A Scout is...
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Scout Skills
100
“On my honor” this oath says to “help other people at all times.”
The Scout Oath
100
Kangaroos & gorillas gather in these groups (as do Boy Scouts)
Troops
100
This Eagle Scout film director depicted Indiana Jones as a Boy Scout in “The Last Crusade.”
Steven Spielberg
100
That’s a GPS unit on the badge for this new 10-letter orienteering hobby.
Geocaching MB
100
The Boy Scouts logo features an eagle on this French-named item, a stylized lily.
A fleur-de-lis
100
The Robotics merit badge depicts this planet, but you can earn it on Earth.
Mars
100
The Guinness record for knot-tying measures the fastest time for tying the six knots listed in this handbook.
The Boy Scout Handbook
200
Immaculate is a synonym for this word that can precede “getaway” or a “sweep.”
Clean
200
A 10-letter word for a newbie as well as the second rank in Boy Scouts
Tenderfoot
200
The first Scout to go on to be a U.S. President was this man who, in a youthful letter to his father Joe, asked for a bigger allowance to buy canteens and other Scout supplies.
John F. Kennedy
200
To qualify for a Bugling merit badge, a Scout must know 15 calls, including this one sounded at the end of the day.
Taps
200
Arthur C. Clarke, Alex Haley & John Knowles have written for this 107-year-old Scouting publication.
Boys' Life
200
The Boy Scouts of America headquarters is in this state where all of George Strait’s exes live
Texas
200
For a Boy Scout, it’s the tie that binds
A Square Knot
300
An adjective in the Boy Scout Law, it means not wasteful with money
Thrifty
300
A large, festive gathering, often of Boy Scouts nationwide
Jamboree
300
For an incredible 50 years, 1926-76, he illustrated the official Boy Scout calendar.
Norman Rockwell
300
To receive the badge for this activity, you join two metal plates and inscribe your initials.
Welding Merit Badge
300
The Bulls, Wolves, Curlews, & Ravens were the original first four of these in BP's Boy Scouts (1907)
Patrols
300
Since 1974, mulch from this holiday Rockefeller Center sight has gone to Boy Scouts to use as ground cover in camps.
The Christmas tree
300
A clove hitch is useful in camping; tie a rope to your sack of food, which you’ll hang high to make this alliterative “bag.”
A Bear Bag
400
This synonym for “amiable” linked with a comic book ghost.
Friendly
400
When Scouts swim safely, they use this system in which one Scout looks out for the other & vice versa.
The buddy system
400
In 1928, Boy Scout Paul Siple was chosen to go along on this admiral’s Antarctic expedition.
Richard Byrd
400
The “S-A-R” on the badge created in 2012 stands for this lifesaving process.
Search And Rescue
400
The Boy Scouts of America’s highest award for service is “The Silver” one of these Plains animals.
Buffalo
400
California’s Boy Scout Camp Winton is near a gold-bearing area called “the Mother Lode” in the foothills of this mountain range.
The Sierra Nevada
400
This practice, also done by film editors, joins two ropes & makes them almost as strong as the original ones.
Splicing
500
When asked “For what?” with regard to this motto of the Boy Scouts, Robert Baden-Powell said, “Why, for any old thing.”
Be Prepared
500
A goal of the Boy Scouts is to foster this 15-letter word through activities like fishing, hiking & canoeing.
Outdoorsmanship
500
Later vice president, he first visited the US capital while leading Boy Scouts from Minnesota
Hubert Humphrey
500
Making a plankton net and drawing a trench and seamount are two steps to your Boy Scout merit badge in this.
Oceanography MB
500
Irving Berlin’s royalties from this song popularized by Kate Smith were donated to the Boy & Girl Scouts.
“God Bless America”
500
Ape Cave in this state is named for the St. Helen’s Apes, the local Boy Scout troop who first explored it.
Washington
500
From the French for summoning, it’s the practice of a Scout safely lowering himself down a mountainside.
Rappelling
600
"As an American, I will do my best to be clean in my outdoor manners, be careful with fire, be considerate in the outdoors, and be conservation-minded"
What is The Outdoor Code?
600
This was once a braided cord worn by Boy Scouts; it’s now a wasteful project that often involves graft.
A boondoggle
600
In the early 1920s, this American novelist briefly served as a scoutmaster for an Oxford, Mississippi, Boy Scout troop.
William Faulkner
600
If you can describe a float, trap and drainpipe, you’re on your way to a badge in this field.
Plumbing MB
600
What are three of the five organizations in B.S.A.?
Cub Scouts, Scouts B.S.A, Sea Scouts, Explorer Scouts, Venture Scouts
600
In 1995, some Boy Scouts in Wisconsin produced a Guinness-record 2,377-pound one of these.
A popcorn ball
600
This Award was created to recognize advanced woodsman skills, especially with an ax
The Paul Bunyan Award