June 10, 2013

FINEST HOUR 134, SPRING 2007

BY JAMES LANCASTER

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Each column includes four questions in each of six categories: M, J Churchill contemporaries (C), literary (L), miscellaneous (M), personal (P), statesmanship (S) and war (W), easier questions first. How far can you get?

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Level 4:

1. How many children did Winston and Clementine have? (P)
2. When was the last volume of WSC’s The World Crisis published? (L)
3. Why did Churchill refuse Gen. Weygand’s 1 Jun ’40 request that every British fighter squadron should be thrown into the battle for France? (W)
4. Churchill’s “One of the heaviest blows I can recall during the war” referred to what June 1942 event? (S)
5. When did Winston Churchill first meet Clementine Hozier? (P)
6. “How the Great Democracies triumphed, and so were able to resume the follies which had so nearly cost them their life” is the theme of which volume of The Second World War?. (L)

Level 3:

7. Whom was Churchill quoting in Ottawa on 30 December 1941: “In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.”? (S)
8. Who wrote about Churchill: “At the rate he goes there will hardly be room for him in Parliament at thirty or in England at forty”? (P)
9. Who received this Churchill directive: “Your prime and main duty will be to take or destroy at the earliest opportunity the German-Italian Army commanded by Field-Marshal Rommel, together with all its supplies and establishments in Egypt and Libya”? (W)
10. What incident at the end of 1910 got Churchill into trouble? (M)
11. “This Chamber must be rebuilt—just as it was”—what was Churchill referring to? (W)
12. Churchill told Boothby: “It took Armageddon to make me Prime Minister. But now that I am there, I am determined that Power shall be in no other hands but mine. There will be no more Kitcheners, Fishers or Haigs.” What was WSC referring to? (C)

Level 2:

13. How many elections did Churchill lose in his political career? (M)
14. Who wrote the preface for Churchill’s Thoughts and Adventures {Amid These Storms in the U.S.)? (L)
15. Who was Laura Ormiston Chant? (P)
16. “I have made more than St. Augustine” referred to what? (C)
17. When did Churchill first conceive of the idea of Mulberry Harbours, which played an important role in the invasion of Normandy? (W)
18. “Might it not be thought rather cynical if it seemed we had disposed of these issues, so fateful to millions of people, in such an offhand manner?” What was Churchill referring to? (S)

Level 1:

19. Who was in charge of the planning for Winston Churchill’s funeral? (C)
20. Name the five prime ministers Churchill served under as a member of the Government. (C)
21. Whom did Churchill defend vigorously in the crucial Norway debate during 7-8 May 1940? (S)
22. When did Churchill first read Hitler’s Mein Kampf. (M)
23. Who finally beat Churchill at Dundee after his sixth attempt to unseat him? (M)
24. Which book by Randolph convinced Winston, in December I960, to authorize his son to write his official biography? (L) 

 

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