Winston Churchill

Quiz

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill,

KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, FRS

• KG - The Most Noble Order of the Garter

• OM - The Order of Merit

• CH - The Order of the Companions of Honour

• TD - The Territorial Decoration

• PC - Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council

• FRS - Fellow of the Royal Society

Churchill wrote a biography of his ancestor John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough in the mid 1930s

Young Winston was a troublesome pupil at Harrow public school. Which of these quotes is taken from one of his school reports?

A: "His chief fault is that he is very self-opinionated."

B: "Constantly late for school. He is so regular in his irregularity that I don't know what to do."

C: "The boy is every inch a fool, but luckily for him he's not very tall."

Churchill was elected to Parliament in 1900. Did he...

A: ...stand as a Liberal and then join his father's Conservative Party?

B: ...stand as an independent and then join the Conservative Party?

C: ...stand as a Conservative, join the Liberals and then re-join the Conservatives?

When asked during the war to name the world’s greatest men, Churchill plumped for...

A: Churchill, Churchill and Churchill

B: Eisenhower, Montgomery and Rommel

C: Roosevelt, Stalin and Mussolini

Chancellor of the Exchequer

• is responsible for all economic and financial matters.

• is responsible for the efficient functioning and independence of the courts.

• is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England

"I have resolved the conflict in favour of the latter." What conflict?

A: Between Churchill's Liberal and Conservative loyalties

B: Between siding with Fascist dictator Hitler or Communist dictator Stalin

C: Between drinking skim milk or wine

In victory I deserve it, and in defeat I need it." Churchill - borrowing a quote from Napoleon’s was keen to have what?

Churchill was famous for the episodes of depression he called his "black dogs". What were his real dogs called?

A: Pol and Roger

B: Rufus and Rufus II

C: Romeo and Julieta

Sunset over the Atlas Mountains

Landscape with Sheep

Monet's Houses of Parliament