June 23, 2015

Finest Hour 114, Spring 2002

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By Curt Zoller ([email protected])

TEST your knowledge!Most questions can be answered in back issues of Churchill Center publications but it’s not really cricket to check. Twenty-four questions appear each issue, answers in the following issue. Categories are Contemporaries (C), Literary (L), Miscellaneous (M), Personal (P), Statesmanship (S) and War (W).

1231. About whom did Churchill comment, “He thinks he is Joan of Arc but my bishops won’t let me burn him”? (C)

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1232. In Roosevelt’s first correspondence to WSC, which Churchill book did FDR say he’d enjoyed reading? (L)

1233. In 1942 Churchill’s parliamentary opponents called for a vote of no-confidence. What was the pretext for the parliamentary vote? (M)

1234. What name was originally given to intercepted German codes? (P)

1235. Who on WSC’s staff said, “We had been at war with Germany longer than any war power, we had suffered more, we had sacrificed more, and in the end we would lose more…Yet here were these God-awful American academics rushing about, talking about the Four Freedoms and the ‘Atlantic Charter'”? (S)

1236. During WW2 Churchill and Roosevelt were advised by what three Chiefs of Staff Committees? (W)

1237. Who was the leading free trader in the Edwardian Conservative Party, and Churchill’s best man at his wedding? (C)

1238. In his first dispatch from Cuba in 1895, how did Churchill describe how insurgents destroyed sugar crops? (L)

1239. How were Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt related? (M)

1240. What did Churchill call the Bletchley codebreakers? (P)

1241. The priorities of Allied bombers were Germany’s synthetic oil production facilities, oil depots, and tank factories, which two additional target areas were added in January 1945? (S)

1242. The Africa Star was authorized for service on only one Mediterranean island. What island was it? (W)

1243. Who assumed the Premiership upon Churchill’s 1955 retirement? (C)

1244. On 21 March 1900 Churchill wrote to his mother: “make sure that I get £2000 on account of the royalties.” Which book was he referring to? (L)

1245. How old was Lord Randolph Churchill when he died in 1895? (M)

1246. Anthony Bevir, who looked after patronage matters at No. 10 Downing Street, recommended Churchill’s name to King George VI’s private secretary. What did he recommend? (P)

1247. In July 1944 Churchill asked for a “dispassionate report on the military aspects of threatening to use lethal and corrosive gases on the enemy, if they did not stop the use of indiscriminate weapons.” What was the response? (S)

1248. Who was the Major General commanding the Malakand Field Force, a descendant of a Colonel who attempted to steal the Crown Jewels in 1671? (W)

1249. Who was the fellow subaltern who accompanied WSC to Cuba in 1895? (C)

1250. What was Churchill’s original title for The World Crisis? (L)

1251. What military rank did Churchill hold when he joined the Imperial Yeomanry (Oxfordshire Hussars) in 1902? (M)

1252. When was Churchill first approached by the Conservative Party to stand as Tory candidate for Oldham? (P)

1253. Name three of the major issues discussed during the Yalta conference by Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt. (S)

1254. When Churchill flew to Cairo in August 1942 he decided ;t,o replace Gen. Auchinleck, commander of the Eighth Army. Who was selected first, and who finally got the job? (W)

ANSWERS TO LAST TRIVIA

(1207) Without seeking his father’s approval, Randolph ran as an Independent Conservative in Conservative stronghold Wavertree, and lost. (1208) Mr. Siwertz compared Churchill to the British statesman and novelist, Benjamin Disraeli. (1209) Churchill received notice of his selection for the Nobel Prize for Literature on 16Oct53. (1210) When Churchill became a Knight of the Garter in spring of 1953 he was addressed as Sir Winston. (1211) Churchill stopped the evacuation of children when the City of Benariswas torpedoed and seventy-seven children lost their lives. (1212) Churchill commented: “No country in the world is less fit for a conflict with terrorists than Great Britain. That is not because of her weakness or cowardice; it is because of her restraint and virtues, and the way of life in which we have lived so long on this sheltered island.”

(1213) Randolph announced his intention to put forward a candidate for Norwood, challenging the National Government’s India policy. Churchill was furious and did not support his son. (1214) American historian Henry Steele Commager abridged the original edition of Marlborough. (1215) Joseph Grew was the American ambassador and Sir Robert Craigie represented Great Britain when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. (1216) Churchill received £12,093, tax free, with the Nobel Prize for Literature. (1217) Churchill warned of aerial vulnerability in a speech in the House of Commons on 7Feb34. (1218) Churchill sent Duff Cooper to Singapore to provide him a personal report. Unfortunately Duff Cooper issued no warnings of Singapore’s military weakness during the three months before its invasion.

(1219) Lord Lothian was British Ambassador to the U. S. from 1939 till his death on 12Dec40. (1220) Churchill intended to entitle his first and only novel Affairs of State. (1221) The quote about a book “all about himself” called “The World Crisis” is ascribed to Samuel Hoare. (1222) Churchill was 76 years old when he again became PM in 1951. (1223) FDR wanted to take over the defense of Northern Ireland. (1224) The Blenheim victory was in the 18th century, 13 August 1704.

(1225) Neville Chamberlain suggested making WSC “Ambassador to Timbucto.” (1226) The woman in Savrola is Lucile. (1227) Churchill said: “In the present age the State cannot control the Church in spiritual matters; it can only divorce it.” (1228) About tyranny WSC said: “It is not a question of opposing Nazism or Communism, but of opposing tyranny in whatever form it presents itself.” (1229) In 1901 Churchill predicted “…a European war can only end in the ruins of the vanquished and the scarcely less fatal commercial dislocation and exhaustion of the conquerors.” (1230) “Operation Sledgehammer,” which proved unachievable, was the plan for landing in France in 1942.