May 13, 2013

CHURCHILL QUIZ: FIN EST HOUR 142, SPRING 2009

BY JAMES R. LANCASTER

ABSTRACT
“Congratulations on becoming an officer and a gentleman. Don’t let the double promotion go to your head.” —WSC, 1895 

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Each quiz includes four questions in six categories: contemporaries (C), literary matters (L), miscellaneous (M), personal (P), statesmanship (S) and war (W), with the easier questions first. Can you reach Level 1?

Level 4:

1. Whose bridge game did Lord Beaverbrook describe as “exceedingly careless, and his card sense almost nonexistent”? (M)

2. In which country was Churchill’s mother born? (P)

3. What was the monogram on Churchill’s slippers? (P)

4. Who wrote to Churchill: “I owe you what every Englishman, woman and child does—Liberty itself”? (P)

5. In which essay did Churchill write: “Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end, or almost to the end, of the day”? (L)

6. Which country influenced Churchill’s ideas on social reform in 1909? (S)

Level 3:

7. Whom did Churchill refer to as l’homme du destin [man of destiny]? (C)

8. Who told her listeners, in Manchester in 1905: “The Conservatives give you dear coal, I give you dear Winston.” (S)

9. When playing Hamlet in the Old Vic Theatre in London, whom did Richard Burton hear uttering his lines word by word in the front row? (M)

10. In January 1942, Newsweek wrote that Churchill received “the greatest ovation which has been accorded to any person in that chamber in living memory.” What was the occasion? (S)

11. About which event did WSC say on 18 June 1940: “…our terrible foe collapsed before us, and we were so glutted with victory that in our folly we threw it away”? (W)

12. Which U.S. President said, “When there was darkness in the world, and hope was low in the hearts of men, a generous Providence gave us Winston Churchill”? (S)

Level 2:

13. WSC in a world broadcast 10 May 1942: “There is a winter, you know, in Russia…. —— forgot about this Russian winter. He must have been very loosely educated.” Who forgot? (C)

14. To whom did WSC write in September 1898: “…I speculated about the shoddiness of war. You cannot gild it. The raw comes through”? (W)

15. In a letter to The Times published on 30 January 1964, WSC wrote to support a fund “to preserve Doornkloof in memory of this man who shone among his contemporaries.” Who was the man? (C)

16. Where was Churchill when he wrote to his wife in February 1918: “Nearly 800,000 of our British men have shed their blood or lost their lives here during 3½ years of unceasing conflict”? (W)

17. What did their children give Winston and Clementine for their golden wedding anniversary? (P)

18. Which Churchill book was his first best-seller in America? (L)

Level 1:

19. In which of Churchill’s books was the Iron Curtain speech first published? (L)

20. When did WSC tell his companions “Keep cool, men. This will make good copy for my paper”? (W)

21. How many races did Colonist II, Sir Winston’s most famous thoroughbred, win? (M)

22. Which three hymns, all chosen by Churchill, were sung on board HMS Prince of Wales in Placentia Bay on Sunday 10 August 1941? (M)

23. “Vials of Wrath” is the title of the first chapter of which of Churchill’s books? (L)

24. To whom did WSC write in 1895: “Many congratulations on becoming an officer and a gentleman. Don’t let the double promotion go to your head”? (C) 

 

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