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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Brown, Dan
| Who is Brown's main character in the two books, "Angels and Demons" and "The Da Vinci Code"? | Dan Brown books
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Robert Langdon. Robert Langdon is the main character in both "Angels and Demons" and "The Da Vinci Code". In "Angels and Demons" he is busy trying to find the antimatter that might destroy all of the Vatican with the help of Vittoria Vetra. Vittoria Vetra's father Leonardo Vetra was killed in the beginning of the book "Angels and Demons". Sophie Neveu was Langdon's partner in "The Da Vinci Code" while they were trying to find the Holy Grail. Susan Fletcher is the main character in "Digital Fortress" where an algorithm is about to let out top secret information to the United States' enemies. Susan has to and does find the code that will stop the virus from breaking down the machine that breaks all sorts of codes.
| In "Digital Fortress", what is the name of the machine that is almost brought down? | Dan Brown books
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TRANSLTR. The name of the machine in "Digital Fortress" is called TRANSLTR. Its job is breaking algorithms, which is just a fancy name for a formula or procedure to break a code or puzzle.
Carlo Ventresca. Carlo Ventresca is the "bad guy" of this book. He believed that his father, the Pope, had broken his oath of celebesy and had a child. While it is true that he had had a child with a nun, he had not done it through sexual intercourse, but he had used science and the nun, his love, used artificial insemination. When Carlo found out about this he felt hurt and betrayed and he killed the Pope. Later on he found out that he was the Pope's son and killed himself over it. The hassasin and Maximillian Kohler are also in this book. The hassasin is bad but Kohler is not. Jacques Sauniere is not a bad guy and is from the book "The Da Vinci Code", he is Sophie Neveu's grandfather.
| What was the name of the group that Vittoria Vetra and Robert Langdon were trying to stop in "Angels and Demons"? | Dan Brown books
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Illuminati. The Illuminati is group dedicated to religion mainly Christianity. The Opus Dei is also a religious group but is not a group ever mentioned in "Angels and Demons". The Priory of the Sion is a group dedicated to science and is not mentioned in this book but is in "The Da Vinci Code". The National Security Agency, or the NSA, is a United States security agency dedicated to breaking algorithms, codes, and keeping the national security tight.
David Becker. David Becker is her fiance. All the other people were people she worked with. Strathmore was the one who started the bug in TRANSLTR, Ensei Tankado is the one who sent the email that contained the bug that Strathmore unleashed on TRANSLTR but they were not working together, and finally Leland Fontaine is the man who stepped in to fix the problem. He was there and giving orders to get the code that would stop the parasite from eating through their fire walls and other seceurity and giving out their secret information.
Paris/ the Louvre. This story takes place in Paris and starts off in the Louvre museum of Paris, one the most beautiful and amazing houses of art. One of the many paintings this building houses is the "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo Da Vinci.
| In "Angels and Demons" how does Carlo Ventresca die at the end? | Dan Brown books
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He sets himself on fire and disappears off the top of the building in St. Peter's Square. At the end of this book Carlo Ventresca believing he had heard God telling him that he should die for their religion set himself on fire and disappeared from on top the roof of a building in St. Peter's Square.
| What is the one thing that all these three books have in common? | Dan Brown books
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Someone always dies in the prologue. Actually the most interesting thing I noticed in all three of these books is the in every single prologue someone has always died. This was because they were really important or they knew something really important and without their deaths the entire novel would be pointless. In "Angels and Demons" Leonardo Vetra died because of his antimatter, in "The Da Vinci Code" Jacques Sauniere died because he held the secret of the "Mona Lisa" and the secret of the Holy Grail. Finally, in "Digital Fortress" Ensei Tankado died because someone didn't want the NSA to find the code to turn off the parasite the was in TRANSLTR and he was the only one who knew the code.
| All four Dan Brown novels start with a prologue where a killer murders someone. Who is the victim of the killer in ‘Angels and Demons’? | The Dan Brown Novels
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Leonardo Vetra. Leonardo Vetra is killed in 'Angels and Demons' to steal the anti-matter canister. The other options are the victims in other novels, Jacques Sauniere in ‘Da Vinci Code’, Ensie Tankado in ‘Digital Fortress’ and Charles Brophy in ‘Deception Point’.
