Spy School – Flashcards
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Ben Ripley
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A twelve year old middle school boy, likes girls, gets bossed around, likes the CIA
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Alexander Hale
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Calm, had a James Bond look, secretive, debonair
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How many times had Benn accessed the CIA's website?
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728
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What was Ben doing on the CIA website that was different than most kids his age?
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He was looking at the employment page and internship page
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Alexander gave Ben an envelope. What was unusual about this envelope?
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Destroy after reading, three seals that required a knife to open, hand and deliver
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Why does Ben doubt what Alexander is telling him?
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Him and Alexander were so different, Ben was a dork and always got picked on
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What are some of Ben's math skills?
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Calculate huge number in his mind, he know the exact amount of days, weeks, months, and seconds he's been alive
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What were STIQ exams and how did Ben not know he had taken them?
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Standardized test interpreted questions because CIA inserts them into standardized tests
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Who is Elizabeth Paternak?
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The girl he has a crush on who doesn't even notice him
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Where is CIA;s Academy of Espionage?
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Washington D.C.
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How long is training and where do the students live?
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6 years and live on campus
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Why can't Ben tell his parents where he's going and where must he tell everyone he is going?
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Its top secret, so he must tell them he's going to a Science Academy
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What was the worst decision of Ben's life?
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Saying yes to the CIA
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What did Ben notice about the academy when he arrived?
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Ben noticed that it was heavily guarded and dowdy. It was run down, old, prep school look
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What did Ben's parents do when they found out Ben was leaving?
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Ben's parents were excited for him, but they were also excited they didnt have to pay. His mom would have cooked him dinner and proud that he got into a fine institution
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According to Alexander, who was paying for Ben's school
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According to Alexander, the government was pay for the school
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Who was Mike Brezinski?
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Ben's best friend from first grade
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What did Alexander notice when they pulled up to the Academy?
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There were no kids at the academy when they got there. that was unsusal because they should have had physical education
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What happened immediately upon their arrival?
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there was a sudden explosion and someone was shooting at them
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Describe Ben's attacker
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was a girl that had incredibly blue eyes, long thick hair, and was bout 14 and 15 years old
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What weapon did she give Ben?
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Tazer
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What did he learn about the situation they were in?
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there was an attack and all of the kids and faculty are tied up in the assembly hall
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How many enemies were there in total?
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41
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How many students live at the academy
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300
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Even though the situation was tense, what was the girl doing to help Ben
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giving him a tour
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What was Abraham Hogarth and what was his theory of fear-based urination
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He was one of the original professors. the theory was the amount of danger you're in, directly relates to the amount you have to pee
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Ben found the principals office, but it required an access code. What did Ben use instead?
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a tazer and jammed it into the keypad
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What happened as a result of Ben jamming the tazer into the keypad?
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the lights went out
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When Ben heard the footsteps coming, what did he yell out?
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Please don't kill me, I just started today
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What was the SACSA and how did Ben do?
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Survival and combat skill assessment and got a D
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Who were agents Connor and Dixon?
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vice principals
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According to the principal, what was Ben's average
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D-
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the principal made a statement that confused Ben. What was it?
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He never knew he had extraordinary cryptoghrapy skills
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What did Erica tell Ben she received on the SACSA test?
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she aced it
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After twenty-three minutes after Ben's arrival, what did he learn
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That it wasn't going to be easy
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Ben wants to call his parents to go home, but he decides to stay after he realizes what three things?
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"1. The SACSA is made to get the non-spies out of the program
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He finds his damp clothes in a pile with an orientation packet on top. What is in the packet?
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map to his room, an emergency pamphlet, class schedule, campus map
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Describe Ben's living situation
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small, old furniture, was over 50 years old, run-down, top floor was not weather proof
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Who is Chip Schacter and what does he ask of Ben in return for showing him around?
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Another debonair student who "overwhelms" Ben, In return for showing him he wants him to hack to computer
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As Ben and Chip are leaving the room what happens to Chip?
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He get zapped and shocked by the palm size Van de Graff electrostatic generator
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Who ws Murray Hill and how did he help Ben?
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The kid who rescued Ben from chip; 13 years old and should of been a second year
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Describe Murray Hill. How was his appearance much different than how a spy might look
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he was messy and spy. he didn't look like a he showered, his clothes didn't match
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What is a Fleming?
