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Do you want to graduate from Geocaching University?
In this case, you need to step
back and reflect for a minute on what this life changing
experience could mean for you
and your family. In order to graduate and receive a diploma you
need to take our
international accredited geocaching exam.Yes you heard right,
anybody who graduates
from Geocaching University will receive a personalized, printable
electronic copy of their
diploma after successful completion of the exam. The exam consists
of two parts, a
theorectical and practical, and each part includes 6
questions.
Let's not waste any more
time. Here it is, the exam.....
THEORETICAL
EXAM
Question
A
You have both arms broken and in casts and you
arrive at the GZ where you find a friendly muggle sitting on a
public bench right in front of the hide.
What do you do?
Answer
A1: Ask the muggle to help you
pickup your camouflaged pillbox containing your pain
medication
You also ask him to open the box and write in your initials and
date into the medication instruction booklet,
so you know what day you took your medication
(A1=5)
Answer
A2: You phone a friend.
(A2=6)
Answer
A3: You retrieve the cache with
your teeth and go to a muggle-free location to open it.
(A3=7)
Answer
A4: You sit down right next to the
hide, take your shoes and socks off and pretend to be meditating.
You ask the muggle to leave because he is interfering with your
outdoor Fengshui. He leaves and you retrieve the cache with your
feet, open it with your feet and sign it with your left
foot.
(A4=8)
Question
B
You arrive within a half mile of the cache location
and your GPS is getting weaker and weaker and is finally giving up
operating.
What do you do?
Answer
B1: Take Bob's special Geosense
pills, which you bought on the black market in Hong Kong and hope
for instant improvement of those senses.
(B1=0)
Answer
B2: You build a Lemon battery as
seen on YOUTUBE and hookup your GPS to move forward with your
mission.
(B2=1)
Answer
B3: Give up and go home.
(B3=2)
Answer
B4: Warm up the batteries by
rolling them between the palms of your hands. Then when you arrive
at the approximate GZ, you insert the batteries and try to get one
more GPS reading.
(B4=3)
Question
C
You are at home. Dinner will be ready in 5 minutes
and you decide to check your private email quick. And there it is -
a new cache listing just popped up, not too far from your home and
with the possibility of a first to find (Cache U Nuts is on
Vacation in South America without computer or cell phone
access).
What do you do?
Answer
C1: Go in the garage and flip the
main electric breaker for your home so it interrupts the cooking of
dinner. You tell your significant other you need to inform the
electric company about this outage and need to go in person to
their main office on the other side of town.
(C1=4)
Answer
C2: You don't care and enjoy your
dinner and a nice lazy evening on your coach at home. A FTF isn't
that cool anyway.
(C2=5)
Answer
C3: You tell your significant
other that your boss called and you have to go back to the office
for work.
(C3=6)
Answer
C4: You tell your significant
other that the great dessert she/he has prepared definitely needs
whipped vanilla ice cream and you must go to the store to pick some
up.
(C4=7)
Question
D
You arrive at GZ. One and a half million muggles are
hanging out at the place.
What do you do?
Answer
D1: You hold up a large geocoin
and your GPS-Device pretending the badge legitimatizes you as a
government official. You announce to everybody to immediately
evacuate the area because of critically elevated satellite signal
radiation as shown on your signal meter. Anybody remaining after 3
minutes will be quarantined and held in solitary confinement for up
to 3 months.
(D1=3)
Answer
D2: You put your sunglasses on and
take your white cane out of the trunk of your car and pretend to be
blind. You ask people if they can help you to find your designer
wallet, which has the form, size, and color of an 3-4inch
camouflaged Lock-N-Lock container. You remember dropping it near
the tree's trunk where those large roots are coming out of the
ground.
(D2=4)
Answer
D3: Turn around and go home. Come
back under the cover of darkness and without anybody around to make
the grab.
(D3=5)
Answer
D4: Start your rain-dance ceremony
in hopes of changing the weather
(D4=6)
Question
E
You posted a new cache listing for review and
anxiously await approval by the volunteer cache listing reviewer.
The next day you check your email and receive the devastating news
that she/he can't approve your cache because its violating cache
listing guidelines.
What do you do?
Answer
E1: You buy the lot the cache is
located on and the adjacent 400 acres to provide free, undisturbed,
and unobstructed access for everyone to the cache.
(E1=4)
Answer
E2: You Photoshop your birth
certificate to make yourself the owner of the lot and send the copy
to the reviewer.
