Enigma Flashcards
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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What was Jericho’s discipline at Kings?
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Mathematics
5
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Porter at Kings?
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Kite
6
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Bedder at Kings?
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Dorothy Saxmundham
7
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Where was Jericho living in Bletchley before his breakdown?
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White Hart InnShenley Church End
8
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Who was Jericho’s tutor at Kings?
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Alan Turing
9
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Turing’s book
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On Computable Numbers
10
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Jericho’s first year research
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Riemann’s theory of prime numbers
11
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Turing’s teddy bear
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Porgy
12
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Jericho recruited by …
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FJ Attwood - professor of ancient history, dean of college
13
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What languages does Jericho speak?
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German
14
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Perfume Jericho buys Claire Romilly
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Ashes of Roses by Bourjois
15
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Which hut is Logie the acting head of?
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Hut 8
16
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Recently deceased cryptographer
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Dilly Knox GMC
17
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The “six little fishes”
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Shark, Limpet, Dolphin, Oyster, Porpoise, WinkleGreatest of these is Shark - U-Boat code
18
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German name for Shark
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Triton - son of Poseidon (twisted seashell)
19
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What makes Shark so difficult?
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Fourth rotor
20
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Head of Naval Section at Bletchley
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Sir Leonard Skynner OBE
21
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Names of the two code book
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Short Signal BookShort Weather Cipher
22
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Machines used to help break Enigma
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Bombes
23
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What word do the Germans transmit to indicate a change of codebook?
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Akelei
24
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What hut does Claire work in?
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Hut 3
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"Message written in cipher or in some other secret form which requires a key for its meaning to be discovered"
Cryptogram
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Puck's real name
Adam Pukowski - Polish
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What name does Turin give the redesigned bombe?
Agnes
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US Navy Liaison Officer
Lt Kramer
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Jericho's new landlady
Mrs Ethel Armstrong - Commercial guesthouse, Albion Street
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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
34
Inventor of the Enigma machine
Arthur Scherbius - killed by runaway horse, 1929
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Attwood's poem ...
"The Kraken sleepeth" - Tennyson
36
Recently deceased author
Virginia Woolf - suicide
37
Whose interpretation of Hamlet?
Gielgud
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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
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Mr Wigram works for ...
Cabinet Office
43
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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Nickname for U-Boats
Hearses
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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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Jericho's books
Agatha ChristieTwo volumes of George Shoobridge GarrPrincipia MathematicaTuring's On Computable Numbers paperA Mathematician's Apology - GH Hardy
48
Jericho's etching
King's College chapel
49
Where in London is BP run from?
SIS HQ, Office block near Broadway, St James
50
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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Where is Claire's cottage?
Shenley Brook End
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Claire's housemate
Hester Wallace
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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
58
What is the Bletchley Park Music Society performing?
Bach's Musical OfferingFrederick the GreatRICERCAR - To seek
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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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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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"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 does Jericho buy with his £100?
A ring - "not my style"
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Decrypting machines ...
Type X
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Hut 3
German and Luftwaffe decoding
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Which university had Weitzman been a philologist at?
Heidleberg
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Where does Claire work within Hut 3
German Book Room
69
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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Hester's quarterly newsletter?
Jane Austen Society
75
ADU ...
Angels Dance Upwards
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Where are all the pinches kept?
Black Museum
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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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German priority code ...
E-bar
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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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"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
85
Claire's gowns
Worth of London
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Newspaper running crossword competition Hester enters
Telegraph
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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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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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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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Codename of four wheel bombes
Cobra
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All electronic "super-bombe"?
Colossus
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Commander of WOYG Beaumanor
Major Heaviside
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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
107
The three settings for an Enigma machine
Wheel order, ring setting, cross plugging
108
"Out of this nettle danger, may we pluck this flower, safety"
Henry IV, Part 1 (Skynner)
109
How many contact reports does Jericho say they'll need to rebuild the short code book?
30
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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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Name of escorting destroyer hunting the U-Boats
Mansfield
112
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 Skynner offer as a prize for the first man with a menu for the bombes?
Bottle of Scotch
115
Osprey code
Organisation Todt
116
How many rotors in a bombe
108 - 36 Enigma machines running in parallel
117
What does Wigram ask Hester to identify?
Claire's coat - "Hunters, Burlington Arcade"Shoes
118
Where have the Germans found human remains?
Katyn forest north of Dnieper Castle, near Smolensk
119
Name of Oberst sending reports from Katyn
Lachman
120
Pistol cartridges at Katyn found stamped with ...
GECO D
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Where are Puck's digs?
Alma Terrace
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Where is the train Puck's on heading for?
Liverpool
123
Where are the points changed to catch Puck on the train?
Kingsthorpe, north of Northampton
124
"The original intelligible text, as it was before encipherment, revealed after successful decoding or cryptanalysis"
Plaintext
125
Music at memorial service
Bach's Prelude and Fugue in E flat, Sanctus from Faure's Requiem
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Which fictitious code does Jericho solve in hospital?
Abe Slaney's Dancing Men - Sherlock Holmes
127
Puck's Portuguese contact
Rogerio Raposo
128
How was Puck going to get to Berlin?
U-Boat off the coast of Ireland - Donegal
129
When did the real Claire Romilly die?
1929, aged 6 - Meningitis
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Three qualities of a mathematical proof
Inevitability, unexpectedness, economy
