Merit Badges
This popular Eagle-required merit badge teaches how to treat cuts, burns, shock, and other injuries.
What is First Aid
This is the first rank a Scout earns and features a simple fleur-de-lis badge.
What is Scout
This is the Scout Motto.
What is "Be Prepared"
This is the first knot most Scouts learn when they join.
What is the square knot
This British Army officer founded the Scouting movement.
Who is Lord Robert Baden-Powell
This merit badge (or its alternative) is required for Eagle and focuses on planning, budgeting, and managing money.
What is Personal Management
Name the seven Scouts BSA ranks in the correct order from lowest to highest.
What is Scout, Tenderfoot, Second Class, First Class, Star, Life, and Eagle?
This is the Scout Slogan.
What is “Do a Good Turn Daily"
Which lashing is best used to bind two poles together at a right angle where they cross each other?
What is Square Lashing
The Boy Scouts of America was founded in this year.
What is 1910
This was one of the original 57 merit badges from 1911 and is still offered today; it involves identifying stars, planets, and constellations.
What is Astronomy
This rank requires you to use the EDGE method to teach another scout.
Name any four laws of the Scout Law.
What is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, or Reverent
These are the four steps of water rescue.
What are Reach, Throw, Row, and Go
In 1911 the BSA introduced this many original merit badges.
What is 57
This merit badge is one of the least earned merit badges and has a troop position of the same name.
What is Bugling
To earn this rank, a Scout needs six merit badges (including four Eagle-required ones), four months in a position of responsibility, and six hours of service.
What is Star
What does "Reverent" mean in the Scout Law.
What is Being faithful in your own beliefs and being respectful to other people's beliefs
What do closely spaced contour lines on a topographic map indicate about the terrain?
What is Steep terrain or cliffs
Why did the scouting movement get redirected toward young boys?
Baden-Powell want to train boys for manhood, not war.
This merit badge is ranked 137th in popularity (2026) involving measuring angles and distances, determining elevations, and plotting field data using appropriate software.
What rank requires you to identify two ways to obtain a weather forecast for an upcoming activity and explain why weather forecast are im0portant when planning for an event.
What is First Class
The Outdoor Code has four main commitments. Name them.
What are “Be clean in my outdoor manners, Be careful with fire, Be considerate in the outdoors, and Be conservation-minded”
When completely extinguishing a campfire using water, what is the best physical method to verify that no hidden hot coals remain?
What is hovering the back of your hand over the ashes and/or stirring
This American newspaper publisher brought Scouting to the United States after getting lost in the London fog.
Who is William D. Boyce?