Scout History
This man was the founder of Scouting.
Who is Lord Robert Baden Powell?
These are the three types of campfire lays. Hint: We learned them at Camporee.
What are Tepee, Log-cabin and lean-to?
The rank patch is worn on this pocket.
What is the left pocket?
A stone used for sharpening Knives.
What is a Whetstone?
The number of camping nights with the troop you need to earn the Camping Merit badge.
What is 20?
This knot is used to tie around a cylindrical object like a log.
What is a Timber Hitch?
The definition of a widow maker.
What is a dead limb of tree that fall on you if you put your pitch your tent underneath it?
This is the year that scouting came to America.
What is 1910?
This knot is considered the rescue knot.
What is a bowline?
Name one patch that can be earned in cub scouts but still worn as a boy scout.
What are the Arrow of Light? (Religious knot is also correct)
What is the definition of the arm's length distance you should keep from others when using a knife.
Safety Circle (demonstrate)
You can earn this merit badge as an alternative for the Lifesaving MB.
What is Emergency Preparedness?
This knot is used to start a lashing.
What is a clove hitch?
The three items you need to build a fire.
What are kindling, tinder, fuel wood?
The Historical Marker for the first Boy Scout Jamboree held in California in 1953 can be found in this city.
What is Newport?
This is used to treat blisters.
What is Moleskin?
The reason scout shakes hands with his left hand.
These are the four steps of the EDGE Method (List them)
What are Explain, Demonstrate, Guide and Enable?
This merit badge has a moccasin on it.
What is Leatherworking?
This knot is used to connect to ropes of different thicknesses.
What is sheet bend?
Position to assume if you are trapped outside in a lightning storm.
What is the crouching position?
This man brought Scouting to America.
Who is W. D. Boyce?
These are the 4 steps for attempting a water rescue.
What are reach, throw, row, and go?
The badge you can earn when a friend you invite joins your troop.
What is the Recruiter Badge?
The international signal for distress.
What is three of anything (three whistle blasts, three smoke plumes, three mirrors flashes)?
Which two merit badges are the most recently introduced by Scouting America.
Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity
What are two things we do to the end of the rope to protect it.
What is whip and fuse?
The way to differentiate a venomous coral snake from harmless milk snake.
What is "Red next to Yellow, Kill a Fellow"?
The four steps of rank advancement.
What are Learn, Tested, Reviewed, and Recognized?
This is used to orient a map.
What is the compass rose?
The meaning of the two stars on the First Class Badge.
What are Truth and Knowledge?
Lines on a topographical map that connect points of equal elevation.
What are contour lines?
This merit badge patch has a cross on it, but isn't the First Aid merit badge.
What is Safety?
These are 2 types of lashings.
What is a square lashing, diagonal lashing, shear lashing, tripod lashing
The depth that you should dig a cat hole for human waste in the back country.
What is at least 6 inches?
The 3 - tips of the fleur-di-is signify this.
What is the 3 promises of the scout oath: duty to God, others and self?
Name 3 ways you can signal for help
What is fire, whistle, signal mirror, bright colors, rocks and sticks
The four steps of rank advancement.
What are Learn, Tested, Reviewed, and Recognized?
What is Philmont (New Mexico), Sea Base (Florida), Northern Tier (Minnesota), Summit Bechtel (West Virginia)
What are Personal Fitness, Family Life, Personal Management?
This knot is known as the "King of Knots."
What is the Bowline Knot?
The method for determining how far away a storm is.
What is count the seconds between lightning and thunder and divide by 5. (5 seconds = 1 mile)What is a scoutmaster conference and a board of review