Army and railways themed general quiz

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3. On 1 Jan 2020, celebrations commenced in the
Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand. They
distributed sweets, celebrated with crackers,
music, dance and dhol beats.
One of their own had become a certain first in
india.
What was the reason for their celebration?

4. Bipin Rawat becoming the first Chief
of Defence Staff of India

5. Army gen. Hamilton Howze said since the choppers
were fast and agile, they would attack enemy flanks
and fade away, similar to the tribes of the great
plains fought in the American Indian wars.
This statement of the US Army general is likely how
the regulation 70-28, related to rotorcrafts, was
created in 1969.
What change did the regulation bring?

6. Naming of army
choppers/helicopters after the
tribals like black hawk, chinook,
apache etc.

7. X were specialist soldiers of the German Army in World War
I. In the last years of the war, X were trained to fight with
"infiltration tactics", part of the Germans' new method of
attack on enemy trenches.
The concept of X first appeared in March 1915, when the
Ministry of War directed the Eighth Army to form
Sturmabteilung Calsow. The unit was to use heavy shields
and body armor as protection in attacks.
The term X is also well known due to a science fiction novel
later adapted in 1997.
Id X

8. Starship Troopers

9. Bogside Massacre, was a mass shooting on 30
January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry,
Northern Ireland, when British soldiers shot 26
unarmed civilians during a protest march,
organised under Father Edward Daly, against
internment without trial. 14 people died. What
was this event aptly named which may remind you
of a similar event?

10. Bloody Sunday

11. Andy Warhol made Self-portrait a few months before his
death.
It uses a Polaroid photograph of him, with the material of
acrylic polymer paint and silk screen printing to produce a
pattern over the face surrounded by black.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art describes the image:
"Warhol appears as a haunting, disembodied mask. His
head floats in a dark black void and his face and hair are
ghostly pale, covered in a pattern of green, gray, and
black."
What is the name of the self portrait?

12. Camouflage

13. Stephen E. Ambrose was an American historian and
biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and
Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at
the University of New Orleans and the author of many
bestselling volumes of American popular history. A visit to
a reunion of Easy Company, 506th Regiment, 101st
Airborne veterans in 1988 prompted Ambrose to collect
their stories of the World War II, later turning them into
a book. Name the book which, when later adapted,
involved Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.

15. The 45th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the United
States Army. The guardsmen fought in both World War II and the
Korean War.
The division's original shoulder sleeve insignia was a common
Native American symbol, as a tribute to the Southwestern United
States region which had a large population of Native Americans.
However, with the rise of a particular organisation, the division
stopped using the insignia. After a long process of reviewing design
submissions, a design by Woody Big Bow, a Kiowa artist from
Carnegie, Oklahoma, was chosen for the new shoulder sleeve
insignia. The new insignia featured the Thunderbird, another
Native American symbol, and was approved in 1939.

17. In 2003, the U.S Invasion of Iraq was initially
named Operation Iraqi Liberation.
After close inspection from the war architects,
they found a major glitch and renamed it
Operation Iraqi Freedom.
What prompted the change?

18. After the war’s architects realized that
name produced the embarrassing
acronym “OIL,” they quickly changed the
official title to “Operation Iraqi
Freedom.”

19. The 50 State Quarters was a series circulating commemorative
quarters released by the United States Mint. Minted from 1999
through 2008, they featured unique designs for each of the 50
US states on the reverse.
The quarters of the New Jersey state featured a famous work
with the caption: "Crossroads of the Revolution". Hoping to
encourage Europe's liberal reformers through the example of
the American Revolution, the artist used American tourists and
art students as models and assistants to complete this
revolutionary work. Which famous work?

20. Washington Crossing the Delaware