Winchester Treasure Hunt

This is the treasure hunt which we organised for the Winchester's Cachers' Meet. Several people have asked for it to be posted as a virtual cache, so here it is. It'll take you about three hours to get round.

Each waypoint has one or more questions that relates to it. Some of the questions contribute clues to the location of the finishing post cache (but please note that digit "E" is missing, you'll have to guess it).

Bonus points are available for the photo quiz.

You can log the cache as found if you get to the final waypoint. Send your answers to me (jeremyp@easynet.co.uk) by e-mail and I'll publish your score. The highest on the day was 40 points which was extremely good considering the conditions.

Some waypoints are not very accurate partly because I didn’t want to spend an hour at each one getting a perfect fix and partly to make some of the questions a bit harder :-)

The questions in Word and PDF format.

The photos in Word and PDF format.

No	Waypoint	Question	Answer	Pts
1	N 51 03.685 W 01 18.602	How far is it to London? Add the Southampton digits together to get B Subtract Salisbury from Portsmouth to get H		1
2	N 51 03.841 W 01 19.185	What was the 90^th feast celebrated with?		1
3	N 51 03.591 W 01 18.968	There is a Scilly island next to a holy weather forecaster here. Give me the name of both. The second digit of the forecaster's house number is F		2
4	N 51 03.482 W 01 18.507	Add the number of black bosses and the number of windows (on the same wall). This is the closest to the finishing post, probably best to do it last.		2
5	N 51 03.822 W 01 18.830	Presumably he left this civic position to become a detective in Oxford (what was his civic position).		1
6	N 51 03.690 W 01 18.632	My GPS was giving trouble here. Fortunately the position is written down. What is it? To prove you didn't guess, I'll need the first three digits of height too, the second of which is D.		1
7	N 51 03.417 W 01 18.667	There are two walking trails sign posted around here, what are they?		2
8	N 51 03.664 W 01 18.475	What happened to this Mill in 1744?		1
9	N 51 03.656 W 01 18.894	Who is WW that planned the building? Who is the WW that saved it?		2
10	N 51 03.684 W 01 18.768	The waypoint is actually outside the building from question 9 but the answer is inside. In fact if you go in (donating £3.50) and get as close as possible to the waypoint, you won't be far away. Fred Nott died in 1841, but why did I chose his memorial stone?		3
11	N 51 03.857 W 01 18.880	When was the first Peterhouse built? The second digit is C		1
12	N 51 03.420 W 01 19.008	Who's arms on the side of the building?		2
13	N 51 03.770 W 01 19.086	A Boeing?		1
14	N 51 03.625 W 01 19.032	What is No. 4 for? The second number in the series shown is I		1
15	N 51 03.776 W 01 19.183	Add the number of 1894s, 1910s and 1932s		2
16	N 51 03.494 W 01 18.895	I came here for some hymns once, between which two years?		1
17	N 51 03.587 W 01 18.453	In loving memory of Ron who? Sit just North of the waypoint and contemplate the river which first flowed past here when? The second digit is A		2
18	N 51 03.726 W 01 18.886	What happened to Lady Lisle in the street here?		1
19	N 51 03.738 W 01 18.954	Give me the address of the Burial Ground		1
20	N 51 03.464 W 01 18.991	What is the apparent obvious historical error?		1
21	?	This is so flippin' obvious, you tell me the OS grid reference of Alfred the Great - within 50 metres of the reading I got is OK. While you're at it, there are two conflicting dates for his death. What are they? The century digit of the earlier one is G		3
22	N 51 03.546 W 01 18.939	It's all Greek to me. What are the letters?		1
23	N 51 03.499 W 01 18.716	What is a Simplex? As a clue, there are five Roman numbers on it. The top left one is J		1
24	N 51 AB.CDE W 01 FG.HIJ	This is the finishing location. Tell me what they used to do here.		5

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Winchester Treasure Hunt

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