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Charlie Thorne Flashcards

1
Q

Why couldn’t the doctor understand Albert Einstein’s final thoughts as he lay dying?

A

Einstein was speaking in German`

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What did Ernst Klein do after Albert Einstein died that Einstein had asked him to do?

A

burn the papers in his study

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3
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What does the CIA need Charlie Thorne to find for them?

A

Pandora

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4
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Why had Charlie accepted a full scholarship to the University of Colorado?

A

to get away from her parents and for the mountains

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5
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When is the only time Charlie shows up to classes at college?

A

on exam days

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6
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How did CIA agents Milana Moon and Dante Garcia track Charlie to the ski slopes in Aspen?

A

they used the Global Positioning System in her phone

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7
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Why is Charlie able to escape Milana Moon at the ski resort?

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Milana’s attention is on Eve skiing off Deadman’s Drop, then Charlie sets a trap with her ski pole when Milana chases her

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8
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What is Milana’s code name?

A

Coyote

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9
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What is Dante’s code name?

A

Dagger

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10
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Why does Charlie have to stop fleeing in the truck she steals from the pool guy in Aspen?

A

Dante is standing in the middle of the road and she doesn’t want to run over him

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11
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What is Pandora?

A

an equation related to the theory of relativity that would make the process of converting mass to energy easier

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12
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What do Alexi and his team call themselves?

A

Das Furii (the Furies)

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13
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What does Charlie demand from Dante before she will agree to help the CIA find Pandora?

A

a letter stating that they will not arrest her for any crime she may have committed

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14
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Upon his deathbed, where did the CIA think Einstein said Pandora was hidden?

A

in a railing

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15
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Why does Charlie believe Einstein developed Pandora early in his career?

A

mathematicians and theoretical physicists tend to peek early in their careers

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16
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Why does Charlie think they should start looking for Pandora in Jerusalem?

A

Einstein’s archives are at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem

17
Q

What book of Einstein’s does Charlie think they will find Pandora in?

A

a Sherlock Holmes book

18
Q

What does Charlie threaten to do if Dante does not tell her the whole story of what happened in Bern?

A

she will use a lighter to blow up the fuel tanker attached to their plane in Antarctica

19
Q

How are Dante and Charlie related?

A

they are half-siblings; they have the same father

20
Q

What did Charlie develop and send to the Lightning Corporation?

A

a security system

21
Q

Instead of paying Charlie for her security system, what did the Lightning Corporation do?

A

they named it Barracuda and released it

22
Q

How did Charlie know Barracuda was her security system?

A

she had build a backdoor in is that Lightning did not remove

23
Q

What did Charlie do to punish Lighting for stealing her security system?

A

she hacked into their system, moved money to a Swiss bank account, and messed up their system to make them look bad to the public

24
Q

What code name does Charlie want for herself?

A

Prometheus

25
Q

What does Charlie use to chase Marco after he steals the Sherlock Holmes book from Einstein’s collection?

A

a skateboard

26
Q

Where did Einstein hide the clue in the Sherlock Holmes book?

A

he cut a hole in the front cover, tucked the clue inside, then repaired the hole

27
Q

What does Charlie think the variables in the clue stand for?

A

the year 1931

28
Q

How does Charlie distract Dante so she can escape the safe house in Jerusalem?

A

she teases him about liking Milana Moon

29
Q

Why doesn’t Charlie want the CIA to have Pandora?

A

she is afraid the government will use it to make weapons

30
Q

What language does Charlie use in front of the Furies at the safe house to let Dante and Milana know her plan for escape?

A

Mandarin Chinese

31
Q

What does Charlie use at the safe house to blind the Furies so they can escape?

A

the glare of the sun off the computer monitors

32
Q

What is Charlie’s theory on how the safe house was compromised?

A

she thinks John Russo is still alive and working for the Furies, not the CIA

33
Q

How is John Russo able to decode Einstein’s clue?

A

he discovered Einstein’s cipher when he was going through his old college books and notes

34
Q

According to Charlie, what is the first instinct of any civilization that gains a military advantage?

A

to use it to wipe out everyone else

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