Vermont's Arthurian Legend Mystery Cache
Vermont's Arthurian Legend
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Answering a few questions about President Chester Alan Arthur,
Fairfield's most famous son, will lead you out of Egypt and to this
cache.
The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates.
Your answers to the following questions will be used to determine
the true coordinates of the cache.
1. On what date did Arthur become president? We'll consider the
month 1a, the day 1b, and the year 1c.
2. In what year was he elected vice-president?
3. Arthur was the ___ vice-president of the United States.
4. He was the ___ president.
5. Garfield was chosen as the Republican nominee for president
after ___ ballots.
6. Here is something that he has in common with Calvin Coolidge and
Barack Obama: he took the Presidential Oath ___ times just to be
sure.
7. How many vice-presidents served under him?
8. How many treasury secretaries served under him?
9. How many secretaries of war served under him?
10. How many attorneys general served under him?
11. How many Supreme Court Justices did he appoint?
12. How many wagonloads of furnishings did he have removed from the
White House and sold at public auction when he redecorated?
13. What was the value of the postage stamp on which he
appeared?
14. In what year was the Chinese Exclusion Act passed?
15. In what year did the International Meridian Conference, called
by Arthur, choose Greenwich, London as the prime meridian?
16. On what date did his presidency end?
17. How many ex-presidents survived a shorter time once their terms
were over (not counting those who didn't survive to finish their
terms)?
Arthur and Obama have something else in common as well. Political
enemies claimed that Arthur was not qualified to hold the office of
vice president because he was not an American citizen, having been
born in Canada or Ireland (depending on which opponent had the
floor at the time). That claim didn't stand up to scrutiny
either.
The cache is at 44 AB.CDE, 72 VW.XYZ.
A = 15 - 2
B = 13/(9 + 10)
C = 1c - 2
D = the square root of 5
E = (15 -14)/11
V = (12 - 8)/16b
W = 16c -15
X = 6 cubed - 17
Y = 16b + 9
Z = 14 - 2
Congratulations to hrhvt for the FTF.
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