September 2020 Digital Treasure Hunt Clue 5 Answers 5211
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Clue 4 Facts & Stories
(You can also find these at the end)
Why is Hollywood famous for films?
California became the film making capital of the country in the early 1900’s when actors and producers were trying to escape the boundaries of Thomas Edison’s Motion Picture Patents, founded in the 1890’s. Edison had a hold on what motion picture productions could and couldn’t do but his patent didn’t legally reach California. Hollywood was already a small settlement but when more and more people in the film industry flocked to California, most came to Hollywood. In 1919, the first motion picture studio was built in Edendale, just outside of Hollywood. This paved the star-studded way for film productions to develop in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and the entire state.
Universal Studios + the Theme Park
Universal Studios founder Carl Laemmle opened his 93-hectare (230-acre) Universal City ranch on March 15, 1915, offering visitors the chance to walk around his outdoor movie studio, and to watch the filming. Admission was just five cents, which also included a boxed lunch with chicken. There was also a chance to buy fresh produce, since then-rural Universal City was still in part a working farm.
It is one of the oldest theme parks in the world and has evolved considerably since it first opened its doors to the public. It was initially created to offer tours of the real Universal Studios sets and is the first of many full-fledged Universal Studios Theme Parks located across the world.
The practice of filming in front of an audience worked fine until the end of the silent film era when “quiet on the set” became necessary to filming with sound. The original tour was discontinued in around 1930.
Shortly after Music Corporation of America took over Universal Pictures in 1962, accountants suggested a new tour in the studio commissary would increase profits. On July 15, 1964, the modern tour was established to include a series of dressing room walk-through’s, peeks at actual production, and later, staged events. This grew over the years into a full-blown theme park.
Below - Universal Studios in the early days
Clue 5
Read the short notes below on the California Gold Rush this will lead you on to the location of your next clue...
California Gold Rush
California is famous for its gold rush of 1848 - 1855, which started when gold was found on a mill about 130 miles east of San Francisco. It was spotted glinting in a river but the initial discovery was meant to be kept quite so as not to ruin the landowner's agricultural ambitions.
However word got out when Samuel Brannan bought all the gold prospecting supplies in the area then walked down the streets in San Francisco holding aloft a vial of gold, shouting "Gold! Gold! Gold from the American River!" - he subsequently became very rich not from gold but from selling supplies.
San Francisco 49ers
This brought a wave of approximately 300,000 people to the area who became know as 49ers (referring to 1849, the peak year for Gold Rush immigration) this is also where the San Francisco 49ers American football team takes is name.
The Mother Lode
The area became known as Gold Country or Mother Lode (which is a principal vein or zone of gold or silver ore). This is also where the term 'mother lode' used to describe something valuable or in great abundance comes from. Although you may dig a load of ore out of a mother lode, the spelling “motherload” is a mistake which is probably influenced by people thinking it means something like “the mother of all loads.” A “lode” was originally a stream of water, but by analogy it became a vein of metal ore.
Death Valley National Park + Gold Mining
Death Valley, a barren national park north east of Los Angeles had a gold mining boom in the early 1900's this is the location for your next clue...
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Number the letters in the password used to access this page in order, starting from the beginning of the word and going to the end from 1 - 4.
Replace the numbers in the word below with the correct letter.
342n4 Wond4r Min4
Type the completed words in the Google Earth search bar and hit enter. You can check you have the correct answer below:
Did you know - how gold was discovered here?
The location was discovered by a miner named Jack Keane who was scouting the area. He noticed an outcrop of quartz, which can often be found near gold deposits. When Keane investigated further, he discovered gold. Keane named the find "Keane's Wonder"
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This will move you view into a position in the middle of Death Valley and set it spinning around it in 3D.
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Close the information box on this location by clicking on the X in the corner.
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Click into 2D mode by clicking once on 2D.
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Re-align your view to north by clicking once on the compass.
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Click into street view mode by clicking once on the human icon.
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This will bring up 2 blue circles in this area as shown below, click on the northern one and it will bring you to a picture inside a gold mine. If it doesn't then read the steps and try again until you are in the correct photo.
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The Google Earth photo shows the old mine with railway tracks used for the mining carts. Below 5 sections of this track are shown in a random order labelled 1 - 5.
Study the photo on Google Earth and put the sections below in the correct order as if you are coming out of the mine to give you a 5 number sequence.
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- Add the first 2 options together.
- Multiply this by the 3rd.
- Subtract the 4th from this total.
- Divide this by the 5th.
= X
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- Secondly exit the gold mine photo.
- Enter the location revealed in the previous step in the Google Search bar and hit enter.
- This will bring you to a location south of the mine.
- Close the information box on this location.
- Zoom into a height of approximately 7000m / 7km
- Click into street view mode.
- Look to the south east of this location and there will be a series of blue circles as shown below.
- Click into the photo indicated by number X.
This is a sunny photo of the salt flats with a single shadow of a human figure. If you can't see this then you are in the wrong photo and need to repeat the previous steps until you get in the correct photo.
Did you know - what causes salt flats?
Three basic things are needed for salt flats to form:
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Source of salts, usually from a large drainage system.
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Enclosed basin that doesn't drain to the sea and wash away the salts.
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Arid climate where evaporation exceeds precipitation, leaving behind just the salts and fine silt.
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Below a certain spot has been displayed in 2 options A and B.
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One is the correct arrangement and one is flipped so it is back to front.
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Study the photo on Google Earth find this spot and identify which picture below is correct.
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Then follow the instructions under the pictures.
A.
This one is correct.
B.
Below are 4 words as described in a dictionary, 2 for option A and 2 for option B. Work out which are the 2 words for the correct option.
A.
A commander of an army, or an army officer of very high rank.
A woody perennial plant, typically having a single stem or trunk growing to a considerable height and bearing lateral branches at some distance from the ground.
Tree
B.
Atmospheric water vapour frozen into ice crystals and falling as a light clear substance.
A large natural elevation of the earth's surface rising abruptly from the surrounding level.
n/a - this is a red herring.
Use these 2 words as the password to access the next page. Put a space in-between them.
General tree