Scouting History
The year the Boy Scouts of America was founded.
What is 1910?
This piece of vital personal equipment can be used for cutting food, whittling sticks, cutting rope, etc.
What is a pocket knife?
Washing with soap and water, treating with an antibiotic, and covering with a bandage are recommended for this type of injury.
What is a mild cut or scrape?
Be Prepared.
What is the Scout motto?
The number of ranks in Boy Scouting.
What is seven?
This rank used to be the final rank before Eagle
What is First Class?
This merit badge requires sleeping in an improvised shelter and cooking a meal without utensils.
What is Wilderness Survival?
When treating a serious injury, you should always treat for this condition
What is shock?
Do a good turn daily.
What is the Scout slogan?
This is the first rank that requires Merit Badges.
What is Star rank?
The original title of the Boy Scout Handbook was called this.
What is Scouting for Boys?
These characteristics are considered the most important of a knot.
Easy to tie, holds fast, and can be untied.
This condition can make the victim feel cold and numb, fall and lose consciousness, and/or shiver uncontrollably.
What is hypothermia?
An early morning dip in Wente's lake can be described this way
What is the Whooly Wash?
This is only Boy Scout rank that an adult may wear on their uniform.
What is Eagle?
This British colonel is known as the father of the Scouting movement.
Lord Baden-Powell
The name of the Scoutcraft skill required to be a good Patrol Leader, Senior Patrol Leader, or other Troop officer.
What is Leadership?
This technique can be used to assist with a choking victim.
What is the Heimlich Maneuver?
This three word phase sums up BSA's camping policy regarding the environment and our interaction with it.
What is "Leave No Trace"?
This merit badge has been earned by more Scouts than any other.
What is First Aid?
These two advanced ranks were originally not standalone ranks.
What is Star and Life?
The name of this important Scoutcraft skill that is also the subject of three Eagle-required merit badges. (It's in the title of these three merit badges.)
What is Citizenship?
This occurs when your flesh begins to lose blood circulation & freeze.
What is frost bite?
These are among the last things one should do before leaving a camp site at the end of a stay.
What is check for trash and ensure the fire is completely extinguished?
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What is the number of merit badges required for Eagle?
He brought Boy Scouts to the United States.
Who is William D. Boyce?
The first tree knots that a Boy Scout is required to know.
What are square, two half, and taut-line hitch?
This describes a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction.
What is anaphylactic shock?
This plant native to California can cause an itchy rash and more severe reactions to those allergic.
What is posion oak?
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What is the number of merit badges currently offered in the BSA?