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The inventor of the universal computer.
Who is Alan Turing?
This mansion served as the home of British cryptanalysts during WW2.
What is Bletchley Park?
This was used by Germany to encrypt messages sent by radio.
What is the enigma machine?
This was what led to the U.S. entering WW1.
What is the decryption of the Zimmerman telegram?
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Who is Alan Turing?
Who is Arthur Scherbius?
This country was under threat from Germany to the west and the Soviet Union to the east.
What is Poland?
This part of an enigma machine moves after each keypress.
What is a rotor?
The year Alan Turing was born.
What is 1912?
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What is Betchley Park?
This Polish mathematician cracked an early version of the Enigma machine.
Who is Marian Rejewski?
Bletchley Park is on a rail line, halfway between these two universities.
What are Oxford and Cambridge?
This was the Kriegsmarine's primary weapon in the Battle of the Atlantic.
What is a u-boat?
The year WW1 ended.
What is 1918?
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Who is Winston Churchill?
He betrayed Germany and gave the allies diagrams of the Enigma machine.
Who is Hans-Thilo Schmidt?
General Rommel's forces were part of this enigma network.
What is North Africa?
A portion of a plaintext that is known to the cryptanalyst like "wetter", German for "weather".
What is a crib?
The year Poland fell to Germany and the USSR.
What is 1939?
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Who is Ian Fleming?
This leader of the Biuro withheld enigma keys from his cryptanalyst team.
Who is Langer?
This room number was the London address of the GC&CS.
What is 40?
This codebreaker recruitment tool requires a pen or pencil.
What is a crossword puzzle?
Called "gardening", this technique allowed the British to get cribs for use in cryptanalysis.
What is planting mines with planes?
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What is Bombe?