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Codes Quiz: Ciphers, Enigma and Codebreakers

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Codes Quiz: Ciphers, Enigma and Codebreakers

Crack 6 questions about secret codes, from Caesar's letters and Bletchley Park to wartime cipher machines and hieroglyphs.

Questions
6
Length
About 3 min
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  1. What makes a Caesar cipher different from a codebook?
  2. How does Morse code represent letters?
  3. Why could one Enigma key produce different coded letters?
  4. Women were the majority at Bletchley Park by 1945. Roughly what share of the staff were women?
  5. Colossus read coded messages by shining light through their medium. What carried the messages?
  6. Who cracked Egyptian hieroglyphs with help from the Rosetta Stone?

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