| Each of Dan Brown’s novels features a villain who is known by a code name. By what code name is the villain in ‘Deception Point’ known as? | The Dan Brown Novels
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Controller. The villain in ‘Deception Point’ is the controller and head of a United States Delta Force. The Teacher is the villain in ‘Da Vinci Code’, Janus in ‘Angels and Demons’ and North Dakota in ‘Digital Fortress’.
| In each of the Dan Brown books, the villain employs a killer to do his job. What is the name of the killer in ‘Digital Fortress’? | The Dan Brown Novels
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Hulohot. Hulohot is the killer in ‘Digital Fortress’. The Hassassin is the killer in ‘Angels and Demons’, Silas in ‘Da Vinci Code’ and Delta One in ‘Deception Point’. Each of these killers meet with a gory end; Hulohot falls off a staircase, the Hassassin is thrown off a tower, Silas is shot dead and Delta One is drowned.
| Each of the books has a red herring – a person whom we suspect to be the villain, but in reality turn out to be innocent. Who is the red herring in ‘Angels and Demons’? | The Dan Brown Novels
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Maximilian Kohler. Kohler is the head of CERN whom we are led to believe is the villain Janus, but it is revealed later that he is innocent. The red herrings in other books are Bezhu Fache in ‘Da Vinci Code’, Marjorie Tench in ‘Deception Point’ and Greg Hale in ‘Digital Fortress’.
| The name of the actual villain is revealed only at the end of the book and he turns out to be some one close to the hero/heroine. Who is the villain in the book ‘Da Vinci Code’? | The Dan Brown Novels
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Leigh Teabing. Leigh Teabing who is a friend of the hero Langdon, turns out to be the ‘Teacher’ who had masterminded the killing of the curator Jacques Sauniere. Strathmore is the villain in ‘Digital Fortress’ who is in love with the heroine Susan. Pickering is the villain in ‘Deception Point’ who is the heroine Rachel’s boss and Camerlengo Ventresca who pretends to be the saviour of Christianity is Janus the villain in ‘Angels and Demons’. At the end of the story; Teabing is arrested by the police, Strathmore dies in the burning Crypto, Pickering is drowned and Ventresca immolates himself.
| Each of the Dan Brown novels features one or the other aspect related to codes? What is the aspect featured in ‘Digital Fortress’? | The Dan Brown Novels
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Caesar box. The Caesar box is the code featured in ‘Digital Fortress’. This code referred to an arrangement of 64 letters in 8 rows and 8 columns, that was originally created by Julius Caesar. The Fibonacci sequence is the code referred to in ‘Da Vinci Code’, Segno refers to 'the sign' which is a code for 503 or DIII which in turn refer to Galileo’s ‘Diagramma’, which contains reference to the Illuminati lair in ‘Angels and Demons’. Morse code is the code used by Rachel Sexton by striking the iceberg on which they are stuck in ‘Deception Point’; this is eventually picked up by a submarine which saves them.
| Each of the novels involves a search for a code or password. What is the code being searched for in ‘Deception Point’? | The Dan Brown Novels
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A screensaver password. In ‘Deception Point’, Gabrielle is searching for a password to open Senator Sexton’s system. In ‘Da Vinci Code’ there is a search for a code to open the cryptex. In ‘Digital Fortress’ the search is for the pass key to stop the virus from weakening the defences of the NSA databank and in ‘Angels and Demons’, a code has to be unraveled to find out the location of the Illuminati lair.
| Each of the novels involves a secret society or an organisation, about whom not many people are aware. What is the name of the secret society in the ‘Da Vinci Code’? | The Dan Brown Novels
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The Priory of Sion. The Priory of Sion is the secret society featured in ‘Da Vinci Code’ which was supposed to be headed once by Leonardo Da Vinci. The Illuminati is the ancient secret society in ‘Angels and Demons’. The National Security Agency (NSA) and National Reconnaissance Organisation (NRO) are top secret organisations featured in ‘Digital Fortress’ and ‘Deception Point’ respectively.
| Each of the four novels have a hero and a heroine. Who is the hero in ‘Deception Point’? | The Dan Brown Novels
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Michael Tolland. Michael Tolland is the hero in ‘Deception Point’. The heroes and heroines of the four Dan Brown novels are Robert Langdon/Sophie Neveu (Da Vinci Code), Robert Langdon/Vittoria Vetra (Angels and Demons), Rachel Sexton/Michael Tolland (Deception Point) and Susan Fletcher/David Becker (Digital Fortress).
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