First Aid
This is the very first step you should take when approaching any first-aid situation.
What is checking to make sure the scene is safe?
Often called the "King of Knots," this loop knot is highly reliable and is used to form a secure loop that won't slip or tighten under a load.
What is the Bowline?
This famous three-word phrase helps Scouts identify and avoid poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac.
What is "Leaves of three, let it be"?
This is the minimum distance your camp kitchen and food storage should be from your sleeping tents in bear country.
What is 200 feet (or 70 paces)?
He is the British general who founded the global Scouting movement after hosting an experimental camp at Brownsea Island in 1907.
What is lord Robert Baden-Powell?
Use this acronym to quickly remember the five common signs and symptoms of a heart attack.
What is STOP (Squeezing pain, Tenderness/sweating, Other signs like nausea, Pressure)?
You start and finish a square lashing using this specific knot.
What is the Clove Hitch? Also acceptable is Timber Hitch.
This universal distress signal can be made using three of these audial or visual indicators.
What are three whistles, three gunshots, three flashes of light, or three smoky fires?
This traditional piece of heavy, cast-iron camp cookware is used to bake cobblers, biscuits, and stews directly over charcoal.
What is a Dutch Oven?
This American publisher founded the Boy Scouts of America in 1910 after an unknown British Scout helped him find his way through a thick London fog.
What is William D. Boyce?
This is the correct way to treat a suspected spider bite or scorpion sting while waiting for medical help.
What is washing the area with soap and water, and applying a cold pack?
This knot is used to join two ropes of unequal diameter together.
What is the Sheet Bend?
These are the three venomous snakes native to the Tennessee.
What are the copperhead, cottonmouth (water moccasin), and timber rattlesnake
This is the correct order of the three bins used in a standard Scout dishwashing station.
What is Wash (hot soapy water), Rinse (hot clean water), and Sanitize (cold water with a sanitizing tablet/bleach)?
In 2025, the Boy Scouts of America announced that the historic organization would officially change its name to this on February 8, 2026.
What is Scouting America?
Do this immediately for an arterial wound or severe bleeding that won't stop with simple direct pressure.
What is applying a tourniquet?
This type of lashing is used to join two spars together at a 90-degree angle to keep them from sliding or twisting.
What is a Square Lashing?
This core principle of Leave No Trace dictates that Scouts should pack out everything they bring in, including food scraps and trash.
What is "Dispose of Waste Properly"?
To safely extinguish camp stove fuels like propane or isobutane, you must always do this first before disconnecting the canister.
What is turning the valve completely to the "Off" position?
This legendary Native American leader and conservationist served as the very first Chief Scout Executive of the BSA.
What is James E. West?
This serious condition is caused by a rapid drop in core body temperature and requires removing wet clothing and slowly warming the victim.
What is hypothermia?
This knot is ideal for securing a tent guy-line because it can easily slide to adjust tension but holds fast under load.
What is the Taut-line Hitch?
When navigating by stars in the Northern Hemisphere, you use the "Pointer Stars" at the edge of the Big Dipper to locate this specific star.
What is Polaris (the North Star)?
This is the primary danger of using a charcoal grill, camp stove, or lantern inside an enclosed tent (Other than fire).
What is Carbon Monoxide poisoning?
This unique national honor society of the BSA was founded in 1915 by E. Urner Goodman and Carroll A. Edson to honor Scouts who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law.
What is the Order of the Arrow?