Which two unlikely questions were asked of potential code breakers during WWII?
Correct answer: Do you like crosswords and are you engaged?
Player #6852065
My wife often speaks in codes and I have seldom been able to break them. I'm still trying after 42 years.
Player #8367749
why isn't this book made into a movie?
Cha Cha
Player #8367749, There is a fantastic film called the Imitation Game, we went to watch in 2014 when it came out here in the uk. It's about Alan Turing building the Enigma machine at Bletchley Park. It's very interesting and well worth a watch.
Ripley
Wifish: "We need to talk." Translation: "I talk, you listen." Wifish: "Fine." Translation: "It is anything but."
13Revelstoke13
Player #8367749, there was a show called Bletchley Circle
Peggy
The question did not specify female code workers and with that knowledge my answer would have been different
Panchotzin
So the source that says the book is fascinating is... the author's own website. Fascinating!
Player #21243701Irena
How interesting. Along the same lines is the historical fiction series about Maggie Hope, a graduate of Wellesley, who becomes Mr. Churchill's Secretary. She saves the prime minister by code breaking.
Ktkk
Sailor Blue, Hey, men do that too. And kids. Pretty much every one has had a ‘nothing’ moment from time to time.
Player #15955847
They seem to have forgotten the code breakers at Bletchley Park.
Jazhans
Why does this question not stipulate that it is referring to USA codebreakers? I happened to answer correctly because I remember being told at Bletchley Park when I visited that when recruiting they had looked for those who enjoyed crosswords. But the addition of engagement was confusing especially as the question did not mention specifically female candidates. Please amend this question for fairness to non-USA players.
Aga
Cha Cha, great movie, but the Enigma was the machine used by Nazis for coded communication. Alan Turing built the decoder machine for the Enigma machine :)
Nina
Player #6852065, women are from Venus , men from Mars 😂
Jackie
Player #8367749, it has been - it’s called The Codebreaker
Player #92723922
13Revelstoke13,
And a movie called "Sebastian" about English women code-breakers.
R2Dee2
Player #21243701Irena, what is the series called thanks Dee
Smart Kitten
It’s incredible how the system always forget to praise the work of such women in history.
Mark
There is an amazing movie called ‘Hidden Figures.’ It’s a true story about negro female mathematicians and code breakers during the fifties and sixties. Fantastic watch
libe
obviously an American bias to this game no mention of Bletchley Park
Joe
Player #40509249, The Germans built the Enigma machine, Alan Turing devised a means of breaking the code.
Donna
I did not realize that there were female code breakers.
Debbie
Player #6852065, 🤣😂
Player #Abi_gezunt
These questions were not "unlikely" and therefore not a fair quiz.
Player #45505475
Player #6852065, keep at it, good sir, keep at it. Did we mention that this is an EVOLVING code. PeÅce
Player #1121302
sounds exactly like what the British did to crack the enigma machine, and there is a good movie about, The Imitation Game
joejoe
Maybe 1 of Hollywood's accomplished actresses will hear of it & get it made. Sounds like a great idea.
Player #35313897
Please state which geography the question relates to. I'm sure the Germans, British and Japanese asked different questions
Randall
Player #6852065, 😆
Player #26379458
Player #21243701Irena, I have enjoyed all the Maggie Hope stories.
Player #5100533
As to one of the answers, I don't think they were to worried about breaking "Russian" codes, at that time? They were our "Allies" <--- NOTE: The quotes...
Sailor Blue
Ripley, Don't forget, "What's wrong?", "Nothing". Don't ever assume it's really nothing that's wrong.