Code Quiz
All the questions in this quiz are about codes!
Questions
- What does the acronym ZIP stand for in the American Zip Code?
- Which country's international dialing code is 33?
- What was the first name of Mr. Morse, the American inventor of Morse code?
- What was the name of the English country house and estate in Milton Keynes that became the centre of Allied code-breaking during World War Two?
- During World War Two what was the German codename for the invasion of the Soviet Union?
- In 1974, the first supermarket product to be scanned using a product bar code was a 10-pack of what?
- What is the airport code for Los Angeles International Airport?
- In computing, what does the acronym BASIC stand for?
- Name the author of the 2003 best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code?
- What is the name of the system of conveying information at a distance by means of hand-held flags?
- Which landmark has the post code TR19 7AA?
- The 0161 prefix is the area phone code associated with which British city?
- In Morse code, the letter "E" is represented by what?
- What was the codename for the atomic bomb project centered in New Mexico in the early 1940s?
- Which code would you associate with David Prowse?
- What cipher device that looked like a typewriter was employed extensively by Nazi Germany during World War II?
- Who had the codename "Rawhide"?
- What word represents the letter 'K' in the NATO phonetic alphabet?
- What was Nazi Germany's code name for the proposed invasion of England?
- Which code representing computer processor instructions uses a two-symbol system which is often "0" and "1"?
- In computer coding what does CSS stand for?
Answers:
- Zone Improvement Plan
- France
- Samuel
- Bletchley Park
- Operation Barbarossa
- Chewing gum (Wrigley's chewing gum)
- LAX
- Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
- Dan Brown
- Semaphore
- Land's End
- Manchester
- A single dot
- The Manhattan Project
- The Green Cross Code
- Enigma machine
- Ronald Reagan (Secret Service code name)
- Kilo
- Operation Sea Lion
- Binary code
- Cascading Style Sheets