Student Rant: The Da Vinci Code quest # 5 on Google

Hello folks, it's day 5 of the Da Vinci Code Google webquests.

Today's challenge is being called " The Chess Challenge "


The Instructions are
" Ian McKellen is Sir Leigh Teabing, a man whose every move has been in preparation for a Grail Quest. Determine the only sequence of three moves that will lead to checkmate in the given chess scenario. Knowledge of The Da Vinci Code may help you, as may Google Web Search. "

Okay ... let's play chess.
This is the original layout given to us. I want to play chess rather than query the questions given to us, but i have a feeling from the previous posts that Google might change the location of the queen or the rook or any other chess items on the board. So i decided to approach the questions itself.

Question # 1: What is the spiked belt that Silas wears called.


Anyone who read the Da Vinci code should be able to answer this question. However a Google search for the question brings up a query on Amazon as the top search result. You don't even need to click on the link. The answer is in the summary itself.

Question # 2: What are the second, third and fourth leading members of the Priory of Sion called?

Again, anyone who read the Da Vinci code should find this easy pickings. For the rest, a google search is very confusing with no answers jumping out of the screen.

For this, go to the Wikipedia entry of the Da Vinci Code and in there, surprisingly, the only mention of the answer is under the profile description of André Vernet

Question # 3: The engraved tablet that is supposed to reveal the hiding place of the Holy Grail is called the

Again, easy pickings for those who read The Da Vinci Code.

A Google search for this question again gives out wierd results.

Again, wikipedia to the rescue. The answer to the question would be under the profile decription of the name of the person in all these above pictures.

Finally we are done. This would have been a fair enough challenge if it was purely chess based. However, the questions give enough hints and the answers are so obvious that they stand out.

I am starting the judge on how hard the questions are, based on the time it takes me to post everyday. So far, I took the longest time on quest # 1 and the times keep coming down.

I hope this trend changes down the line. Also, if we look in our personalized google home page at google.com/ig, tomorrow's quest would be something based on geography. Hopefully this means using google maps and hopefully, we have to decrypt the longitude and latitude of the location based on some anagram. Hopefully!

Until then, Good luck solving!!

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