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What didya say 'bout My Momma? Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 5/11/2007
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This is the penultimate cache in the ValentiNEs2Mom series, the last should grace Mother's day! This is a puzzle cache and needless to say the coordinates are not as above! You must solve this plethora of quotations and information about the writers or works in order to advance. This cache holds the LAST CLUE to solve the fifteenth and final cache in this series.

If coordinates are in format AB CD. EFG  -HIJ KL.MNP

I said: "Happy he With such a mother! Faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and though he trip and fall He shall not blind his soul with clay."
  • The 3rd digit in the year that the work this quote appears in was published=P.
  • The day of the dates of my birth and death is the same, it =M.
  • What number Baron was I? This number =N.
I said: …."If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies."
  • The year that I was born is xFxG.
  • The last digit of the first year that I was writer in residence at UVa.=E
I said: "The good Old Dominion, the blessed mother of us all."
  • The last digit in the year that I was admitted to the bar=B.
  • The last digit in the day and year that I was born=A.
I said: "Who ran to help me when I fell And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother."
  • If the date that I was married was in rs-tu-vwxy format, st=CD.
It says: "Despise not thy mother when she is old."
  • There are two two digit numbers associated with this quote, the first digit of each in order=KL (an example if the number were 78,90 the answer would be 7,9).
I said: "If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o’ mine, mother o’mine."
  • The year that I won the Nobel Prize is xxHI.
  • If you add the first and last digits of my death year the sum=J.

You can check your answers for this puzzle on  Geochecker.com.




Collect all of our caches in the ValentiNEs2Mom series today:
  1. A Valentine Mom
  2. She's been expecting you
  3. You'll Put Your Eye Out!
  4. Flowers 4 Mom
  5. A Random Mother
  6. NOT Mama Cass's Last Meal
  7. Alma Mater
  8. A Stroll Down Memory Lane
  9. The Old Jewish Mother
  10. What Mothers Won't Do
  11. In Any Language!
  12. Mother May Eye
  13. This started it all............
  14. What didya say 'bout My Momma?
  15. Cache Mommy
  16. Your Mother Wears Water Wings-aka V2M SuppleMENTAL

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Lbh qvqa'g ernyyl guvax guvf jnf tbaan unccra qvq lbh????

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)