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In 1998, when this book was first published, it may have seemed a bit farfetched to some, but as the years pass its theme government surveillance of electronic information becomes ever more frighteningly realistic.
3 Digital Fortress quizzes and 30 Digital Fortress trivia questions.
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  The "Digital Fortress" Quiz    
Multiple Choice
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Hello folks,I loved this code-breaking thriller from Dan Brown and hope you enjoyed it too. Now, go on, take this quiz and test your IQ on this simply splendid book.
Average, 10 Qns, maansi27dav, Nov 02 09
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  Dan Brown - "Digital Fortress"    
Multiple Choice
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Have you read "Digital Fortress"? How well do you know the characters and quotes from the book?
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  "Digital Fortress" - Dan Brown's Masterpiece    
Multiple Choice
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Hey guys,this is my first quiz. Dan Brown's "Digital Fortress" may not be as popular as "The Da Vinci Code", but it is not in the least less thrilling. Check out this quiz and test your IQ about "Digital Fortress".
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trivia question Quick Question
What was the kill code used to stop the worm?

From Quiz ""Digital Fortress" - Dan Brown's Masterpiece"





Digital Fortress Trivia Questions
1. What type of car did Susan Fletcher have?

From Quiz The "Digital Fortress" Quiz

Answer: Volvo sedan

NSA employees are generally told to refrain from displaying their wealth and Susan seems to be okay with this, save her shoes. Greg Hale is the exact opposite of her, being the proud owner of a hi-tech car.

2. There were two redheads at Escortes Belen. One of them was Rocio. Who was the other?

From Quiz "Digital Fortress" - Dan Brown's Masterpiece

Answer: Inmaculada

Senor Roldan at Escortes Belen said that his escort service had two redheads only, Inmaculada and Rocio. The others had different colored hair.

3. What is the name of the lead female character?

From Quiz Dan Brown - "Digital Fortress"

Answer: Susan Fletcher

Great mind! Masters in Mathematics from Johns Hopkins and on a full scholarship from MIT studying number theory. Now that's what I call a number cruncher!

4. What was the password to Trevor Strathmore's elevator?

From Quiz The "Digital Fortress" Quiz

Answer: Susan

Commander Trevor Strathmore, whom Susan looked up to like a guardian, suddenly turns her worst enemy when Susan accidentally views the messages meant for Commander Strathmore. Susan tries to run away from Crypto, but the only way to do so was by taking Commander Strathmore's elevator. She finally gets the password right in a moment of chilling clarity.

5. In which Hybrid Language did Susan Fletcher write the Tracer program?

From Quiz "Digital Fortress" - Dan Brown's Masterpiece

Answer: LIMBO

The tracer was written by Susan in a new crossbreed Language called LIMBO, which "borrowed heavily from C and Pascal". As it was a crossbreed Language, Commander Strathmore had problems in sending the tracer himself as he wasn't familiar with it.

6. Who was Ensei Tankado exchanging emails with?

From Quiz Dan Brown - "Digital Fortress"

Answer: NDakota

NDakota is an anagram for Tankado! Clever, but apparently missed out by those cryptographers!

7. When David Becker is first called to the NSA to interpret a code, the NSA cryptographers suspected that the code was written in which language?

From Quiz The "Digital Fortress" Quiz

Answer: Mandarin Chinese

As the NSA suspected that the code was written in Mandarin Chinese script, they had called David Becker as he was a brilliant foreign-language specialist. But, with the help of Becker, they finally decipher the code using the Kanji script.

8. Who was the head "techie" of Jabba?

From Quiz "Digital Fortress" - Dan Brown's Masterpiece

Answer: Soshi Kuta

Soshi Kuta is the head techie and found out what the worm was programmed to do. Carmen Huerta is a girl in the food services. Midge Milken is Leland Fontaine's internal security analyst, and Leland Fontaine is the director of the NSA.

9. What is the name of the decoding machine used by the NSA?

From Quiz Dan Brown - "Digital Fortress"

Answer: TRANSLTR

TRANSLTR - with three million processors running in parallel, no wonder it's the ultimate codebreaker.

10. When David Becker is sent by Trevor Strathmore to retrieve Ensei Tankado's ring, in which language does he communicate with the lieutenant?

From Quiz The "Digital Fortress" Quiz

Answer: Castillian Spanish

As David Becker had gone to Spain, I think it is proper that he talks only in Spanish!

11. How does David Becker sign all his letters and notes to Susan?

From Quiz Dan Brown - "Digital Fortress"

Answer: Without wax

Without wax in Spanish is "sin cera", cera meaning wax and sin meaning without. Literally, without wax or sin cera was the root of "Sincerely".

12. Where is the Latin sentence "Quis Custodiet ipsos custodes" from?

From Quiz "Digital Fortress" - Dan Brown's Masterpiece

Answer: Satires of Juvenal

The quote is from the "Satires of Juvenal". Greg Hale explains this to Susan, who apparently hadn't heard of that sentence. Hale says that Ensei Tankado used to sign his emails that way.

