July 20, 2013

CHURCHILL TRIVIA: FINEST HOUR 126, SPRING 2005

BY CURT ZOLLER

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

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1495. On 16 Feb ’21, Churchill wrote to Austen Chamberlain, “I am determined to save you millions in this field.” What field? (C)

1496. What 1959 book by Col. Meinertzhagen relates his experiences while adviser to Churchill? (L)

1497. Whose signature is on the notice on the Cabinet War Rooms conference table: “Please understand that there is no depression in this House and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.”? (M)

1498. Whom did Churchill appoint as military adviser to the Middle East Department, Colonial Office? (P)

1499. Under what conditions, according to Churchill via Lawrence, would Emir Feisal’s family’s territorial claims be supported by Britain? (S)

1500. What was Churchill doing when he learned that Germany had declared war on Russia in 1914? (W)

1501. Whom did Churchill decide to install as ruler of Trans-Jordan? (C)

1502. In an 18 Nov ’48 speech at the University of London, what did Churchill say one should do when a new book comes out? (L)

1503. Col. Meinertzhagen complained to Churchill about Sir Herbert Samuel’s proposed appointment as Mufti of Jerusalem of a man who had been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. What was his name? (M)

1504. After signing the Irish Treaty in December 1921, what did Churchill recommend advising the Irish to do about Sinn Fein members convicted of murder? (P)

1505. The organization of what country was uppermost in Churchill’s mind for his 1921 Cairo Conference? (S)

1506. What was the code name of the Washington conference WSC attended after the attack on Pearl Harbor? (W)

1507. When Roosevelt sent Harry Hopkins to Britain, the British Foreign Office did not realize the visitor’s significance. Who alerted Churchill and lavishly welcomed Hopkins? (C)

1508. In which of his books did WSC write in the preface: “I have freely availed myself of all passages, phrases and facts which seemed appropriate”? (L)

1509. During the 1921 Cairo Conference, where did Churchill visit a British military cemetery? (M)

1510. What was the name of Churchill’s cat during World War II? (P)

1511. In April 1921 two starkly different options were open to Britain in Ireland. What were they? (S)

1512. Churchill spoke in Commons of “the grave and perhaps irreparable injury to world security [which] took place in the years 1932 to 1935 by the present Chancellor of the Exchequer.” To whom did he refer? (W)

1513. In 1914, when Churchill was at the Admiralty, he had two principal private secretaries. Who were they? (C)

1514. From what town did Churchill wrote his first Cuban despatches to The Daily Graphic*. (L)

1515. Of what Royal Commission was John Martin Secretary? (M)

1516. When Walter Graebner of Time magazine, who helped serialize the WW2 memoirs, told Churchill that he was working on a book about him, the Prime Minister responded, “Very good, you should get Rufie to help you.” Who was Rufie? (P)

1517. Paraphrase the objectives of a new administration, proposed by WSC in the Commons on 1 Apr ’27, which may be applicable today. (S)

1518. When in 1938 Churchill said, “…the Air Ministry and the War Office are absolutely incompetent to produce the great flow of weapons now required,” who was Secretary of State for War? (W)

  

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