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For a Boy Scout, it's the tie that binds.
What is a square knot?
The Boy Scouts logo features an eagle on this French-named item, a stylized lily.
What is a fleur-de-lis?
Kangaroos & gorillas gather in these groups.
What are troops?
To qualify for a Bugling merit badge, a Scout must know 15 calls, including this one sounded at the end of the day.
What is Taps?
In 1995, some Boy Scouts in Wisconsin produced a Guinness-record 2,377-pound ball of this.
What is popcorn?
Who is Steven Spielburg?
It's a 10-letter word for a newbie as well as the second rank in Boy Scouts.
What is Tenderfoot?
When asked "For what?" with regard to this saying, Robert Baden-Powell said, "Why, for any old thing."
What is Be Prepared?
It means not wasteful with money.
What is thrifty?
What is friendly?
A clove hitch is useful in camping; tie a rope to your sack of food, which you'll hag high to make this alliterative "bag."
What is a bear bag?
From the French for summoning, it’s the practice of a Scout safely lowering himself down a mountainside.
What is rappelling?
When Scouts swim safely, they use this system in which one Scout looks out for the other & vice versa.
What is the buddy system?
Immaculate is a synonym for this word that can precede "getaway" or a "sweep."
What is clean?
That'ts a GPS unit on the merit badge for this orienteering hobby.
What is Geocaching?
Making a plankton net and drawing a trench and seamount are two steps to your Boy Scout merit badge in this.
What is Oceanography?
Ape Cave in this state is named for the St. Helen’s Apes, the local Boy Scout troop who first explored it.
Where is Texas?
The number of merit badges a Scout needs to qualify for the rank of Eagle Scout.
What is 21?
This practice, also done by film editors, joins two ropes and makes them almost as strong as the original ones.
What is splicing?
Since 1974, mulch from this annual Rockefeller Center sight has gone to Boy Scouts to use as ground cover in camps.
What is the Christmas tree?
Ape Cave in this state is named for the St. Helen’s Apes, the local Boy Scout troop who first explored it.
Where is Washington?
In the early 1920s this American Novelist briefly served as a scoutmaster for an Oxford, Mississippi, Boy Scout troop.
Who is William Faulkner?
California's Boy Scout Camp Winton is near a gold-bearing area called "the Mother Lode" in the foothills of this mountain range.
What is the Sierra Nevada?
In 1928, Boy Scout Paul Siple was chosen to go along on this admiral’s Antarctic expedition.
Who is Richard Byrd?
The first Scout to go on to be the president was this man who, in a youthful letter to his father Joe, asked for a bigger allowance to buy canteens and other Scout supplies.
Who is John F. Kennedy?