THIS CACHE IS NOT AT THE POSTED COORDINATES!
Recently Kate had a birthday and received one of those "This happened in the year of your birth" cards and it gave me an idea for this cache. The cache is located at the coordinates that you must figure out based on the events that happened in the year of both of our births.
I call this a "Tin Man" cache, based on jcsugar's cache that started a bunch of these types of caches in the area.
Coordinates N 35 ab.cde W 94 fg.hij
1979
a - Fill in the blank. Sid Vicious dies at age 2_.
b - Air New Zealand flight 901 crashes into Mount Erebus in Antarctica, becoming New Zealand's largest peacetime disaster. Add the digits of the amount of people killed and divide by 2.
c - The UK elect their first female Prime Minister. How many letters in her famous nick name (do not count "The")?
d - Dan White kills 2 politicians in San Francisco and attempts to use the "Twinkee defense", citing sugary snacks and drinks as being one of the causes of his depression. How many years in jail did he serve for these 2 pre-mediated murders?
e - Multiple Choice - which of these all true meterological events occurred in 1979? Take the number associated with the correct answer
6 - July 1 - fish fall out of the sky in Moose Jaw, Canada.
8 - November 10 - The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks when struck by rogue waves during a gale on Lake Superior.
3 - September 28 - The over 100 kg Murchison meteorite falls to earth in Victoria, Australia.
0 - February 18 - For the first and only time, it snows in the Sahara Desert.
1988
f - How many British corporals did the IRA abduct and kill during the "Corporals Killing" event on March 19 that was filmed and shown live on TV?
g - Palm Springs, California elects a new mayor. Count the letters in his first and last name and divide by 3.
h - Several yards of fuselage fall off Aloha Airlines Flight 243 during an explosive decompression. How many people were killed during the event?
i - The Winter Olympics are held in Calgary, Canada. How many gold medals does Canada, the host country, win?
j - Multiple Choice - which of these pop culture events occurred in 1988? Take the number associated with the correct answer.
5 - "The Death of Superman" arc is played out in DC comics.
2 - Ted Turner buys NWA wrestling, and renames it World Championship Wrestling.
9 - Cats begins its record-setting run on Broadway.
0 - Batman tops the US Box Office, grossing over $250,000,000.
FTF gets a coveted Adam and Kate poker chip and card set, as well as a little something extra...
You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.
Congrats to Blakrazor for the FTF!