Everything Econ
The flag above Econ depicts which planet?
What is the Earth?
In 1791 Vermont joined the United States as which state?
What is the 14th state?
Slugs prefer to travel at this time of day.
What is night?
The first Boy Scout troop in America as we know it was founded in Barre, Vermont, in this year.
What is 1909?
At shotgun, this is the difference between a 12 and 20 gauge shotgun, not the weight of the shell.
What is the size of the bore?
Econ uses many scientific instruments but this one in particular stays outside all of the time, open to the sky.
What is a rain gauge?
The French got the name Vermont from this natural feature they called les Monts Verts.
What are the Green Mountains?
Slugs are made mostly of this substance.
What is water?
This is the year Mount Norris Scout Reservation was founded.
What is 1949?
The safe internal temperature beef must be cooked to, whether at Scoutcraft, in your campsite, or in the Dining Hall.
What is 145 F
What class of animals are most of the live specimens in Econ?
What are reptiles or amphibians?
Vermont is bordered by Canada, New York, New Hampshire, and this populous state.
What is Massachussetts?
The horns on a slugs head are actually these.
What are tentacles?
Before Mount Norris, there was this Scout camp nearby, which is now underneath a part of the Green River Reservoir.
What is Zack Woods?
At Archery, most Scouts will use the more traditional recurve bows, rather than this kind with more moving parts.
What are compound bows?
This merit badge requires, among other things, that you identify 15 species of trees.
What is Forestry?
Vermont is comprised of this many towns, villages, and cities.
What is 251? (Plus 4 Gores)
Slugs belong to this large group of species without a backbone.
What are invertibrates?
This founding member of the Order of the Arrow had a cabin in Vermont now known as the 'Brotherhood Barn'.
Who is E Urner Goodman?
At Econ, this is a constellation you might look at through a telescope, or just by looking up. This constellation is shaped like a W and named after the mother of Andromeda.
What is Cassiopeia?
This is the only marsupial you might find living at Mount Norris (or in the United States).
What is an opossum?
Montpelier, Vermont, is known for being the only state capital to have none of these.
What are McDonalds / Fast Food?
Insects that work together “as one” are called this.
What are social insects?
With help from Ernest Thompson Seton and James West, Charlotte Farnsworth of Thetford started this first all-girls organization (that still operates today) as a sister group to the BSA.
What is Camp Fire (or Camp Fire Girls)
The PFDs you wear when boating at the waterfront are Type One, but the throwing rings the lifeguards keep on the docks are this type of PFD.
What is Type Four?