This is the final stage of my tribute to the Calculatrivia contests published by Games Magazine in the 1980s and early 1990s. The first two stages are micro-caches which contain trivia questions taken from the first Calculatrivia contest published in the July/August 1981 edition of the magazine.
May 22, 2010
The first two stages have been archived. For anyone that would like to complete the series, these are the clues that would have been found in those stages:
A = No. of orange Padwars in a game of Martian chess, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs.
B = In shillings, amount of Dr. Watson’s daily pension at the time he met Sherlock Holmes.
C = No. of commas in a googol when written in the usual American notation
D = Patton’s rank in the 1909 West Point graduating class of 103.
E = No. of smurgles in a trog, if there are 111,284,641 cubic smurgles in a cubic trog.
F = Value of the Egyptian hieroglyph resembling an inverted U.
G = No. of different Monopoly board spaces specified by name on Chance and/or Community Chest cards.
H = No. of states that first gained admission to the US during the 19th century.
The final cache can be found at N 43° X' W 80° Y' where X and Y are defined by the solutions to the 8 trivia questions with values A to H (standard operator precedence rules apply):
a = F/B + G/D
b = F + C*(H + a)
X = [E + F*(D - a + b*G/A)]/1000
Y = [F*(b + E - D + G - A) - a]* A / 1000
You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.