Enigma - full deck Flashcards
(256 cards)
1
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“Sounds made by enemy wireless transmitter immediately before it begins to broadcast a coded message”
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WhispersLexicon of Cryptology, 1943
2
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Where did Jericho work before the war?
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Kings, Cambridge
3
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When is Enigma set?
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Feb-43
4
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How long has Jericho been away when he returns in Feb 43?
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Three years
5
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What was Jericho’s discipline at Kings?
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Mathematics
6
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Which club in Cambridge is now a British Restaurant?
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Pitt
7
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Which garden is growing potatoes and onions?
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St Johns
8
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Porter at Kings?
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Kite
9
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Bedder at Kings?
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Dorothy Saxmundham
10
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Who takes food to Jericho from the kitchens at Kings?
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Oliver Bickerdyke
11
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Where was Jericho living in Bletchley before his breakdown?
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White Hart InnShenley Church End
12
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How old does Kite reckon Jericho is?
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26
13
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Who was Jericho’s tutor at Kings?
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Alan Turing
14
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Turing’s book
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On Computable Numbers
15
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Jericho’s first year research
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Riemann’s theory of prime numbers
16
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Turing’s teddy bear
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Porgy
17
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Jericho recruited by …
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FJ Attwood - professor of ancient history, dean of college
18
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What languages does Jericho speak?
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German
19
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What story from Herodotus does Attwood tell Jericho?
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Histiaeus (tattooed message to Aristagoras at Miletus on scalp)
20
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Crypta
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Greek for hidden
21
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Other codes quoted by Attwood
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Polybius’ squareCaesar’s letter to Cicero
22
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Perfume Jericho buys Claire Romilly
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Ashes of Roses by Bourjois
23
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Which book does Jericho hide his notes in?
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Complete Sherlock Holmes
24
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What does Jericho but The Times for?
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Crossword
25
What game problems does Jericho solve?
Chess
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Nervos belli, pecuniam infinitam
The sinews of war, unlimited money - Cicero
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How much older than Jericho is Guy Logie?
Ten years
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Sports Logie has a Blue in
Rugby and hockey
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Logie's companion
Mr Leveret
30
Which hut is Logie the acting head of?
Hut 8
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Recently deceased cryptographer
Dilly Knox GMC
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The "six little fishes"
Shark, Limpet, Dolphin, Oyster, Porpoise, WinkleGreatest of these is Shark - U-Boat code
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German name for Shark
Triton - son of Poseidon (twisted seashell)
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What makes Shark so difficult?
Fourth rotor
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When did Shark come into service?
Feb 1st 1942
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Head of Naval Section at Bletchley
Sir Leonard Skynner OBE
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Sailors who captured the code books
Fasson and Grazier
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U-Boat the code books were taken from
U459 - Eastern Med
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Names of the two code book
Short Signal BookShort Weather Cipher
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Machines used to help break Enigma
Bombes
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What word do the Germans transmit to indicate a change of codebook?
Akelei
42
What car does the deputy director have?
Rover
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What hut does Claire work in?
Hut 3
44
"Message written in cipher or in some other secret form which requires a key for its meaning to be discovered"
Cryptogram
45
Codes reviewed by Jericho during journey
Book of Ballymote (Irish)Pope Sylvester IIHildegard of BingenAlberti's cipher diskCardinal Richelieu's grilles
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Who built Bletchley Park
Sir Herbert Samuel Leon (friend of Lloyd George's)
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Puck's real name
Adam Pukowski - Polish
48
Builder of first bombe
Marian Rejewski
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Two kinds of radio networks
Circle and Star
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What name does Turin give the redesigned bombe?
Agnes
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Name of cinema in Bletchley
County Cinema
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Films showing
The Navy Comes ThroughSomewhere I'll Find You
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Official name of Bletchley Park
Government Communications Headquarters
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US Navy Liaison Officer
Lt Kramer
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Where is Turin?
America
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Who gave Puck his nickname?
Pinker, the shakespearean
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Jericho's new landlady
Mrs Ethel Armstrong - Commercial guesthouse, Albion Street
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Radio station call sign JDU
Kiel
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Radio station call sign KYU
Wilhelmshaven
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Messages enciphered the reciphered
Kisses - XX
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Hut 8's resident Marxist
Baxter
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New transmitter at ...
Magdeburg - 2,000 mile, 145 foot range
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GH Hardy's famous ...
... apology
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Inventor of the Enigma machine
Arthur Scherbius - killed by runaway horse, 1929
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Kriegsmarine weather station
Bay of Biscay
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Attwood's poem ...
