Friday, January 2, 2009

Question - 146

Identify the 4 visuals and the phrase that connects them.

Answer: The pictures are the assassination of Lincoln, Julius Caesar, Timothy McVeigh (the culprit behind the Oklahoma city bombing) and the seal of Virginia. The connecting phrase is Sic Semper Tyrannis (thus always to tyrants) - it was supposedly said by Brutus while assassinating Caesar and by Booth while assassinating Lincoln, the seal bears the phrase and McVeigh had a T-shirt with this slogan when arrested. Iam, Arvind, Raghu, Manix, Adi, Harish and Rajesh got it. Well done.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sic semper tyrannis or Death to all tyrants.. assassination of Lincoln, Ceasar, Virginia emblem and oklahoma bomber..

Anonymous said...

Clockwise from top --
1. Abraham Lincoln's assasination
2. Julius Caesar's assasination
3. Timothy McVeigh - the Oklahoma City bomber.
4. The seal of the state of Virginia

The phrase that connects them all is - Sic Semper Tyrannis

Raghu said...

Sic semper tyrannis

Booth's words while shooting Lincoln
Brutus for Caesar
Timothy McVeigh - Oklahoma Bombing
Virginia state motto (Thomas Jefferson)

Anonymous said...

Sic semper tyrannis (SST):

(a) Assassination of Abe Lincoln
(b) Assassination of Caesar by Brutus
(c) Virginia's state motto (SST)
(d) Tim McVeigh

McVeigh, the Oklahama City bomber, was arrested wearing a shirt that had a picture of Lincoln and the words SST. Apparently Lincoln's assassin also shouted these words, and this phrase is attributed to Brutus when he stabbed Caesar.

Anonymous said...

Dinks - I am sure someone (read the illustrious ladies of 3024 with pattern recognition disorder) is going to be wondering why Michael Phelps was arrested ;-)

Anonymous said...

Sic semper tyrannis

Assasination of caeser when brutus is supposed to have said that phrase (at least he knew latin)

Assasination of Linclon when Booth shouted that phrase (I wonder who in the vicinity would have understood it)

The seal of virgina, which has this phrase as its offical motto (a bit eerie, in my opinion)

Timothy McVeigh, responsible for Oklahoma City bombing was wearing a T-shirt with this phrase when he was arrested.

Anonymous said...

sic semper tyrannis...
visuals... at lincoln assassination booth was supposed to have said this.. Originally Brutus said this at Caesar's death... It is the Virginia motto... also McVeigh had this on his shirt at the time of his arrest. A very cool connect quiz!

Anonymous said...

Phrase - Sic semper tyrannis
Visuals - Lincoln's assassination, Caesar's assassination, Timmy Mcveigh and State seal of VA.