(E2=3)
Answer
E3: You go to the courthouse to
apply for a public geocaching easement to the cache
location.
(E3=2)
Answer
E4: You retract your listing but
submit your listing again when the main/regular volunteer cache
listing reviewer is on vacation.
(E4=1)
Question
F
You are out and about hiking and geocaching in the
woods of a very large state park. As instructed by the cache
description you parked your vehicle at the posted suggested parking
coords and used the posted coords for the trailhead. You and your
friends are closing in on GZ. Your GPS is indicating the cache is
just a few hundred feet off the official trail, but it seems you
are moving away from it.
What do you do?
Answer
F1: With a loud scream you dash
like a mad-woman/man into the brush towards the perceived hiding
location, you don't feel pain or fear.... you go for it....you want
it....
(F1=8)
Answer
F2: You follow the trail
patiently, which meanders around the cache location till it closes
in on the cache by 10 feet. You step off the trail and claim the
prize in seconds.
(F2=7)
Answer
F3: You turn around disappointed,
because you thought this would be another easy city cache like an
easy P&G .
(F3=6)
Answer
F4: You call your friend and give
her/him your actual coordinates so she/he can guide you with help
of maps.google.com to the cache location.
(F4=7)
As you may have figured out by yourself already, the obvious
answers may not be the correct ones.
You could take a chance and take your "CORRECT" answers from the
theoretical part and plug it into the following formula for the
final cache location:
Final at
N27 23.ABC W082 27.DEF
Or you continue and go to the practical part of this exam. Go to
the posted coordinates and start your pratical exam.
The results from your practical exam will give you the answer
key for the correct answers of the theoretical exam.
PRACTICAL
EXAM
Stage
A
Go to N27 23.861 W082 27.354
What is the speed limit?
5
(A1 is the correct answer
for Question A in Theoretical Exam)
10
(A2 is the correct answer
for Question A in Theoretical Exam)
15
(A3 is the correct answer
for Question A in Theoretical Exam)
20
(A4 is the correct answer
for Question A in Theoretical Exam)
Stage
B
Take a seat at N27 23.843 W082 27.353
How many "real" slides are on the
playground?
2
(B1 is the correct answer
for Question B in Theoretical Exam)
4
(B2 is the correct answer
for Question B in Theoretical Exam)
7
(B3 is the correct answer
for Question B in Theoretical Exam)
9
(B4 is the correct answer
for Question B in Theoretical Exam)
Stage
C
Go to N27 23.822 W082 27.389
How many Light Poles do the Tennis Courts
have?
6
(C1 is the correct answer
for Question C in Theoretical Exam)
7
(C2 is the correct answer
for Question C in Theoretical Exam)
8
(C3 is the correct answer
for Question C in Theoretical Exam)
9
(C4 is the correct answer
for Question C in Theoretical Exam)
Stage
D
Standing at N27 23.782 W082 27.371 and looking
west
How many cars do you see?
0
(D1 is the correct answer
for Question D in Theoretical Exam)
1
(D2 is the correct answer
for Question D in Theoretical Exam)
2
(D3 is the correct answer
for Question D in Theoretical Exam)
3
(D4 is the correct answer
for Question D in Theoretical Exam)
Stage
E
Go to N27 23.763 W082 27.363
What is the last number on top of the
scale?
1
(E1 is the correct answer
for Question E in Theoretical Exam)
2
(E2 is the correct answer
for Question E in Theoretical Exam)
3
(E3 is the correct answer
for Question E in Theoretical Exam)
4
(E4 is the correct answer
for Question E in Theoretical Exam)
Stage
F
Standing at N27 23.741 W082 27.343 look at the
bridge
How many pipe barrels can you see?
3
(F1 is the correct answer
for Question F in Theoretical Exam)
4
(F2 is the correct answer
for Question F in Theoretical Exam)
5
(F3 is the correct answer
for Question F in Theoretical Exam)
6
(F4 is the correct answer
for Question F in Theoretical Exam)
You did it.
You solved both parts and converted the answers to numbers and
plugged the values into the following formula:
Final at
N27 23.ABC W082 27.DEF
At the final location a small size cache will await you and
inside the cache you will find a code word,
which you need to send with your email to verify you found the
cache and we can issue your hard earned diploma.
Please feel free to take a picture when you sign in for your
graduation and post it here.
