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YABA5 - clue 2 - solution
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# Teams
Who Solved
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% Teams
Who Solved
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Rank
(1=easiest)
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14
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67
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6
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| R |
15
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63
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10
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| M |
7
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78
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8
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| All |
36
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67
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7
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"…that's a spicy meatball!"
a quote from
an old Alka Seltser commercial
that goes "Mamma mia, that's a spicy meatball"
Beginner
It's the pair in the title of the second
book in the Tolkien trilogy. You're seeking another such
pair spanning a diagonal artery, and yet another pair
anchoring a span to the north, spun of wire cords, across
the generic body of water for which the adjacent street
is named.
Regular/Masters
It's the pair in the title of the second
book in the Tolkien trilogy. You'll find another such
pair spanning a diagonal artery, and yet another pair
anchoring a span to the north, across the generic body
of water for which the adjacent street is named.
All
Solve the following multiple choice quiz
and use the answers to guide you within the location to
which the first paragraph leads.
Explanation: The
second book in the Tolkien trilogy is The Two Towers.
There's a Tower Records and a Tower Records annex spanning
Columbus Avenue (a diagonal artery) at Bay Street (generic
body of water that the two towers of the Golden Gate Bridge
span).
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Beginner
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Regular
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Masters
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i. (B/R)What is the next number in this
sequence? 1 2 3 5 7
Prime numbers -
next prime is 11
i. (M) What is the next number in this
sequence, which you see daily? 6 7 9 8 6
8
The key word is
"daily" - these are the number of letters in
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Next is Sunday, with 6 letters
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11
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11
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6
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12
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12
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7
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13
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13
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8
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14
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14
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9
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ii. Which of these words is misspelled?
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fuchsia
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fuchsia
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temblor
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Febuary
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tremblor
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Febuary
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lavender
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lavender
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lavender
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guerrilla
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guerrilla
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guerrilla
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iii. Which mythological god is known by
another more elemental name? Hermes
is the winged god, or the messenger god, also known as Mercury
(see him on the FTD Florist logo)
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Pan
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Pan
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Pan
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Hermes
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Hermes
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Hermes
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Dionysus
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Dionysus
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Dionysus
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Jove
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Jove
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Jove
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iv. Which of these is not an Ivy League school?
The eight Ivies are Brown, Columbia,
Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale
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Amherst
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Amherst
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Amherst
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Brown
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Brown
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Brown
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Cornell
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Cornell
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Cornell
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Dartmouth
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Dartmouth
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Dartmouth
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Note: this is a clue leading to a commercial establishment
with a high probability of staff irritation which might cause
eviction of treasure hunters! Try to be very stealthy and self-reliant
(i.e. don't ask the staff questions). If the clue is compromised,
call 415.289.2284 and you'll be directed to an alternate location.
If there is no message on that machine about this clue, call 415.305.5030
to alert Game Control to the problem, and we will record a message
leading you to an alternate solution.
  
Yes, the B was backwards
for a reason. Go to the Abba section - or, think of the implied
title of the clue: Mamma Mia - this is a musical based on Abba's
music.
Any team that went to Abba,
or found Mamma Mia, would have found a note instructing them to
find VERUCA SALT. Yes, there's a band named after a character
in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory. Inserted behind Veruca
Salt's albums was a laminated sheet with this image on the front
(Radiohead's "Hail to the Thief" cover art):
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on the back, it said "go outside and find this album. What's
above delicious? The answer was blurred on the sheet, but outside
Tower Records on the wall, it reads "NOTHING" which
was the answer to the clue. Click on the image to see a larger
version.
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