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Not sure i understand how an attribute like this would be useful. I was thinking of "risk of falling into water". Mainly aimed at people caching with small children or dogs who would need keeping an eye on in case they fell in. Or those who might not be so steady on their feet.

"Near water" would be a useful to one to add to the other risk-based attributes.

Ding! Although 20-odd other cricketers have also surpassed Fred's total, including Ian Botham and Jimmy Anderson.

Nope. Time for a clue, perhaps. The record then was 300: it is now 800.

A very reasonable guess, but not him.

Thank you! Who, when asked whether a record they'd set would ever be broken, responded "Aye, but whoever does it will be bloody tired"?

Merchant Taylors', in Northwood.

There's 4300 in Cambridgeshire and 1226 in Peterborough, so even combined they don't quite make the top spot. However, the coverage is pretty uneven: most of the area west of the A1/A14/M11 line is full of caches, reflecting where the three major COs are based, but there's a lot of empty space in the eastern half of the county. A lot of this is sparsely populated fenland, so not particularly attractive caching territory, but the area S and E of Cambridge is surprisingly empty, with very few new caches in the last year or two.

I'm fairly sure I know one of the two (they founded a school that a friend went to) but no idea of the other. But let's see if anyone else knows both.

Two of the London livery companies - I think one of the two was the Mercers. They got to do something in order of precedence (date of foundation?) but two were equal sixth, so one year one was sixth and the other seventh, and the next they swapped over.

A bit confused, but I'll give you the requisite thirteen dings. Amongst Orwell's books were "Down and Out in Paris and London", "The Road to Wigan Pier", "Homage to Catalonia" and "Burmese Days".

What connects London, Wigan, Paris, Catalonia and Burma?

Both pirates, I think. (We used these as dorm names for a youth holiday a few years back.)

That's the one. Ding! (I thought adding in that Boston was in Suffolk might make it a bit too easy.)

Yes, but where specifically?

You can get the information from Project GC here: Caches by Area. (Fill in UK, then you can get stats region by region.) It's tight at the top with Hampshire 5693 followed closely by Essex 5624, Kent 5622 and Devon 5566, with West Yorkshire the only other one over 5000 (5284).

Thank you! If Essex is north of Suffolk, Suffolk is north of Norfolk, and Cambridge is in Middlesex, where are we? (Other than a bottom Geography set.)

George Harrison? (Before my time, but worth a guess.)

Not so dodgy! A quick DING to you. Tanzania was formed from Tanganyika and Zanzibar.

A country gained its current name 50 years ago today, combining parts of the names of its mainland section and an offshore island group. Which country?

I'd googled it too: I've heard some Tangerine Dream, but hadn't heard of Edgar Froese. Interestingly of our guesses, two met Dali: there's photos of Eno having a meal with him, and Wakeman notoriously threw him out of a gig for disrupting it! No connection with Jarre that I can find. The new one is much easier: Robin Wright was in both I believe.

Brian Eno? Sounds like the kind of thing he'd do.

The name I associate is Gordon Clough, but it's someone different now.

That would definitely take more commitment to cache for the full 24 hours and more willpower to limit yourself to 1 cache per hour! Would be impossible to verify too, wouldn't it? I've actually only done it once, with 43. I have two days of 23 apiece, and a few others in the high teens and low 20's. 2 points. 1) you could require a photo of the logbook with something that displays the time. Of course, you could spoof that, but only hardcore cheaters would do that. 2) I don't think you could get a challange published that required no more than one cache per hour. The general challange guidline that you can't have requirements to not find caches would likely apply. On 2, I didn't mean you couldn't find further caches beyond the 24 in that period. But you still might need to hold off looking at times until the hour is up. There's a lot of very easy caches near me (Cambridgeshire, UK) so getting vast numbers in a day is easy - 200 has been done recently. My problem is stamina: I've done 70 in about 5/6 hours, but was getting mentally tired and rather bored, particularly of having to unroll and reroll logs all the time...

A more interesting challenge would be to find 24 caches in 24 hours, but 1 cache in each of those hours.