Today at 10:00 PST, Google/Sony Pictures released the last question of the DaVinci Code Quest. To complete this final puzzle, you had to watch a video and answer three questions:
1. How many books was Sophie Noveu reading at some point?
2. What words was Robert Langdon wondering if Sophie heard?
3. What work of art of Leonardo's is hosted both at the Louvre and at the National Gallery in London? Its name was an anagram of some words at the end of the video that I couldn't exactly distinguish ("source of God's power on Earth"?)
Question 2 was the simplest to answer, straight from the video: "So dark the con of man". This is a rather famous phrase that you can see throughout the puzzles, and its anagram is "Madonna of the Rocks".
Question 1 I bruteforced and the answer is 2.
Question 3: Search Google for leonardo louvre national gallery london and the first link mentions "The Virgin of the Rocks" as being hosted in both locations. Unfortunately, "Virgin of the Rocks" is the wrong answer. If you return to the search results, there's a link to Olga's Gallery and you can see there an alternate spelling of the "Virgin of the Rocks": "Madonna on the Rocks". This is the correct answer and it took me 9 minutes to solve this puzzle.
Now it seems that those "words at the end of the movie" that I couldn't distinguish were not actually targeted by question 3. Instead, it referred to the same phrase: "So dark the con of man".
OK, so there you go, I solved the puzzles without having read the book (which I do NOT plan to read anyway). Let's see if I made it through the first 10,000 people who gave away their personal details in hope for a cryptex of dubious value (might be a good sell on eBay though, for al those conspiracy freaks).
1. How many books was Sophie Noveu reading at some point?
2. What words was Robert Langdon wondering if Sophie heard?
3. What work of art of Leonardo's is hosted both at the Louvre and at the National Gallery in London? Its name was an anagram of some words at the end of the video that I couldn't exactly distinguish ("source of God's power on Earth"?)
Question 2 was the simplest to answer, straight from the video: "So dark the con of man". This is a rather famous phrase that you can see throughout the puzzles, and its anagram is "Madonna of the Rocks".
Question 1 I bruteforced and the answer is 2.
Question 3: Search Google for leonardo louvre national gallery london and the first link mentions "The Virgin of the Rocks" as being hosted in both locations. Unfortunately, "Virgin of the Rocks" is the wrong answer. If you return to the search results, there's a link to Olga's Gallery and you can see there an alternate spelling of the "Virgin of the Rocks": "Madonna on the Rocks". This is the correct answer and it took me 9 minutes to solve this puzzle.
Now it seems that those "words at the end of the movie" that I couldn't distinguish were not actually targeted by question 3. Instead, it referred to the same phrase: "So dark the con of man".
OK, so there you go, I solved the puzzles without having read the book (which I do NOT plan to read anyway). Let's see if I made it through the first 10,000 people who gave away their personal details in hope for a cryptex of dubious value (might be a good sell on eBay though, for al those conspiracy freaks).
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And yes, I'm also a finalist.