Halloween Knowledge
This vegetable was traditionally carved into lanterns (Ireland) before pumpkins.
What is a turnip?
This candy brand is famous for the slogan “Taste the Rainbow.”
What is Skittles?
This knot is used to form a fixed loop at the end of a rope and is commonly taught for rescue and pioneering applications.
What is a bowline?
This is how Bogus Basin got it's name.
Who are the miners who produced fake gold there?
This metal is the only one that is liquid at standard room temperature of approximately 20–25°C.
What is mercury?
The date Halloween is celebrated each year.
What is October 31?
This candy bar contains caramel and nougat covered in milk chocolate.
What is a Milky Way?
In land navigation, this term describes the angle between true north and magnetic north at a particular location, and it must be accounted for when converting between a map bearing and a compass bearing.
What is magnetic declination?
The way Idaho got it's name.
What is making up a fake name and claiming it's from the Shoshone language?
This 1815 battle marked the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte, fought near a village in present-day Belgium against British-led and Prussian forces.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
This country is credited with popularizing trick-or-treating.
What is the United States?
First marketed in 1941, these chocolate candies were designed to resist melting easily, making them useful for soldiers.
What are M&M’s?
In Scouts BSA, this knot is used to shorten a rope without cutting it and can be tied so that the shortened section is isolated from the ends.
What is a sheepshank?
This city was the first capital of Idaho.
(And contains a modern seaport.)
What is Lewiston?
This is the name for the point in an object's orbit around Earth at which it is farthest from Earth.
What is apogee?
This ancient Celtic festival is considered one of origins of Halloween.
What is Samhain?
This country is where Fry’s first commercially produced a modern solid chocolate bar in 1847.
What is England?
Under Scouting America's Leave No Trace principles, this principle addresses how campers should handle wastewater from washing dishes and bathing in the backcountry.
What is Dispose of Waste Properly?
This Idaho lake is the largest in the state and is located in the northern Panhandle.
What is Lake Pend Oreille?
This African country was formerly known as Abyssinia and successfully resisted becoming a European colony during the Scramble for Africa, except for a period of Italian occupation.
What is Ethiopia?
This was the year that the words "Trick-or-treat" first appeared in print.
What is 1927?
Introduced in 1930, this candy bar was named after a favorite horse belonging to the Mars family.
What is Snickers?
At the 1911 publication of the first edition of the Boy Scout Handbook in the United States, this man served as its principal author and was a key figure in establishing the early American Boy Scouts.
Who is Ernest Thompson Seton?
This massive dam on the Snake River, near Twin Falls, is famous for its enormous concrete arch and is a popular tourist attraction.
What is the Perrine Bridge?
This element has the highest atomic number of all naturally occurring elements commonly found in significant quantities on Earth and is used as fuel in nuclear reactors.
What is uranium?