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When was he born?
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30 November 1874
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What county in England was he born in?
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Oxfordshire
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Who was his nanny?
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Elizabeth Everest
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What county did Churchill go to boarding school?
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Berkshire
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What school did he go to when he was 7?
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Brunswick school
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What school did he go to when he was 13?
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Harrow school
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What college did he fail to be admitted to twice before finally being successful?
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Royal Military College
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When did his father die?
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January 1895
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What rank was Churchill commissioned as while in the 4th Queen's Own Hussars regiment of the British Army, based at Aldershot?
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second lieutenant
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What war was he involved with when he was 21?
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Cuban War of Independence
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What political party did he declare himself "a Liberal in all but name"?
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Liberal party
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What political party did he align himself with?
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Conservative party
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What did he refer to as "black dog"?
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depression
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What newspaper did he work as journalist for while in a campaign in Sudan?
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The Morning Post
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What was the only ball sport Churchill was ever interested in?
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polo
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Where was Churchill captured as prisoner of war?
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Pretoria, South Africa
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What republic people imprisoned him?
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Boer republics
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When did Churchill escape capture, earning him publicity?
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December 1899
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What month in 1900 was he elected MP for Oldham?
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October
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What party did he privately consider creating to unify two parties?
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Central party
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Who did he marry in September 1908?
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Clementine Hozier
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What position was Churchill appointed as in February 1510?
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Home Secretary
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What suffragist attacked Churchill with a whip?
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Hugh Franklin
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When being appointed as First Lord of the Admiralty, how man battle ships did he say Britain would build for every German battle ship?
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2
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What war was he put in charge of the air force and navy, however he was demoted from that latter half-way through?
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WW1
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What Act of Parliament did Churchill support that allowed the first women in Britain to vote?
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Representation
of the People Act
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When did his mother die?
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May 1921
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What position was he appointed in Stanley Baldwin's government (1924) despite not having any background in finance or economics?
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Chancellor of the Exchequer
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What Indian anti-colony nationalist did Churchill oppose considering him as a "a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir"?
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Mohandas Gandhi
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What German refused to meet Churchill in 1932 stating: "What on earth would I talk to him about?"?
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Adolf Hitler
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Who became prime-minister in 1937, who Churchill initially supported?
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Neville Chamberlain
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Who was Churchill's conservative opponent to replace above as prime-minister?
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Edward Frederick Lindley Wood (Lord Halifax)
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What position did he create and assumed making him the most powerful wartime prime minister in history?
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Minister of Defence
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When did he deliver his famous "blood, toil, tears and sweat" speech in the House of Commons?
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13 May 1940
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What evacuation of troops happened on the morning of his famous "we shall fight on the beaches" speech delivered at the House of Commons?
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Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo)
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In one of his famous speeches, finish this sentence "This was their finest ___"?
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hour
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What did Churchill name the pilots, who were fighting in the Battle of Britain?
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the few
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What did Churchill experience not long after America joined the war?
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heart attack
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What meeting was the first meeting with Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill other wise named as the "big three"?
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Tehran conference
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When was VE day?
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8 May 1945
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What was the proposed military campaign to invade Soviet-held Europe?
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Operation Unthinkable
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Who beat Churchill in the 1945 general election?
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Clement Attlee
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When did Churchill start his second term as prime minister?
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1951
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When did resign as prime minister?
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1955
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When did he retire as MP?
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1964
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When did he die?
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24 January 1965
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What did he die of?
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a stroke
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