"The Kraken sleepeth" - Tennyson
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Recently deceased author
Virginia Woolf - suicide
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What are they eating ..?
Whale meat
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Whose interpretation of Hamlet?
Gielgud
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Tune whistled by sentry
We'll Gather Lilacs In The Spring Again
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Hut 6
German army and Luftwaffe
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Hut 3
Hut 6 decrypts are translated and dispatched
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Duty Officer in Hut 3
Colonel Coker
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Where had Baxter been a lecturer?
LSE
75
Skynner's eyebrows reminds Tom of ....
Morse code symbol for M
76
Mr Wigram works for ...
Cabinet Office
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Map colours ...
Yellow: MerchantmentGreen: WarshipsBlack triangles: U-Boats
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Photos on wall in meeting room
King George VI and Admiral Donitz
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Naval officer with the eye-patch
Lt Cave
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Convoys
SC-122 from New York HX-229 from New York - Powdered MilkHX-229A from New York117 ships1m tons9,000 crew1,000 passengers
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U-Boats
Gruppe RaubgrafGruppe NeulandGruppe Westmark46 boats
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Nickname for U-Boats
Hearses
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Escort
7 Destroyers9 Corvettes3 Frigates
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How long was the last blackout on Shark?
Ten months
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What is the ashtray made of
six inch shell casing
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Skynner's briefcase
G VI R and royal crest
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Where was Jericho's father wounded?
Ypres
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Jericho Sr's occupation
Mathematician
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Kramer's brother
Merchant Marine - Liberty ships
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"To steal enemy cryptographic material; any object stolen form the enemy that enhances the chances of breaking his codes or ciphers"
Pinch
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Bletchley lies on which rail crossroads?
London-Scotland, Oxford-Cambridge
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How old is Ethel Armstrong?
50
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What did Ethel Armstrong's husband die of?
Heart attack
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How many stories is the Commercial Guesthouse?
4
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How many people in Bletchley?
7000
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How much does Ethel Armstrong charge?
38s per week
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Ethel Armstrong's savings
�1,000 war bonds
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Jericho's books
Agatha ChristieTwo volumes of George Shoobridge GarrPrincipia MathematicaTuring's On Computable Numbers paperA Mathematician's Apology - GH Hardy
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Jericho's etching
King's College chapel
100
Paper in Jericho's possession
Times, 23-12-42, Crossword filled in, Claire's number - 2712815
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Ethel Armstrong's neighbour
Mrs Scratchwood
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Month's rent in advance?
�7, 6s
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Bath
Once a week, five inches of water
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Which train did Jericho meet Claire on?
1506 from Euston
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Where in London is BP run from?
SIS HQ, Office block near Broadway, St James
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What reward did the codebreakers get for breaking Shark?
�100
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Crossword clue: German town partly in French disagreement with Hamelin
Ratisbon
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Crossword clue: Fill up ten
Plentiful
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Crossword clue: Morning snack as far as it goes
Ambit
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Two more guests at Commercial Guesthouse
Miss Jobey and Mr Bonnyman
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Where is Claire's cottage?
Shenley Brook End
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Claire's housemate
Hester Wallace
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Where does Hester work?
Hut 6
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Where does Jericho get the key to Claire's cottage?
Under a flowerpot
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Where does Claire's "father" work?
Foreign office
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What is the Bletchley Park Music Society performing?
Bach's Musical OfferingFrederick the GreatRICERCAR - To seek
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Second week's concert
Chopin
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Who does Jericho swap shift with to go to the Bach concert?
Arthur de Brooke
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Third week's concert
Schumann
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Dinner following the Schumann
Steak and Kidney, Jam roly-poly. British Restaurant
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Fourth date - film
In Which We Serve - Noel Coward
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German Primer in Hester's room
Ableman
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The Rhine Is Somewhat Longer Than ...
... the Elbe
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Where does Jericho find the intercepts in Claire's room?
Under the floorboards
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Call sign on Claire's intercepts
ADU
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Constellations in the sky when Jericho cycles back from Claire's
Orion, Procyon, Hydra
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"The coincidence of two different cryptograms, each transmitted in a different cipher, yet each containing the same original plaintext, the solution of one thereby leading to the solution of the other"
Kiss
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What German word in Turing's paper does Claire use?
Entschwidungsproblem
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Which U-Boat is attacked 300 miles off St Paul's Rock, causing Donitz to tighten security
U-459
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What does Jericho buy with his �100?
A ring - "not my style"
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Where does Jericho hide the intercepts?
Behind the print of Kings
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Decrypting machines ...
Type X
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Hut 3
German and Luftwaffe decoding
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Who does Jericho say he's looking for in Hut 3?
