Characters
Secret Messages
Symbols
Places

Art in the Story
100
This male protagonist is a symbologist, an expert on symbols.
Who is Robert Langdon?
100
The first clue that Sophie and Langdon get, "Oh Draconian Devil" is an anagram for this name.
What is Leonardo Da Vinci?
100
Sauniere's body lies naked on the floor resembling this famous Da Vinci sketch of an ideal man with ideal proportions.
What is THE VITRUVIAN MAN?
100
This is the city where the action begins.
What is Paris?
100
This is the painting on which Sauniere has written this anagram: "So dark the con of man." It points them to another painting by Da Vinci.
What is THE MONA LISA?
200
This character works for the police as a cryptologist.
Who is Sophie Neveu?
200
Sauniere's message to Sophie also contains an anagram: "O, lame saint" which leads them to this famous painting.
What is the THE MONA LISA?
200
Sauniere has drawn this five-pointed star on his body to give Sophie and Langdon another clue.
What is a pentagram?
200
This is the city where Teabing takes Langdon and Sophie in order to keep them away from the Paris police, who think Langdon is the murderer of Jacques Sauniere.
What is London?
200
This is the Da Vinci painting behind which Sophie and Langdon find a key. There are two of these paintings, both by Da Vinci, one in Paris and one in London.
What is THE MADONNA OF THE ROCKS?
300
His murder starts the action of the story.
Who is Jacques Sauniere, the man who raised Sophie?
300
Teabing and Langdon tell Sophie that a triangle pointing up is a symbol for this gender.
What is male?
300
This is the church where Langdon and Sophie (with Teabing) first seek the knight who was "interred by a pope."
What is the Temple Church?
300
This is the painting in which Da Vinci showed the Holy Grail, according to Leigh Teabing.
What is THE LAST SUPPER?
400
This albino monk is the murderer.
Who is Silas?
400
The combination to Sauniere's safe deposit box in the Swiss bank is given to Sophie and Langdon as this kind of number.
What is a Fibonacci Sequence?
400
The two pyramids under which Mary Magdalene's bones lie buried at the Louvre represent the union of these two.
What are man and woman?
400
This famous church where many famous Englishmen are buried is where Langdon finally opens the cryptex, finding that Sir Isaac Newton's tomb lacks this rosy-fleshed orb."
What is Westminster Abbey?
400
It is under these at the Louvre where Mary Magdalene's bones were buried by Jacques Sauniere.
What are the glass pyramids?
500
This wealthy Englishman is an expert on Leonardo Da Vinci and his painting, THE LAST SUPPER.
Who is Leigh Teabing?
500
This is the word that opens the cryptex at Sir Isaac Newton's tomb.
What is A P P L E?
500
Teabing shows Sophie a copy of THE LAST SUPPER and tells her that the figure on the left side of Jesus represents this figure, not John. Teabing also tells her that this ultimate prize of the Crusades was Mary Magdalene, not a cup.
What is the Holy Grail?
500
Silas murders a nun in St. Sulpice, a famous church where an early version of this imaginary vertical line marking time on the globe used to be when it ran through Paris. It is also called "The Rose Line" in the book and film.
What is the Prime Meridian?
500
This is the literary artist who buried his friend, Sir Isaac Newton.
Who was Alexander Pope?