After the puzzle is done, you're confronted with the following question. "By adding some PIZAZZ to A NOVEL IDEA and rearranging the letters, you'll get the location of a museum in this eternal city. What is the name of the city?"

Obviously PIZAZZANOVELIDEA is an anagram of something. My first thought was it must be somewhere in Italy since Italian is the only language I know that pretty much has a 'Z' in every word or sentence unlike the language I grew up with, Swedish, which has pretty much no zees at all, anywhere, except in perhaps some multi-variable calculus book. Anyway, Italy makes you think of Rome, but before I typed in Rome I wanted to try to decipher the anagram by using the ajax enabled anagram solver I had been working on since the beginning of the quest (I knew there would be anagrams). The web page doesn’t give a full list of anagrams but cuts it off at 50 anagrams, and I was too lazy to sit around and wait for solver to go through the 2*10¹³ big search space of permutations (actually the search tree is pruned significantly by using a dictionary) on my local computer. Anyways...much easier to just type in Rome and hope for the best...

PALAZZO DI VENEZIA is the anagram. The Greek cross is filled in with red below. It took me some time to see it, I found it helpful looking at it with a scaled down version of the image, as the one above where it is really obvious.

Checkmate in 3 moves. White wins.

1. "A word that can be read the same backwards or forwards is called" An palindrome
2. "Jacques Sauniere's body was found in which part of the Louvre?" The Denon Wing
3. "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog is an example of" A panagram

By far the hardest challenge yet.

First step is to find the video. Since it's a google quest, the video should be found on google video. Sure enough

1. "A seemingly important stone object is extracted from the ground by Silas. What is its shape?" Answer: Octagon (got this one after trying octagram various times in the hope I had it misspelled)
2. "An interesting viewpoint is the vantage point from which we last see Silas. What is the last thing we see him touch?" Answer: holy water
3. "During the action in the video, we see many things shattered and destroyed, but what is it that will ultimately be broken" Answer: silence

The last question I've to admit I cheated on. I searched for the question and found the answer on someonelses blog...shame shame shame.

Another easy hang-the-pictures-on-wall puzzle. Question "What year was Charles Nodier born?" Answer: 1780.

Never heard of the guy.

Another sand puzzle. After the puzzle I got the following question: "What is the marvel of ISBN 0300107277?" Answer: maps

I simply searched for "ISBN 0300107277" found it was for the book "Marvel of Maps".

Another sudoko puzzle

The following question: "To the nearest whole number, how much is one divided by the permeability of free space, divided by the permittivity of free space, in exarads?" Answer: 9 I've no clue what an exarad is. What I simple did was to paste the calculation in a google web search in the hope the google calculator would be able to solve it. Sure enough the speed of light squared is 8.98755179 exarads

Note: Doing some reverse engineering (talking c² and comparing the result above), it appears that

This must be one of the easiest in the quest. It's a simple jigsaw puzzle. After finishing the puzzle the following question appears: "This city contains a three-dimensional version of Leonardo's The Last Supper created by the Venezuelan sculptor Marisol. What is the name of the city?"

I've never been to New York but I was sure I’d seen that map somewhere before doing a google map project for a customer . Right enough, the view you get after a google map search on New York, is the one in the picture below.

Ceckmate in 3 moves. White wins.

"What is the spiked belt that Silas wear called?" A cilice (Easy if you've read the book or if you're chess guru). If you're a chess guru you can pretty much figure out the next move by looking at which pieces move where for the different options. The black King is to be mate, the only reasonably way for this to happen is if the white King moves towards the second row.

"What are the second, third, and fourth leading members of Priory of Sion called?" Senechaux.

"The engraved tablet that is supposed to reveal the hiding place of the Holy Grail is called the" Keystone

This is also a fairly easy puzzle where you have to place a series of pictures on a wall with limited space.

After finishing hanging up all the pictures you've to answer the following question: "The symbol shown on Sophie Neveu (pictured at left) is called what?" chalice

This challenge doesn't really require the video to be solved. For the first question. Click on the "glimpse" and the symbol will appear.

For the third question a calculator to enter the following was helpful

Restoration puzzle. There are some spots of sand on a painting that contains a message.

After successfully elimination of the sand spots, the following question appears: "Name the symbol on Manuel Aringarosa, pictured at left"

This is a suduko puzzle. After finishing the puzzle you must answer the question "Please name the symbol on Robert Langdon (pictured left)". If you haven't read the book and don't know, a great place to start is The Wikipedia

Have you noticed the tip on Google to play their "The Da Vinci Code Quest"? I did a couple of the puzzles and thought I'd post the solutions here just for fun for the coming days.