Dr Weitzman - Chess player, Queen's Gambit Declined
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What does Jericho as Wietzman for?
Kriegsnachrichten Fur Seefahrern - War Notices for Marines
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Which university had Weitzman been a philologist at?
Heidleberg
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Fluchttiefe
Evasion Depth
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Where does Claire work within Hut 3
German Book Room
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Who is in charge of the German Book Room?
Miss Monk
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Where does Claire's "father" live?
27 Stanhope Gardens, Kensington
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Name of Claire's "father"
Edward
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How are decrypts prioritised in Hut 3?
Zs - 1 to 5, 5 being the highest
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Church in Bletchley
St Mary's
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Graves in St Mary's churchyard
Ebenezer Slade, Mary Watson
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Hester: Is it heresy to call ...
St Paul as ass?
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Where had Hester been a teacher before the war?
Dorset
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Hester's quarterly newsletter?
Jane Austen Society
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ADU ...
Angels Dance Upwards
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Name of admiral ...
Trowbridge
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What crib was used to break into Shark previously?
Announcement of Donitz's promotion
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Where are all the pinches kept?
Black Museum
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In charge of BP ...
Commander Travis
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Name of trawler raided for rotors, etc
Krebs
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Name of weather ship raided for weather code
Munchen
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Head of Hester's section
Miles Mermagen
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Where had Mermagen worked before the war?
Barclays Bank
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Claire's fur ...
Silver Fox
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Magazine in Claire's room
Tatler
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German priority code ...
E-bar
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Which department does Edward Romilly work in at the FO?
German Desk
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Tune playing in pub
Londonderry air
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Jericho's visitor at Commercial Guesthouse
Douglas Wigram
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What's been stolen from the Home Guard amoury?
Smith and Wesson .38
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Edward Romilly's postings
Bucharest, Berlin, Washington
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Who has Puck lost?
Father, brother
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Which writer is still at King's?
EM Forster
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"A piece of evidence (usually a captured code book or a length of plaintext) which provides clues for the breaking of a cryptogram; without question, the crib is the single most essential tool of any cryptanalyst"
Crib
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Claire's gowns
Worth of London
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Newspaper running crossword competition Hester enters
Telegraph
170
Person who alerts Hester to crossword competition
Angela Smallbone
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Where was Hester's prep school?
Beaminster, Dorset - near Lyme Regis
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Hester's usual subject
Divinity (also English, Latin, Greek)
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Prize money for crossword competition
�20
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Presenter of winners cheque in crossword competition
Lord Camrose
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Luftwaffe codes
Insects or flowersCockroach - Western fighters, FranceDragonfly - TunisLocust - SicilyFoxglove - Eastern FrontDaffodil - Western FrontNarcissus - Norway
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Wehrmacht codes
BirdsChaffinch and Phoenix - AfricaKestrel and Vulture - Russian Front
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Weather codes
VegetablesGarlic, Onion, Celery - All to Hut 10
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Other codes
Skunk - Fliegerkorps, Eastern FrontPorcupine - Ground Air Co-operation, Southern Russia
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Charts Hester has to fill in
Blists or Hankies
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Code for Misc Trivia
Titicaca
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Railway shed seen from Jericho's window?
London Midland & Scottish Railway
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Tomb Hester arranges to meet Jericho by
Lord Grey de Wilton
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Royal arms over the north door of the church
Queen Anne
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What is ADU the call sign of?
Nachrichten Regimenter 537 - Motorised German Army Signals unit
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Where are ADU's signals picked up from?
Beaumanor intercept station, Leicestershire
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Where is ADU based?
Smolensk, Army Group Centre under command of Field Marshall Gunther von Kluge
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Which key were the ADU messages transmitted in?
Vulture - Russian Front
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"That he is slow to anger is better than the mighty ..."
Proverbs 16, 32
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Hester's brother
George
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Where are Roosevelt and Churchill shown in the photograph from Life?
Casablanca
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Prototype four wheel bombes using ...
Gas-filled triode valves - GTUC thyatrons
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Codename of four wheel bombes
Cobra
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All electronic "super-bombe"?
Colossus
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Car Jericho borrows to go to Beaumanor
Kramer's Austin
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Where do Jericho and Hester stop to change on the way to Beaumanor
Charnwood Forest
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Commander of WOYG Beaumanor
Major Heaviside
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Configurations at Beaumanor
Rhombic and Beveridge, Dipoles and quadrahedrons
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Sets used at Beaumanor
HROsHallicrafter 28 SkyridersAmerican AR-88s
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German army codes for Russia
Vulture, Kite and KestralSmelt in Ukraine
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Figurehead found at Beaumanor
Cornwallis
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CPQ Call sign
Army High Command in Berlin
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TGD callsign
Gestapo
203
What book was Jericho reading when the messages in question were being picked up?
