Super 1, Spies, was written largely by me (Dave Letzler), with assistance from Stephanie Letzler, Katie Bram, and Daniel Klein. The high scores were roughly split between the grizzled Trivia vets old enough to fondly remember when "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and "Mission Impossible" when they first aired and to have seen Sean Connery as Bond in theaters, or people who Googled aggressively. (That's not entirely fair, I suppose--THE NEST, [citation needed], and especially Polar Vortex got a lot of question that were pretty Google-resistant.) I'm glad, at least, that the spy audio seemed to be reasonably enjoyable: I'm not surprised that Turn's theme stumped everyone, though I am that Alias's seems to have.

Some errata: we had only read the book The Thirty-Nine Steps, and it turns out that phrase means something different in the Hitchcock movie, which the rest of you seem more familiar with. Many people mistook the most recent Nikita for Angelina Jolie's SALT, and many people put the Queen of Diamonds--which isn't a "phrase"--for Raymond Shaw's suggestion to play solitaire. I'm glad, also, that Bender/SMA reminded us the Ronin, the answer to 78, was directed by Williams' own John Frankenheimer (which may partly explain why many of you got that one right). By the way, I didn't accept NKVD for SMERSH, if only because the question specifically said that it translated into an English phrase; similarly, I didn't accept Nathan Hale as the first executed American spy, because the USA didn't yet exist. Also, many of you wrongly put Tom Hanks's The Man With One Red Shoe for the superior French original The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe (the latter being a violinist, as the question mentioned). By the way, the best (and only?) answer to question 54, the acronym B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., was Polar Vortex's: Black Roots Organization To Help Equal Rights and Highest Order Of Dignity. Finally, Bletchley Park is in Buckinghamshire, not in London.

Part I - FOR YOUR EYES ONLY: TRIVIA BETRAYED

The first part of the code was "ID CHECK: x-HPQA= Lahm." This refers to the identity of the agent. Now, "Lahm" was the answer to exactly one question in the contest--Philip Lahm is one of the defenders named in FIFA's Top XI. That appeared in Hour Bonus 4, Part 3, of which it was the fifth question and Lahm was referred to in the question as the second answer. That gives us x-4352. Of course, at a large institution, an x before a four-digit number usually refers to a phone extension. If you looked on the Williams website directory for that number, you'd find it belongs to Professor Will Dudley. That was the first answer; no one decoded it.

The second part of the code was "S1: 105/O: 20—BTAGPAMTVZXFFPVMEPOCW." That nonsense text is clearly some kind of encoded message. Now, what prefaces it are the instructions for decoding. S1 refers to the first Super Bonus, whose 105th question refers to a Vignere cipher. The way such a cipher works is to use a letter sequence to adjust the message's letters a certain number of positions. To decode it, it's helpful to have the letter sequence. O 20 refers to the 20th on-air question, which provided that sequence--the OPE letters from Dr. Strangelove. If you used that phrase to decode the message--or just entered them into an online Vignere decoder--you'd have gotten the second answer, the information to be stolen: "new sawyer library plans." Polar Vortex, [citation needed], and Bobby Fischer broke this part of the code.

The third part of the code was "H6: 1,27,30 / H2: [321-350] / H1P5 // 520, 1900." The first part refers to Hour 6, the New York audio, in which the first, 27th, and 30th songs have something in common: they all feature Jay-Z. The second part refers to Hour 2, the Love audio, which ends, from 3:21 to 3:50, with an extended guitar solo. H1P5 refers to the fifth part of Hour 1, Fictional Schools, which is labeled "Recitals." Combine those three and you get Jay-Z Guitar Recitals, or Jazz Guitar Recital. If you checked the Williams calendar, you'd find that there was a Jazz Guitar Recital scheduled for May 20th, 7:00 PM: that this is the right answer is confirmed by the message's third part ending "520, 1900." That is the location of the transfer. Bobby Fischer broke this part of the code.

The fourth part of the code was "BKS // HQ=R,S=Applejack." BKS is the Williams schedule code for Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, where the Guitar Recital was to take place. The rest of the message locates the specific place in Brooks-Rogers where the stolen data was to be left. "R,S" refers to "row, seat," and "H,Q " suggests that this seat will be identified by the Hour and Question where the name "Applejack" is correct." Applejack, of course, was the answer to the first question in Hour 3, Ponies, meaning the New Sawyer Library Plans were to be left for pickup under the first seat in the third row. No one decoded this part of the message.

The final part of this puzzle asked you to deduce the motive. We provided no direct hints regarding this. The answer we were looking for was that Prof. Dudley's long-time pet administrative project, Neighborhood Housing--bitterly opposed during its implementation by our own Brian Hirshman--was finally largely dismantled this year, allowing future students to pick into any dorm room. A disgruntled Dudley decided to defect in response to this situation. No one deduced this answer.

