GeoCaching School - 101 Mystery Cache
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The cache is not at the posted coordinates. You must first figure
out the answers to the multiple choice quiz below.
Below you will find 15 questions (A - 0). Each question has 10
possible answers (0-9) of which you will chose one, to build the
coordinates for the cache location. Once you have solved all of the
questions, the coordinates will take you to the cache.
There is parking nearby.
Coordinates to solve:
AB CD.EFG - HIJ KL.MNO
Questions:
A.) Something or someone that gives away too many details of a
cache location.
0 - motormouth
1 - chatterbox
2 - numskull
3 - klutz
4 - spoiler
5 - loudmouth
6 - muggle
7 - donkey
8 - duffer
9 - blabbermouth
B.) Scoring this is confirmation of being the first person to
record the find into a caches logbook
0 - ETA
1 - GFF
2 - TNLN
3 - FTL
4 - FTF
5 - DNF
6 - FOUND
7 - ETE
8 - SL
9 - TFTC
C.) An acronym to describe "when out GeoCaching", to take a bag
with you and pick up trash along the way?
0 - TFTC
1 - TNLN
2 - ROT13
3 - WAAS
4 - CITO
5 - GPS
6 - UTM
7 - BLM
8 - APRS
9 - UTC
D.) What does the accronym "GPSr" mean?
0 - General Purpose Switch Room
1 - Global Product and Services Registry
2 - Great Plains Systems Research
3 - Global Positioning Satellite Receiver
4 - Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing
5 - Gross Private Savings Rate
6 - Grants for Private Sector Research
7 - General Practice Strategy Review
8 - Generic Pulsed Surface Radar
9 - Government and Public Service Reform
E.) What is a NeoCacher?
0 - A member of a fringe group inspired by Adolf Hitler's
Nazis
1 - Character from the movie "The Matrix"
2 - A person who works for the USGS
3 - An item placed in a cache with instructions to relocate to
other caches
4 - A person who favours the Garmin brand GPS receiver
5 - A Non-GeoCacher
6 - A person who favours the Magellan brand GPS receiver
7 - An inexperienced GeoCacher or "newbie"
8 - An experienced GeoCacher or "old salt"
9 - A special hitchhiker , trackable on GeoCaching.com
F.) Who is the founder of Geocaching.com?
0 - Jeremy Irish
1 - Kevin Toohill
2 - Jack Peters
3 - Larry Page
4 - Steve Wozniak
5 - Steve Jobs
6 - Mike Teague
7 - Jerry Carter
8 - Bill Gates
9 - Matt Stum
G.) Who first coined the term "Geocaching"?
0 - Jeremy Irish
1 - Bill Gates
2 - Steve Jobs
3 - Larry Page
4 - Jerry Carter
5 - Jack Peters
6 - Mike Teague
7 - Matt Stum
8 - Steve Wozniak
9 - Kevin Toohill
H.) Logging this entry online shows the cache owner and any future
cache seekers, that you attempted, but you did not find the
cache.
0 - TFTC
1 - DNF
2 - TNLN
3 - GFF
4 - FTL
5 - FTF
6 - FOUND
7 - ETE
8 - ETA
9 - SL
I.) A Non-Geocacher we meet in the field who wonders what we are
doing, or someone who accidentally finds a cache?
0 - garminites
1 - neocachers
2 - muggles
3 - gpsers
4 - babels
5 - maggies
6 - McCachers
7 - swags
8 - hitchhikers
9 - magellans
J.) Originally a negative term for trinket toys of little value
left in caches, its now used as a generic slang for geocache
treasures.
0 - McToys
1 - Muggles
2 - GPSer's
3 - Swag
4 - Babels
5 - GeoToy's
6 - MatchBoxes
7 - BRG's
8 - PDA's
9 - Cache gear
K.) What does the accronym GPS mean?
0 - Global Positioning System
1 - Garmin Positioning System
2 - GeoCaching Property Standards
3 - Geographic Positioning System
4 - GeoCaching Philosphy Science
5 - Global Positioning Standards
6 - Geocaching Peoples Society
7 - Geocaching.com People Signup
8 - GeoCaching Positioning System
9 - Global Positioning Science
L.) The ability to instinctively know where a cache is located when
you get within a certain proximity?
0 - GeoSenses
1 - Heading
2 - The "Force"
3 - Aiming
4 - Bearing
5 - Oriented
6 - Confluence
7 - Track-locked
8 - Coordinated
9 - Locked
M.) The website GeoCaching.com was launched on what date?
0 - July 1999
1 - July 2003
2 - September 2000
3 - November 2001
4 - April 2004
5 - May 1999
6 - December 2005
7 - January 2002
8 - May 2000
9 - September 2001
N.) An accronym used to describe the system developed to improve
GPS accuracy in the United States to within 3 meters 95% of the
time through additional radio signals broadcast by 25 ground
stations and 2 satellites?
0 - XTE
1 - UTM
2 - USFS
3 - WAAS
4 - DGPS
5 - APRS
6 - USGS
7 - NASA
8 - NMEA
9 - ETA
0.) A worldwide navigation system that measures the globe's
coordinates using meters and kilometers.
0 - GPS
1 - WGS
2 - NSA
3 - UTM
4 - TUM
5 - ETA
6 - BLM
7 - VMG
8 - CDI
9 - FTF
Additional Hints
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