The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a world-renowned museum of art, culture and natural history. The ROM attracts over 1 million visitors each year, but you are one of the select few who get to participate in a Mystery at the Museum!
Use your geocaching and sleuthing skills to visit four locations around the ROM, uncovering clues as you go. Once you have collected all the clues you will be ready to solve the mystery and find the geocache!
Are your ready? Then let's begin!
The final geocache is located at N 43° AA.BBB W 079° CC.DDD.
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Stage 1 (posted coordinates). You will find yourself at the Bloor Street entrance to the Royal Ontario Museum. During operating hours (daily 10A-5:30P; 3rd Monday of each month 5:30P-8:30P; closed December 25th), go into the main entrance. There is a very large dinosaur skeleton straight ahead.
What type of dinosaur (genus) is this? (Note: It is not necessary to pay admission or enter the museum exhibits.)
AA = digital word root of the answer (a single digit) plus 35
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Stage 2. At the southwest corner of Bloor St. W. and Queen's Park Circle you will see a number of artistic bike racks close to the curb. Each rack represents an exhibit or specimen found inside the museum. One of these racks is a different colour than the others. What does this rack represent? (5-letter word)
In the English alphabet, what number position is given to the first letter of this type of animal?
BBB = Number Position + 50
** Add a leading "0" to get a 3 digit number **
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Stage 3. You should be at the side of the Queen's Park Entrance to the Museum. This is the entrance to the Eaton Theater. How many letter "É" (e-acute) are carved above this entrance?
CC = 28 - Answer
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Stage 4. Here is located a historical plaque honouring the ROM's first Director of Palaeontology. According to the plaque, William Arthur Parks was Head of the University of Toronto's Geology Department for how many years?
DDD = 751 - Answer
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