Spies, Enigma and Secret Codes
From the Spartan scytale to Enigma, trace the long history of secret messages
What this quiz asks
- 1Enigma, the famous cipher machine, was mainly used by which country during World War II?
- 2What does the Caesar cipher, one of the oldest encryption methods, involve?
- 3Which British mathematician played a central role in breaking Enigma at Bletchley Park?
- 4What is the art of writing coded messages to keep them secret called?
- 5During World War I, the Zimmermann Telegram, decrypted by the British, proposed an alliance between Germany and which country?
- 6What did the Navajo code talkers do in the US military?
- 7What was the British electromechanical machine designed to speed up the breaking of Enigma called?
- 8The one-time pad, considered unbreakable, relies on which principle?
- 9The Venona project let the United States decrypt the secret messages of which country during the Cold War?
- 10In ancient Greece, what was the scytale used by the Spartans for?
