The above Geocache coordinates are somewhere close and will be
used in later calculations for the actual cache coordinates.
Answer the following questions with a date. A year BC is negative.
Be careful of signed values. The answers will be used to compute
the actual coordinates. At the end of the questions, a checksum is
given. If yours is different, guess what?
The first two questions are samples of what is expected.
A. Water-clocks are
invented.............................................-325
B. First Wrist watches, worn by
ladies.......................................1880
C. The first shadow clocks or sundials tell the time from the sun’s
shadow...________
D. The worlds oldest clock is in Salisbury Catherdral,
England...............________
E. Peter Henlein designs first portable
timepiece............................________
F. Complex mechanism using water-driven power source first
used..............________
G. The first battery-driven electric clock is
patented.......................________
H. Warren Marrison of New Jersey produces the first quartz crystal
clock...._______
Checksum of answers A through
H..............................................5803
Using posted coordinates, switch to UTM.
To the easting coordinate, add the answer to C+G+H________
To the northing coordinate, add the answer to E-D-F________
Head for the cache!
You can check your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.
The cache container is an ammo box size, milky white, Tupperware
container.
It initially contained:
- Please leave these:
- 1 Notebook
- 2 pencils
- 1 Pencil sharpener
- Up for swap:
- Lots of timepieces and parts in various conditions.
- Some actually work.