13. What was Susan Fletcher's IQ?

From Quiz Dan Brown - "Digital Fortress"

Answer: 170

An IQ of 170 would've qualified Susan for membership in MENSA.

14. What was the time when Digital Fortress was loaded onto TRANSLTR to decrypt?

From Quiz The "Digital Fortress" Quiz

Answer: 11:37 pm

Strathmore, to make sure Digital Fortress was unbreakable, loaded the file onto TRANSLTR. But, it turns out to be his biggest mistake. At last, with the help of David Becker and Susan Fletcher, the NSA manages to save the data bank by deciphering the kill code.

15. What was the kill code used to stop the worm?

From Quiz "Digital Fortress" - Dan Brown's Masterpiece

Answer: 3

After a lot of guessing, the cryptographers are baffled by the deceptively simple Kill Code: 3.

16. What was the algorithm allegedly used by Ensei Tankado in the Digital Fortress encryption program?

From Quiz Dan Brown - "Digital Fortress"

Answer: Rotating cleartext function

From the book: "The notion of a rotating cleartext function was first put forth in an obscure, 1987 paper by a Hungarian mathematician, Josef Harne. Because brute-force computers broke codes by examining cleartext for identifiable word patterns, Harne proposed an encryption algorithm that, in addition to encrypting, shifted decrypted cleartext over a time variant. In theory, the perpetual mutation would ensure that the attacking computer would never locate recognisable word patterns and thus never know when it had found the proper key. The concept was somewhat like the idea of colonising Mars-fathomable on an intellectual level, but, at present, well beyond human ability." However, this is not possible. See http://becomingparanoid.com/2006/03/13/digital-fortress-what-dan-brown-got-wrong/ for more information. PS: I'm a Mathematics graduate so I sort of understand these things.

17. Which animal did Jabba, the resident guardian angel of all NSA computers resemble?

From Quiz The "Digital Fortress" Quiz

Answer: giant tadpole

Jabba, whose job at the NSA was to ensure that all the computers were virus-free was said to resemble a giant tadpole. When Midge finds out that a file which entered TRANSLTR at 11:37 had not been broken yet, she calls Jabba, thinking that TRANSLTR had encountered a virus. Jabba refuses to believe this, but at the end, Jabba finds out that Midge was right.

18. What did Midge Milken call the closed circuit video camera she monitored?

From Quiz "Digital Fortress" - Dan Brown's Masterpiece

Answer: Big Brother

The "Big Brother" is a "Centrex 333" that sat in a "closetlike space" and received data from "148 Closed circuit video cameras, 399 electronic doors, 377 phone taps and 212 free standing bugs in the NSA complex."

19. What is the name of the Japanese company that was interested in buying the passkey to Digital Fortress?

From Quiz Dan Brown - "Digital Fortress"

Answer: Numatech Corp.

Interestingly, Numatech Corp.'s president, Tokugen Numataka, was Ensei Tankado's biological father!

20. What was the last name of Carmen, the woman with whom Chad Brinkerhoff was having an affair?

From Quiz The "Digital Fortress" Quiz

Answer: Huerta

When Chad refused to hand over the keys to the director's room, Midge threatened to play the videos providing evidence of Chad's affair with Carmen Huerta. When Chad was stumped as to how Midge knew of this, Midge tells that 'Big Brother' knows it all. Big Brother is a high-surveillance camera which watches over the whole of NSA to make sure no person is doing what they shouldn't be doing. Finally, Chad has no choice but to hand over the key to Midge.

21. How old is attractive Midge Milken?

From Quiz "Digital Fortress" - Dan Brown's Masterpiece

Answer: 60

Midge is described as a slightly heavy yet attractive sixty year old.

22. When David Becker was on the quest for Ensei Tankado's ring, he encountered a punk called Two-Tone who knew about Megan and said that Megan belonged to whom?

From Quiz The "Digital Fortress" Quiz

Answer: Eduardo

When Becker was stuck in Judas Taboo's party, a punk called Two-Tone agreed to help Becker find the person he was looking for, but had to be coaxed a little when he realized that the person was none other than Megan.

23. What is the password to Strathmore's elevator?

From Quiz "Digital Fortress" - Dan Brown's Masterpiece

Answer: Susan

As the Commander is in love with Susan Fletcher, the Head Cryptographer, he set the password of his personal elevator as her name.

24. Who is the director of the NSA?

From Quiz Dan Brown - "Digital Fortress"

Answer: Leland Fontaine

Fontaine was supposed to be out of the country, but for some reason was there at the end. Probably why he is NSA chief!

25. In which kind of jet did David Becker fly to Spain and return back?

From Quiz "Digital Fortress" - Dan Brown's Masterpiece

Answer: Learjet 60

Becker goes to Spain and returns through the Learjet 60. The jet was stationed in Malaga, according to Smith, one of the guards. He asks whether Becker had ever flown in a LearJet 60 to which Becker replies "Not since yesterday", chuckling.

26. What was the answer to the question of the virus?

From Quiz Dan Brown - "Digital Fortress"

Answer: 3

It is the difference between the Uranium samples used in the bombs at Hiroshima (U-235) and Nagasaki (U-238).

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