History
Whats in the Name
Caches and Sizes
Achronyms and Names
Geocaching World Wide
100
Who was the father of Geocaching?
Dave Ulmer.
100
What does “geo” mean?
Earth.
100
What are the five sizes?
Micro, small, medium, large, unknown.
100
UTM
Universal Transverse Mercator
100
How many continents have geocaches in them?
All 7.
200
What day did Dave place the first cache/stash?
May 3, 2000.
200
What is one definition of “cache”?
A place for temporary item storage.
200
One example of a micro.
A match box, film canister, ect.
200
ROT13
Series of 13 number letter rotations.
200
Geocaching is most popular in which two continents?
North America and Europe
300
Who was the first person to find Dave’s cache/stash?
Mike Teague
300
What is the other definition of “cache”?
A memory storage unit system.
300
This can be found in a geocache container (also known as game piece to geocaching).
Travel bug.
300
TOTT
Tools of the Trade
300
True or False: There are geocaches in the ocean?
True
400
What was the name of the game before it was called Geocaching?
The Great American GPS Stash Hunt.
400
Who presented the name Geocaching?
Matt Stum.
400
When a geocache goes missing, who do you contact?
The owner, reviewer, or geocaching organization.
400
Ground zero.
Where your receiver says 0 feet (0 meters) away.
400
There are about how many geocaches are there worldwide?
1,500,000-2,000,000
500
What was the coordinate of the first Geocache or Stash?
N 40 17.460 W 122 24.800.
500
On what day did Stum present this?
May 30, 2000
500
Is it all right to move the geocache container once you found it?
Only if you let the owner know.
500
WAAS
Wide Area Augmentation System
500
There are about how many geocachers worldwide?
5 million
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