Gretchen Rubin - Test Your Knowledge

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	Churchill the Statesman
	Churchill the Man

1. Which cabinet post was not held by Churchill between 1907 and 1940:
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Home Secretary
Foreign Secretary
First Lord of the Admiralty
Colonial Secretary
Minister of Munitions
President of the Board of Trade
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

2. As Home Secretary, Churchill was responsible for signing death sentences. Of the 43 cases which came before him, for how many did he recommend clemency?
0
3
21
43

3. Before calling out to Churchill, "You brute, why don't you treat British women properly?" as she was led away by police, a suffragette tried to hit Churchill in the face with a:
umbrella
glass of water
dog whip
pamphlet

4. In 1939, Eleanor Roosevelt described Churchill as
heroic
reactionary
indomitable
tragic

5. Churchill maintained that he and Hitler had only one thing in common:
"an instinct for paint"
"a refusal to surrender"
"a horror of whistling"
"an engrossment in history"

6. When Churchill visited Roosevelt after the attack of Pearl Harbor, the White House became a battle headquarters. Maps of the Atlantic and Pacific theaters of war were marked to show the locations of enemy and Allied forces. The location of the "Big Three" Allied leaders was indicated by special pins in the shape of:
a British flag for Churchill; an American flag for Roosevelt; a Soviet flag
      for Stalin;
a cigar; a cigarette-holder; a briar pipe;
an eagle; a unicorn; a bear;
none of the above.

7. Churchill lived until 1965, but three leaders of the Second World War - Roosevelt, Hitler, and Mussolini - died within how many weeks of each other in 1945?
three weeks
seven weeks
eleven weeks
eighteen weeks

8. Many of Churchill's phrases were widely adopted. Which of these popular phrases was not popularized by Churchill?
"safety net"
"summit meeting"
"iron curtain"
"first among equals"
"the end of the beginning"
"business as usual"
"special relationship"

9. The code name for the preparations for a state funeral that took place before Churchill's death" was:
"Last Lion"
"Cigar"
"Hope Not"
"Colonel Warden"

10. Which of the famous Churchill stories is apocryphal?
When Churchill returned in 1939 as First Lord of the Admiralty, a message
      flashed out to all ships: "Winston is back."
When reports indicated that Germany was preparing to bomb Coventry,       Churchill refused to jeopardize Intelligence sources by sending aid.
When Churchill spent the Christmas of 1941 at the White House, Roosevelt
      entered his bedroom and surprised him just out of a bath - wet, pink, and
      naked. Churchill exclaimed, "Mr. President, I have nothing to conceal from you!"
all of the above.