Scouts BSA Basic
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100

The year that girls were first accepted into the Scouts BSA Program.


What is 2019?

100

This word has its roots in Old French, where it was originally spelled ‘escoute,’ meaning “to listen, meaning to spy or watch. 

What is "scout"?


100

Fill in the missing word(s)

A week of camp life is worth ______ of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

What is "Six Months"?

100
This Eagle Scout was the first person to ever walk on the moon.

Who is Neil Armstrong?

100

This Merit Badge in it's first release is considered to be the hardest merit badge ever.  With only 10 scouts ever obtaining it in it's initial 3 year life span.  It took over 100 years later for it to return.


What is Inventing?

200

This knot has many uses from securing bandages and packages to joining two ropes together. It is the first knot you learn when joining into scouts. 

What is the square knot?

200

The number of original BSA Merit Badges in 1911.

What is 57?

200

This common activity in scouting contributes to good health, where campers develop self reliance and resourcefulness, enhances spiritual growth, contributes to social development, and helps develop experience in citizenship training.

What is camping?

200

This Eagle Scout was a civil rights icon with a BIG DREAM.

Who is Martin Luther King Jr.

200


This merit badge required you to "Obtain a sample of irradiated and non-irradiated foods. Prepare the two foods and compare their taste and texture. Store the leftovers in separate containers and under the same conditions. For a period of 14 days, observe their rate of decomposition or spoilage, and describe the differences you see on days 5, 10, and 14."

What is Nuclear Science? (formally Atomic Energy)

300

The number of merit badges required for Eagle?

What is 21?

300

This is the only documented one of it's kind, and it was uncovered at Philmont Scout Ranch.

What is a Tyrannosaurus Rex footprint?

300

This knot is commonly used in camping to secure guidelines on a tent.

What is a taut line?

300

This Eagle Scout is an Academy Award winning director of movies such as E.T., Schindler's List, and Jaws.

Who is Steven Spielberg?

300

This is the least earned merit badge, and it isn't going anywhere.

What is Bugling?

400

The 4 C's of the Outdoor Code.

What is Careful, Clean, Considerate, Conservation>
400

The highest BSA rank before Eagle Scout was introduced in 1916.

What is First Class?

400
This is the scouting motto for camping.

What is leave everything just as you found it? 

400

This Eagle Scout envisions colonizing Mars, creating self-driving cars, and developing neural ink technology to merge human brains with computers.  

Who is Elon Musk?

400

Most popular merit badge earned annually.

What is First Aid?

500

This piece of equipment is used in camping to make multiple items from cakes to delicious meal that can be cooked directly over the campfire.

What is a dutch oven?

500

This "Good Turn" program got it's start in Greater Saint Louis Area Council (GSLAC) in 1988 and is now a National Service project delivering millions of pounds of groceries.

What is Scouting For Food.

500

This is the largest scout camp in America which is home to the largest National High-Adventure Base. The camp was started in 1938 in the Sangre de Cristo range of the Rocky Mountains in northeastern New Mexico. 

What is Philmont Scout Ranch?

500

This Eagle Scout is a 6 time NBA champion with the Chicago Bulls, owns a famous shoe company, owns a NBA team, played a major role in a popular movie that was recently remade by another famous basketball player and one of thirteen players to play in both the NBA and the MBL professionally.

Who is Michael Jordan?

500

Discontinued in 1958, this merit badge had Scouts learning how to raise, butcher, and sell pigs. 

What is "Hog and Pork Production" merit badge?

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