[Coin Contest] Triva Questions

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Three questions and three coins to give away.

 

Rules: Once you have won you are done, post as many posts as you like.

 

Question # 1

We were not always Team Jsam we had a different username when we first started but changed it just before the user name lock, what was our first geonick?

Prize: Geolicious - Mountain Cache Geocoin (Black Nickel LE)

Winner: Scoutbound

 

Question # 2

How many miles of wire can an ounce of gold can be stretched into?

Prize: Geolicious - Mountain Cache Geocoin (Gold RE)

Winner: PengoFamily

 

Question # 3

What is the name of the 40th geocache placed worldwide?

Prize: Geolicious - Mountain Cache Geocoin (Nickel RE)

Winner: Shilo

 

 

If you are a lucky winner I will email you the tracking number and the activation code of the coin and you can assign it a mission then the coin will be dropped off in a geocache, they will not be mailed.

 

I will post hints if any are necassary.

Edited March 25, 2007 by Team Jsam

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One ounce of gold can be drawn into 80 kilometers (50 miles) of thin gold wire

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Your name before the change was "jsamfam"?

 

And was the 40th geocache called "geocache"?

Edited March 25, 2007 by Scoutbound

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Your name before the change was "jsamfam"?

 

Correct!

 

And was the 40th geocache called "geocache"?

 

Incorrect!

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The 40th cache is Camels Prairie Stash (congrats to Shilo, who probably won =D)

Edited March 25, 2007 by Scoutbound

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40th cache: IL - Michael Moreth - Airport

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40th

 

Hunters Creek by Jay Chamberlain

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40th geocache = GC2A

 

??

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Camels Prairie Stash

 

40th geocache?

 

OH well I lose if this is it

Edited March 25, 2007 by Shilo

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Question # 3

What is the name of the 40th geocache placed worldwide?

Prize: Geolicious - Mountain Cache Geocoin (Nickel RE)

Winner:

 

 

GC28: Beverly

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The 40th Cache by Mngop, Diceroller

N 41° 50.168 W 089° 28.839

Difficulty: Terrain:

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My result was from this site:

http://members.cox.net/pkpublic/

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Camels Prairie Stash

 

40th geocache?

 

OH well I lose if this is it

 

Winner winner chicken dinner!

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40th:

5/13/2000 Illinois, Beverly by Robert Reindl

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The 40th cache is Camels Prairie Stash (congrats to Shilo, who probably won =D)

You already won...wooohooooooo

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Camels Prairie Stash

 

40th geocache?

 

OH well I lose if this is it

 

This was also the 1st geocache in Idaho

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Camels Prairie Stash

 

40th geocache?

 

OH well I lose if this is it

 

This was also the 1st geocache in Idaho

 

And its still active

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So now somebody had to explain me why GC25 was the 40th Geocache ...

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Question # 3

What is the name of the 40th geocache placed worldwide?

Prize: Geolicious - Mountain Cache Geocoin (Nickel RE)

Winner: Shilo

 

 

If you are a lucky winner I will email you the tracking number and the activation code of the coin and you can assign it a mission then the coin will be dropped off in a geocache,

 

So how far do you live from this cache? Would be awesome to start its travels in the 40th cache and Idaho's 1st

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Scoutbound, PengoFamily and Shilo you've got mail!

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So how far do you live from this cache? Would be awesome to start its travels in the 40th cache and Idaho's 1st

 

That would be cool but its 430.9mi from my home coords. We have plans to go this summer but not sure when.

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My result was from this site:

http://members.cox.net/pkpublic/

 

I went by the ID number

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=37

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=38

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=39

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=40

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Mission accomplished!!

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So now somebody had to explain me why GC25 was the 40th Geocache ...

 

From Moun10bike's profile:

 

There I placed my first cache on June 17, 2000. I named it the "Camels Prairie Stash" (GC25). It was the first cache in Idaho and the 40th cache placed worldwide.

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Scoutbound, PengoFamily and Shilo you've got mail!

And you have a geocoin page

Shilo's Mountain Cache Coin

 

Thank you for the contest Team Jsam.

My first contest win. I'm usually way to late and was almost this time too.

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So how far do you live from this cache? Would be awesome to start its travels in the 40th cache and Idaho's 1st

 

That would be cool but its 430.9mi from my home coords. We have plans to go this summer but not sure when.

 

Oh well, maybe it will get there eventually

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So now somebody had to explain me why GC25 was the 40th Geocache ...

 

From Moun10bike's profile:

 

There I placed my first cache on June 17, 2000. I named it the "Camels Prairie Stash" (GC25). It was the first cache in Idaho and the 40th cache placed worldwide.

 

Weird that it has ID 37, but I see now that some geocaches with a higher ID have a earlier hidden date

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an ounce of gold can be stretched into 50 miles....

 

http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_and...s/100_facts.htm

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...yeah.. ok, nevermind.

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late again but nice website team jsam