August 3, 2013

Finest Hour 122, Spring 2004

Page 43

By Curt Zoller ([email protected])


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

1399. Who said of Churchill: “One doesn’t often come across a real man of genius, or perhaps appreciate him when one does. Winston is such a man….To listen to him on the platform or in the House is sheer delight”? (C)

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1400. What was the original proposed title of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples* (L)

1401. Who taught Classics and French, and was House Master and Army Class Master, when Churchill attended Harrow? (M)

1402. Where and when were Winston and Clementine married? (P)

1403. What new military equipment and facilities were incorporated into the USS Winston S. Churchill?. (S)

1404. What is the name of the village in Belgium, nicknamed “Plug Street,” where Churchill had his headquarters in World War I? (W)

1405. Who was the Second Secretary at the British embassy in Madrid (1939-40), who managed the Spanish end of the MI9 escape line, helping many Americans? (C)

1406. How much did Macmillan & Co. pay Churchill for his biography of his father, Lord Randolph? (L)

1407. Who was the American surgeon at England’s harshest asylum for criminal lunatics, who was issued a Warrant of Conditional Discharge, signed by Churchill, on 6 April 1910? (M)

1408. Churchill crossed the floor from the Conservative to the Liberal Party on 31 May 1904. When did he return to the Conservative side of the House of Commons? (P)

1409. Who wrote prophetically from Yalta: “Truman might be in for a job of work,” after commenting on Roosevelt’s health? (S)

1410. What were the two outstanding military occasions in World War I for which Churchill was particularly criticized? (W)

1411. When did Churchill’s and Chamberlain’s relationship ripen sufficiently that Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain came to dine with the Churchills? (C)

1412. What quotation did Roosevelt “modernize” after it was quoted to him by Churchill in December 1942? (L)

1413. A Churchill statue was recently unveiled in 2003 on the grounds of the Lido Palace Hotel in Italy where the Churchills spent their honeymoon. In what town is it located? (M)

1414. On what occasion was Churchill denied broadcast permission by the BBC? (P)

1415. What did Churchill refer to as “The Religion of Healthy-Mindedness” during his Indian Army days? (S)

1416. The Yalta conference established the Curzon Line as the eastern border of Poland. For whom was it named? (W)

1417. When Churchill joined the government in 1939 he recalled Walter H. Thompson to serve as his bodyguard. What had been Thompson’s occupation before reentering Churchill’s service? (C)

1418. Churchill wrote an introduction to the book My Fight to Rearm Britain in 1939. Who was its author? (L)

1419. Who introduced Bourke Cockran to Churchill’s mother, the then-Jennie Jerome? (M)

1420. What do the letters KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, FRS, MP after Churchill’s name represent? (P)

1421. On what occasion did Churchill write to Stanley Baldwin: “Short of being actually conquered, there is no evil worse than submitting to wrong and violence for fear of war.” (S)

1422. When General MacArthur signed the Japanese surrender document on the USS Missouri, a British officer and General Wainwright stood immediately behind him. Who was the British officer? (W)

TRIVIA ANSWERS

(1399) Neville Chamberlain wrote this to Lord Irwin (Later Lord Halifax) on 12 August 1928. (1400) The Story of the English-Speaking Peoples. (1401) Louis Martin Moriarty. (1402) St. Margaret’s, Westminster, 12SepO8. (1403) Churchill is the first Arleigh Burke class destroyer outfitted with 5-inch, 62 cal. guns and dual helicopter facilities. (1404) Ploeg
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(1405) Michael Cresswell. (1406) £8000 plus a half the profits after Macmillan realized £4000 profit. (1407) Dr. William Chester Minor. (1408) 1924. (1409) Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal. (1410) Sending the Royal Naval Division to defend Antwerp and championing the Dardanelles Campaign.

(1411) Admiralty House, 13Nov39. (1412) “Here, where the sword United Nations drew; Our countrymen were warring on that day!; And this is much— and all—which will not pass away.” (1413) Baveno, Lake Maggiore. (1414) During the election campaign of October 1931. (1415) The Religion of HealthMindedness was “The general agreement that if you tried your best to live an honourable life and did your duty and were faithful to friends and not unkind to the weak and poor, it did not matter much what you believed or disbelieved.” (1416) George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859-1925), Foreign Secretary under Lloyd George, Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin.

(1417) A greengrocer. (1418) The newspaper magnate Viscount Rothermere. (1419) According to Anita Leslie, the granddaughter of Jennie’s sister Leonie, Clara Frewen (their other sister) introduced Jennie to Cockran at a dinner party in Paris. (1420) The letters in order of precedence are: Knight of the Garter, Order of Merit, Companion of Honour, Territorial Decoration, Privy Councillor, Fellow of the Royal Society, Member of Parliament. (See also FH 121:47, Autumn 2003.) (1421) After British subjects were expelled from the Chinese treaty ports Hankow and Kiukiang in September 1927. (1422) Lieut. Gen. Arthur Ernest Percival, who surrendered Singapore to the Japanese in 1942.

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