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Nicolas Cage Haircut Mystery Cache

Hidden : 12/23/2011
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


EN: Born as Nicolas Kim Coppola, Nicolas Cage is a nephew of a famous Francis Ford Coppola (of the Godfather saga). To avoid the appearance of nepotism, he changed his name early in his career to Cage, inspired by Marvel Comics superhero Luke Cage. As one of the most versatile actors in the movies today, he starred in good movies, but also in extraordinary number of total disasters. Lately, it seems to be more of the latter ones...
He won an Oscar for "Leaving Las Vegas", and was nominated for "Adaptation". Cage is known for many eccentric and weird things:
- known to prepare very seriously for his roles, he had taken out 2 of his front teeth for his role in "Birdy"
- his character in "Vampire's Kiss" was supposed to eat a raw egg, but Cage thought this was not powerful enough, so he ate a live cockroach instead. Actually, he ate 3, because it took 3 takes before the scene was filmed right
- first day he met Patricia Arquette, he said "I love you and I'm going to marry you." He actually did, 8 years later (when they met again).
- obsessed with comic books, he auctioned his comic book collection for $1.68 million. He also holds a record for the most expensive comic book ever sold, in November 2011 he sold his "Action Comics #1" in an online auction for a record-breaking $2.16 million dollars (the previous record being 1.5). He bought it in 1997 for "only" $110,000.
- he met his present wife when she was his waitress in a Korean nightclub "Le Prive" in L.A.
- they have a son named Kal-El, inspired by Superman's birth name
- in 2007 he purchased a total of 22 cars, 9 of which were Rolls Royces
- He paid $276,000 at auction for a dinosaur skull of a Tarbosaurus; one of the people he outbid was Leonardo DiCaprio.
- he loves castles. In 2006 he bought a castle in Germany, and in 2007 a castle in England. His wish is to disassemble them, and move them to USA

Your task for this cache is to recognize the Nicolas Cage movie by his haircut in the movie, and find the last 2 digits of the year when the movie was made, and insert it in the formula. The cache is placed relatively close to Arena cinema multiplex, so with a bit of luck, you might catch a Nicolas Cage movie in it! Good luck!

The cache is placed near Arena Shopping Mall. It is a bit outside of the Zagreb centre, but you can go there by car (free huge parking available), or by public transport: trams 7 or 14 up to the big roundabout, then 10 min walk to the Arena, *or* direct bus 234 going from the main train station, which leaves every 25 minutes (here is the schedule).




Cache is at N 45° 46.XXX E 015° 56.YYY
Cache je na N 45° 46.XXX E 015° 56.YYY

XXX = (7*A-5*B+5*C+4*D-8*E+4*F-6*G+3*H),
YYY = (6*I-3*J+2*K+L-6*M+4*N+2*O+4*P)


Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr: uggcf://jjj.qebcobk.pbz/f/r7zt37ig1dror3b/AvpbynfPntrUnve.syi?enj=1 be uggcf://jjj.qebcobk.pbz/f/ln0w17bwj71njz2/AvpbynfPntrUnve.niv?enj=1 Pnpur: FbhguRnfg pbeare

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)