Finally 42! Mindarie, Western Australia, Australia
By Outenabout on 04-Nov-13. Waypoint GA6474

The given co-ords are not for the cache location but for the best parking to access the cache.

 This cache is dedicated to a certain member of the Briggbottoms caching clan and in honour of him reaching a very important milestone!! Now that he has the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, I am sure that life should be much easier from here on in!

Here are 42 things to fuel the fascination of the number 42!!

     1. Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert died at the age of 42; they had 42 grandchildren and their great-grandson, Edward VIII, abdicated at the age of 42.

     Q: Who was Queen Victoria's predecessor? Answer is for (C)      

     2. The world's first book printed with movable type is the Gutenberg Bible which has 42 lines per page.

     Q: How many substantially complete copies according to Wiki are still in France? Answer is for (X)  

     3. On page 42 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry discovers he is a wizard.

     Q: Which of JK Rowling"s novels is the Philosopher's Stone? Answer is for (B)        

     4. The first time Douglas Adams essayed the number 42 was in a sketch called "The Hole in the Wall Club". In it, comedian Griff Rhys Jones mentions the 42nd meeting of the Crawley and District Paranoid Society.

     5. Lord Lucan's last known location was outside 42 Norman Rd, Newhaven, East Sussex.

     6. The Doctor Who episode entitled "42" lasts for 42 minutes.

     Q: In which month does David Tennant celebrate his birthday? Answer is for (V)

     7. Titanic was travelling at a speed equivalent to 42km/hour when it collided with an iceberg.

     8. The marine battalion 42 Commando insists that it be known as "Four two, Sir!"

     9. In East Asia, including parts of China, tall buildings often avoid having a 42nd floor because of Tetraphobia - the fear of the number four because the words "four" and "death" sound the same (si or sei). Likewise, four, 14, 24, etc.

     10. Elvis Presley died at the age of 42.

     Q: How many Grammy awards did Elvis win while he was alive? Answer is for (A)

     11. BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs was created in 1942. There are 42 guests per year.

     12. Toy Story character Buzz Lightyear's spaceship is named 42.

     13. Fox Mulder's apartment in the US TV series The X Files was number 42.

     Q: How many children does Fox Mulder have? Answer is for (G)

     14. The youngest President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, was 42 when he was elected.

     Q: How many wives did Roosevelt have? Answer is for (D)

     15. The office of Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt is called Building 42 of the firm's San Francisco complex.

     16. The Bell-X1 rocket plane Glamorous Glennis piloted by Chuck Yeager, first broke the sound barrier at 42,000 feet.

     17. The atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki, Japan, contained the destructive power of 42 million sticks of dynamite.

     Q: At how many minutes passed 11:00am on 09th August 1945 did this bomb explode? Answer is for (F)

     18. A single Big Mac contains 42% of the recommended daily intake of salt.

     19. Cricket has 42 laws.

     20. On page 42 of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Jonathan Harker discovers he is a prisoner of the vampire. And on the same page of Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein reveals he is able to create life.

     21. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence gives Juliet a potion that allows for her to be in a death-like coma for "two and forty hours".

     22. The three best-selling music albums - Michael Jackson's Thriller, AC/DC's Back in Black and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon - last for 42 minutes each.

     23. The result of the most famous game in English football - the world cup final of 1966 - was 4-2.

     24. The type 42 vacuum tube was one of the most popular audio output amplifiers of the 1930's.

     25. A marathon course is 42km and 195m.

     26. Samuel Johnson compiled the Dictionary of the English Language, regarded as one of the greatest works of scholarship. In a nine-year period he difined a total of 42,777 words.

     27. The Binary for the number 42 is 1010?? Answer of first number is for (T) and second is for (Z)

     28. The wonder horse Nijinsky was 42 months old in 1970 when he became the last horse to win the English Triple Crown: the Derby; the 2000 Guineas and the St Leger.

     29. The element Molybdenum has the atomic number 42 and is also the 42nd most common element in the universe.

     30. Dodi Fayed was 42 when he was killed alongside Princess Diana.

     31. Cell 42 on Alcatraz Island was once home to Robert Stroud (the Birdman) who was transferred to The Rock in 1942. After murdering a guard, he spent 42 years in solitary confinement in different prisons.

     Q: Stroud's inmate number on Alcatraz was #59? Answer is for (E)

     32. In the Book of Revelation, it is prophesised that the beast will hold dominion over the Earth for 42 months.

     33. The Moorgate Tube disaster of 1975 killed 42 passengers.

     34. When the growing numbers of Large Hadron Collider scientists acquired more office space recently, they named their new complex Building 42.

     35. Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has 42 illustrations.

     Q: How many parts are there in Carroll's works "Curiosa Mathmatica"? Answer is for (W)

     36. 42 is the favourite number of Dr House, the American television doctor played by Hugh Laurie.

     Q: How many daughters does Hugh Laurie have? Answer is for (S)

     37.  There are 42 US gallons in a barrel of oil.

     Q: How many litres are there in an Auatralian Gallon rounded to two decimal places 4.5? Answer is for (U)

     38. In an episode of The Simpsons, police chief Wiggum wakes up to a question aimed at him and replies with "42". 

     39. Being friends with Pink Floyd's guitarist David Gilmour, Douglas Adams was invited on stage for his 42nd birthday to play his left-handed guitar on the songs "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse". Shortly after Adam's 42nd birthday, his one and only daughter was born.

     Q: Polly Jane Rocket Adams was born on the 2? June 1994? Answer is for (Y)

     40. There are 42 principles of Ma'at, the ancient Egyptian goddess - and concept - of physical and moral law, order and truth.

     41. Mungo Jerry's 1970 hit "In the Summertime", written by Ray Dorset, has a tempo of 42 beats per minute.

     42. The band Level 42 chose their name in recognition of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and not - as is often repeated - after the worlds tallest car park.

Substituting the answers from the questions into the following co-ords will give you the cache location.

S AB° CD.EFG'

E STU° VW.XYZ'

Allow approx. 1.5hrs for the round trip from the carpark if you are walking. Most of the walking is on the beach but the last bit to the cache is a quite prickly so footwear is recommended.

The cache is a 7ltr camouflaged sistema container with a log book, pencil, finders cards and a FTF, 2ndTF & 3rdTF certificate as well as prizes for the first 3 finders. There is also heaps of cool swaps.

Take your time to enjoy this beautiful beach and the awesome views from the cache as you can see from the gallery.

Enjoy!!

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