Part II - Fictional Spies

Spy Outfits

Num	Answer
1	Harry Palmer
2	Emma Peel
3	Foxy Cleopatra
4	Cate Archer
5	Nikita, in the recent CW series
6	Sam Axe, Burn Notice

Cover Identities

Num	Answer
7	The Bourne Identity
8	Charade
9	Diamonds are Forever
10	The Thirty-Nine Steps
11	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Spymobiles

Num	Answer
12	Aston Martin -- Goldfinger, Thunderball, Tomorrow Never Dies, Casino Royale, Skyfall
13	Chevrolet -- Austin Powers 2
14	Lotus -- The Spy Who Loved Me
15	Volga -- Bourne Supremacy
16	Sunbeam -- Get Smart
17	Chevrolet -- Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier
18	VW -- Chuck
19	Jeep -- Macgyver
20	Isuzu -- Spy Kids
21	Chevrolet -- Archer

Spy Gadgets

Num	Answer
22	From Russia With Love
23	You Only Live Twice
24	Goldeneye
25	The Living Daylights
26	Live and Let Die
27	Max Smart
28	Matt Helm
29	Ethan Hunt
30	Derek Flint
31	John Steed
32	Solid Snake
33	Harold Finch

Passwords and Codes

Num	Answer
34	The distance down the beach where the German spy will meet his escape yacht
35	It's an anagram for "Too many secrets"--Sneakers
36	"Why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?"
37	Casino Royale
38	Moonraker
39	The Lady Vanishes
40	Tailor

The Wrong Person

Num	Answer
41	The In-Laws
42	The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe
43	Knight and Day
44	North by Northwest
45	True Lies
46	Spies Like Us

Over-elaborate Acronyms

Num	Answer
47	Impossible Missions Force
48	Mean and Dirty
49	Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage, Law-Enforcement Division OR Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate OR Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division - it's been all three!
50	Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion
51	United Command for Law Enforcement
52	United Nations Intelligence Taskforce OR Unified Intelligence Taskforce
53	Villains' International League of Evil
54	[teams' option]

Theme Music

Num	Answer
55	Mission Impossible
56	The Americans
57	Secret Agent
58	Goldfinger
59	Turn
60	I Spy
61	North by Northwest
62	Alias
63	On Her Majesty's Secret Service
64	The Bourne Identity and the other three films
65	A View to a Kill
66	24
67	Spy Kids
68	Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
69	Top Secret!
70	Spy Hard
71	Tomorrow Never Dies
72	Skyfall
73	Get Smart
74	Dr. No

Spy Stunts

Num	Answer
75	Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol
76	Goldeneye
77	The Spy Who Loved Me
78	Ronin

Spies in Games

Num	Answer
79	Stratego; kills the General when it attacks but dies to any piece that attacks it.
80	Dominion; reveals and lets you discard top card of opponents' decks.
81	Sid Meier's Civilization franchise; snoops in cities and causes mischief
82	Command and Conquer franchise; reconnaissance
83	Spy vs Spy; player token
84	Team Fortress 2; invisibility/disguise/assassination, able to see opposing team's status
85	Magic: The Gathering; reveal various cards belonging to player and opponent, and reorders top of player's deck
86	Heimlich & Co. or Top Secret Spies; player token
87	Beyond: Two Souls; use her dead ghost twin brother to copy down a document

Spy Games

Num	Answer
88	Casino Royale
89	Never Say Never Again
90	Octopussy
91	Baccarat
92	Bridge

Miscellaneous

Num	Answer
93	Desmond Llewelyn Q, 17 films and Lois Maxwell Miss Moneypenny, 14 films
94	Universal Exports
95	Orbit non sufficit--The world is not enough
96	Jack, Jeffrey--the men who have played Felix Leiter
97	Mr. Bigglesworth
98	France, Sweden, Brazil, Japan
99	a gabardine suit, a bowtie
100	Agent Double-0 Soul

Part III - Real Spies

Codes and Ciphers

Num	Answer
101	Eve
102	the Navajo
103	Colossus
104	Pretty Good Privacy
105	Vigenere cipher
106	Caesar cipher
107	nulls
108	ADFGVX
109	numbers stations, specific example is The Lincolnshire Poacher

Historical Spies

Num	Answer
110	Sir Robert Walsingham
111	the Pinkerton agency
112	Bletchley Park
113	SMERSH; "Death to Spies"
114	Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
115	a dead drop/dead letter box
116	sleeper

Double Agents

Num	Answer
117	American colonies, Great Britain
118	Netherlands, France, Germany
119	Great Britain, USSR
120	Austria, Russia
121	USA, Israel
122	USSR, USA/Great Britain
123	Portugal, Germany, Great Britain
124	USA, USSR/ Russia
125	USA, USSR
126	XX, or "double cross"
127	Garbo
128	The Falcon and the Snowman

World War II Celebrity Spies

Num	Answer
129	Alan Turing
130	Julia Child
131	Sterling Hayden
132	Samuel Beckett
133	Moe Berg
134	John Paul Stevens

The NSA and Digital Surveillance

Num	Answer
135	Iran, Stuxnet
136	Edward Snowden

Secret Programs

Num	Answer
137	PRISM
138	Tempora
139	Optic Nerve