When Geocaching Quizzes Go Bad

[+Simply Paul]

A caching quiz I was looking at earlier seems to have some errors in it. How many can you spot?

[+T.D.M.22]

Lets see. Accuracy 6-20 feet? Normal is 10M-about 30 feet but it is possible for high end with good antennas to be within inches. My GPSr has been EXACT at times.

 

Waypoint-not the final location. While it could be the final location it could also be the start location or a 2nd or 3rd stage.

 

Never heard of a hitchhiker cache. Possibly refers to a hitchhiker as in the thing with the TB.

 

Calls any trackable a travel bug. What about coins?

 

Geomuggle? Never heard that before either-thought it was just muggle.

 

National Park Service banned geocaches. I'm Canadian so I mat be wrong but I thought it was the National Forest Service.

[+The Bongtwashes]

How about Question 21 of 20 ?

[+castagnari]

Never heard of a hitchhiker cache. Possibly refers to a hitchhiker as in the thing with the TB.

 

Probably not what the quiz setter was referring to - but there are a few "traveling caches left out there in the wild

 

http://coord.info/GC1A74

[+Us 4 and Jess]

Did Geocaching not come before Harry Potter?

 

If so how did Geocachers pinch the term from the books?

 

M

 

Ah Mr Google was my friend Geocaching started in 2000 the first Harry Potter was 1997 so maybe we did pinch it from JK Rowling ?

Edited December 12, 2012 by Us 4 and Jess

[+MartyBartfast]

Did Geocaching not come before Harry Potter?

 

If so how did Geocachers pinch the term from the books?

 

M

 

Ah Mr Google was my friend Geocaching started in 2000 the first Harry Potter was 1997 so maybe we did pinch it from JK Rowling ?

but the term muggle dates back to the 1920's anyway IIRC.

[+mellers]

Well it's pretty apparent that this wasn't proof-read

 

The guy's name is MATT Stum not Mike Stum

 

A way-point could potentially be described as all 3 of the options given, however, it is certainly not a STARING point, while it may be considered to be (among others) a starTing point

 

"Hitch-hiker cache" is just nonsense (are they confusing this with trackables or the now grandfathered locationless caches?)

 

Geomuggles is never used (AFAIK), it's "Muggles"

 

It's really Tutankhamun, not King Tut (although that might not be considered an error if the quiz was trying to use the so-called popularised name)

 

The exhibition wasn't in the Franklin Mint (purveyors of pseudo-antique investment tat) But the FRANKLIN INSTITUTE the science centre named after Benjamin Franklin.

Edited December 12, 2012 by mellers

[team tisri]

Lets see. Accuracy 6-20 feet? Normal is 10M-about 30 feet but it is possible for high end with good antennas to be within inches.

 

Mine frequently reports an accuracy of 9-10 feet.

[Deceangi]

Never heard of a hitchhiker cache. Possibly refers to a hitchhiker as in the thing with the TB.

 

Ok education time

 

Travel Bug, is in fact solely the Metal Tag, with the Trackable Number and TB icon on it.

 

Hitchhicker is actually the Item attached to the TB tag, with the aim of Travelling with it.

 

It helps that I became a cacher in 2002, and the Term Hitchhicker was in use back them

 

Deci

[+mellers]

Hitchhicker is actually the Item attached to the TB tag, with the aim of Travelling with it.

So, "hitch-hiker cache" is in fact quite possibly the nonsense we suggested it might be!

[+T.D.M.22]

Did Geocaching not come before Harry Potter?

 

If so how did Geocachers pinch the term from the books?

 

M

 

Ah Mr Google was my friend Geocaching started in 2000 the first Harry Potter was 1997 so maybe we did pinch it from JK Rowling ?

Geocaching in the early 2000's Harry Potter in the early to mid 1990's

[+GAZ]

Never heard of a hitchhiker cache. Possibly refers to a hitchhiker as in the thing with the TB.

 

It helps that I became a cacher in 2002, and the Term Hitchhicker was in use back then

 

Deci

 

As was the term "geomuggle"...when I started waaaaaay back in 2001!