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The Saskatchewan Places Quiz Mystery Cache

Hidden : 7/21/2011
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:

The nano sized cache is located at (DMS) N 50° Blue' Red" W 104° Green' Purple"


To find this cache you need to identify the following cities, towns, and villages in Saskatchewan. Some of the questions are straight trivia, others are more, well, let's just say, tongue-in-cheek. As a side note, because Mr Geldhart doesn't speak any language other than English, none of the answers require any knowledge of any language other than English. (Thanks to SaskAcadie for pointing out the need for this notice).

After each question you will see a series of squares for the answer, 1 letter (or space or other punctuation if required) per square.

Some of the squares are shaded with one of four colours. Convert the letters in each coloured square to a number using the A=1, B=2, C=3 method. Spaces and other punctuation marks are equal to zero.

To determine the values for each colour in the coordinates, add up all the values in the same coloured squares, and you should have the exact coordinates to go find the cache. In the event the cache is moved, I'll simply change the coloured squares.

1. Known for both honey and being the hometown of Brent Butt

             

2. The 92nd (chemical element) municipality

                       

3. A pile of femurs, ulnae, patellae, ribs, skulls, and metatarsals

           

4. Tourists are more likely to refer to it as Dog River

             

5. Their hockey team always seems to get two minutes in the penalty box

         

6. I just can't remember where this place is

           

7. Maybe I'll look for this cache another time

                 

8. The City of Bridges

                 

9. New York may be big, but this is . . .

           

10. Don't be a Scrooge

               

11. The birth place of the 23rd governor general of Canada

                   

12. While he was an MLA, Tommy Douglas represented this city in the Legislature

             

13. A slow moving Model T car

                   

14. The mandible of Alces alces

                 

15. The lawn is #FFFF00

                       

16. Pig meat and spruce? Sorry Jane, that's way too average.

                             

17. Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Smith learned how to swim outdoors at the age of 95

                           

18. They have a WMBL team called the Cardinals

             

19. Located at 16V 598230 E 6620641 N

                   

20. Three different Prime Ministers have represented this city in Parliament

                         

21. This town was the site of filming of the movie "Who Has Seen the Wind"

           

To use the geochecker below, input your answer in the form N 50 BB.RR0 W 104 GG.PP0.

While that will result in technically the wrong corrdinates, it does allow for an EXACT response from the Geochecker. So if you determined Blue to be 14, Red to be 27, Green as 49, and Purple as 4, then use N50 14.270 W104 49.040 to see if you are correct. If the checker turns green, proceed to convert these coordinates to DMS.



Pay very close attention to the formatting of the final location at the top of the description. (DMS)

Subtract .005 seconds from the northing and add .014 seconds to the westing to the final coordinates before verifying on the Solution checker found below. This will give you the correct and final coordinates.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gur pnpur vf ABG ba n cevingr cebcregl! Or fher gb znxr gur pbeerpg pbbeqvangr pbairefvba. Guvf fubhyq gnxr lbh pybfr gb n "Ybqtr". Vg'f gur fznyyrfg pbagnvare glcr ng gur gehax bs n yrnsl gerr (gur byqrfg gerr bs gur ohapu)

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)