Spy Terminology
World History
Movies
Intelligence Agencies
Literature & Comics
100

The best spies are those with access to…

a) High-ranking officials or secret information b) Every cell phone network in the world c) Large arsenals

a) High-ranking officials or secret information

100

An African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the US Civil War. After escaping from captivity, she made thirteen missions to rescue around seventy slaves through the Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman

100

He is a fictional Senior Operational Officer of the “Double-O” (00) branch, an ultra-covert Black Ops unit within the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS / MI6). As an intelligence officer in MI6, he holds the code number “007.”

James Bond (James Bond films)

100

What does the CIA stand for?

Central Intelligence Agency

100

This teenager sometimes helps the Hardy Boys spy on and catch criminals

Nancy Drew (Nancy Drew series)

200
What does a double agent do?

Provides false information to the side he’s supposedly spying for while providing true information to the side to which he’s originally loyal

200

What nation did CIA official Aldrich Ames spy for in the 1980s?

Soviet Union

200

Once their parents are captured by an evil mastermind, these two siblings bravely jet through the air, dive under the seas, and crisscross the globe in a series of thrilling adventures on a mission to save their parents.

Carmen and Juni Cortez (Spy Kids)

200

What does the NSA stand for?

National Security Agency

200

This Harry Potter character is revealed to be a double agent on behalf of Dumbledore in the final book

Severus Snape (Harry Potter series)

300

Espionage comes from a French word meaning what?

To spy

300

What was the name of the code the Nazis used in World War II?

a) Ultra b) Purple c) Enigma

c) Enigma

300

When a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises and an unstoppable force haunts her, she must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left long before she became an Avenger.

Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow)

300

What is the Soviet Union’s Intelligence Agency?

KGB (Committee for State Security)

300

This 11-year-old enjoys spying on people and writing about them in her notebook

Harriet (Harriet the Spy)

400

What is a spy's legend?

A background story and documents that support an identity

400

What former U.S. president authorized the flight of a U-2 spy plane in 1960?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

400

After his partner and the Missions Force team is murdered and he is framed for it, he must sneak back into the heavily guarded CIA building to retrieve a confidential computer file that will prove his innocence.

Ethan Hunt (Mission: Impossible)

400

What is Britain’s Intelligence Agency?

MI6, formally the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)

400

Amy and Dan Cahill discover upon their grandmother’s death that the Cahill family has shaped most of world history in this series

39 clues

500

What is a dead drop?

A secret hiding place in public used to exchange information

500

What was Operation Fortitude?

a) A 1940 misinformation campaign in which the British fooled the Germans into believing that the entire Royal Air Force had been destroyed

b) A 1944 misinformation campaign in which the Americans fooled the Germans as to the location of the D-Day invasion at Normandy

c) A 1945 misinformation campaign in which the Japanese fooled the Americans regarding the amount of troops at Okinawa

b) A 1944 misinformation campaign in which the Americans fooled the Germans as to the location of the D-Day invasion at Normandy

500

He is a former CIA spy and assassin suffering from dissociative amnesia who must now figure out who he is

Jason Bourne (Bourne series)

500

What is Israel’s Intelligence Agency?

Mossad

500

This author created James Bond

Ian Fleming (James Bond series)

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