Churchill Quiz : Beginner

1. A 1919-20 limerick: “There was a young man of Dundee / Who they granted command of the sea / So they gave him command / Of the air and the land / Just to make it quite fair for all three.” Who was the young man?*

Churchill when Secretary of State for War and Air.

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2. In his book The River War, what did Churchill describe as “the most signal triumph ever gained by the arms of science over barbarians”?*

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Battle of Omdurman, 2 September 1898.

3. Haldane (Secretary of State for War, 1912-14) once said that an argument with him in Cabinet was like “arguing with a brass band.” To whom did Haldane refer?*

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Churchill

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4. Why was Sunday 28 May 1911 a special day for Winston and Clementine Churchill?*

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Their son Randolph was born

5. In which speech did Churchill say: “If we can stand up to him [Hitler], all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands”?*

“Their Finest Hour,” 18 June 1940, the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.

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6. In a note to cousin Ivor Guest on 19 January 1899, WSC wrote: “I have been busy with my book and live in a strange world bounded on the north by the Preface and on the south by the Appendix & whose natural features consist of Chapters & paragraphs.” To which book did he refer?*

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The River War

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7. Which U.S. President, according to Churchill, “did not truly divine the instinct of the American people”?*

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President Woodrow Wilson.

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8. In 1943 Professor R.V. Jones saw “an individual in a boiler suit come padding into the room; I imagined him to be a Ministry of Works maintenance engineer.” Who was he?*

Prime Minister Churchill.

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9. In which speech did WSC say, “We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering”?*

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His first speech as Prime Minister on Monday, 13 May 1940.

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10. “If there is a game which could prepare a youth for a soldier’s life, that game is —— .” Fill in the blank.*

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Polo, as described by “A Cornet of Horse” [WSC] in an article on Sandhurst in Pall Mall magazine, December 1896.

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