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Alan Turing

 1. Where was Alan Turing born?
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  New York

  Prague

  Chennai

  London

 2. Which famous boarding school did he attend?

  Harrow

  Dulwich

  Sherborne

  Eton

 3. What problem did Turing prove in 1936 cannot be solved by a computer?

  The Signal Problem

  The Platform Problem

  The Halting Problem

  The Railway Problem

 4. Where did Turing obtain his Phd? 
John Von Neumann was in this university at the same time as Turing.
He was keen for Turing to stay on as his assistant!
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  Harvard

  Cambridge

  Princeton

  Oxford

 5. Which famous philosopher debated with Turing while they were both teaching at Cambridge?

  G.E. Moore

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Martin Heidegger

  Michael Polanyi

 6. Turing worked on code breaking at Bletchley Park during WW2. What nickname did they give him?

  The Prof

  The Brain

  The Enigma

  The Coder

 7. What was the name of the first machine devised by Turing to help break the Enigma code?
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  Analytical Engine

  The Decoder

  The Bombe

  The Mark I

 8. Some of the papers written by Turing on code breaking were so important they were kept secret until 2012.

  TRUE

  FALSE

 9. He sometimes ran 60 miles from Bletchley Park to London to attend meetings.
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  FALSE

  TRUE

 10. In what year was Alan Turing awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire)? 
Note: Some records suggest a year that is one year earlier
than our suggested correct answer.

We are going with the official Gazette publication
and Wikipedia entry.

  1946

  1962

  1938

  1952


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