Q 01/05

Which word from the Harry Potter books do geocachers use for a passer-by who does not play?

A) Squib

B) Muggle

C) Dementor

D) Horcrux

Answer · why

B) Muggle

Muggle is the word, and a cache that an unsuspecting non-player dismantles or carries off is said to have been muggled.

Q 02/05

Dave Ulmer hid the first geocache in May 2000 near Beavercreek, a community in which US state?

A) Idaho

B) Colorado

C) Vermont

D) Oregon

Answer · why

D) Oregon

Oregon it was: Ulmer left the container in woods near Portland a day after GPS signals were sharpened, then posted its coordinates online. Two people ...

Q 03/05

Which tinned item, the only thing salvaged from the very first geocache, later became a trackable?

A) A can of soup

B) A can of beans

C) A tin of sardines

D) A can of peaches

Answer · why

B) A can of beans

A can of beans was all that survived after a lawn mower wrecked the original cache. Renamed the Original Can of Beans, it was put on show at a 2012 ge...

Q 04/05

Aboard which spacecraft did video game designer Richard Garriott hide a geocache in 2008?

A) Salyut 7

B) Skylab

C) The ISS

D) Tiangong

Answer · why

C) The ISS

The ISS cache waited five years for its first finder: NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio logged it in November 2013. Garriott also left a Travel Bug that...

Q 05/05

Fourteen geocaching hides holding movie props were placed in 2001 to promote which film?

A) Ocean's Eleven

B) The Mummy Returns

C) Planet of the Apes

D) Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Answer · why

C) Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes got the series, placed with 20th Century Fox and known as Project A.P.E. Its backstory imagined scientists revealing an Alternative...