June 25, 2015

Finest Hour 123, Summer 2004

Page 45

By Curt Zoller ([email protected])

Questions concern Contemporaries (C), Literary (L), Miscellaneous (M), Personal (P), Statesmanship (S) and War (W). Answers on page 47.

1423. Churchill spent many weekends during World War II in Ditchley. Whose house was it? (C)

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1424. Who wrote to Churchill, “I am glad you did the Marlboro [sic] volumes before this thing [WW2] started—and I enjoyed reading them.” (L)

1425. Where was WSC in June 1943 when he said in a speech: “I was speaking from where the cries of Christian virgins rent the air whilst roaring lions devoured them, and yet I am no lion and certainly no virgin”? (M)

1426. Where did Churchill meet Jacqueline Kennedy? (P)

1427. At the end of World War I in November 1918, what did Churchill propose in keeping with his maxim, “In Victory, Magnanimity”? (S)

1428. Which room in the Admiralty became the War Room during World War II? (W)

1429. Who was the officer who created Churchill’s World War II Map Room? (C)

1430. Who wrote the introduction to The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill in 1975? (L)

1431. How many times was Churchill Prime Minister? (M)

1432. A recent book by David Coombs and Minnie Churchill identifies nearly all of Churchill’s paintings. How many do they list? (P)

1433. In the Daily Graphic in 1895 Churchill described how to respond when challenged in Cuba by Spanish or rebel troops. What was response did he recommend? (S)

1434. About whom did Churchill say, “He was a splendid military gambler, dominating the problems of supply and scornful of opposition.” (W)

1435. Who became Churchill’s private secretary when WSC went to the Colonial Office in 1905? (C)

1436. During Churchill’s “Wilderness Years,” which newspaper allowed him to share his views on India with the reading public? (L)

1437. On what famous ocean liner did Churchill travel to New York City in 1895? (M)

1438. What was the subject of the only painting Churchill painted during the Second World War? (P)

1439. To what war did Churchill refer when he wrote: “Steel is not only our principal means of war, but it is our best chance of saving the lives of our soldiers. This is a war of machinery, and generalship consists in using machinery instead of flesh and blood to achieve the purpose of strategy and tactics”? (S)

1440. Though Churchill was involved in many military activities in WW1, he painted only four war pictures, all covering a single military area. What was it? (W)

1441. When Churchill thanked Dudley Docker, chairman of the Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon and Finance Company, for the “admirable deliveries,” what deliveries did he mean? (C)

1442. For what Indian newspaper was Churchill a correspondent when on assignment to the North West Frontier? (L)

1443. In 1883 Churchill took his first trip abroad with his father, Lord Randolph. Where did they go? (M)

1444. What was the name of Churchill’s budgerigar (parakeet)? (P)

1445. At the Quebec Conference in August 1943, how long after the defeat of Germany did Churchill and Roosevelt expect to defeat Japan? (S)

1446. To what department did Winston Churchill refer when he wrote, “This is a very heavy Department, almost as interesting as the Admiralty, with the enormous advantage that one has neither got to fight Admirals or Huns”? (W)

TRIVIA ANSWERS

(1423) The owner of Ditchley when Churchill visited (on nights of the full moon when Chequers was considered subject to German air raids) was Ronald Tree. (1424) Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (1425) The Roman Amphitheater at Carthage. (1426) Aboard Aristotle Onassis’ yacht Christina. (1427) Churchill proposed to “send a dozen ships crammed with provisions” into Hamburg to aid the people close to starvation. (1428) The Period Library.

(1429) Captain Richard Pim. (1430) The brilliant foreword to The Collected Essays was written by Michael Wolff. (1431) Technically three times: once as Coalition Prime Minister, 1940-45; and twice as Conservative Prime Minister, 1945, 1951-55. (1432) 534 paintings, nearly the entire body of Churchill’s work. (1433) When challenged by rebels, respond with “Free Cuba”; when challenged by Spanish troops respond with “Spain.” (1434) Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

(1435) Edward Marsh. (1436) For nearly six years Esmond Harmsworth, son and heir of Lord Rothermere, opened the pages of the Daily Mail to Churchill’s articles on India. (1437) The Cunard liner Etruria. (1438) The Tower of Katoubia Mosque at Marrakech, Coombs 376. (1439) World War I: the letter was written in September 1917 to the head of each British steel company. (1440) Ploegsteert (“Plugstreet”) in Belgium, where WSC was headquartered with the Royal Scots Fusiliers.

(1441) Churchill referred to the delivery of tanks. (1442) The Allahabad Pioneer. (1443) Paris, France. (1444) Toby. (1445) Twelve months. (1446) The Ministry of Munitions.