One Last Riddle: Solve this and win a pass to MIX09

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So, if you haven’t gotten into MIX already, or if your employer is pulling back on budgets because of the economy, here’s a chance to score a free pass (just a pass mind you, and not airfare, hotel etc.).

[Note if you’ve won already, please don’t enter, and MS folks, you’re welcome to see if you can solve the riddle, but email it to me instead of posting it :) ]

Follow the steps below using Live Search, and first person to answer correctly wins a MIX pass…

Step 1:

What is the name of this place?

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Step 2:

There’s a town nearby. The ‘unofficial’ website of this town (and of the location in Step 1) is sponsored by a Coffee Shop.

Step 3:

The website for this coffee shop has a page of pictures, with 2 pictures being very similar in their subject matter, and involving younger girls. What is the subject matter?

Step 4:

Search for a book on this subject matter. There’s one written by someone called ‘Monty’. What is the name of the girl in the book that he wrote?

Step 5:

Her surname is the name of a home construction company in a US city. What’s the name of their baseball team?

Step 6:

One of the catchers on this team was born exactly 5 years after a TV actor. Who is the actor?

Step 7:

He played an alien in a Sci-Fi TV show. What was the Alien’s name?

Step 8:

There’s a famous pop star that shares this name. What’s his surname?

Step 9:

Search for a town with that name on Live Maps. Just south of the Live Maps pin is a street with a name that is familiar with another major historic event.

Step 10:

This historic event is associated with a ship whose name is associated with a location. What’s the location?

Step 11:

Search for this location on live maps, and the pin will be placed about 20miles east of an interstate. Follow the interstate north.

Step 12:

This interstate will end at another which runs east-west. Follow this one west. After a while it turns sharply south. At the same place, another long straight road (not an Interstate) runs NorthWest. Follow it until you reach a very famous landmark.

Step 13:

This landmark is very famous for 2 of its feats, but they were surpassed only 10 years later. By what?

Step 14:

The ‘what’ is beside a lake. What’s the connection between its name and the name of the landmark in 12?

Step 15:

These names form a sequence. What name would be next in the sequence?

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2009
    PingBack from http://www.clickandsolve.com/?p=11490

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2009
    Dang.. some really obscure bits in here.  Almost got it, though...

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2009
    I can say the ultimate answer is Truman. kfarmer, thuban.org

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2009
    Okay, I don't know what level of "exact" is meant by "exactly five years before", but I have one within a month: 1 - spider rock 2 - changing woman cafe 3 - kinaalda 4 - celinda mckelvey 5 - barons 6 - brendan fehr, born within a month of one of the baron's catchers 7 - michael guerin 8 - michael jackson 9 - jackson, mississippi 10 - arizona 11 - eventually to kingman, north of lake havasu 12 - nw of there is hoover dam 13 - grand coulee 14 - franklin delano roosevelt lake 15 - harry s truman

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2009
    the 9->10 step is pearl st -> pearl city, hi -> pearl harbor -> uss arizona

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2009

  1. Spider Rock
  2. Changing Woman Cafe
  3. Kinaalda
  4. Celinda McKelvey
  5. St. Louis Cardinals
  6. Connor Trinneer
  7. Michael (Michael Kenmore)
  8. Michael Jackson
  9. Jackson, Mississippi
  10. Arizona
  11. going I-17 North
  12. going 93 to Hoover Dam
  13. Grand Coulee Dam
  14. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Lake (Hoover and FDR both US presidents)
  15. Harry S. Truman
  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2009
  1. Spider Rock
  2. Changing Woman Cafe
  3. Kinaalda
  4. Celinda McKelvey
  5. St. Louis Cardinals
  6. Connor Trinneer
  7. Michael (Michael Kenmore)
  8. Michael Jackson
  9. Jackson, Mississippi
  10. Arizona
  11. going I-17 North
  12. going 93 to Hoover Dam
  13. Grand Coulee Dam
  14. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Lake (Hoover and FDR both US presidents)
  15. Harry S. Truman
  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2009
    (sorry if this is a duplicate submit... not sure if it went through)
  1. Spider Rock
  2. Changing Woman Cafe
  3. Kinaalda
  4. Celinda McKelvey
  5. St. Louis Cardinals
  6. Connor Trinneer
  7. Michael (Michael Kenmore)
  8. Michael Jackson
  9. Jackson, Mississippi
  10. Arizona
  11. going I-17 North
  12. going 93 to Hoover Dam
  13. Grand Coulee Dam
  14. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Lake (Hoover and FDR both US presidents)
  15. Harry S. Truman
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    February 19, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 20, 2009
    The comments moderation engine here is a bit odd, so sometimes comments don't show up, but when they do, they are in order. So I have scored an extra pass and can give 2 out. Keith Farmer was the first to get the right answer -- so he gets the first. Hardy Leung was the next to get the right answer, and the first to get all the steps right, so Hardy - a pass to MIX is yours. Please email me!