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The 55th Annual Academy Awards (1983) Mystery Cache

Hidden : 2/25/2012
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   not chosen (not chosen)

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The 55th Annual Academy Awards (1983)

The cache is not located at the above listed coordinates. You must first figure out the REAL coordinates to “The 55th Annual Academy Awards (1983)”. Please be aware of our slithery friends and watch for muggles. Also, most of the caches along the AA Highway are park and grabs. PLEASE pull completely off the road and use caution when stopping along the roads to get the caches.

The 55th Annual Academy Awards were presided over by Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor, and Walter Matthau. Louis Gossett, Jr. became the first African-American actor to win Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the tough and principled drill sergeant Emil Foley in An Officer and a Gentleman. Meryl Streep won her first Best Actress award. She had been nominated the year before for The French Lieutenant's Woman, and would be nominated for another eleven nominations in the next thirty years. Streep had also won the Best Supporting Actress award in 1979 for Kramer vs Kramer.

N 38° 20.ABC

A = The 55th Annual Academy Awards ran for (A) hours and 15 minutes on ABC.

B = “Victor/Victoria” was nominated for (B) Academy Awards.

C = Steve (C) and Ann Reinking were the presenters for the Best Costume Design Award (convert the first letter of the name to a number).

W 121° 10.DEF

D = The 55th Annual Academy Awards were presented April 1(D), 1983 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.

E = “Gandhi” won the Best Picture and had a running time of 19(E) minutes.

F = “Tootsie” was nominated for 1(F) Academy Awards.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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)