Puzzles are as easy as ABC or pigs might fly Mystery Cache

The cache is hidden as S33 45.ABC E151 07. ACC

Don’t you just hate it when you are trying to do a geocaching puzzle and you are getting nowhere and when you ask someone else how they went they just say it's easy as ABC which then makes you think of other sayings in frustration?

Then there are those puzzles that don’t seem to have numbers but are words or an exact expression for Certitude which can mean so many choices!

Well to make things a bit easier we all know most people prefer multiple-choice, here are a few to start you off.

Q1.  The Elusive Sydney Cachers known by the Acronym GOM stands for;

1. Grumpy Old Mates
2. Gummy Old Mint tins
3. Grumpy Old Men

Q2. Which is the Oldest Cache in Australia

1. Australia’s Oldest
2. Lane Cove
3. Geocache No.1

Q3. Before the term "geocaching" existed, the game was referred to as...

1. GPSFinding
2. GPS Stash Hunt
3. Geohunting

Q4. The first EarthCache is hidden in what country?

1. Australia
2. USA
3. Canada

Q5. Where was the first geocaching event held?

1. Seattle, WA
2. Austin, TX
3. Newark, New Jersey

Q6 When Geocaching.com first launched, how many geocaches were listed on the website?

1. 75
2. 12
3. Lots

Q7 In what year was the first trackable geocoin created?

1. 2000
2. 2001
3. 2005

Q8 In Geocaching what does GPS Stand For?

        a. Geocache Playing System

        b. Global Positioning System

        c. Geocache Positioning System

Q9 What is the name of Geocaching's official mascot?

1. Signal The Frog
2. Search The Froggy
3. Coordinate The Frog

Q10 A geocache was hidden on the International Space Station in

1. 2008
2. 2010
3. None have been hidden

Q11 What is a muggle?

1. A person who does not geocache
2. Some sort of Muppet
3. A geocacher

Q12   What is a cache?

1. A container that holds treasure for geocachers
2. Money
3. A type of bit coin

Q13 What does the GPS use for Navigation

1. The internet
2. Satellites
3. Constellations

Q14. Geocaching was enabled by the actions of which U.S. President?

1. Bill Clinton
2. John F Kennedy
3. Donald Trump

Q15 Approximately how many geocaches are there in the world.

1. 3 million
2. 300,000
3. 30 million

Q16 Which is the GOM’s least favourite type of hide?

1. D1.5 T1.5 Mint Tin in a guard rail
2. T5 hide on the Colo River
3. A creative good difficulty hide

Q17. New geocaches are never meant to be?

1. Buried
2. Found
3. Hidden in a tree

Q18  Near what major city was the first geocache hidden?

1. Seattle, WA
2. Portland, OR
3. New York, NY

Q19 Which of these phrases most accurately describes geocaching?

1. hi-tech treasure hunting
2. a style of cartography
3. environmentally sensitive computer software

Q20 How would you define Selective Availability?

1. Selective Availability was a type of built-in imperfection in GPS signals.
2. Selective Availability is a geocaching term that refers to where and when you hide a cache.
3. Selective Availability was a marketing strategy that allowed GPS companies to control the number of systems on the market.

Q21 How accurate are modern GPS systems?

1. 2 to 7m
2. 20cm to 70cm
3. 20mm to 70mm

Q22 Why did the U.S. government institute the practice of Selective Availability?

1. The government wanted to control the cost of GPS systems.
2. The government wanted to ensure that the military had a tactical advantage regarding the use of GPS systems.
3. The government didn't want people running around the country looking for small metal/plastic boxes.

Q23 How inaccurate could a GPS signal be with Selective Availability?

1. 100m
2. 1000m
3. 10m

Q 24 Who was the father of geocaching?

1. Jeremy Irish
2. Dave Ulmer
3. Jonathan Strickland

Q25 Which of these individuals came up with the term geocaching?

1. Matt Stum
2. Dave Ulmer
3. Jonathan Strickland

Q26 How long did it take the first geocachers to find the hidden cache?

1. 3 days
2. 3 hours
3. 3 weeks

Q27 What does WGS84 stand for?

1. World Geodetic System of 1984
2. World Geocaching Society of 1984
3. World Geographic Survey of 1984

Q28 What is the name of the company that runs Geocaching.com?

1. Garmin
2. Groundspeak
3. Google

Q29 What is a travel bug?

