BSA High Adventure
Cold Weather Camping
Rank Advancement
Merit Badges
BSA Troop 48 and 48G Trivia
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The four official BSA High Adventure Bases

What are Philmont Scout Ranch, Northern Tier, Sea Base and Summit Bechtel Reserve?

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This fabric "kills"

What is cotton?

100

The second rank of scouting

What is a Tenderfoot?

100

The card needed to be completed to get a merit badge

What is a Blue Card?

100

Troop 48 Scout "Mom" and Super Volunteer

Who is Mrs. Slover?

200

Broken in hiking boots for long trek hiking in the South West

What is an essential piece of gear for a Philmont adventure?

200

Common mistake when treating hypothermia that should be avoided to lower risk of cardiac complications

Vigorous rubbing of limbs or extremities

200

A project that benefits the community

What is an Eagle Scout Service Project?

200

Merit badge patches are round today but they were this shape prior to 1914

What is diamond shape? 

200

The spelling of the magical high adventure camp in Wisconsin that our troops go to in the summer

What is Ma-Ka-Ja-Wan?

300

The name of the Canadian Park that is part of BSA's Northern Tier

What is Canada's Quetico Provincial Park?

300

The BSA training program that teaches Scouts and leaders how to camp safely in winter conditions

What is Okpik?

300

The rank that emphasizes camping, cooking, navigation, first aid, and pioneering skills 

What is the First Class Rank?

300

First Aid, Citizenship in the Community, Citizenship in the Nation, Citizenship in Society, Citizenship in the World, Communication, Cooking, Personal Fitness, Emergency Preparedness OR Lifesaving, Environmental Science OR Sustainability, Personal Management, Swimming OR Hiking OR Cycling, Camping, and Family Life

What are the Eagle Required Merit Badges?

300

Expert woodworker and mastermind behind the Makaja-puck

Who is Ames Mathee?

400

An abandoned surface-mining area previously referred to as the "Garden Grounds"

What was the Summit Bechtel Reserve?

400

Equipment used to prevent heat loss by keeping your body off the cold ground when winter camping

What is a "foam board" or "insulating board"?

400

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What is the minimum number of merit badges needed to achieve Eagle Scout rank?

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This is the one musical merit badge that cannot be earned using an electronic instrument

What is the bugling merit badge?

400

Large wood bench at the West Camp Aquatics area

What was the 2025 Baden Powell Service project for Troop 48 and 48G?

500

The original name of Florida Sea Base when it was founded in 1979

What is the Florida Gateway to the Caribbean?
500

The three different layers of clothing used to keep warm and dry in winter camping

What are the Base Layer, Insulating Layer and Outer Shell?

500

Number of different merit badges that have existed since 1911

What is about 135?

500

This now-retired merit badge once included saber drills and bayonet instruction

What is the Master-at-Arms merit badge?

500

Involved Parents/Guardians who volunteer their time and resources in the interest of forging young men and women with exceptional skills and values

What makes Troop 48 and 48G such a special place for Scouts?

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