Svalbard Global Seed vault was established to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds in an underground cavern. It is an assurance to reduce of hunger and poverty due to the national disaster. Construction of the Seed Vault, which cost approximately 45 million Norwegian Kroner (9 million USD), was funded entirely by the Government of Norway.
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The seed bank is constructed 120 meters (390 ft) inside a sandstone mountain at Svalbard on Spitsbergen Island. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened officially on February 26, 2008. The first seeds arrived in January 2008. This vault can storage 4.5 million samples of different seeds in the dry temperature of 0° F (-18° C). This storage process can protect the seeds for the thousands of years. Svalbard Global Seed Vault ranked no.6 on Time's Best Inventions Of 2008. |
That has nothing to do with the geocache at all, just a useless piece of information for you to read. You can read even more at Wikipedia
For all of my life I have enjoyed trivia, even the pointless stuff. I attribute this to my principal from Grade 3 to 6, Mr David Quinland and the influence he had on my life. Those were great years. We had Trivia Contests in class, played baseball with him during and after recess when we should have been in French class, learned Square Dancing, explored Stamp Collecting and much more. Our school, Rittenhouse, no longer exists but for those lucky few that did get to attend when I did I doubt we will ever forget it. This cache is a tribute to that great man whom I never have thanked properly.
When this cache was published near the end of January 2011, the actual cache had been sitting in place for over two months while I fought with various concepts of how this cache would work. In the end I decided to go with a simple research cache due to the Winter weather of which I am not a fan and thought others might enjoy sifting through minutia in the comfort of the pj's on the couch.
How this works. It's simple really and if you want to sing "One of these things is not like the other" from Sesame Street while you step through the list, feel free. There are eight questions each with ten possible answers. Select the one that fits, plug that value into the coordinates and when you have them all then off you go. Simple enough right? So are the questions. And you'll have to bear with the commentary of course. Here are eight little droplets of trivia, little seeds that I grew up with.
Since this started from school where I learned a lot of stuff Question A is "Which of these cities is a capital city of a Canadian Province?"
1. Charlottetown
2. Calgary
3. Moncton
4. Vancouver
5. Montreal
6. Gander
7. Brandon
8. Saskatoon
9. Ottawa
0. Cape Breton
See that wasn't hard was it? Growing up my favourite board game was Monopoly as if you didn't know. Question B... Which one of these is not a property in Mega-Monopoly
1. Arctic Avenue
2. Massachusetts Avenue
3. The Gas Company
4. Maryland Avenue
5. New Jersey Avenue
6. Michigan Avenue
7. California Avenue
8. South Carolina Avenue
9. Oregon Avenue
0. Florida Avenue
Television certainly seemed a lot better when I was a kid and I think I watched each of these shows, some more than others. Question C... which is not an Aaron Spelling show
1. Starsky and Hutch
2. Magnum P.I.
3. Fantasy Island
4. The Mod Squad
5. The Love Boat
6. T.J. Hooker
7. Dynasty
8. Hart to Hart
9. Beverly Hills 90210
0. Charlie's Angels
Do you remember how cool it was that the major TV networks had a movie every Friday or Saturday night? When we got a VCR my Dad taped every James Bond movie and we loved watching them together. Question D... which James Bond film is not an EON Production
1. A View to a Kill
2. Goldfinger
3. Live and Let Die
4. Casino Royale
5. Moonraker
6. The Spy Who Loved Me
7. The World Is Not Enough
8. Octopussy
9. Never Say Never Again
0. From Russia With Love
As a teenager I joined Army Cadets and one summer at Camp Ipperwash I was exposed to Dungeons and Dragons. This game became a big part of growing up even into adulthood. Usually I was the Dungeon Master, go figure eh? Question E... Which of these is not a Basic Module for Dungeons and Dragons
1. In Search of the Unknown
2. The Keep on the Borderlands
3. Pharoah
4. Palace of the Silver Princess
5. The Lost City
6. Horror on the Hill
7. The Veiled Society
8. Rahasia
9. Journey to the Rock
0. Castle Caldwell and Beyond
Saturday mornings as a kid were awesome! We had the best cartoons. And it went for hours and hours. Sure we had the shorts from Looney Tunes but when it came to the half-hour shows Hanna Barbera was the king to me. Question F... Which is not a Hanna Barbera character
1. Speed Buggy
2. Hong Kong Phooey
3. Johnny Bravo
4. Quick Draw McGraw
5. Freakazoid
6. Space Ghost
7. Jabberjaw
8. Dynomutt
9. Captain Caveman
0. Jonny Quest
Television wasn't everything and I really liked music of the 80's. Movies though didn't seem all that great, and it took till the 90's for some to come along that held my attention. Question G... which movie did not win the Oscar for Best Picture
1. Dances with Wolves
2. The Silence of the Lambs
3. Unforgiven
4. Schindler's List
5. Forrest Gump
6. The English Patient
7. Titanic
8. Shakespeare in Love
9. American Beauty
0. Apollo 13
But now that I'm older I have other interests. As a kid, finances and such matters weren't exciting but today I think this stuff is neat to watch. And the summit of all these companies are those listed on the Dow Jones. Question H... which is not a company on the Dow Jones
1. Xerox
2. Coca-Cola
3. McDonald's
4. Caterpillar
5. Microsoft
6. Walt Disney
7. Verizon
8. General Electric
9. Boeing
0. ExxonMobil
So it's simple, right? The cache is at N 43° 1A.BCD W 079° 3E.FGH and all you need to do is go find it and sign the logbook.
Guest Reviewer - Hemlock : Even though there are so many brainy reviewers, Hemlock always impresses me with his sound logic when it comes to getting the nut from the shell. Such a grounded passion, when he weighs in on a topic I know it is a response worth reading and considering.
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