1. A cold you get from traveling between caches
2. A traceable tag on an item in a cache
3. A person who ruins a geocaching trip

Q30 What do geocachers mean when they refer to a spoiler?

1. A piece of information that reveals the location of a cache
2. An inappropriate item left in a cache
3. Finding a Mint Tin as a cache

Q31 What does it mean when someone writes FTF in a logbook?

1. First to find
2. Frustrating to find
3. Found, Thanks For cache

Q32 What is the minimum time length of a CITO event?

1. 1 hr
2. 30 min
3. Just log an attend online and hope no one notices

Q33 Which American city used geocaching to promote its King Tut display?

1. Chicago
2. Philadelphia
3. Washington DC

Q34 How close can a geocache container be to another physical container?

1. 161 ft
2. 161 m
3. 161 yards

Q35 Who foundered geocaching.com?

1. Groundspeak
2. Jeremy Irish
3. Google

Q36 The oldest cache is Queensland is?

1. Bravo Hotel
2. Queens Land
3. Banana No.1

Q37 What type of cache was Lane Cove Originally?

1. Traditional
2. Virtual
3. Multi

Q38 Who did Geocaching.com partner with for the first ever branded trackable promotion?

1. Jeep
2. Planet of the Apes
3. Mutant Ninja Turtles

Q39  How many T-Shirts were originally sold by the Founders to fund the launch of Geocaching.com?

1. 33
2. 144
3. 1549

Q40 GZ stands for?

1. Ground Zero
2. Good Zero
3. Giant Zebra

Q41 Why did the U.S. government institute the practice of Selective Availability?

       a. The government wanted to ensure that the military had a tactical advantage regarding the use of GPS systems.

       b. The government didn't want people running around the country looking for small treasure boxes.

       c. The government wanted to control the cost of GPS systems.

Q42 How would you define Selective Availability?

1. Selective Availability was a type of built-in imperfection in GPS signals.
2. Selective Availability was a marketing strategy that allowed GPS companies to control the number of systems on the market.
3. Selective Availability is a geocaching term that refers to where and when you hide a cache.

Q43 Which of these phrases most accurately describes geocaching?

       a.  a style of cartography

       b.  hi-tech treasure hunting

       c.  environmentally sensitive computer software

Q44 "TNLNSL" is a term that you usually put in 'Logged Visits' section on the cache's page. What does it mean?

1. Took nothing, Left nothing, Signed logbook.
2. Took news. Left news. Signed loans.
3. It doesn't stand for anything.

Q45 What is the main tool of a geocacher?

1. A PAF
2. A GPS receiver
3. A compass

Q46 In what month were the new virtual rewards introduced?

1. August 2017
2. June 2017
3. October 2017

Q47 Using multi million software to find Tupperware in the woods is the definition of a

1. Soviet
2. Geocacher
3. Munizer

Q48 Certitude is a service for this type of cache

1. Event
2. Puzzle
3. Traditional

Q49 The power trail attribute first appeared in

1. 2020
2. 2018
3. It doesn’t exist

Q50 What 20th Century Fox movie was associated with "Project A.P.E caches"?

1. King Kong
2. Planet of the Apes
3. Gorillas in the Mist

Q51 In what country was the first European geocache hidden?

1. England
2. Ireland
3. Belgium

Q52 In what country was the first EarthCache hidden?

1. Australia
2. USA
3. Canada

Q53 Who created the first ever geocoin?

1. Moun10Bike
2. Jeremy Irish
3. Signal the Frog

Q54 Sandy and Sonny are the hosts of which well known geocaching podcast?

1. Geo Talk
2. Podcacher
3. Groundspeak

Q55 : How many Project A.P.E. Caches were released?

1. 4
2. 14
3. 10

Q56 What geocacher placed the first ever Fizzy Challenge cache?

1. Fitzy81
2. Kealia
3. Smoky Bear

Q57 Geocaching HQ employees are known by what other name?

1. Lackeys
2. Helpers
3. Elves

Q58 What is the official minimum time length of an event?

1. 30min
2. 1 hr
3. Just sign the logbook and go

Q59 Which NSW cacher was famous for wanting to know where to plug in the blender in their logs?

1. Tangles
2. Team Chaos
3. The 2 Dogs

Q60 Who at the time of publishing is the leading puzzle cache finder in Australia

1. Everlasting
2. Liz and Bruce
3. Team Canary