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undercover science... the bletchley park cracking quiz

See yourself as a bit of a sleuth?

Bletchley Park House GraphicOr do you just fancy getting into the draw to win heaps of exciting prizes??

Either way, you’ll want to go into the draw to win some of Bletchley Park’s finest merchandise – and have a good look around the place at the same time.

Quiz Prize GraphicFor five of our best espionage experts we have a Bletchley Park prize pack consisting of heaps of Enigma prizes, including a mouse-mat, fridge magnet, a copy of the Station X video and a family pass to the Park...

So if you think you’ve got what it takes to find a needle in a crypto-haystack here are the questions you need to answer:

01 What particular skills would you have needed to be recruited to work at Bletchley Park during WW2?
Being able to solve crossword puzzles
Being good at chess
Being good at maths
Being good at languages
Any of the above

02 What was the name of the world's first computer that was built at Bletchley Park?
ZX-81
Enigma
Colossus

03 Who wrote the bestseller "Enigma"?
Keith Harris
Robert Harris
Michael Smith

04 What were the odds of the code breakers at Bletchley successfully cracking the Enigma machine?
150,000,000,000,000,000,000 to 1
150,000,000,000 to 1
150,000 to 1

05 What time is Bletchley Park open at weekends?
10:30am
9:30am
11:00am

Please complete the following. Fields marked with an asterisk (*) are mandatory.

* Firstname


* Surname


* Age


* Address


Address 1


Address 2


* Postcode


Email


Telephone (including STD code)


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Oh.....and the answers can be found on the Bletchley Park website, so you might as well click here


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