Knots
Geography
First Aid
Campcraft
Potpourri
100
This knot is often used when staking down a tent.
What is the taut-line hitch?
100
Jacksonville, Miami, and Fort Lauderdale are all located in this U.S. state.
What is Florida?
100
This type of burn can be identified by the presence of red skin and blisters.
What is a second degree burn?
100
This drug cartel was based in Medellin, Colombia, and at its height had revenues of over 400 million USD per week from cocaine sales.
What is the Medellin Cartel?
100
This organization was founded on February 8th, 1910, by William D. Boyce, has 2.4 million registered youth members, and is headquartered in Irving, Texas.
What is the Boy Scouts of America?
200
This knot is often used to start a lashing.
What is the clove hitch?
200
This is the only country in Central America that has English as its official language.
What is Belize?
200
This intergovernmental organisation was founded in 1960, has been headquartered in Vienna, Austria since 1965, and has 13 current members. Its purpose is to control the global price of crude oil by regulating supply to the benefit of its member countries.
What is the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)?
200
These two methods are ways to repair frayed rope.
What are whipping and fusing?
200
This stock market index contains the 500 largest U.S. Companies by market capitalization and was founded in 1923.
What is the S&P 500?
300
This company was established in 1870 in Cleveland, Ohio, and by 1901, controlled 90% of petroleum refineries and pipelines in the United States. Although it was broken up in 1911, many of its subsidiaries such as ExxonMobil, Chevron, and BP are still in existence today.
What is the Standard Oil Company?
300
This country is the only landlocked nation in Southeast Asia.
What is Laos?
300
This disease infects warm blooded animals and is transmitted through their saliva.
What is rabies?
300
A group of items including, a pocketknife, first aid kit, extra clothing, rain gear, water, flashlight/headlamp, trail food, fire starting equipment, sun protection, and map and compass, are often referred to as this term.
What are the ten essentials?
300
This BSA adventure base is located in Cimarron, New Mexico, and is situated on land that was donated by oil magnate Waite Phillips.
What is Philmont Scout Ranch?
400
This knot is ideal for use in rescue situations because it will not loosen or tighten.
What is the Bowline?
400
This country is bordered by India and Myanmar, and used to be called East Pakistan until 1971.
What is Bangladesh?
400
This country is the world's largest exporter of coffee, sugarcane, and citrus fruits.
What is Brazil?
400
This term is defined as the difference in degrees between true north and magnetic north.
What is declination?
400
This island nation in the Western Caribbean is comprised of three islands, is one of the few Caribbean countries with a stock exchange, and has become a global offshore financial center because it does not levy income, capital gains or corporate taxes.
What are the Cayman Islands?
500
This multinational corporation was formed in 1899 and operated large tropical fruit plantations in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.
What is the United Fruit Company?
500
The four bodies of water that border this African country are Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Malawi, and the Indian Ocean.
What is Tanzania?
500
The symptoms of this injury often include confusion, unwillingness to cooperate with treatment, rapid pulse, quick and noisy breathing, reddened skin, and unconsciousness.
What is heatstroke?
500
This company, founded in 1892, has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since 1907, longer than any other company in the history of the index.
What is General Electric?
500
This U.S. coin was minted out of steel with a thin zinc coating because of copper shortages during World War II.
What is the 1943 Lincoln Penny?
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