<strong>CHURCHILL</strong>TRIVIABy Curt Zoller (zcurt@earthlink.net)Test your knowledge! Most questions canbe answered in back issues o/TinestHour or other <strong>Churchill</strong> Center publications,but it's not really cricket to check. 24 January 1932 in New York, Dr. Otto C.976. After <strong>Churchill</strong>'s car accident inquestions appear each issue, answers in the fol-Pickhardlowing issue. Questions are in six categories: What did the doctor prescribe? (P)wrote a prescription for him.Contemporaries (C), Literary (L), Miscellaneous(M), Personal (P), Statesmanship (S) and War(WJ.961. Did <strong>Churchill</strong> ever speak with PresidentKennedy? (C)962. What three revolutions did<strong>Churchill</strong> describe in his History of theEnglish Speaking Peoples! (L)963. On 1 1NOV98 Queen Elizabeth IIunveiled a statue of <strong>Churchill</strong>. Where isthe statue located? (M)964. What was the full name of <strong>Winston</strong>'sbrother Jack? (P)965. What was the only Cabinet post<strong>Churchill</strong> never received? (S)966. What kind of vessel did the U.S.Navy name <strong>Winston</strong> S. <strong>Churchill</strong> andlaunch on 17 April 1999? (W)967. When did Canadian PM MackenzieKing first meet <strong>Churchill</strong>? (C)968. Where did <strong>Churchill</strong> find his commentsregarding the "locust years"? (L)969. What vessel carried WSC's coffinup the Thames? (M)970. Name <strong>Churchill</strong>'s London residenceswith the blue historical plaque. (P)971. At Teheran, <strong>Churchill</strong> commented"....the truth is so precious, it must alwaysbe attended by" ...what? (S)972. Of whom did <strong>Churchill</strong> say, "He isthe only man who could have lost theWar in an afternoon."? (W)973. To whom did <strong>Churchill</strong> refer whenhe said "...it would have been better hadhe never lived."? (C)974. On 12 March 1887 Lord Randolphsent a letter to his wife under a "FlyingSeal." What is a "Flying Seal"? (L)975.What did WSC reply when asked ifhe had any complaints about America?(M)977. In 1945 while electioneering, whatdid <strong>Churchill</strong> declare "no Socialist systemcan be without"? (S)978. Where and when did <strong>Winston</strong><strong>Churchill</strong> say, "The story of the humanrace is War. Except for brief and precariousinterludes, there has never beenpeace in the world"? (W)979. Who was the first woman memberof Parliament, who served with <strong>Churchill</strong>and often clashed with him? (C)980. In one of his books <strong>Churchill</strong>wrote, "Nothing will change himmuch....[his] letters as a boy are his lettersas a man. The same vigour of expression;the same simple yet direct language...thesame humour and freedomfrom all affection...." To whom was hereferring? (L)981. What three heads of governmentmet at Bermuda in 1953? (M)982. What did <strong>Churchill</strong> call his moodswings which often enveloped him? (P)983. In 1937 <strong>Churchill</strong> commented, "Itis no use leading the other nations up thegarden and then running away when thedog growls." To what did he refer? (S)984. Prior to D-Day <strong>Churchill</strong> orderedBomber Command to execute the"Zuckerman plan." What was it ? (W)ANSWERS TO LAST TRIVIA(937) In his 25Junl 1 letter to his wife<strong>Churchill</strong> suggested Edward Grey as Godfatherto Randolph. (938) Henry WMassingham provided the introduction toLiberalism and the Social Problem. (939)Vice President Henry Wallace criticized<strong>Churchill</strong>'s Fulton address on 12Sep47.