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1
Q

“Sounds made by enemy wireless transmitter immediately before it begins to broadcast a coded message”

A

WhispersLexicon of Cryptology, 1943

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2
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Where did Jericho work before the war?

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Kings, Cambridge

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3
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When is Enigma set?

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Feb-43

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4
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What was Jericho’s discipline at Kings?

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Mathematics

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5
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Porter at Kings?

A

Kite

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6
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Bedder at Kings?

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Dorothy Saxmundham

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7
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Where was Jericho living in Bletchley before his breakdown?

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White Hart InnShenley Church End

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8
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Who was Jericho’s tutor at Kings?

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Alan Turing

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9
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Turing’s book

A

On Computable Numbers

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10
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Jericho’s first year research

A

Riemann’s theory of prime numbers

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11
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Turing’s teddy bear

A

Porgy

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12
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Jericho recruited by …

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FJ Attwood - professor of ancient history, dean of college

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13
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What languages does Jericho speak?

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German

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14
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Perfume Jericho buys Claire Romilly

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Ashes of Roses by Bourjois

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15
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Which hut is Logie the acting head of?

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Hut 8

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16
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Recently deceased cryptographer

A

Dilly Knox GMC

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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

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18
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German name for Shark

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Triton - son of Poseidon (twisted seashell)

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19
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What makes Shark so difficult?

A

Fourth rotor

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20
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Head of Naval Section at Bletchley

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Sir Leonard Skynner OBE

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21
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Names of the two code book

A

Short Signal BookShort Weather Cipher

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22
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Machines used to help break Enigma

A

Bombes

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23
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What word do the Germans transmit to indicate a change of codebook?

A

Akelei

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24
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What hut does Claire work in?

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Hut 3

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25
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“Message written in cipher or in some other secret form which requires a key for its meaning to be discovered”

A

Cryptogram

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26
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Puck’s real name

A

Adam Pukowski - Polish

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27
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What name does Turin give the redesigned bombe?

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Agnes

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28
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US Navy Liaison Officer

A

Lt Kramer

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29
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Jericho’s new landlady

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Mrs Ethel Armstrong - Commercial guesthouse, Albion Street

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30
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Messages enciphered the reciphered

A

Kisses - XX

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31
Q

Hut 8’s resident Marxist

A

Baxter

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32
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New transmitter at …

A

Magdeburg - 2,000 mile, 145 foot range

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33
Q

GH Hardy’s famous …

A

… apology

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34
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Inventor of the Enigma machine

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Arthur Scherbius - killed by runaway horse, 1929

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35
Q

Attwood’s poem …

A

“The Kraken sleepeth” - Tennyson

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36
Q

Recently deceased author

A

Virginia Woolf - suicide

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37
Q

Whose interpretation of Hamlet?

A

Gielgud

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38
Q

Hut 6

A

German army and Luftwaffe

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39
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Hut 3

A

Hut 6 decrypts are translated and dispatched

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40
Q

Duty Officer in Hut 3

A

Colonel Coker

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41
Q

Where had Baxter been a lecturer?

A

LSE

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42
Q

Mr Wigram works for …

A

Cabinet Office

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43
Q

Photos on wall in meeting room

A

King George VI and Admiral Donitz

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44
Q

Naval officer with the eye-patch

A

Lt Cave

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45
Q

Nickname for U-Boats

A

Hearses

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46
Q

“To steal enemy cryptographic material; any object stolen form the enemy that enhances the chances of breaking his codes or ciphers”

A

Pinch

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47
Q

Jericho’s books

A

Agatha ChristieTwo volumes of George Shoobridge GarrPrincipia MathematicaTuring’s On Computable Numbers paperA Mathematician’s Apology - GH Hardy

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48
Q

Jericho’s etching

A

King’s College chapel

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49
Q

Where in London is BP run from?

A

SIS HQ, Office block near Broadway, St James

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50
Q

What reward did the codebreakers get for breaking Shark?

A

£100

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51
Q

Crossword clue: German town partly in French disagreement with Hamelin

A

Ratisbon

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52
Q

Crossword clue: Fill up ten

A

Plentiful

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53
Q

Crossword clue: Morning snack as far as it goes

54
Q

Where is Claire’s cottage?

A

Shenley Brook End

55
Q

Claire’s housemate

A

Hester Wallace

56
Q

Where does Jericho get the key to Claire’s cottage?

A

Under a flowerpot

57
Q

Where does Claire’s “father” work?

A

Foreign office

58
Q

What is the Bletchley Park Music Society performing?

A

Bach’s Musical OfferingFrederick the GreatRICERCAR - To seek

59
Q

Fourth date - film

A

In Which We Serve - Noel Coward

60
Q

German Primer in Hester’s room

61
Q

Where does Jericho find the intercepts in Claire’s room?

A

Under the floorboards

62
Q

Call sign on Claire’s intercepts

63
Q

“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”

64
Q

What does Jericho buy with his £100?

A

A ring - “not my style”

65
Q

Decrypting machines …

66
Q

Hut 3

A

German and Luftwaffe decoding

67
Q

Which university had Weitzman been a philologist at?

A

Heidleberg

68
Q

Where does Claire work within Hut 3

A

German Book Room

69
Q

Who is in charge of the German Book Room?

