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Churchill Trivia

You can never get too much trivia in your daily life. Test your knowledge of WSC with these 110 questions. Find out how much (or how little) you really know. When you think you've got the answer to a question, click on it to open a popup window with the answer.

001 - How old was Churchill when he was hit by a car in New York City?

002 - What pony did he love to ride as a boy at Blenheim?

003 - What childhood toys of Churchill's are displayed at Blenheim?

004 - What Noel Coward song did WSC listen to aboard HMS Prince of Wales enroute to meet with Roosevelt?

005 - Who shone for Churchill "like the Evening Star"?

006 - Who was the artist commissioned by Parliament to paint WSC's 80th Birthday portrait?

007 - What was Churchill's best subject in school?

008 - What was the name of the Reves' villa where WSC visited?

009 - Madame Tussaud's first Churchill appeared on his wedding day, 12 September 1908. How many effigies were there throughout his life?

010 - What did Churchill call his bouts of depression?

011 - While in Khartoum, of what did WSC's servant Scrivings die from, which might have also killed him?

012 - What is significant about the date of WSC's death (January 24)?

013 - What daughter of a British Resident in India was Churchill's first serious love?

014 - Winston and his brother Jack toured the Swiss Alps in 1895. What even almost ended his career?

015 - Where is Sir Winston Churchill buried?

016- Name one color of Churchill's siren suits.

017 - Why did Churchill stipulate the exact position of his grave at Bladon?

018 - What was Clementine Churchill's maiden name?

019 - What event on Sidney Street might have injured The Home Secretary?

020 - Where did WSC and Roosevelt first meet?

021 - What type of music was Winston's favorite?

022 - Winston Churchill's only venture into sculpture was a bust of whom?

023 - What sport was Winston fond of playing as a young man?

024 - Clemmie and Winston had a pet name for Randolph before and just after he was born. What was he called?

025 - What finally got Winston's parents to visit him at school in Brighton?

026 - How much older was Winston than his wife Clementine?

027 - Where did Churchill first become a cigar smoker?

028 - What were the names of Clementine and Winston's children?

029 - What was the title of WSC's last painting?

030 - How many exams did WSC need to pass into Sandhurst?

031 - What was 28 Hyde Park Gate?

032 - Who or what was High Hat? One of WSC's race horses

033 - What years did Churchill deem 'the happiest of my life"?

034 - Churchill was past 40 when he began which of his many hobbies?

035 - "If there be any who rejoice that I [WSC] live, to that dear and excellent woman their gratitude is due," refers to whom?

036 - WSC's comment "the journey was interesting, and well worth the taking -- once" referring to what?

037 - What made the Left regard Churchill as a conservative despite many reforms passed while he was Home Secretary?

038 - Did WSC have any brothers or sisters?

039 - Where is WSC's beloved nanny laid to rest?

040 - WSC said he made the two most important decisions of his life at Blenheim. What were they?

041 - Name some of WSC's favorite authors?

042 - What was WSC's nickname for his beloved nanny, Elizabeth Ann Everest?

043 - Before changing his mind around his 85th birthday, where had WSC wanted to be buried?

044 - In 1943, Winston Churchill was awarded an honorary degree from what U.S. University?

045 - What was the name Churchill gave to plans for his own funeral?

046 - How long were Winston and Clementine married?

047 - When did Churchill collect stamps?

048 - What was the name of Churchill's architect when Chartwell was rebuilt?

049 - What name did Churchill use when he exhibited his paintings in Paris in 1920?

050 - In 1888, a school administrator said Winston was "regular in his irregularity.” Name two other faults he accused him of having.

051 - What sport did Churchill actively play until 1927?

052 - When Winston and Jack were small boys, they went to Austria on a holiday with their parents. With whom did they have tea?

053 - About how many paintings did WSC ostensibly paint?

054 - Where did Churchill toy with the idea of buying a farm and settling?

055 - Churchill had a wonderful collection of what type of apparel?

056 - What color were Sir Winston's eyes?

057 - What was the name of Churchill's longest serving butler at Chartwell?

