August 15, 2013

Finest Hour 118, Spring 2003

Page 43

BY CURT ZOLLER


Twenty-four questions appear each issue A. in the following categories. Contemporaries (C), Literary (L), Miscellaneous (M), Personal (P), Statesmanship (S) and War (W).

1303. With whom did First Lord of the Admiralty Churchill replace the First Sea Lord, Sir Arthur Wilson? (C)

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1304. What is the American title of Celia Sandys’s first book, published in England as From Winston with Love and Kisses? (L)

1305. Churchill’s close friend F. E. Smith was knighted in 1915, raised to the peerage in 1919, and made an Earl after vacating the Lord Chancellorship. What was his new title? (M)

1306. Who defeated Churchill in the Oldham by-election of 1899? (P)

1307. Churchill told Anthony Eden in a minute of 7 July 1944 to follow up on bombing the Auschwitz concentration camp and the rails leading to it. What stopped this? (S)

1308. At lunch with Churchill at Chartwell in August 1950, Malcolm Muggeridge asked WSC to write a detailed account of the Yalta Conference. What was Churchill’s reply? (W)

1309. Where was WSC’s nanny, Mrs. Everest, employed after being dismissed by Lord Randolph? (C)

1310. Who wrote the first bibliography of the works of Churchill? (L)

1311. Under what surname was Churchill listed at Harrow? (M)

1312. How old was WSC when he left the Royal Military College? (P)

1313. In 1914, what changed Churchill’s mind in favor of compulsory military service? (S)

1314. In what two periods was Admiral Fisher First Sea Lord? (W)

1315. For what regiment did Lord Randolph hope Winston would qualify at Sandhurst? (C)

1316. About whom did Churchill write: “The General who never spared himself cared little for others. He treated all men like machinesโ€”from the private soldier whose salute he disdained to the superior officers he rigidly controlled.” (L)

1317. When did Churchill state: “Bismarck once said that the supreme fact of the 19th century was that Britain and the United States spoke the same language. Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.” (M)

1318. As a guest of Lady Jeune, whom did Churchill meet during a Thames cruise, whose conversation he found to be “a practical political education in itself”? (P)

1319. What did young Winston do to recover the pocket watch his father had given him when it fell into a pool of water? (S)

1320. In August 1704, Marlborough and Prince Eugene successfully defeated the French and Bavarians at Blenheim. Who were the opposing military leaders? (W)

1321. Who was Churchill’s first recorded lady friend? (C)

1322. Who lifted the ban on revealing secret session debates in the Commons, allowing Churchill to publish Secret Session Speeches? (L)

1323. How did Churchill finally give recognition to the engineer of the armoured train which was attacked in the Boer War? (M)

1324. Who presented Churchill with the seal of the Duchy of Lancaster after his departure from the Admiralty in 1915? (P)

1325. What two conditions did Bonar Law stipulate for the Conservative Party to join Asquith’s Coalition Government in 1915? (S)

1326. Who were the original planners of the escape from the State Model School in Pretoria in 1899? (W)  

CHURCHILLTRIVIA ANSWERS

(1303) Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman.

(1304) The Young Churchill.

(1305) The Earl of Birkenhead.

(1306) Alfred Emmott.

(1307) The request to bomb Auschwitz went to Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy, who talked to President Roosevelt. FDR believed bombing would cause many fatalities, and the Germans would soon have it working again.

(1308) WSC said writing about Yalta, though essential would “involve so much criticism of the Americans that the political repercussions would be dangerous.”

(1309) Mrs. Everest went back to work for Mrs. Phillips, wife of the Archdeacon of Barrow-in-Furness.

(1310) Bernard J. Farmer, in 1958.

(1311) Spencer Churchill. Winston wanted his listing changed to Churchill so he would appear higher in the rolls, but he remained Spencer-Churchill at Harrow.

(1312) Twenty years old.

(1313) The British retreat in Belgium in August 1914.

(1314) 1904-1910 and 1914-1915.

(1315) An infantry regiment, the 60th Rifles; instead Winston placed fourth on the cavalry list.

(1316) General Kitchener in The River War.

(1317) In his third and final speech to Congress, 17 January 1952.

(1318) His father’s friend Joseph Chamberlain.

(1319) Churchill borrowed twenty-three men from an infantry detachment to dig a new course for the stream, obtained a fire engine and pumped the pool dry.

(1320) The French were led by Marshals Tallard and Marsin, the Bavarians by the Elector of Bavaria (Ger. ‘Kurfuersten’).

(1321) Molly (sometimes called Polly) Hacket, Lady Hindlip’s niece.

(1322) Herbert Morrison, Leader of the House of Commons during the postwar Labour Government, on 19 December 1945.

(1323) As Home Secretary, WSC recommended that engineer Charles Wagner be awarded the Albert Medal, First Class.

(1324) King George V.

(1325) Substitution of another Lord Chancellor for Lord Haldane; and the “transfer of Churchill from the Admiralty to another, inferior office in the Cabinet.”

(1326) Captain Aylmer Haldane and Regimental Sergeant-Major Brockie.

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