The Geekometer Mystery Cache
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Are you a geek? A Star Trek Geek? Really? Ready to admit it to the world? This cache is a small ammo-container that includes log-book, pen, trade items, and the FTF prize, a Galaxy Quest DVD. If you have to ask why a Galaxy Quest DVD, your geekness may not register on the Geekometer.
Begin with the 16th century Middle Low German word "geck", a word meaning "fool" or “dupe." Mix with G.E.E.K., a United States Military acronym standing for General Electrical Engineering Knowledge. Allow these concepts to evolve throughout the information age, and you end up with geeks, or “fools who can make technology work.”
There are many types of geeks. Techno geeks, sci-fi geeks, Warcraft geeks, geeks who can program in C++ in their head, geeks who can quote Monty Python’s Holy Grail even though they haven’t seen the movie in 10 years, etc.
This Geekometer measures a particular subset of geek; the Original Star Trek Geek. Geeks watching this show basically created the Trekkie movement, and re-energized the entire genre. Eight movies, four additional series spanning a cumulative 30 years of episodes, all because of geeks. If you GOOGLE Star Trek, you get 30,800,000 hits. Daunting.
The coordinates for this cache are not the real coordinates. They are, instead, the parking location for your adventure. If you wish, skip the questions, and read the clue for the exact coordinates of the cache. Otherwise, answer the following questions using your inner geekness, the Internets, or geeks you know. The more answers you know without research, the greater the geek you are. Plug the answers to the questions into the following matrix. Good luck.
N 61 (a)(b).(c)(d)(e) W 148 (f)(g).(h)(i)(j)
(a) In the episode "Mudd's Women" how many beautiful women accompanied Harry Mudd to the mining colony on Rigel XII?
(b) In the episode "The Tholian Web" how many ships did it take to create a Tholian Web?
(c) In the episode "Amok Time" we discover that Vulcans enter the Pon Farr every how many years?
(d) In the episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" what is the number identifier of the Deep Space Station where the Enterprise encounters both tribbles and Klingons?
(e) In the episode "The Devil in the Dark" how many adult Horta inhabit Janus VI?
(f) In the episode "By Any Other Name," how many Kelvans took over the Enterprise for a return trip to the Andromeda Galaxy?
(g) In the episode "Requiem for Methuselah" what is the first number of the planet designation where Kirk meets a man named Flint.
(h) In the episode "Assignment: Earth" what is the designation of the special agent sent to rescue Earth in 1968?
(i) In the episode "Wink of an Eye" what is the level of the civilization on Scalos?
(j) In the episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" how many aliens survived of the civil war on the planet Cheron?
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