Lumber-Room of Your Library Mystery Cache

According to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, in the 1891 short story, The Five Orange Pips:

“I say now, as I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.”

Solving this cache will give you lots of material to fill the “Lumber-Room of Your Library.”

The cache itself is a camouflaged plastic M&M’s® candy tube, with a black lid. It contains nothing but a log sheet and a pencil. You might want to wear gloves to get this cache.

Answer all of the following questions. Each value you provide will be the last digit of the corresponding answer. For example, if you determine that the answer to a question A is 57, the value of A will be 7, the last digit of the answer to A. Once you answer the questions, and determine the last digit values, you can use the formula to determine your coordinates. As a safety-check, if you were to add up all of the correct last digit values, you'd get a two digit number that ends in 4. If you don’t get this, you’ve made a mistake.

Note: You should see a list of questions that starts with questions A through H, skips I (easy to confuse with 1), then continues with questions J through N, skips O (easy to confuse with 0), and then finishes with questions P and Q. If you don’t see this, you have an old browser or one that is somewhat buggy. Consider upgrading to a newer release or, for the time being, re-label your list of questions to match the sequence given above.

1. How many stitches in an official Major League baseball? We are looking for the number of stitches on one side - the answer we are looking for begins with 1. Remember, the value for this and every other question will be the last digit of your answer to this question.
2. Television sets built in 1944 that allowed you to receive all legal FCC broadcasts at that time would have included a channel 1. This channel occupied a range of frequencies, in megaHertz (MHz). What was the upper frequency of channel 1 in 1944? Use only the value before the decimal point. For example, if the answer was 97.212MHz (it isn’t), then your answer would be 97, and, of course, the value we are looking for is the last digit (in this case, 7.)
3. Please don’t think this question is too quirky, but according to the standard model, everything is chock full of these - lots and lots of them, billions and more. But these things, while plentiful, only come in a small number of flavors and colors. If you took the number of currently known flavors, and multiplied it with the number of currently known colors, you’d get what result?
4. How many grooves are there on one side of a standard long-playing 33 1/3rd RPM record?
5. Speaking of albums, how many total sides of recorded music came with the 1969 LP record release of Johnny Winter’s Second Winter?
6. How many randomly selected people do you need to have in a room to have a probability greater than 50% that two people in the room share a birthday?
7. In the early days of execution by electrocution, Thomas Edison pushed to give the process a specific name. If we still used his phrase, we would say of a person who was “given the chair” that they were W______ed. How many letters are in the name Edison wanted to give death by electrocution?
8. A two-parter, leading to a single answer. There are two interstate highways whose identifying numbers really frustrate highway buffs. One is in the Bay Area of California. The other is somewhere in Pennsylvania. These highways simply don’t follow the guidelines of interstate numbering that all other highways follow. These are not subtle mistakes, or matters of opinion, or subtle points, but intentional, blatent violations of what was previously standard policy. What are these two interstate numbers? Add them together to get the answer to this question.
10. The first on-camera kiss, in an 1896 short called, appropriately, The Kiss, starred, believe it or not, two people. Their last names are I_____ and R_____. Add up the letters in their last names to get this answer.
11. Point Roberts, Washington is just a fun place to know about. Look it up on an online map. Enjoy its somewhat unique location. This little section of the USA spans five different minutes of longitude. (Pay attention, we are talking about minutes, not degrees.) Add up the minutes of longitude that Point Roberts contains, and you’ll get a total. (For example, if on a map of Point Roberts you could find the easternmost longitude being 16.232 minutes, and the westernmost longitude being 19.245 minutes, you would take 16, 17, 18 and 19 and add them together. You would obtain a sum of 70, with a last digit value for this question of 0.) So - what is this total for the real longitude minutes that Point Roberts occupies?
12. Amelia Earhart called this city in Ohio on State Route 666, southeast of the Dillon Dam, “the most recognizable city in the country” because of a rather remarkable bridge. How many bridges of this type have been built in this city since 1814? This bridge has a one-letter nickname. If A=1 and Z=26, take the number corresponding to this letter and add it to the number of times this bridge has been built, and you’ll get the answer to this question.
13. Montmartre is in what arrondissement?
14. Staying in Europe for a moment, the now extinct Central line extension between Epping and Ongar had an intermediate stop in a place called North W_____. What are the number of letters in the word beginning with W? This is your answer to this question.
16. One final European question: In the Öresund region of Southern Sweden, which includes the city of Malmö, the Citytunneln Project will create how many new train stations?
17. There is a one-lane tunnel in the Marin County headlands that is lots of fun to drive through. It is near the Sausalito exit of US101, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Its street name is Bu_____ Road. How many letters are in that road name beginning with Bu? (Just the one word beginning with Bu, please. Don’t include Road in your answer!)

The cache is located at a latitude of 37° 1R.STU' and a longitude of 12V° WX.YZ1'.

Calculate R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y and Z from the following formulae. Remember, the values of A-Q used in the formulae below are the last digits of the answers you came up with to the questions given above!

R = (A + B) - (C + D)
S = The last digit of (E * F)
T = (G - 1)
U = (H * J) / (E * F)
V = D
W = K
X = (L + M)
Y = N
Z = (C - P) * (Q - (K * D))

Have fun finding the answers!

Follow the curving path. It leads to an interesting spot.