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Churchill the Statesman
Churchill the Man
1.
Churchill claimed that one of his ancestors was an American Indian woman. What tribe?
Sioux
Iroquois
Pawnee
Ute
2.
What period did Churchill describe as the unhappiest of his life?
during his schooldays at Harrow
after his removal from the Admiralty after the failure of the
Dardanelles campaign
during his isolation in the "wilderness years" of the 1930's
after his loss of the Prime Minister's office in 1945
3.
How many silver inkstands did Churchill receive as wedding gifts?
3
7
11
17
4.
How long did it take Churchill to dictate the first volume of The World Crisis, his memoir of World War I?
three months
one year
two years
five years
5.
One writing project that Churchill wanted to do, but never did, was a biography of:
The Duke of Wellington
Napoleon
Ulysses S. Grant
Alexander the Great
6.
Churchill was accused of:
fathering an illegitimate child
accepting a bribe
homosexual misconduct
all of the above
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