Alan Turing quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   Which field Turing pioneered was named the year after he died?

   Answer: Artificial intelligence

   Why: John McCarthy coined the name while proposing a summer research workshop at Dartmouth College.

2. 2 Medium

   When did Turing predict machines would fool his test's judges?

   Answer: 2000

   Why: After five minutes of questions, an average judge would spot the machine no more than 70% of the time.

3. 3 Hard

   Which Enigma part meant no letter could encrypt as itself?

   Answer: The reflector

   Why: That flaw let Turing's team rule out any spot where a guessed word shared a letter with the ciphertext below it.

4. 4 Easy

   Which subject did Turing study at Cambridge?

   Answer: Mathematics

   Why: Computer science was not yet a subject: Cambridge's first full-year computing course began only in 1953.

5. 5 Medium

   What can Turing's universal machine do?

   Answer: Run any program

   Why: It stores the other machine's instructions on its tape alongside the data, the same trick stored-program computers use.

6. 6 Hard

   What word did Turing coin for chemicals that shape embryos?

   Answer: Morphogens

   Why: Two such chemicals reacting and spreading at different speeds can paint stable spots or stripes, now called Turing patterns.