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HUJI Givat Ram - Safra Brain Science Center Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 10/7/2018
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

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The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates, see below 

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (abbreviated HUJI) is Israel's second oldest university, established in 1918, 30 years before the establishment of the State of Israel.

The Hebrew University has three campuses in Jerusalem (Edmond J. Safra - Giv'at Ram, Mt. Scopus - Har Hazofim and Ein Kerem), and another campus in Rehovot. 

The first Board of Governors included Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, and Chaim Weizmann. As of 2018, 15 Nobel Prize winners, 2 Fields Medalists, and 3 Turing Award winners have been affiliated with the University. 

 

This cache series is spread around the Edmond J. Safra campus in Giv'at Ram, home to the Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences.

To find the caches in campus, you will have to do some learning, each related to different field of science :)

All answers can be found in the English Wikipedia.

 1) How many flavors can a person taste? (also known as the "basic flavours")

A) three
B) four
C) five

2) What can a person experiencing Synesthesia do?

D) Remember every detail of their life 
E) "Taste" the number four
F) Not be able to feel pain

3) The brain acts on the rest of the body by driving the secretion of chemicals called ________ ?

G) Synapses
H) Cerebellum
I)  Hormones

4) The part of the brain called Broca's area is linked to which function?

J)  Sleep
K) Speech 
L)  Instincts

combine the four letters of the correct answers (for example: ADGL) and type them in >> here << to get the exact coordinates. 

Good luck and happy caching!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Pbirerq sebz nobir, ohg abg sebz orybj.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)