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Someone who thinks they are going to become James bond when they're done with spy school
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What was so special about Erica?
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She is the great great great grand daughter of Nathan hales, and her family has been spying for the U.S. for a very long time
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Why does Murray want a desk job?
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He is pretty lazy and a desk job is safe
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What happened in the mess with Chip, Hauser and Stubbs?
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They came to scare Ben and to bully him into telling them who hurt Chip
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What was Ben's new mantra since arriving at Spy school
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Please don't kill me
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What did the assassin want to know about?
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pinwheel
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Whatwas Pinwheel about?
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Cryptography because in his file he is known for being good at cryptography
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What was digging into Ben's hip after landing on the ground?
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his tennis racket
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Who was Tina Cuevo? Describe her
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Resident advisor-she was tall, beautiful, jet black hair, milk chocolate skin
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What happened to the assassin
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he got away
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What does the principal think of Ben's story?
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He thinks that he's lying, its ridiculous, he's unimpressed
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Why does Ben say that his statement was offensive?
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Because he's implying that he is not even worth killing because he's not good enough
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Why can't they check the surveillance cameras to see the assassin?
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They were dismantled
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What does Agent Coloretti Say about the rest of the discussion?
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We have to move it to a level of security 4C
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Where do they tell Ben to sleep?
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the box
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What is the box like?
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a jail cell
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What is Ben's first class
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Introduction to self preservation
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Describe Professor Lucas Crandall
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old, unkempt white hair, stooped posture, wild eyebrows
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How does Murray get through the class
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with fake eyes taped to sunglasses
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what is the weakest link in the comouter system
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the human one
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Why does Prof. Crandall spring a pop quiz
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Because Ben is "holding court" with his classmates
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What happens to Ben during the quiz?
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He gets knocked out by a nunchuck
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Where does Ben wake up?
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With Alexander Hale in a "pied-a-terre"
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What was odd about Alexander's quarters
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No front door
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Who was the PE teacher
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Coach Macauley
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What happens to the first quarter of the class to die during war games?
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they get Ds
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Who "kills" Bens war game attacker?
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Zoe
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What does Zoe think Ben did?
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led the attacker to her
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What is Zoe's nickname for Ben
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Smokescreen
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What is Smokescreen?
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some kind of covert superspy who pretended to be inept
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What does Zoe call Warren
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chameleon
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Who is guarding the blue flag
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4 students at the corners and Bull'seye on the roof
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What does Zoe call Erica
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Ice Queen
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How does Ben avoid using the grappling hook?
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He says he's only worked with German ones
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What is Ben's secret plan?
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That someone else from his team would come up with a better plan and capture the flag
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Who distracts Ben from shooting?
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Chip and Hauser
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Who captures the flag
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Erica
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What operates the secret hatch in the barn?
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a rusty trowel on the wall
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What were the first doors Ben sees in the tunnels?
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B-213 Storage and B-212
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What does Ben catch Chip looking at?
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red and blue wires and yellowish putty
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What does Chip call the bomb?
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Scorpio
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How does Ben reveal himself?
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His phone vibrates with a text
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What technique does Ben use to defend himself against Chip
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the bashful armadillo
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Where are the boys fighting?
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the main hall of the Hale building
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What does Erica do after the fight
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Cradled Ben's face and planted a mic
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What does Erica ask Ben to do to the Principal?
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insult him
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Name some of the insults?
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"Asking if he was put in a stockade in Colonial America
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What text did Ben receive
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From Mike - "another Pasternick party tomorrow night. Want me to spring you?"
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What book is Ben going to use to id the bomb?
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Field Guide to Bombs and Other Incendiary Devices
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What did Ben take a picture of
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the eyepiece of the digital scope.
