TMI Mystery Cache
Hidden : 3/31/2012
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Camo bison not located at given coordinates

This is part of the "To Infinity and Beyond" puzzle caches.

For this puzzle, the cache is located at:

N35 04.ABC and W106 18.DEF *** mistake corrected in North minutes ***

and each of the following statements contains one and only one clause that is true. Conversely stated: only one of each letter will have a "false fact" (untruth) which will correspond to the number you need (truth according to the current wiki, at least):

A = 1 or George C Scott's actual middle name is Clarence
A = 2 or The name "Mississippi" comes from the Ojibwe word meaning "Great River"
A = 3 or Fragments of cotton fabric dated 5000 bc have been excavated in Mexico
A = 4 or Constantinople was conquered by the Ottomans on a Tuesday
A = 5 or Some wallabies can grow to six feet in length
A = 6 or Wind speeds on Uranus reach over 500 mph
A = 7 or The "inventor" of the pet rock also opened a bar named "Carrie Nation's"
A = 8 or The reign of Louis XVI of France has been called Enlightened Absolutism
A = 9 or "Bucky" paper can conduct electricity like copper
A = 0 or Rice University's mascot is Sammy the Owl


B = 1 or Actress Shirley Temple has been the US ambassador to both Ghana and Czecholovakia
B = 2 or Champurrado is a popular beverage served during the Day of the Dead
B = 3 or The Aztecs developed a road system between cities primarily for travel on foot
B = 4 or Chewing wild almonds can lead to ingesting hydrogen cyanide
B = 5 or If you shaved a tiger, the striped pattern found on its fur would be seen on its skin
B = 6 or Around the edge of a US dime, there are 118 "reeds" or ridges
B = 7 or The English Horn is an instrument but it is not from England nor is it a horn (like the French Horn)
B = 8 or The current official Hawaiian alphabet consists of 12 letters and a glottal stop
B = 9 or Actress Deborah Winger was the only voice of E. T.
B = 0 or Polar bears are nearly invisible under infrared photography


C = 1 or Cary Grant never said "Judy Judy Judy" in any of his movies
C = 2 or Leonardo da Vinci was a vegetarian
C = 3 or The popcorn hull ruptures at just over 1000 psi
C = 4 or The honey bee "waggle dance" communicates both distance and direction
C = 5 or The playing range of an individual kettle drum is a perfect fifth.
C = 6 or The world's largest snowman was named after Senator Olympia Snowe
C = 7 or Actor Tom Mix died from a wound sustained from his suitcase
C = 8 or Livestock (e.g., cows) are responsible for about a fifth of the world's greenhouse gas emissions
C = 9 or Of the four closest planets to the sun, Earth has the strongest magnetic field
C = 0 or "The Three Stooges" were first known as "Ted Healy and his Southern Gentlemen"


D = 1 or The youngest son of "the Wizard of Menlo Park" had over 80 patents to his credit
D = 2 or Goldfish have a memory span of about 3 seconds
D = 3 or Tin is not found naturally isolated, but must be extracted from ore
D = 4 or The author of Ben Hur was a governor of the New Mexico Territory
D = 5 or Residents of Washington DC have no voting representation in Congress
D = 6 or Armadillos can contract leprosy
D = 7 or Mark Twain raised money to build a Presbyterian Church in Nevada
D = 8 or Presidents (HW) Bush, Clinton and Obama are left-handed
D = 9 or Cold cream was invented by an ancient Greek physician.
D = 0 or Giant pandas will eat meat, fish and eggs when available


E = 1 or The term "checkmate" comes from the Persian phrase meaning "the King is dead"
E = 2 or Women in India wear a ring on their toe to show they are married
E = 3 or Sonny and Cher were first billed as Caesar and Cleo
E = 4 or Excelsior is used in mattresses, stuffed toys, taxidermy and swamp cooler pads
E = 5 or The aardwolf can eat over 100,000 termites in one night
E = 6 or The surface temperature of Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, can get as low as -250 F
E = 7 or A species of marsh rabbit is named after Hugh Hefner
E = 8 or Sen Robert Byrd was the longest serving US Congressman ever
E = 9 or Coca Cola was originally intended as a patent medicine for curing impotence
E = 0 or A conflict between Spain and Great Britain was (in part) precipitated by a severed ear.


F = 1 or Mel Blanc was the voice of Daffy Duck for over 50 years
F = 2 or Ostriches have the largest eyes of any land vertebrate
F = 3 or Goose bumps can be a symptom of epilepsy
F = 4 or Dizzy Dean and Elvis Presley made guest appearances on Hee Haw
F = 5 or It is against the law in New Orleans to curse a fireman when he is engaged in his official duties
F = 6 or Cauliflower has a fractal dimension of about 2.8
F = 7 or Singer Jenny Frost has omphalophobia, the fear of bellybuttons
F = 8 or The Hundred Years' War spanned 116 years
F = 9 or Bird's nest soup is composed almost entirely of saliva with little or no plant material
F = 0 or Winston Churchill's mother was born in Brooklyn, NY




*** Congrats to cyclegreen for FTF!!! ***

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

zbffloenapu6sghc

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)


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