Scouts BSA Basic
The year that girls were first accepted into the Scouts BSA Program.
What is 2019?
This word has its roots in Old French, where it was originally spelled ‘escoute,’ meaning “to listen, meaning to spy or watch.
What is "scout"?
Fill in the missing word(s)
A week of camp life is worth ______ of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.
What is "Six Months"?
Who is Neil Armstrong?
This Merit Badge in it's first release is considered to be the hardest merit badge ever. With only 10 scouts ever obtaining it in it's initial 3 year life span. It took over 100 years later for it to return.
What is Inventing?
This knot has many uses from securing bandages and packages to joining two ropes together. It is the first knot you learn when joining into scouts.
What is the square knot?
The number of original BSA Merit Badges in 1911.
What is 57?
This common activity in scouting contributes to good health, where campers develop self reliance and resourcefulness, enhances spiritual growth, contributes to social development, and helps develop experience in citizenship training.
What is camping?
This Eagle Scout was a civil rights icon with a BIG DREAM.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
This merit badge required you to "Obtain a sample of irradiated and non-irradiated foods. Prepare the two foods and compare their taste and texture. Store the leftovers in separate containers and under the same conditions. For a period of 14 days, observe their rate of decomposition or spoilage, and describe the differences you see on days 5, 10, and 14."
What is Nuclear Science? (formally Atomic Energy)
The number of merit badges required for Eagle?
What is 21?
This is the only documented one of it's kind, and it was uncovered at Philmont Scout Ranch.
What is a Tyrannosaurus Rex footprint?
This knot is commonly used in camping to secure guidelines on a tent.
What is a taut line?
This Eagle Scout is an Academy Award winning director of movies such as E.T., Schindler's List, and Jaws.
Who is Steven Spielberg?
This is the least earned merit badge, and it isn't going anywhere.
What is Bugling?
The 4 C's of the Outdoor Code.
The highest BSA rank before Eagle Scout was introduced in 1916.
What is First Class?
What is leave everything just as you found it?
This Eagle Scout envisions colonizing Mars, creating self-driving cars, and developing neural ink technology to merge human brains with computers.
Who is Elon Musk?
Most popular merit badge earned annually.
What is First Aid?
This piece of equipment is used in camping to make multiple items from cakes to delicious meal that can be cooked directly over the campfire.
What is a dutch oven?
This "Good Turn" program got it's start in Greater Saint Louis Area Council (GSLAC) in 1988 and is now a National Service project delivering millions of pounds of groceries.
What is Scouting For Food.
This is the largest scout camp in America which is home to the largest National High-Adventure Base. The camp was started in 1938 in the Sangre de Cristo range of the Rocky Mountains in northeastern New Mexico.
What is Philmont Scout Ranch?
This Eagle Scout is a 6 time NBA champion with the Chicago Bulls, owns a famous shoe company, owns a NBA team, played a major role in a popular movie that was recently remade by another famous basketball player and one of thirteen players to play in both the NBA and the MBL professionally.
Who is Michael Jordan?
Discontinued in 1958, this merit badge had Scouts learning how to raise, butcher, and sell pigs.
What is "Hog and Pork Production" merit badge?