Test your knowledge of the great man with BBC News Online's Churchill quiz. Will it be your finest hours?

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

Churchill launched the "V for Victory" campaign. What is 'V' in Morse code? Clue: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

A: ...- B: .- C: --..

"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

"It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." What was Churchill unable to decipher?

A: Why he was awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize for Literature B: What Stalin was really planning when he signed a peace pact with Hitler in 1939 C: Why he had not been appointed Prime Minister before 10 May 1940

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

A: The company of his wife, Clementine B: The criticism of Labour rival, Clement Attlee C: Champagne

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

Sir Winston Churchill died on 24 January 1965, the anniversary of...

A: ...the death of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, in 1895 B: ...the Battle of Blenheim, in which Churchill�s direct ancestor the 1st duke of Marlborough defeated Louis XIV of France in 1704 C: ...Hitler's suicide in 1945

A state funeral, honorary US citizenship and a Nobel Prize. Churchill was also honoured in the title of which Pogues album?

A: Hell's Ditch � Churchill's description of the site of his ill-fated WWI invasion of Gallipoli B: Peace and Love � the two things Churchill said he wished he�d added to his May 1940 speech: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." C: Rum, Sodomy and the Lash � Churchill's summing up of British "naval tradition"