Scout History
Troop History and Advancement
First Aid
Winter Camping
Random Facts
100
The founder of Boy Scouts
What is Lord Robert Baden-Powell?
100
What are two advancement requirements for Second Class. (NOT BOR OR SC)
1a. Demonstrate how a compass works and how to orient a map. Explain what map symbols mean. 1b. Using a compass and a map together, take a five-mile hike (or 10 miles by bike) approved by your adult leader and your parent or guardian.** 2. Discuss the principles of Leave No Trace. 3a. Since joining, have participated in five separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), two of which included camping overnight. 3b. On one of these campouts, select your patrol site and sleep in a tent that you pitched. Explain what factors you should consider when choosing a patrol site and where to pitch a tent. 3c. Demonstrate proper care, sharpening, and use of the knife, saw, and ax, and describe when they should be used. 3d. Use the tools listed in requirement 3c to prepare tinder, kindling,and fuel for a cooking fire. 3e. Explain when it is appropriate to use a cooking fire. At an approved outdoor location and at an approved time, and using the tinder, kindling, and fuel wood from requirement 3d, demonstrate how to build a fire; light the fire, unless prohibited by local fire restrictions. After allowing the flames to burn safely for at least two minutes, safely extinguish the flames with minimal impact to the fire site. 3f. Explain when it is appropriate to use a lightweight stove or propane stove. Set up a lightweight stove or propane stove; light the stove, unless prohibited by local fire restrictions. Describe the safety procedures for using these types of stoves. 3g. On one campout, plan and cook one hot breakfast or lunch, selecting foods from the MyPlate food guide or the current USDA nutrition model. Explain the importance of good nutrition. Tell how to transport, store, and prepare the foods you selected. 4. Participate in a flag ceremony for your school, religious institution, chartered organization, community, or troop activity. Explain to your leader what respect is due the flag of the United States. 5. Participate in an approved (minimum of one hour) service project. 6. Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of wild animals (birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, mollusks) found in your community. 7a. Show what to do for "hurry" cases of stopped breathing, serious bleeding, and ingested poisoning. 7b. Prepare a personal first-aid kit to take with you on a hike. 7c. Demonstrate first aid for the following: Object in the eye Bite of a suspected rabid animal Puncture wounds from a splinter, nail, and fishhook Serious burns (partial thickness, or second-degree) Heat exhaustion Shock Heatstroke, dehydration, hypothermia, and hyperventilation 8a. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe swim. 8b. Demonstrate your ability to jump feetfirst into water over your head in depth, level off and swim 25 feet on the surface, stop, turn sharply, resume swimming, then return to your starting place. 8c. Demonstrate water rescue methods by reaching with your arm or leg, by reaching with a suitable object, and by throwing lines and objects. Explain why swimming rescues should not be attempted when a reaching or throwing rescue is possible, and explain why and how a rescue swimmer should avoid contact with the victim. 9a. Participate in a school, community, or troop program on the dangers of using drugs, alcohol, and tobacco and other practices that could be harmful to your health. Discuss your participation in the program with your family, and explain the dangers of substance addictions. 9b. Explain the three R's of personal safety and protection. 10. Earn an amount of money agreed upon by you and your parent, then save at least 50 percent of that money. 11. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life. Discuss four specific examples (different from those used for Tenderfoot requirement 13) of how you have lived the points of the Scout Law in your daily life. 12. Participate in a Scoutmaster conference. 13. Successfully complete your board of review for the First Class rank.
100
A condition where one of your hands acts completely independent from a person.
What is Alien Hand Syndrome.
100
What is the best thing to be safe in Winter Camping (Important for Scouts)
What is being prepared
100
Country that is bigger than Pluto's surface area
What is Russia?
200
The man who founded the BSA
Who is William D. Boyce?
200
The Scout Slogan and Motto
Be Prepared/Do a good turn daily
200
When a person has skin cold to the touch, shivering then not shivering, lethargy, drowsiness, weakness, clumsiness, confusion, poor reflexes, slowed breathing and heart rate.
What is Frostbite?
200
The 3 W's of layering.
What is wicking, warmth, wind/water
200
Two planets in our solar system where it rains diamonds
What is Jupiter and Saturn
300
United States Of America
What is the nation where the BSA was founded
300
The 5th line of the scout Oath
What is "and to obey the scout law"
300
The scientific definition of shock.
What is a life-threatening condition that occurs when the body is not getting enough blood flow.
300
Type of meals you should eat on a winter campout. (Temp and Type)
What is a warm meal that is high in fat and protein
300
Scotland's animal symbol
What is a Unicorn
400
The 4 High Adventure Bases offered to Boy Scouts in America.
What are Northern Tier, The Summit, Philmont, and Sea Base?
400
A scout in Troop 59 who saved his father from a heart attack by preforming CPR. He has an award named after him in the troop.
Who is Sam Nix?
400
Where someone has a headache, decreased level of consciousness, extreme lethargy, and may have seizures or a coma in extreme circumstances after drinking a lot of water and doing intense physical exercise.
What is hyponatraemia? (Sodium Deficiency)
400
Time it takes a person to freeze to death in cold water
What is 10-30 minutes
400
The first man to pee on the Moon
Who is Buzz Aldrin
500
The amount of countries who have Boy Scout programs apart of the World Scouting Organization
What is 161?
500
Year Troop 59 was founded
What is 1955?
500
A constricting or compressing device, specifically a bandage, used to control venous and arterial circulation to an extremity for a period of time. The BSA handbook does not recommend using it.
What is a tourniquet?
500
Material of clothes you should never wear in the snow.
What is cotton?
500
The only king in a standard deck of cards to not have a moustache.
Who is the King of Hearts?
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