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What does Ben read while he is in the box
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Dyson's How to Stay Alive
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Where was the bomb Chip found located
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Under the woods next to a storage room for the mess hall
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How does Erica get Ben out of the box
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jacked into the cameras and froze the image
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How many cameras are on campus
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1672
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what was the passcode to the principals office
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12345678
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what is a 16-bit daisy chain
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a 16-character entry code randomly selected by the mainframe every day
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How does Erica help Ben remember the principal's actions
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Tells him she will give him a hug
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what is the passcode
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h$Kp8*&cc:Qw@m?x
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What 3 things does Erica do while she is hacked into the mainframe
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"1. Finds a list of everyone who received a hard copy of Ben's file
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What is Jackhammer
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the ultimate code-breaker, able to demolish any encryption
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what is the principal's name
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Barnabus Sidebottom
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What do the following teach: Joseph Crouch
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cryptology
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Kieran Murphy
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going undercover for years at a time, one of the finest undercover agents in the CIA
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Harlan Kelly
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diguise
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Lydia Greenwald-Smith
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counter-espionage
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what student got his file
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Tina Cuevo
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what advice does Murray give Ben
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run, because if you stay you will die
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Why is Ben eating so much peanut butter
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say he can fail his physical for field readiness
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What does Chip tell Ben at lunch when the CIA was there?
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that Ben knows he can't get expelled
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What does the note say that "Chip" put in Ben's jacket?
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Meet me at the library tonight. Midnight. Your life depends on it
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Who says Chip and Tina are together
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Murray
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What happens when Ben starts to leave the lunchtable
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The CIA wisks him away to someplace safe and cancels his Jackhammer presentation
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What is the passcode to the security room
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my dog has fleas
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How does Hale actually get the door open
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Banging on it and yelling "open up in there"
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When was the security room built
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When they were scared the Russians would take over
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Why does Ben not have a real gun
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The instructor, Justin "Deadeye" Pratchett suggested it was safer
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What does Ben learn about reading on of the magazines in the securty room
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the cast of Bonanza
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Where is there a security breach?
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southwest perimeter
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Who do they capture
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Mike Brezinski
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What kind of tranquilizer did they give Ben
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narcosodex
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What does Erica give Ben after he vomits
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2 tic tacs
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what was on the post-it stuck to Ben
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70200
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Where do they go first in the National Mall
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a memorial to Chester Alan Arthur
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What does Erica's key unlock?
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the underground entry to the Washington Monument
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How does Ben know it is the W.M?
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a stone proclaimed "Laid by Zachary Taylor, president of the USA, May 14, 1849"
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who gave Erica the keys?
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her grandfather
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According to Erica, why was the WM built?
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A 50-story surveillance tower built on the eve of the Civil War
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What does Erica confide to Ben about her father?
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that he's a fake but is very good at convincing everyone he's wonderful and he has a lot of high-power friends
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How did heruin relations between the US and Tanzania
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he botched his Swahili and told the president's wife she smelled like a diseased wildebeest
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Who is the one person they can trust?
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Professor Crandall
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What is project Omega?
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Shutting down the academy
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Who will come to the meeting
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The heads of NSA, CIA, and FBI, chairs of the Intelligance Committee, White House laisons
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what is the interrogation book?
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Mattingly's Advanced Methods of Interrogation
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How does Ben get of the interrogation?
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Alexander Hale frees him
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Where does Tina go when Ben follows her?
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into a bank
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Who grabs Ben while he trailsl Tina?
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Mike Brezinski
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When did Ben send Mike the text
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1:23 PM
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How does Ben get back on ampus
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the secret entrance through the ATM portal
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Where does Ben find Erica
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In the tunnels under the Hale building, in the furnace room
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Who is the mole
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Murray Hill
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where does Murray want to take Ben
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for ice cream
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What does Murray propose
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that Ben work as a double agent for Spyder
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What is Sypyder
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an international consortium of independent agents who cause chaos and mayhem for a price
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what does Murray say to Ben as he leaves?
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At least I'm going to be a live double agent. And after today everyone will think you're a dead one.
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How does Ben first try to escape
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By prying the door with the mop handle
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How does Ben stop the bomb
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By smacking his clock and stopping it.
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How long has Erica been defusing bombs
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Since she was 3
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Who does Ben call first for help finding Murray
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Zoe
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Who is working at the armory?
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Greg Hauser
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Who helps Ben out of the streambed?
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Chip
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What was Ben aiming for when he shot at Murray
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The roof of the Hale Building
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How does Ben immobilize Murray
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By causing the ice to slide off the building and knock him out
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What does Erica tell Ben when she sees Murray knocked out
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Good work
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Who takes credit for neutralizing Murray
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Alexander Hale
