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Dem Bones, Dem Bones (and something about a beak!) Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 1/3/2017
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:

A fairly simple little question and answer cache, around the theme of bones (no particular reason). So, just work out the answers to the questions below and them put them into the co-ords further down in the usual manner to get the final. All answers should be found easily enough on the internet (if you don't know them already).


A = The primary functions of the spine are as a pillar to support the bodies weight and to protect the spinal column, but how many vertabrae make up the thoracic portion of the human spine?

B = What is the number of bones in the human body at birth?

C = Due to fusion the number of bones in the human body reduces by adulthood, but to how many?

D = The patella is a type of (what?) bone. The number of letters in the word.

E = Many people think of bones as being 'dead' tissue, but this is far from the truth as our bones are very vascular and they serve many purposes such as the manufacture of red blood cells, platelets and white blood cells to name but a few. The sum of the first three letters (using their position in the alphabet) in the name of the cells that bone is primarily made of?

F = Long bones are the 'classic' image of a bone (like what a dog buries in a cartoon) with a shaft (the diaphysis) and a rounded head of various types (the epiphysis) at each end. But what one is the largest in the human body? How many letters in it's name (the number is the same for both the common and scientific names).

G = Not all bones are within the body. The position in the alphabet of the first letter of the name of the bone that is outside a deer's body.

H = A bird's beak is primarily made of bone too, as projections of the mandibles, and are covered in which substance (that are a family of fibrous structural proteins)? The position in the alphabet of the first letter.

Now a little bit of maths.

The cache, which is a small micro, can be found at N 51° 48.(B+C)+(DxA)+H W 003° 00.{(F+G+G)xE}+D and there are some great views of Blorenge and the Sugarloaf. Roadside parking co-ords on the geochecker.



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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Pnpur: Jung jnf guvf chmmyr nobhg ntnva!?! Fgrc hc.

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)