1921. (902) The first volume of Marlborough: His Life and Times was published in London in 1933 by Harrap. (903) The Churchill Porch is at the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. (904) The car sold for £66,400, formerly owned by Churchill, was kept at Chartwell where it was engaged in staff errands. It was an Austin Ten saloon, license number EYH 409. (905) Sir Stafford Cripps, British Ambassador to the Soviet Union, held up the Churchill message for about two weeks, because he felt that it would be interpreted as an attempt to embroil the Soviets with Germany. (906) Operation “Catherine” was the proposed fleet action by specially strengthened surface ships in the Baltic, in the winter of 19391940, to isolate Germany from Scandinavia, and particularly to cut the supply of Swedish iron ore.

(907) Churchill referred to Sir Stafford Cripps, British Ambassador to the Soviet Union, as “…a lunatic in a country of lunatics…” (908) Churchill commented, “Personally I like short words and vulgar fractions.” (909) Churchill’s parents were married on 15 April 1874. (910) Isaiah Berlin quotes Churchill in Mr. Churchill in 1940. (911) No; Churchill favored the truce with Sinn Fein because he considered “that our forces are stronger and better trained.” (912) Churchill blamed General Montgomery in using Italian POW statements too often as cover source for intelligence information.

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