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