Star Struck Exeter Mystery Cache
Kinkykimbo: This one has run its course
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The above posted coordinates are for suggest parking only. The cache is nearby. You have to answer the questions to find the final location
This is a small cache and my first puzzle cache. There is room for small TB's and coins only.
1. She was born in Chipping Sodbury, Wiltshire in 1965 and then moved to the Forest of Dean near Wales. She wrote her first book at the age of six and called it 'Rabbit'. She attended Exeter University to study French with Greek and German, She spent a year studying in Paris as part of her course. She graduated in 1986 with a 2.2 in French and her mother in attendance. Pennyless and pregnant by her first husband, she wrote most of the first book in a cafe in Edinburgh. In 1997 the book was published to international acclaim. She was inspired by places in and around Exeter, including the Black Horse Inn in Longbrook Street .She was described as a day-dreaming student while at Exeter when she was made an honorary Doctor of Letters at the University, by Professor Peter Wiseman.
QUESTION 1. Her new book this year will be her 7th, but when does it come out? 2? July 2007 = A
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2. He was born in January 1979, and studied Ancient History, Politics and English as A Levels and gained a 2.2 degree in Politics at Exeter University. He sang in university productions and in his free time, worked as a waiter at Harry's in Longbrook Street. He has performed for the Queen at Buckingham Palace. He won a famous musical T.V talent show on ITV.
QUESTION 2. What year did he win the talent show? 200? =B
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3. He was born in Ireland on 26th July 1927, as Daniel Patrick Carroll, the youngest of 5 children. The family moved to London when he was 9 years old. When the London blitz started, he was evacuated to the tiny village of Kennford, just south west of Exeter. He later recalled working at the local farm collecting eggs. He left school in 1942 at the age of 15 and went to work in Colson's bakery where he took advantage of extra bread and tinned fruit. He moved jobs to Huttons as a window dresser, on the corner of the High Street and Queens Street, only to find all the windows had been blown out by a bomb.
QUESTION 3. What year did he write his autobiography? 198? = C
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4. He was great friends with Thomas Latimer, the editor of the Western Times, at 143 Fore Street. Latimer's home was at the same address that ?????? would often stay with his family when visiting Exeter. Latimer and ???? first met in 1835, as young reporters, when they were taking verbatim shorthand from the rain soaked hustings for the Exeter City Council elections. ???? had used Latimer's shoulder to support his notepad and they compared notes before both rushed to meet the deadline for their respective newspapers. Latimer went on to become a radical journalist in Exeter.
QUESTION 4.His third novel has how many pages? 9?2 =D
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5. Born in Tavistock, Devon around 1540, his family fled to Kent because of persecution by westcountry Catholics. He went to sea and by the age of 23 was a sea captain. He made his name with his voyages to the Americas and then with his circumnavigation of the world in the Golden Hinde, which he completed in 1580. He often visited Exeter and reputedly drank at the Ship Inn - St Martins Lane .
QUESTION 5. What year was he knighted on the Golden Hind by Queen Elizabeth? 15?1 =E
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6. Son of Princess Ann and Captain Mark Phillips, he is the Queen's oldest grandson. His height and weight helped to make him into a world class rugby player, a game he developed while a student at St Luke's College, Exeter University on an education course.
QUESTION 6. When was he born 1?77 ? =F
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7. This well loved comedian was brought up in Exeter. The family moved away from the heavily polluted air of Caerphilly to Exeter, when he was three years old, where he then spent the rest of his childhood. He went to the Mount Radford School for boys at 56 St Leonards Road, under Theodore Ernest Vine MA, the headmaster. The school advertised that it was 'assisted by efficient staff and masters' - no room for joking, there then! His home was 3 Ford Road, off Willey's Avenue, at the back of Haven Banks.
QUESTION 7. Which year did he die? 198? =G
N50 GB (C-B)(A+B) (F-D)
W003 BF (G+B) (Bx3) (E-B)
Final sum of the numbers add up to 36
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Va n zhygv oenapurq gerr.