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Alan Turing

 1. Where was Alan Turing born?
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  New York

  London

  Chennai

  Prague

 2. Which famous boarding school did he attend?

  Sherborne

  Dulwich

  Eton

  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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  Cambridge

  Harvard

  Oxford

  Princeton

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

  Michael Polanyi

  Martin Heidegger

  G.E. Moore

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

  The Enigma

  The Coder

  The Prof

  The Brain

 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 Mark I

  The Bombe

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

  FALSE

  TRUE

 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.

  1938

  1952

  1946

  1962


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