Alan Turing

When was Alan Turing born?

• 1911

• 1912

• 1913

• 1914

Where did Alan Turing work during World War 2?

• Downing Street

• Germany

• Bletchly Park

• The Whitehouse

What was the name of Alan Turing's best friend at school?

• Kiera Knightly

• Joan Clarke

• Christopher Morely

• Alastair Denniston

What famous German code did the team at Bletchly Park crack?

• Poe’s Challenge

• The Caesar shift

• The Da Vinci Code

• The Enigma Code

How did Alan Turing and the team at Bltechly Park break the Enigma Code?

• They did it by hand

• They used machines

• They guessed and got lucky

• The code was leaked by a German spy

What was Alan Turing's nickname at work?

• The King

• Boffin

• Egghead

• The Prof

What was the name of the machine Alan Turing and his team built to crack German codes?

• MegaBox

• The bombe machine

• Code Cracker

• The hit factory

In 1936 when Turing invented the first model of the modern computer.

What was it called?

• Amiga

• The Bletchly Machine

• The Turing Machine

• Dell

Why did Alan Turing count the pedal strokes when he was cycling?

• He couldn't help counting

• It helped him to stay focussed

• It distracted him from the horrors of war

• His chain was faulty and he did not want to fix it, so he counted to know when to stop

Alan Turing's work cracking German codes during World War 2 was kept a secret until....

• The 1950's

• The 1960's

• The 1970's

• The 1980's