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                           GCHQ Christmas Card 2021

 

                      GCHQ Christmas Card QUESTIONS

 

 

Question 1.

Clue here: Reading initials spells this message's answer. Simple!

Answer: CHRISTMAS

 

Question 2.

Enter your four letter answers in the grid.

1. This is the word you want

2. Noise made by an Owl

3. US State with capital Des Moines

4. Adult male deer

 

 

Answer: THIS

 

Question 3.

What completes the sequence: GRYFFINDOR, UFFLEPUF, VENCL, ????

The list is the four Hogwarts Houses in alphabetical order, but with 0, 1, 2, 3 letters

removed from the start and end of the names:

GRYFFINDOR, hUFFLEPUFf, raVENCLaw, slyTHErin

 

Answer: THE

 

Question 4.

Within the grid are a number of hidden mines. The numbers indicate how

many  mines are in the square adjacent to each number. Locate the mines

to reveal a four letter word.

 

 

Answer: SAFE

 

 

Question 5.

Do Kindly Place Cover On Fresh Green Spring Vegetables is a mnemonic meant to help you remember a list of scientific words. Which word does Kindly help you remember?

 

The Taxonomic rank mnemonic has the same initials as Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Order, Family, Genus, Species, Variety.

 

Answer: KINGDOM

 

 

Question 6.

What six letter word dose the ? represent in this Venn diagram?

 

The letters in the complete circles from the names MANCHESTER, NEWCASTLE and LEEDS. All these have Premier League football teams which end UNITED.

 

Answer: UNITED

 

 

Question 7.

Solve the code, answer the question, encode the answer:

Cwog og cwi 7cwahigcoet: Xiexui kent kicziit toticiit lencj gov stf toticiit govcj lehn sni yeppetuj dtezt sg kskj zwsc?

 

This is a simple substitution code in which each letter of the alphabet has been replaced by a different one. Here is the original message, and the answer, alongside the encrypted version.

 

This    is   the 7th   question: people born between nineteen forty six   and

Cwog og cwi7cw  ahigcoet: xiexui    kent  kicziit       toticiit      lencj gov stf

 

Nineteen sixty  four   are commonly known as baby what? BOOMERS

toticiit      govcj lehn  sni  yeppetuj    dtezt     sg  kskj   zwsc?  KEEPING 

 

A = S, B = K, C = Y, D = ?, E = I, F = L, G = ?, H = W, I = O, J = ?, K = D, L = U, M = P

N = T, O = E, P = X, Q = A, R = N, S = G, T = C, U = H, V = ?, W = Z, X = V, Y = J, Z = ?

 

Answer: KEEPING

 

 

Overall answers

Each of the seven answers can be associated with one of the pictures on the

Front of the card. In order, reading from top to bottom.

 

Pram                    KEEPING

Lightning Bolt     THE

Football               UNITED

Crown                  KINGDOM

Padlock                SAFE

Stag                      THIS

Present                CHRISTMAS

 

 

 

 

                                                     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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