Booka Prize 1 - LOTR Mystery Cache
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Booka Prize 1 – LOTR
This is, hopefully, the first of a series of puzzle caches where the questions relate to a well known book or film.
The first book in this series is one of my all time favourites, Tolkien's epic, The Lord of the Rings.
The given coordinates are for a nice location that you can, on a good day, see from the cache.
Answer the following questions. Find the KEY letter (A1, A2 etc) and then equate that to a number.
A=1, B=2, C=3 etc through to Z=26.
Coordinates are N 50 21. (A1), (A2) (A3-8). W 04 05. (A4), (A5-11), (A6 -19).
1. Who made the Doors of Durin at the western end of the Mines of Moria? (five letters).
? ? ? A6 ?
2. The Grey Havens are in which Firth? (four letters).
Firth of ….. A5 ? ? ?
3. What are the names of Farmer Maggot’s three dogs? (four letters).
Grip, Fang and ……? ? ? A4
4. Which actor appeared in the 1981 Radio 4 adaptation of LOTR and in the film,
‘Love Actually’. (four, five)
A2 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
5. What is the Hobbit's name for the star constellation, The Plough? (six letters).
The ? ? A1 ?? ?
6. Where were the hobbits on October 6th 1418? (ten letters).
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? A3
First contained:-
FTF Badge
Dartmoor Geocoin
Geocaching sew on patch
Football trolley token
Bendy man
Harrods Teddy Bear pin badge
Teddy badge
Butterfly stickers
Bouncy ball
Fish pencil sharpener
Portuguese 2.50 Escudos coin and
a Swiss 10 cent coin (from cache GCTVNC in Canary Islands).
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ba vil pbirerq jnyy oruvaq gerr
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