Girl Guides
These younger members of Girlguiding, aged 7–10, are named after small woodland creatures.
What are Brownies?
This small red mammal with a bushy tail is famous for stealing socks from washing lines in the UK countryside.
What is a fox?
This is the traditional shape Guides often sit in around a campfire so everyone can see the flames and each other.
What is a circle?
This city is the capital of France and home to the Eiffel Tower.
What is Paris?
This British queen ruled for 70 years and was the longest-reigning monarch in UK history.
Who is Queen Elizabeth II?
This year marks the founding of Girl Guides in the UK when girls demanded to join the Boy Scouts rally.
What is 1909?
This black-and-white striped animal is known for digging large underground homes called setts.
What is a badger?
This sweet treat is often toasted on sticks over the fire at camps.
What are marshmallows?
This country is famous for its maple syrup and has Ottawa as its capital.
What is Canada?
This young activist from Pakistan won the Nobel Peace Prize after campaigning for girls’ education.
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
This husband-and-wife team founded the Scouting and Guiding movements.
Who are Robert Baden-Powell and Olave Baden-Powell?
This small spiky mammal curls into a ball when threatened and often appears in gardens at night.
What is a hedgehog?
This famous campfire song begins with the line: “If I were not a Guide, I wonder what I’d be…”
What is “The Quartermaster’s Store”?
This large desert in northern Africa is the biggest hot desert in the world.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This scientist discovered radioactivity and became the first person to win two Nobel Prizes.
Who is Marie Curie?
This world organisation connects Girl Guides and Girl Scouts across more than 150 countries.
What is WAGGGS (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts)?
This large bird of prey, once extinct in the UK, has been successfully reintroduced and is famous for eating fish.
What is an osprey?
In the classic campfire song, what never gets dirty, the longer you wear them, the cleaner they get?
What are black socks?
This country is home to the Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral reef system in the world.
What is Australia?
This British nurse became famous during the Crimean War and was known as “The Lady with the Lamp.”
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This famous Girl Guide training centre in Switzerland is one of the WAGGGS World Centres.
What is Our Chalet?
This protected amphibian in the UK is famous for its bright orange belly with black markings.
What is a great crested newt?
In this popular repeat-after-me campfire song, the singer begins with the line: “Yo, my name is ___.” What is his name?
What is Joe?
This river is the longest in the world and flows through countries including Uganda and Sudan.
What is the Nile River?
This American pilot became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932.
Who is Amelia Earhart?