Update as of 1/1/23: Construction in the area required a new placement. The puzzle has been updated to solve to the new coordinates.
Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison of the New York State Department of Correctional Services in Ossining, New York. It is located approximately 30 miles north of New York City along the banks of the Hudson River. Ossining's original name, "Sing Sing", came from the Native American Sinck Sinck (Sint Sinck) tribe from whom the land was purchased in 1685.
Since this cache is named Sing Sing, you will have to find find a cache. You must first proceed to the above coordinates. At that location you will find the answers to the following questions which will give you the coordinates of the final cache. The final container is a hanging bison. BYOP and please exercise stealth when at the final ground zero.
The cache is located at
N40 26.ABC
W079 58.DEF
where A through F can be determined by correctly answering the following questions:
| A |
What was the nickname of the vast Pittsburgh Coal Seam?
• Mother Lode
• Black Diamonds
• Carbon City
• Fossil Find
• America's Best |
• 0
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
|
| B |
Mount Washington was previously called what?
• Allegheny City
• Coal Hill
• Mount Monongahela
• Little Carnegie
• Frick's Folly |
• 3
• 0
• 2
• 1
• 4
|
| C |
South Side streets Jane, Sarah, Mary, and Josephine are all named
after members of whose family?
• George Washington
• George Wilkins
• William Pitt
• Andrew Carnegie
• John Ormsby |
• 1
• 9
• 7
• 5
• 3
|
| D |
What is the symbol used for "you are here"?
• white star inside a brown square
• black "x" inside white circle
• blue circle inside red circle
• green square inside black diamond
• white "o" inside red "o" |
• 0
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
|
| E |
What was the major transportation problem faced by the coal industry?
• Poor quality machinery
• Shortage of barges
• Inclement weather
• Low river water level
• Lack of education |
• 9
• 7
• 5
• 3
• 1
|
| F |
Who laid out the town plan for Birmingham on the south side?
• Nathanial Bedford
• William Easton
• James Somerset
• Alexander Smithton
• Jonathan Harris |
• 6
• 4
• 8
• 0
• 2
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