History of World Jamborees
UK Trivia
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25th Dunbar Jamboree and Travel Stories
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The country that hosted the first World Jamboree

What is the United Kingdom?

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True or False.  Cheese rolling is a sport in the UK

What is true!

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True of false:  Switzerland is home to the highest mountains in Western Europe.

What is True?

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The capital of Poland

What is Warsaw?

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The article of clothing that most Scouts threw away after the Canadian Jamboree in 2017.

What are socks?  (Mud coloured socks to be specific!)

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The highest attendance at a Jamboree was 43,281 in this country:  US, South Korea, Sweden or the United Kingdom.

What is South Korea?

200

Stonehenge is found in the UK.  List these in order from oldest to newest:  Pyramids, Stonehenge, Great Wall of China.

What is Stonehenge, Pyramids, Great Wall of China

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The name of the currency in Switzerland

What is the Swiss franc?

200

The name of a famous Polish female physicist and chemist who pioneered the use of radioactivity in medicine.

Who is Marie Curie?

200

The country of the Jamboree that required our Scouts to be evacuated before a typhoon struck their campsite.

What is South Korea?

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The location of the World Jamboree in 2031:  Poland, USA, Denmark, Australia

What is Denmark?

300

The name of the Queen's residence.

What is Buckingham Palace?

300

Two products for which Switzerland is famous

What are chocolate, cheese, watches, cow bells and banks?

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It is false that the town of Gdańsk

A). Was the site of a massacre by the Teutonic Knights.

B). Was spared attack by Germany during WWII because of the areas ties to Germany.

C). Has had periods of Polish, German and self rule.

D).  Was the birthplace of the Solidarity movement that helped turn Poland into a democracy and influenced other countries in the Eastern Block.

What is B?  Gdansk was the site of the initial German attack of Poland in WWII because Germany felt that the city should be returned to them.

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Name two of the contests held by 25th Dunbar participants at PJ 2024.

What are banana eating and milk drinking?

400

The definition of Jamboree

What is a joyful noisy gathering?

400

The components of a cream tea

What are tea, scones, jam and clotted cream?

400

The country that invented cuckoo clocks

What is Germany?

400

The Castle of Teutonic Order in Malbork is listed as an UNESCO World Heritage Site and is famous for this reason.

What is being the largest castle in the world?

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At WJ2019 in West Virginia, participants could ask questions of folks in this out-of-this-world location.

What is the International Space Station?

500

The World Jamboree has been cancelled twice.  This is one of the reasons why

What is World War II or the political situation in the host country, Iran?

500

This is not true of the town of Lincoln in the UK:

A) The Magna Carta is on display in a subterranean vault in Lincoln.

B). The Lincoln Cathedral was the World's tallest building for over 500 years.

C).  Parts of the Harry Potter series were filmed in an alley off the Main Street in Lincoln.

D).  The first prototype tank, "Little Willie", was developed in Lincoln in 1915-16.

What is C?  Sadly, Harry Potter was not filmed here!

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The amount of chocolate consumed per person in Switzerland in 2022:  

A). just over 2kg

B)  almost 5kg

C)  just over 8kg

D)  almost 12kg

What is D - almost 12kg... per person!?

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Poland's forests are home to the largest population of this animal in all of Europe

A). Grey Wolves

B). European Bison

C). Black Bears

D). Hedgehogs

E).  A and B

F).  C and D

What are E). Gray Wolves and European Bison 

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At PJ2019, a 25th Dunbar Scout decided to add this to almost all the food he ate.

What is hot sauce?

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