Have a Very Geeky Christmas: My Christmas Cipher Quiz

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Well, just in case you get bored over the Christmas break, here is my Christmas Cipher Test. I have a £20 Amazon voucher for the first to tell me the answers to 30 of these:

1.Where would you find the alphabet of “123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMN PQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz”?

2. Which football team is this:

QNAJWUTTQ

3. Which amazing city is this (hint):

%65%64%69%6E%62%75%72%67%68

4. Which message would Mary Queen of Scots send with this (hint):

6. For the Pigpen message below. What is the word (hint)?

7. For the semaphore message, what is the limb that is referenced (hint):

8. For the Knight’s Templar Cipher, what is the organ that is referred to in the cipher (hint):

9. Name the limb (hint):

10. Someone scrawled this on the wall, what does it say (hint):

11. A monk has drawn this symbol, what is the value (hint):

12. The monk has also drawn some triangles on a wall, what does it say (hint):

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
ASecuritySite: When Bob Met Alice

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.