Answer the questions and place the answers in the appropriate spot to find the cache. This is a travel bug hostel, please bring travel bugs and take travel bugs to new exciting places. Please do not forget to log all the bugs!
First the North...
The first seven digits are found by answering the following questions in order and placing the correct numbers in the corresponding places.
1. The closest star to earth other than the sun is how many light years away? Place the 2nd digit of the answer in the 1st spot. Add 4 and put it in the 7th spot.
2. How many hours a day is the US flag flown at the White House? Place the 2nd digit of the answer in the 2nd spot.
3. The Brontë Sisters, famous English authors of; Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and Wildfell Hall, how many sisters were there? Place the answer in te 3rd, 4th and 6th spots.
4. An equilateral triangle has three equal lengths on each side. What are the three equal angels of this triangle? Place the last digit of the answer in the 5th spot.
5. Eastern standard time is plus how many hours from Zulu time? (non daylight standard) Place that number in the 6th position.
...and now the West (starts with a zero and then seven digits.)
1. The 16th letter of the Greek alphabet represents a number. When viewing that number, what digit is in the 75th position? Place the number in the first spot after the zero and the 4th spot.
2. According to the National Park System. Mount McKinley is the tallest peak in North America, how many feet high is it? Take the 3rd digit and subtract the 4th digit and place it in the 2nd position after the zero.
3. How many Supreme Court Justices are there? Subtract 5 and put that number in the 3rd spot after the zero.
4. Students at Whittier Elementary in Waukesha, WI determined that it takes an average of how many minutes to reach the center of a Tootsie Pop. Subtract 3 and put that number in the 5th position after the zero.
5. Pertaining to SCUBA diving, how many ATA does 231 feet equal? Place the answer in the 6th spot after the zero.
6. The Florida state song “Old Folks At Home was directed by legislature in what year? Subtract the 3rd digit from the 4th digit of the year and put in the 7th place after the zero.
CONGRATULATIONS! You have figured out the cache coordinates! All the answers may be found on the web.
The cache is easy to get to when you have the coordinates. There may or may not be many people around depending on what time of the day you go. You may drive a vehicle or bike within 10 feet of the cache.