journal of the churchill center and societies - Winston Churchill

CHURCHILLTRIVIA
By Curt Zoller (zcurt@earthlink.net)
r'ESTyour knowledge! Most questions
can be answered in back issues of
Churchill Center publications but it's not
really cricket to check. Twenty-four questions
appear each issue, answers in the following
issue. You can win a case of something
vying with friends to get these right!
Categories are Contemporaries (C), Literary
(L), Miscellaneous (M), Personal (P),
Statesmanship (S) and War (W).
1081. Who paid for Churchill's stay in
Los Angeles in 1929 (C)
1082. Did the American and English
Winston Churchill ever meet (L)
1083. Who drew the cartoon entitled
"Hold the Line," issued in late 1940 as
an American propaganda poster (M)
1084. Who presented Churchill with the
marmalade cat WSC named "Jock" (P)
1085. What was Churchill's longest
speech in the House of Commons (S)
1086. To which volunteer regiment did
Gen. Redvers Buller assign Churchill
after he returned to the Boer War following
his escape (W)
1087. Who wrote, "Had it not been for
the resumption of the War, Churchill
would not have had a dog's chance to
crown his career as Prime Minister" (C)
1088. Which of Churchill's works was at
the top of National Review's list of the
100 best books of the 20th century (L)
1089. What was the name of the mining
company where Churchill hid after his
escape from South African captivity (M)
1090. Where was Churchill imprisoned
during the Boer War (P)
1091. When did Churchill address Joint
Sessions of the U.S. Congress (S)
1092. Who were the "Cockyolibirds"
(W)
1093. What film studio did Churchill
visit as guest of honor, during his tour of
California in 1929 (C)
1094. Name one of Celia Sandys's two
books about her grandfather. (L)
1095. How did Churchill celebrate his
39th birthday (M)
1096. In which hotel did Churchill stay
when he visited Los Angeles (P)
1097. "Human beings and human societies
are not structures that are built or
machines that are forged. They are plants
that grow and must be tended as such"
Where did Churchill make this statement
(S)
1098. What was the Knickebein System
employed by the German Air Force (W)
1099. What were Churchill's comments
regarding American Prohibition (C)
1100. Churchill wrote that the "British
people have been confronted repeatedly
by a great continental military power
seeking to dominate Europe." Name one
of the four Government leaders he referred
to. (L)
1101. What reward did Churchill receive
from Lord Roberts on 5 June 1900 for
his heroic acts in the Boer War (M)
1102. What was the "Black Move" (P)
1103. "Don't confront the Americans
head on. Be patient! They will come to
you, for there is no alternative." To
whom did Churchill say this (S)
1104. On 4 June 1940, after Dunkirk,
Churchill gave his broadcast "We shall
fight on the beaches...." What is he alleged
to have whispered in an aside to a
colleague while holding his hand over the
microphone (W)
ANSWERS TO LAST TRIVIA.
(1057) John Howard was a naturalized
burgher and manager of the colliery at
Witbank, who helped Churchill escape.
(1058) It took Churchill two days to
travel from Durban to Cape Town.
(1059) Asquith's comment was, "Lloyd
George has no principles and Winston
no convictions." (1060) Mortimer Menpes
was the artist whose pictures of
Churchill appeared on the cover of FHs
105 and 79. (1061) Lord Randolph proclaimed
"Ulster will fight, and Ulster will
be right" in a letter dated 7 May 1886.
(1062) The "Victory as a flower" quotation
can be found in The River War.
(1063) Stanley Baldwin commented on
Churchill's "hundred horsepower mind."
(1064) After his escape Churchill spoke
in Durban at Old City Hall on Farewell
Square in Durban. (1065) Churchill
commented that Russia "is a riddle
wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
(1066) The armoured train was ambushed
near Frere in Natal. (1067)
Churchill believed that attacking Turkey
in 1914 would force the Balkan states to
unite and join the Allies, and that a victory
would forge a line of supply to the
beleaguered Russians via the Black Sea.
(1068) Churchill commented of WW1,
"I am sure the mistakes made at that
time will not be repeated; we shall probably
make another set of mistakes."
(1069) The suffragette leader WSC encountered
in 1905 was Mrs. Emmeline
Pankhurst. (1070) The Nile despatches
were commissioned by Oliver Borthwick,
editor of The Morning Post, and printed
in that paper from 31 August to 13 October
1898. (1071) "The Other Club"
was a dining club founded in 1911.
(1072) His appointment as Undersecretary
for the Colonies provided
Churchill's first administrative experience.
(1073) The Minister of War, Lord
Ktchener, asked Churchill to have the
Admiralty undertake aerial defense.
(1074) On 23Sepl4, Churchill proposed
for the first time formally, to begin work
on a "trench spanning car."
(1075) Churchill's superior and Colonial
Secretary was Lord Elgin. (1076) The author
of the anti-Churchill poems was Osbert
Sitwell. (1077) Churchill was out of
the Parliament for two years following
his loss in the election of November
1922. (1078) The person who Churchill
said so feared Spain that he failed to note
the rise of France was Oliver Cromwell.
(1079) "Making the idea of peace more
attractive" referred to Germany as the
enemy in World War I. (1080) On the
first day of 1916, Churchill was appointed
to command a Battalion of the
6th Royal Scots Fusiliers.
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