August 9, 2013

Finest Hour 120, Autumn 2003

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BY CURT ZOLLER ([email protected])

Questions concern Contemporaries (C), ‘Literary (L), Miscellaneous (M), Personal (P), Statesmanship (S) and War (W).

1351. Who said about Churchill in the House of Commons: “He was in a very real sense a child of the House and a product of it, and equally, in every sense, its father”? (C)

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1352. Who did Churchill describe (in Thoughts and Adventures) as “…a green-eyed young Antipodean radical….”? (L)

1353. When Winston Churchill resigned as Premier in April 1955 he gave a farewell dinner to Queen Elizabeth II and her consort. Which Prime Minister originated the tradition of a retirement dinner? (M)

1354. In 1876, Churchill’s grandfather was appointed to the “most magnificent vice-regal position in the Empire.” What was it? (P)

1355. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Dudley Pound was First Sea Lord during WW2 and although Churchill was attached to him, he made one massive blunder. What was it? (S)

1356. When was the Royal Military College founded? (W)

1357. Prime Minister Asquith’s son Arthur (“Oc”), was a member of the Royal Naval Division sent to Antwerp in WW1 to delay its fall to the Germans. Who was Oc’s Battalion Commander? (C)

1358. Where did WSC write that the monarchy survived because “they took the advice of ministers who had majorities in the House of Commons”? (L)

1359. Where were Winston Churchill’s parents married? (M)

1360. Which Harrow English master was Churchill’s first form master? (P)

1361. What strategy did Churchill repeatedly promote in the Italian campaign, and which central European capital did he hope to capture? (S)

1362. On 29 September 1940 Mr. Churchill responded to a message: “Secondly, I cannot accept the reproach of making a half-hearted attack.” To whom was this addressed, and to which attack did it refer? (W)

1363. Who was Randolph Churchill’s fellow Tory candidate for the “double-barrelled” seat at Preston in 1945? (C)

1364. Which of Churchill’s books was used in an abridged edition as a text by the Royal Military College? (L)

1365. The 4th Hussars, Churchill’s regiment, won a silver cup trophy within a month of their arrival in India. What tournament did they win? (M)

1366. Who baptized Churchill? (P)

1367. In 1904 Prime Minister Balfour proposed the Aliens Bill to restrict immigration. What was Churchill’s position on the bill? (S)

1368. WSC was criticized for sending the Royal Naval Division into battle in WW1. Where was it sent? (W)

1369. Besides WSC, name one member of the 4th Hussars polo team. (C)

1370. How long did it take Churchill to write The Story of the Malakand Field Force? (L)

1371. Who was the architect of Blenheim Palace? (M)

1372. According to Churchill’s son Randolph, when was the first photograph of his father taken? (P)

1373. From what event does Churchill date “the beginning of these violent times” in The World Crisis‘ (S)

1374. How long was WSC’s first term as First Lord of the Admiralty? (W)

TRIVIA ANSWERS

(1351) Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

(1352) The famous cartoonist David Low.

(1353) Stanley Baldwin.

(1354) Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.

(1355) Admiral Pound overruled Admiral Tovey, the commander of convoy PQ17, and ordered the Russia-bound ships to scatter when attacked, causing their near destruction.

(1356) The Royal Military College was founded in 1800; it moved to Sandhurst in 1812.

(1357) George Cornwallis-West, Churchill’s mother’s second husband.

(1358) Churchill’s comment is in his short story, The Dream.

(1359) The British Embassy in Paris.

(1360) Robert Somervell.

(1361) Churchill’s Italian strategy was to get to Austria before the Russians and to capture Vienna.

(1362) The note was sent to Australian Prime Minister Menzies, who complained that the Dakar operation had been undertaken “without overwhelming chances of success.”

(1363) Randolph’s fellow Tory candidate for Preston in 1945 was Julian Amery, son of Leo (both Amery and Randolph were defeated).

(1364) The Sandhurst edition of The World Crisis.

(1365) The tournament at Secunderabad.

(1366) Reverend Henry William Yule, chaplain to the 7th Duke of Marlborough.

(1367) Churchill opposed the Aliens Bill.

(1368) Antwerp.

(1369) Besides Churchill, the polo team included Maj. Reginald Hoare, Albert Savory, and Reginald Barnes. It was Barnes who later accompanied Churchill as a military observer and reporter to Cuba, where they witnessed the insurrection against Spain and first came under fire.

(1370) WSC wrote The Story of the Malakand Field Force in five weeks.

(1371) Sir John Vanbrugh.

(1372) Randolph said the earliest photograph was with Winston’s mother in 1876, when WSC was two.

(1373) Churchill dates the “violent times” from the Jameson Raid in 1896.

(1374) Three years, seven months, from October 1911 to May 1915.