70
Q

Where does Claire’s “father” live?

A

27 Stanhope Gardens, Kensington

71
Q

Name of Claire’s “father”

72
Q

How are decrypts prioritised in Hut 3?

A

Zs - 1 to 5, 5 being the highest

73
Q

Church in Bletchley

A

St Mary’s

74
Q

Hester’s quarterly newsletter?

A

Jane Austen Society

75
Q

ADU …

A

Angels Dance Upwards

76
Q

Where are all the pinches kept?

A

Black Museum

77
Q

Name of trawler raided for rotors, etc

78
Q

Name of weather ship raided for weather code

79
Q

Head of Hester’s section

A

Miles Mermagen

80
Q

Where had Mermagen worked before the war?

A

Barclays Bank

81
Q

German priority code …

82
Q

Jericho’s visitor at Commercial Guesthouse

A

Douglas Wigram

83
Q

What’s been stolen from the Home Guard amoury?

A

Smith and Wesson .38

84
Q

“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”

85
Q

Claire’s gowns

A

Worth of London

86
Q

Newspaper running crossword competition Hester enters

87
Q

Where was Hester’s prep school?

A

Beaminster, Dorset - near Lyme Regis

88
Q

Hester’s usual subject

A

Divinity (also English, Latin, Greek)

89
Q

Prize money for crossword competition

90
Q

Luftwaffe codes

A

Insects or flowersCockroach - Western fighters, FranceDragonfly - TunisLocust - SicilyFoxglove - Eastern FrontDaffodil - Western FrontNarcissus - Norway

91
Q

Wehrmacht codes

A

BirdsChaffinch and Phoenix - AfricaKestrel and Vulture - Russian Front

92
Q

Weather codes

A

VegetablesGarlic, Onion, Celery - All to Hut 10

93
Q

Other codes

A

Skunk - Fliegerkorps, Eastern FrontPorcupine - Ground Air Co-operation, Southern Russia

94
Q

Charts Hester has to fill in

A

Blists or Hankies

95
Q

Code for Misc Trivia

96
Q

What is ADU the call sign of?

A

Nachrichten Regimenter 537 - Motorised German Army Signals unit

97
Q

Where are ADU’s signals picked up from?

A

Beaumanor intercept station, Leicestershire

98
Q

Where is ADU based?

A

Smolensk, Army Group Centre under command of Field Marshall Gunther von Kluge

99
Q

Which key were the ADU messages transmitted in?

A

Vulture - Russian Front

100
Q

Codename of four wheel bombes

101
Q

All electronic “super-bombe”?

102
Q

Commander of WOYG Beaumanor

A

Major Heaviside

103
Q

German army codes for Russia

A

Vulture, Kite and KestralSmelt in Ukraine

104
Q

Figurehead found at Beaumanor

A

Cornwallis

105
Q

CPQ Call sign

A

Army High Command in Berlin

106
Q

TGD callsign

107
Q

The three settings for an Enigma machine

A

Wheel order, ring setting, cross plugging

108
Q

“Out of this nettle danger, may we pluck this flower, safety”

A

Henry IV, Part 1 (Skynner)

109
Q

How many contact reports does Jericho say they’ll need to rebuild the short code book?

110
Q

“To remove one layer of encipherment from a cryptogram which has been subjected to the process of super-encipherment”

111
Q

Name of escorting destroyer hunting the U-Boats

112
Q

Operetta being performed by Bletchley Park Music Society

A

Die Fledermaus

113
Q

Who had won third place in the crossword competition, and now worked in the Hut 6 machine room

A

Donald Cordingley

114
Q

What does Skynner offer as a prize for the first man with a menu for the bombes?

A

Bottle of Scotch

115
Q

Osprey code

A

Organisation Todt

116
Q

How many rotors in a bombe

A

108 - 36 Enigma machines running in parallel

117
Q

What does Wigram ask Hester to identify?

A

Claire’s coat - “Hunters, Burlington Arcade”Shoes

118
Q

Where have the Germans found human remains?

A

Katyn forest north of Dnieper Castle, near Smolensk

119
Q

Name of Oberst sending reports from Katyn

120
Q

Pistol cartridges at Katyn found stamped with …

121
Q

Where are Puck’s digs?

A

Alma Terrace

122
Q

Where is the train Puck’s on heading for?

123
Q

Where are the points changed to catch Puck on the train?

A

Kingsthorpe, north of Northampton

124
Q

“The original intelligible text, as it was before encipherment, revealed after successful decoding or cryptanalysis”

125
Q

Music at memorial service

A

Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in E flat, Sanctus from Faure’s Requiem

126
Q

Which fictitious code does Jericho solve in hospital?

A

Abe Slaney’s Dancing Men - Sherlock Holmes

127
Q

Puck’s Portuguese contact

A

Rogerio Raposo

128
Q

How was Puck going to get to Berlin?

A

U-Boat off the coast of Ireland - Donegal

129
Q

When did the real Claire Romilly die?

A

1929, aged 6 - Meningitis

130
Q

Three qualities of a mathematical proof

A

Inevitability, unexpectedness, economy

Mastermind 2016 - Robert Harris (10 decks)

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