Sherlock Holmes
204
The three settings for an Enigma machine
Wheel order, ring setting, cross plugging
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Book Attwood is reading in Hut 8 waiting for U-Boat messages
Dilly Knox's edition of the mimes of Herodas
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"Out of this nettle danger, may we pluck this flower, safety"
Henry IV, Part 1 (Skynner)
207
How many contact reports does Jericho say they'll need to rebuild the short code book?
30
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How many U-Boats needed to produce 30 contact reports
8 or 9
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"To remove one layer of encipherment from a cryptogram which has been subjected to the process of super-encipherment"
Strip
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Commander of U-653
Gerhard Feiler
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Patrol of which U-653 is part of initially
Ritter
212
New patrol line for U-653
Raubgraf (Robber Baron)
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Name of man lost overboard by U-653
Leutnant Laudon + four ratings
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U-653 crewmember who spots cigarette being lit
Heinz Theen
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Name of escorting destroyer hunting the U-Boats
Mansfield
216
Operetta being performed by Bletchley Park Music Society
Die Fledermaus
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Who had won third place in the crossword competition, and now worked in the Hut 6 machine room
Donald Cordingley
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What does Jericho take to get through the night?
Benzedrine
219
What does Skynner offer as a prize for the first man with a menu for the bombes?
Bottle of Scotch
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Name of pub on the Buckingham Road
Eight Bells
221
Mr Bonneyman
Post Office worker - servicing Bombes.Dorking
222
Nuthatch code
Berlin-Vienna-Belgrade Army admin
223
Osprey code
Organisation Todt
224
How many rotors in a bombe
108 - 36 Enigma machines running in parallel
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Source of Enigma machine Jericho uses in the Black Museum
Sidi Bou Zid - Afrika Korps
226
Maker of Enigma machine
Chiffreirmachine GesellschaftHeimsoeth und RinkeBerlin-Wilmersdorf, Uhlandstrasse 138
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What does Wigram ask Hester to identify?
Claire's coat - "Hunters, Burlington Arcade"Shoes
228
How many buildings near the clay pit?
11
229
Where have the Germans found human remains?
Katyn forest north of Dnieper Castle, near Smolensk
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Name of Oberst sending reports from Katyn
Lachman
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Pistol cartridges at Katyn found stamped with ...
GECO D
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Where were prisoners brought to Katyn forest from?
Kozielsk Detention Camp
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How many shot at Katyn?
10,000 - five layers of corpses
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Where are Puck's digs?
Alma Terrace
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Talk at the Bletchley Working Men's Club
Co-Operative Society presents Councillor A E Braithwaite: The Soviet Economy, Its Lessons For Us
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Where is the train Puck's on heading for?
Liverpool
237
Where are the points changed to catch Puck on the train?
Kingsthorpe, north of Northampton
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Who has the stolen Smith and Wesson?
Puck
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"The original intelligible text, as it was before encipherment, revealed after successful decoding or cryptanalysis"
Plaintext
240
Who does Hester arrange a memorial service for at St Mary's?
Claire Alexandra Romilly
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Music at memorial service
Bach's Prelude and Fugue in E flat, Sanctus from Faure's Requiem
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Passage read by Hester at memorial service
"Behold I tell you a mystery" - I Corinthians, 15, 51-55
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Hymn at memorial service
447 - The Day Thou Gavest Lord Is Ended
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Location of hospital where Jericho is held after being shot
Northampton
245
What does Jericho read in hospital?
Agatha Christie
246
Which fictitious code does Jericho solve in hospital?
Abe Slaney's Dancing Men - Sherlock Holmes
247
Jericho's visitors in hopsital
Logie and Wigram
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Miss Monk's reading at Claire's memorial
Say Not The Struggle Naught Availeth - Arthur Hugh Clough
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Where was the Polish Cipher Bureau
Pyry
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Puck's Portuguese contact
Rogerio Raposo
251
Which City did Churchill allow to be bombed despite warnings
Coventry
252
How was Puck going to get to Berlin?
U-Boat off the coast of Ireland - Donegal
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Raposa's flat
Gloucester Road
254
Polish Minister of National Defence
Lt-Gen Marjan Kukiel
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When did the real Claire Romilly die?
1929, aged 6 - Meningitis
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Three qualities of a mathematical proof
Inevitability, unexpectedness, economy
