encryption - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

Answer the following about American computers during World War II, for 10 points each.

[10e] The SIGSALY project performed this task with transmitted sound. This task was assisted by Navajo “talkers” and performed by the German Enigma machine cracked by Alan Turing.

ANSWER: encryption [or encoding; accept code-talkers; accept creating ciphertext or ciphers; accept code-breaking or decoding or decrypting]

[10h] During the war, this scientist was contracted to create a differential analyzer for missile trajectories. This man wrote about “Science: The Endless Frontier” while heading the Office of Scientific Research and Development.

ANSWER: Vannevar Bush

[10m] The ORACLE computer later developed for nuclear reactors was created at this national laboratory. The Army Corps of Engineers also used this Tennessee facility to enrich uranium for the Manhattan project.

ANSWER: Oak Ridge National Laboratory [or ORNL]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	8	18.75	100%	88%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	7	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	20.00	89%	89%	22%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	15.71	100%	57%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	16.25	100%	50%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	12.00	80%	40%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley C	10	0	10	20
Stanford M	Stanford A	10	10	10	30
Auburn C	Alabama A	10	0	10	20
Auburn A	Clemson A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Emory B	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Georgia A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech C	10	0	10	20
Emory A	Georgia Tech F	10	0	10	20
Tusculum A	South Carolina A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech E	Tennesse A	10	0	10	20
Columbia A	Penn State B	10	0	10	20
Columbia B	Penn State A	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	Rowan A	10	0	10	20
Penn A	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	10	20
Lehigh A	Princeton A	10	0	10	20
Haverford A	Rutgers A	10	0	10	20
Rutgers C	Bard	10	0	10	20
Indiana B	WashU D	0	0	0	0
Purdue A	Miami	10	10	10	30
Northwestern A	WashU B	10	0	10	20
UChicago C	Notre Dame	10	0	10	20
Indiana A	Purdue C	10	10	10	30
Purdue D	UChicago B	10	0	10	20
UIUC A	SIUE A	10	0	10	20
UChicago D	UIUC C	10	0	10	20
UChicago A	WashU C	10	0	10	20
Pitt A	CWRU B (UG)	10	0	10	20
Kenyon A (UG)	Michigan D (DII)	10	0	0	10
Michigan C (UG)	Michigan A	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	Ohio State A (UG)	10	0	10	20
Michigan State A	CWRU A (UG)	10	0	0	10
Michigan State B (UG)	CWRU D (DII)	10	0	0	10
Pitt B (UG)	CWRU C (UG)	10	0	10	20
Colorado College	Vassar B	10	0	10	20
McGill E	Texas B	10	0	0	10
NYU B	Missouri	10	0	0	10
NYU A	Vassar A	10	0	10	20
Texas D	Ole Miss	10	0	0	10
Texas A	Mississippi State	10	10	10	30
Oregon State	Texas C	10	0	0	10
WUSTL A	Iowa	10	0	10	20
SFU	UW B	10	0	0	10
UBC B	UW A	10	0	10	20
Florida Tech A	Florida Tech B	10	0	0	10
UCF B	UF E	10	0	0	10
UF C	UF B	10	0	0	10
UF A	UF D	10	0	10	20
UCF A	UF F	10	0	0	10
Durham B	Bristol B	10	0	0	10
Bristol A	Cambridge C	10	0	10	20
Durham A	Imperial B	0	0	0	0
LSE A	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Manchester	10	0	10	20
Imperial A	Oxford A	10	0	10	20
Oxford B	Cambridge D	10	0	0	10
Edinburgh	Vanderbilt	10	0	0	10
Warwick A	Birmingham	10	0	0	10
LSE B	Warwick B	10	0	0	10