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200 Mystery Cache

Hidden : 4/23/2019
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


According to Groundspeak, I have apparently gone off my meds a total of 200 times and placed 200 inane and obfuscational geocaches.  I hereby apologize for each and every one of them.  This FINAL (yeah – right!) cache is based on this bicentennial number.

1.  is the one after 200 in P(n) = P(n-2) + P(n-3).

2.  is the alpha-sum [A=1, B=2, C=3 etc.] of the one-word name of a widely-contested, classic competition, started in 1934 (some might claim it was 1935), in which the number 200 figures in one of its prominent awards.

3.  is a number related to something which was instrumental in the deaths of thousands of people when each of its smallest units released 200 units of energy.

4.  is the alpha-sum of the one-word name of a powerful person who was born in the year CC, and whose name conjures up an adjective that describes someone who would never be called chatty. 

5. is the alpha-sum of the word after 200 in a famous Canadian’s song about our planet’s insane dive into pain. 

Multiply the sum of 1 through 5 by 0.0142443 to get the preform cache’s N minutes and by 0.0508703 to get its W minutes.

Once again, dear buddysally has risked life, limb and sanity to beta test one of my abominations. "Thank you" is hardly sufficient.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

qvtvgny ebbgf (fhz naq er-fhz gur qvtvgf hagvy lbh trg n fvatyr qvtvg) bs 1 – 5 ner 4, 8, 1, 3, 3

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)