"Elected" is a 1972 song by Alice Cooper, the first Hot 100 hit on his 6th studio album, Billion Dollar Babies. The single reached #26 during election week on the US charts, #4 on the UK charts and #3 in Austria. It inspired one of the first MTV-style story-line promo videos ever made for a song.
Billion Dollar Babies was commercially more successful than Cooper's previous albums; it went to No. 1 in both the United Kingdom and United States. The album's singles, "Elected", "Hello Hooray", "Billion Dollar Babies", and "No More Mr. Nice Guy", all became hits on the Billboard Hot 100. In March 1973 the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America and in 1986, it went platinum.
We happen to be big music fans, and so do our kids. Please enjoy the hunt for this easy puzzle cache!
THE PUZZLE... Stand at the geocache coordinates and look for the large yellow sign that faces you.
NORTH COORDINATE: N 43° 37.ABC
WEST COORDINATE: W 116° 11.DEF
A = The number of white boxes on the sign = A.
B = The number of sides on the sign = B.
C = The number of letters in the largest, bolded word = C.
D = B + E
E = The number of letters in the last word = E.
F = The letter F appears _____ times on the sign, that number = F.
You now have the information you need to find the final stage, less than a quarter mile from here. We thought this was easy enough to not need a link for Geochecking your answer!
First-To-Find prize is a collectible American coin rarer than our usual leave, a 1920 San Francisco .900 silver “Mercury” Dime as a wink to the mercurial nature of politics. The obverse of this coin isn’t Mercury (or Hermes), but “Lady Liberty” wearing a winged helmet. The reverse features a fasces, an old piece of traditional imagery you don’t see much of nowadays (perhaps a good thing). Congratulations to dizziellama for winning the FTF electoral vote!