Friday 8 February 2013

QR–Cure–Quizzing Realms–393

Let the connects begin with an easy one!

1. This is a Native American of Apache origin. His name means ‘one who yawns’. It was also often used as a battle cry in the earlier half of the 20th century.

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2. Just a gentleman who was at the right place at the right time.

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3. This is actually a British armyman whose direct connection is to what has been blanked out in the previous photograph.

NPG 4532; Sir James Abbott

4. Need I say more?

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As simple as that. Connect.

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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Six answers, and all correct! The connect is Operation Neptune Spear aka Operation Geronimo aka the operation by US Navy Seal Team 6 to seek out and kill Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The first photo is that of Geronimo. The second is Sohaib Athar, who unwittingly live-tweeted the entire Navy Seal operation in Abbottabad. The third is the General Abbott after whom Abbottabad is named. and the fourth is a book by one of the participants of the operation about his experience that night.

I had thought of including Zero Dark Thirty or Katherine Bigelow as a clue too, but that would have made it even more obvious.

6 comments:

  1. osama bin laden is the connect.. james abott ( pic 3) - abottabad where laden killed was named after him; shoaib akhtar( pic 2) - 1st person to inform rest of world via tweet; No easy day- book that described in detail about the whole mission by Navy seal Smith; Geronimo (pic 1)- earlier the mission was named as operation Geronimo but later changed to operation Neptune spear.

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  2. 1. The picture is a of an Apache leader named Geronimo
    2. Geronimo was the code name to the hunt of Osama Bin Laden. Shoib Athar was the person who live tweeted the entire Geronimo operation from his house in Abbotabad, Pakistan
    3. Abbotabad was named after James Abbot (British guy in the picture)
    4. And finally this is the book about the mission that killed Osama Bin Laden (mission codenamed Geronimo, Tweeted by Shoib Athar and happened in Abottabad which was named after James Abbot and)

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  3. Operation Geronimo, the navy seal team 6 operation that killed osama. The guy sohaib athar was live twitting the events in abbottabad. The 3rd picture is Majot Abbott.

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  4. It is the operation on Osama Bin laden At Abbotabad.
    1. The code name of this operation was Geronimo, a apache chief.
    2. Shoaib was twitting at that time about helicopter noise and bomning.
    3. Abbotabad was named on him.
    4. The coverrd name is Osama Bin Laden.

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  5. Operation Neptune spear - operation that killed Osama bin Laden.
    initially it was given name Geronimo - the famous apache indian who was never been captured by americans.
    person who reported the abottabad operation on twitter.
    captain james abbott on whom the area was renamed as abottabad.
    navy seals VI team who killed the osama bin laden in the operation.

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