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Alan Turing

 1. Where was Alan Turing born?
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  Prague

  New York

  Chennai

  London

 2. Which famous boarding school did he attend?

  Sherborne

  Eton

  Dulwich

  Harrow

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

  The Halting Problem

  The Railway Problem

  The Signal Problem

  The Platform 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

  Oxford

  Cambridge

  Princeton

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

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Michael Polanyi

  G.E. Moore

  Martin Heidegger

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

  The Brain

  The Prof

  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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  The Mark I

  The Bombe

  Analytical Engine

  The Decoder

 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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  TRUE

  FALSE

 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.

  1962

  1946

  1938

  1952


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