The Big Enigma, for Quizz lover

[Cheezy the Wiz]

38 degrees 31 minutes 55.902 seconds longitude, -77 degrees 18 minutes 24.12 seconds latitude.

Or

38 degrees 31 minutes 55.902 seconds longitude, -77 degrees, 1 minute, 48.2412 seconds latitude.

That's the conversion.

EDIT: Blasted cross-post!!

 

[privatehudson]

Well I'm not suprised that answer never occurred to me given the bizarre way of reaching it

 

[Steph]

Ah, good point: converting from Sexagesimal gives the coordinated of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC so the answer is Abraham Lincoln!

We have a winner! 4 points!

Greeny : 14 points
PrivateHudson: 13 points
Dutchfire: 5 point
Cheezy: 2 points
Sydhe: 2 point
Oblivion: 1 point

Greeny takes the lead at the last second!!!

OK, now, can you give me your feedback about this type of quizz. Is mixing historical knowledge with riddle solving interesting?

Greeny, as the winner, if you want to create a new riddle?

 

[dutchfire]

It was fabulous!

 

[privatehudson]

I found it good apart from the overall clue, even had I known it was co-ordinates I would have had no idea how to work out where/what it was. That could cause a problem for me in future if you wanted to keep the same format and I won.

 

[Steph]

Never heard of Google Earth? It's free!
I just zoomed on the Lincoln Memorial there, and then noted the coordinates.
But the idea is not to keep the same format.
The idea is to make riddles, so part of the game is to decipher the format

 

[dutchfire]

This time it were numbers, next time it might be letters for example, or numbers that lead to a date (9-11-2001) where the clues lead to 9, 11, 200, 1.

 

[privatehudson]

I've heard of google earth, I just didn't know you could use it to do that, in fact I've never used it at all. Not that I would have wasted part of my christmas day on finding out, much more important things to do like eat, drink and be merry

 

[Steph]

I thought for you beating a French supporter of Napoleon to his own game would have been the paramout of merryness

 

[privatehudson]

The fact that we helped beat Napoleon on 18/06/1815 is enough for me

 

[Kyriakos]

I was dissapointed that hint #6 was not about a particular type of hat (eg that worn by Napoleon) which could be described as looking like 10% of a cylinder

 

[sydhe]

I found it good apart from the overall clue, even had I known it was co-ordinates I would have had no idea how to work out where/what it was. That could cause a problem for me in future if you wanted to keep the same format and I won.

I gave up after I found Thermopylae. It never occured to me Steph was using decimal coordinates.

 

[Steph]

I gave up after I found Thermopylae. It never occured to me Steph was using decimal coordinates.

Good for you because I wasn't. I was using sexagesimal

 

[sydhe]

Good for you because I wasn't. I was using sexagesimal

I meant the 21.95 and 0.67.