Special Units Trivia Quiz

Answer: SAS

The whole embassy was taken by a group of terrorists and all of its staff taken hostage. Days of useless negotiations followed. Later, SAS was deployed to finally solve the whole situation. Using ropes and smoke grenades, these elite troops entered the embassy through the balconies and windows and successfully fulfilled all of their objectives, rescuing all of the civilians and eliminating the terrorists.

Answer: knee-bends

GROM is considered as one of the most elite antiterrorist and reconnaissance units and the whole entering process for soldiers wishing to get to the unit is extremely difficult. It consists of physical tests, psychological tests and "Hell-week", a week long series of extremely hard exercises, in which every men shows his abilities to work in a team.

Answer: Commando Hubert

While GIGN is part of Gendarmerie, and GIPN and RAID are both police units conducting operations in mostly urban areas, Commando Hubert is a military unit. It specializes on reconnaissance missions on water and in hostile countries, often in secluded areas, such as jungles or mountains.

Answer: True

ÚOU stands for 'Útvar osobitného určenia' and is Slovakia's primary response to world terrorism. Throughout years, this unit got on a position comparable with the world's most elite units, being equipped with the newest weapons (such as HK MP5, G36) and modern equipment.

These elite policemen are under the command of Slovak Police Corps presidium; the Slovak police president is thus the only person that may give an order to deploy them.

Answer: training South Vietnamese soldiers as maritime commandos

Navy Seals were later transferred deep behind enemy lines, to the thick jungles along the Cambodian borders. They were disrupting the communication lines, attacking enemy camps and setting up ambushes on smaller enemy convoys. Such things were also part of the mission of U.S. Special Forces, known as "Green Berets".

Answer: arresting an escaped prisoner named Jiři Kájinek

Jiri Kájinek was accused of more than 2 murders and arrested. During his stay in one of the Czech prisons he dig up a tunnel and escaped. Later, he was discovered and arrested in his hideout, where he was living with his girlfriend. This brought an unexpected attention to the Czech commando.

Answer: Einsatzkommando

EKO is often connected with Cobra, which is Austria's primary weapon against terrorist and dangerous criminals. As other similar units, Cobra is also well-equipped and armed and its operators got through daily hard training of tactics, shooting and physical preparations, such as mountain climbing, running or swimming.

Answer: HK MP5

Operators in many of today's police units are armed with MP5, which is a modern submachine gun developed by the German company Heckler & Koch. Only a small number of mostly non-European countries didn't buy at least some of these weapons for their commandos, relying on the old Russian AK47 and SA vz. 58.

Answer: True

This really is a part of the entering process for new candidates in this unit. Other expectations include at least 3 years of work in either the police or army, university education, and age no more than 28 years.

Answer: German Stosstruppen in WW1

At the end of World War I, when it was visible that Germany was going to lose, its high command decided to create Stosstruppen, small units consisting of specially trained soldiers, whose primary mission was capturing of enemy trenches and positions behind the No Man's land.