LOCATION: Rhode Island
CHALLENGE: 
DATE/NUMBER: 17-May-2003/83
MAP:
Sitting on a park bench
Eyeing little girls with bad intent -- Jethro Tull
This box is located at coordinates N 41 ab.cd, W 71 ef.gh under
a rock next to a large, very distinct pointy rock, a bit off-trail.
(coordinates specified in degrees and minutes, WGS 84). (a) thru (h) are
each single digits, which are figured from the answers of a brief
geography quiz.
A table with 8 colums, one column for each of (a) thru (h) as
above, follows the quiz. The first row represents a question number
in the quiz, the second row represents the letter number in the
answer to that question (i.e., 5 means fifth letter of the
answer (ignoring spaces)). Thus you will have a string of 8 letters
mapping to (a) thru (h).
Following that table is another table. That simply maps the letter
you just got from the previous table to a digit you can substitute into
the coordinates. (e.g., if a's letter is Z, and Z maps to 9,
substitute 9 for (a) in the coordinates (this example obviously being
impossible, of course)).
- (1) The Garden State?
- (2) The Sunshine State?
- (3) The state colonized by humans via a land bridge at least 20,000 years ago?
- (4) The First State?
- (5) The borderless state?
- (6) The state containing the first European's landing point?
- (7) The state with the longest non-Pacific coastline?
- (8) The state with five borders that borders exactly four states?
| a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h |
| 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 |
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P |
Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
| 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
1 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
6 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
