date: 2014-04-26 18:05:01+00:00
slug: april-1st-2014-followup
title: April 1st 2014, Followup
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+It's been almost too long for this blog post to arrive here after the April Fools quiz this year. Thanks to everyone who participated!
"Dan Brown simply invented the 'Rose Line' linking Rosslyn and Glastonbury. The name 'Roslin' definitely does not derive from any 'hallowed Rose Line'. It has nothing to do with a 'Rose Bloodline' or a 'Rose Line meridian'. There are many medieval spellings of 'Rosslyn'. 'Roslin' is certainly not the 'original spelling': it is now the most common spelling for the village."[18]
-- [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Line#Dan_Brown.27s_The_Da_Vinci_Code)
* The "Jules Verne" clue is suppose to reaffirm to contestants that they were on the right track:
The competition between the Paris and Greenwich meridians is a plot element in Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", published just before the international decision in favor of the British one.
-- [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Meridian#Origin)
* The answer: **####roslin**
* The former transmitter[27] was located near Povarovo, Russia[28] at 56°5′0″N 37°6′37″E which is about halfway between Zelenograd and Solnechnogorsk and 40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of Moscow, near the village of Lozhki.
-- [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76#Location_and_function)
* The is.gd link points to a file that has the "No Q" image from a previous level hidden in it.
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