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Okay, I thought I'd give this a try here due to the success elsewhere. :(

 

Welcome to the Geocaching Arms Pub Trivia Night! Order yourself a draft and make yourself comfortable in our non-smoking environment. :(

 

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Here's how it works. I'll ask a question and the person whom answers correctly will ask the next question and when that's answered correctly will in turn post another question etc. To keep it within topic I suggest the questions fall into one or more of these loose categories:

 

- Geocaching

- Navigation

- Geomatics/graphy/physics etc

- The Canadian hiking experience

- Cycling, Canoeing, Kayaking or any other means of arriving at a cache.

- Camping

 

No cheating now, that includes Googling for the answers!

 

Here's the first question:

 

Q: How many satellites does a GPS need to "hear" to establish Lat, Lon & Elevation?

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Okay, I thought I'd give this a try here due to the success elsewhere. :)

 

Welcome to the Geocaching Arms Pub Trivia Night! Order yourself a draft and make yourself comfortable in our non-smoking environment. :D

 

5d29c2e1-aa48-4a55-afa5-763d3e12414f.jpg

 

Here's how it works. I'll ask a question and the person whom answers correctly will ask the next question and when that's answered correctly will in turn post another question etc. To keep it within topic I suggest the questions fall into one or more of these loose categories:

 

- Geocaching

- Navigation

- Geomatics/graphy/physics etc

- The Canadian hiking experience

- Cycling, Canoeing, Kayaking or any other means of arriving at a cache.

- Camping

 

No cheating now, that includes Googling for the answers!

 

Here's the first question:

 

Q: How many satellites does a GPS need to "hear" to establish Lat, Lon & Elevation?

 

I'll say you need 3 to "tri" angulate your location on this planet.

 

And yes..the moon is made of cheese !

 

:(:(:(

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How is that a geocaching question? I'll bet C-A is plulling a fast one here.

 

Unless Keith's answer refers to what was consumed at Quark's.... or maybe that's "draught" :blink:

 

 

That was a bit of a guess on NAD27. :P

 

Here's the next question:

 

Q: What is the nautical term for how low a boat sits in the water?

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How is that a geocaching question? I'll bet C-A is plulling a fast one here.

Well, since C-A started this topic and outlined the rules in the first post:

 

To keep it within topic I suggest the questions fall into one or more of these loose categories:

 

- Geocaching

- Navigation

- Geomatics/graphy/physics etc

- The Canadian hiking experience

- Cycling, Canoeing, Kayaking or any other means of arriving at a cache.

- Camping

I think he's allowed to pull whatever he wants... Though we'll see how "fast" he really is on the bike Sunday!

 

TOMTEC

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To keep it within topic I suggest the questions fall into one or more of these loose categories:

 

- Geocaching

- Navigation

- Geomatics/graphy/physics etc

- The Canadian hiking experience

- Cycling, Canoeing, Kayaking or any other means of arriving at a cache.

- Camping

C-A is covering lots of his topics with the low boat question! I know here on the west coast we arrive at geocaches by sailboat, during which time we navigate, perform geography calculations, hike at our destination,

camp, etc.

Draft (Keith's answer) is the depth of the lowest part of the boat which is under the waterline. We talk in sailing circles about how much water we 'draw' and we include that protrusion from the bottom of the hull called the keel! Knowing how low you sit in the water sure helps when you're anchoring to get ashore to a cache! Our kayaks have very little draft.

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let's see, you are speeding along (probably all excited to try and get FTF and most probably off-road) and you let go of your steering wheel for fun....

 

I say the correct term for this behaviour is : Death Wish.

 

:laughing:

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I say the correct term for this behaviour is : Death Wish.

I'd say the Legal term for this behaviour is Reckless Driving and it carries a hefty fine. Though I do believe Keith was referring to the behaviour of the Wheels and not the Driver. :D In that case, Track would be a term that would describe this behaviour.

 

TOMTEC

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