058 - Winston's father Randolph wished him to enter which Army branch?

059 - What year did Winston first meet Clementine Hozier?

060 - The American ambassador to Britain in 1939 doubted Britain's ability to defeat Germany. Name him.

061 - What feature of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports uniform most appealed to Churchill?

062 - How did Churchill sign his paintings?

063 - What were Winston's and Clementine's pet names for each other?

064 - Who said to WSC that if she was married to him she'd put poison in his tea, to which Winston replied, "If I were married to you I'd drink it"?

065 - On which Harrow entrance exam did Churchill do so well that he was put in the top division for that subject?

066 - What is the name of the room in Blenheim Palace where WSC was born?

067 - What title did the Royal Academy bestow upon Churchill?

068 - In 1892, Randolph Churchill had a book published. What was its title? (Not a collection of his speeches.)

069 - What did Clementine do to a suffragette who was trying to push Winston in front of a train?

070 - What was Churchill's most-used pseudonym when he wrote letters which appeared in the Harrovian?"

071 - How much did the Churchills pay for Chartwell in 1922?

072 - In 1922, The Churchills bought Chartwell for £5000. How much did their benefactors arrange to pay for the house in 1946?

073 - What pseudonym did Churchill use when he recuperated in Florida in early 1942?

074 - Who was Goonie?

075 - During what decade did Churchill do most of his paintings?

076 - In 1946, Lord Camrose organized a group of benefactors to purchase Chartwell. How many, besides himself, provided the funds?

077 - What was Winston's brother Jack's full name?

078 - In 1952 one of Sir Winston's relatives married Anthony Eden. Who was she and what relation?

079 - How old were Winston and Clementine when they were married?

080 - According to the Boer War "wanted poster," how tall was Churchill?

081 - What well-known American Civil War poem did Churchill recite to the amazement of Roosevelt when he visited him during WW2?

082 - What were Lord Randolph's racing colors, used by WSC in India?

083 - What was the Churchill significance of the movie Royal Wedding starring Fred Astaire?

084 - Many Toby mugs have been made of Churchill. Which company has been making them since 1941?

085 - Where did Churchill have the only opportunity to paint during WWII?

086 - What activity offered Churchill a diversion and some solace after the Dardanelles fiasco?

087 - What was the largest fish Churchill ever caught?

088 - What is the only major government office Churchill did not hold?

089 - Winston's mother, Jennie, was accomplished on what musical instrument?

090 - To his dismay, Churchill was listed under what name when he first attended Harrow?

091 - What animal sketches did Winston and Clementine usually draw in their correspondence to each other?

092 - Name Winston and Clementine's ten grandchildren.

093 - Name the first Churchill ancestor of Sir Winston who purportedly came to America (from Dorset). Where and when did he land?

094 - In 1919 the Churchills sold their East Sussex home "Lullenden" to what well-known general?

095 - Name three painters who influenced WSC

096 - Churchill's brother Jack and his wife 'Goonie' had three children; name them.

097 - How many generations back was Churchill's American Indian connection?

098 - Winston had the lake at Sandhurst dredged in order to find what item?

099 - What characteristics of Winston did Clementine Hozier say eventually won her over?

100 - As a schoolboy at Harrow, what did Winston request of his father in order to increase his pocket money?

101 - What was "Mr. Churchill's Private War"?

102 - At what age did Winston live in Ireland with his parents (after his grandfather, the 7th Duke of Marlborough, was made Viceroy)?

103 - Was WSC ever a Freemason?

104 - Who did Tories call the "Terrible Twins"?

105 - Why was Winston's engagement to Clementine in 1908 such a newsworthy event?

106 - In 1932, when WSC returned from America, what gift was waiting for him on the dock?

107 - "Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat." What did Churchill mean by rat?

108 - To Clementine's annoyance and Winston's amusement, who liked to hint he was Churchill's illegitimate son?

109 - In what churchyard (church and village) is Sir Winston buried?

110 - Fiel Pero Desdichado is the Churchill family motto. What does it mean?