(940) <strong>Churchill</strong> was initiated into theFreemasons 24May01. (941) The article,"How to Stop War" was originally publishedby the London Evening Standard12Jun36 and reprinted in Step by Step(1939). (942) The code name for theDunkirk evacuation was"Dynamo." (943)The Cockran papers are at the New YorkCity Public Library. (944) The StrandMagazine paid <strong>Churchill</strong> £150 for eacharticle and £30 for each photo in hisAfrican travelogue. (945) Chandor spainting was unfinished because Stalinwould not sit, sending photographs whichChandor refused to paint from. (946)<strong>Churchill</strong> was appointed Under-Secretaryfor the Colonies in 1905. (947) In theDaily Telegraph and Morning Post oi15Apr47 he commented, "If my fatherwould have been an American citizen insteadof my mother, I should have hesitateda long time before I got mixed upwith Europe and Asia..." (948) Shall WeAll Commit Suicide?, published in Nosh'sPallMallm September 1924, <strong>Churchill</strong>wrote: "Might not a bomb no bigger thanan orange be found to possess secretpower to destroy a whole block of buildingsnay, to blast a township at a stroke?Could not explosives... be guided automaticallyin flying machines...?" (949)Harold Macmillan commented on<strong>Churchill</strong>'s "lion heart" in his War Diaries.(950) The publishers reduced the type by2 points for The Gathering Storm. For thesecond edition they reset the first volumeand all succeeding volumes had largertype. (951) Vice President-elect TheodoreRoosevelt commented about WSC after ameeting in Albany, New York in December1900. (952) <strong>Churchill</strong> repeated thephrase "blood, toil, tears and sweat" in sixspeeches: 13May40, 8Oct40, 7May4l,2Dec4l, 27Jan42 and 10Nov42. (953)<strong>Churchill</strong> writes in Marlborough: "Onerule of conduct alone survives as a guideto men in their wanderings: fidelity tocovenants, the honour of soldiers and thehatred of causing human woe." (954) TheGermans' greatest errors were invadingBelgium, because it brought Britain intodie War; and waging unrestricted submarinewarfare, because it brought the U. S.into the War. (955) Lt. Gen. Sir AdrianCarton de Wiart was <strong>Churchill</strong>'s personalrepresentative to Chiang Kai-shek. (956)"Locksley Hall" by Tennyson was quotedin the article "Fifty Years Hence" inThoughts and Adventures. (957) The Marlboroughvictory was at Ramillies in Belgium.(958) His word of advice for buddingartists was "audacity." (959)<strong>Churchill</strong> recommended feeding "largenumbers of floating mines into the Rhineriver above Strasbourg." (960) <strong>Churchill</strong>referred to the leadership of Air MarshalDowding and his direction of FighterCommand. $3FINEST HOUR 103/51
"GOD <strong>AND</strong> THE EMPIRE""I rode forward with the 35th Sikhs until firing got so hot that my grey pony wasunsafe We also remained till the enemy came to within 40 yards tiring ourrevolvers. They actually threw stones at us Altogether I was shot at from 7.30 till 8on this day and now hegin to consider myself a veteran. Sir Bindon has made me hisorderly officer, so that I shall get a medal and perhaps a couple of clasps."—<strong>Winston</strong> S. <strong>Churchill</strong> to his Mother, Camp Inayat Kila, India, 1Q September 18Q7INSIGNIA OF A COMM<strong>AND</strong>ER OF THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIREIn 1917 King George V instituted the Order of the British Empire "in recognition of the manifold services, voluntary andotherwise, that have been rendered both by British subjects and their allies in connection with the war." A year after it wasinstituted, the award was divided into a Military and Civil Division. The Civil Division retained the original plain purpleribbon of the order, but in 1937" at the request of Queen Mary, it was changed to be of a rose pink color edged withpearl gray which it retains to this day. Members of The <strong>Churchill</strong> Center and Societies honoured with the Order includeThe Lady Soames (DBE); Lord Jellicoe and [Sir] Caspar Weinberger (KBE); Sir Martin Gilbert, Anthony MontagueBrowne, Robert Hardy and Damon Wells (CBE); Col. Nigel Knocker and Grace Hamblin (OBE); and Randolph<strong>Churchill</strong> (MBE); Clementine <strong>Churchill</strong> was invested with the GBE (Dame Grand Cross of the Order) in 1946. Thelatest investiture of a <strong>Churchill</strong> Center member, as a CBE, is discussed by Cyril Mazansky on page 18.
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