Word Fun
It’s a 10-letter word for a newbie as well as the second rank in Scouts.
What is Tenderfoot?
If you can describe a float, trap and drainpipe, you’re on your way to a badge in this field.
What is Plumbing?
For a Scout, it’s the tie that binds.
What is a square knot?
When Scouts swim safely, they use this system in which one Scout looks out for the other & vice versa.
What is the buddy system?
This Eagle Scout film director depicted Indiana Jones as a Boy Scout in “The Last Crusade.”
Who is Steven Spielberg?
It’s a large, festive gathering, often of Scouts nationwide.
What is a jamboree?
Of 10, 21 or 25, the number of merit badges a Scout needs to qualify for the rank of Eagle Scout.
What is 21?
The Guinness record for knot-tying measures the fastest time for tying the 6 knots listed in this handbook.
What is the Scout Handbook?
This synonym for “amiable” linked with a comic book ghost.
What is friendly?
Arthur C. Clarke, Alex Haley & John Knowles have written for this 90-year-old Scouting publication.
What is Boys’ Life?
An adjective in the Scout Law, it means not wasteful with money.
What is thrifty?
That’s a GPS unit on the badge for this new 10-letter orienteering hobby.
What is Geocaching?
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.”
What is a bear bag?
From the French for summoning, it’s the practice of a Scout safely lowering himself down a mountainside.
What is rappelling?
In 1928, Scout Paul Siple was chosen to go along on this admiral’s Antarctic expedition.
Who is Richard Byrd?
When asked “For what?” with regard to this motto of the Scouts, Robert Baden-Powell said, “Why, for any old thing.”
What is Be Prepared?
To qualify for a Bugling merit badge, a Scout must know 15 calls, including this one sounded at the end of the day.
What is Taps?
This practice, also done by film editors, joins two ropes & makes them almost as strong as the original ones.
What is splicing?
In 1995, some Scouts in Wisconsin produced a Guinness-record 2,377-pound one of these.
What is a popcorn ball?
In 1907, the first four groups in this organization started in England were the Bulls, the Wolves, the Curlews & the Ravens.
What are the Boy Scouts?
Immaculate is a synonym for this word that can precede “getaway” or a “sweep.”
What is clean?
Making a plankton net and drawing a trench and seamount are two steps to your Scout merit badge in this.
What is Oceanography?
This was once a braided cord worn by Scouts; it’s now a wasteful project that often involves graft.
What is a boondoggle?
Kangaroos & gorillas gather in these groups (as do Scouts).
What are troops?
The first Scout to go on to be the 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.
Who is John F. Kennedy?