Geocaching- A Family Hobby Trivia Quiz

Answer: Geocaching.com

Geocaching.com is one of the premier sites to locate caches, not just for the US, but around the world. Both free and paid memberships are available depending on what kind of features you want. Google Imagery can be used to give satellite photographs of where the cache is located and are used on geocaching webpages, but caches are not shown Google Earth.

Answer: Beaver Creek, Oregon

The first geocache was hidden by Dave Ulmer on May 3rd 2000 in woods near Beaver Creek, Oregon. He shared the location of this container on the Internet and within three days, it had been found by Mike Teague. The rest is history!

Answer: Edible or scented items

Anything that is edible or scented can attract wildlife in the area and can result in your cache being damaged or destroyed. Other items that are considered illegal are drugs, alcohol, lighters and knives.

Answer: Geological Society of America (GSA)

An EarthCache requires a visit to a unique geological feature. EarthCaches do not have containers or logbooks. They are designed to be educational and give an earth science lesson as well as highlighting a geological feature.
Many countries have their own geological societies, which can serve as a good source of local earth science information and help with EarthCache placement rules.

Answer: For encoding and decoding

ROT-13 is a simple substitution of letters that can be used to encode and decode hints on a cache page. It can also be used effectively to help create Mystery/Puzzle caches. It replaces the actual letter with the 13th letter after it i.e. A=N, B=O, C= P etc. So the word QUIZ would be written as DHVM. ROT-13 is the most well known ROT cipher but other ROT's also can be used.

Answer: A non-geocacher

A Muggle is a non-geocacher and someone to beware of when searching for caches. Stealth is needed so as not to attract attention to what you are doing in the event that they may find the cache and discard it. The term is taken from the "Harry Potter" books by J.K Rowling.

Answer: Under a lamp post skirt

A Lamp Post Skirt(LPS) is a perfect hiding place and is very common in the geocaching world. The round or square objects at the base of a lamp post lift up
(who knew!!) and can easily fit a small cache container. This type of cache is also known as a Lamp Post Cache (LPC). There are rules that prevent caches being placed on school grounds, close to active railroad tracks and on private property (without the owners permission) for obvious reasons.

Answer: 528 ft/161 meters

The minimum distance required is 528ft.(or 0.1miles). EarthCaches, Virtuals, waypoints for parking or trailheads are excluded from the distances as they do not contain a physical cache. When hiding a cache, tools are available to check if the new cache obeys these rules.

Answer: It can travel all over the world

A Travel Bug(TB) is used to describe a type of dog tag that wanders from cache to cache. It may be attached to an object (known as a hitchhiker) which travels with the TB. Each TB has its own page which tracks its journey and calculates the number of miles travelled.

Although there are no official records for the most travelled bug, some have moved nearly one million miles and still wandering around the globe! One TB is even on the International Space Station, although for the average cacher, this may be impossible to retrieve!

Answer: Virtual

A virtual cache is a great cache to find. They are usually at a place of local or historical interest. The geocacher has to either upload a photo to the log page or message / email the Cache Owner (CO) a piece of information that can be found at the place of the virtual to prove that they were there.