Weather
Knot Knot - Who's there?
Scouting Lore
Emergency Preparedness
Potent Notables
100
Another name for a squall
What is a thunderstorm
100
A type of double knot that is made symmetrically to hold securely and to be easy to untie
What is a square knot
100
The name of the leader of the Pack.
Who is Akela
100
Where you can shut off all the electricity coming into your house.
What is the main switch (or main breaker)
100
The name for a scout who helps a den leader run a den.
What is a Den Chief
200
The boundary of an advancing mass of cold air, in particular the trailing edge of the warm sector of a low-pressure system.
What is a cold front
200
I go up the hole, around the tree, and back down the hole.
What is a bowline
200
The country where Scouting started.
What is Great Britain (or England)
200
A dangerous product of incomplete combustion (burning). It can kill you.
What is carbon monoxide
200
The name of the official "Land of Scouting".
What is Gilwell Park (Baden-Powell was the first Baron of Gilwell.)
300
The boundary between a mass of warm air and a retreating mass of cold air
What is a warm front
300
I hold two ropes of different sizes together.
What is a sheet bend
300
The original shape of a Scouting neckerchief.
What is a square
300
When using a fire extinguisher, what PASS stands for.
What is:
Pull (the pin)
Aim
Squeeze
Sweep (at the base of the flames)
300
What the original BSA top rank was supposed to be, before it was Eagle Scout.
What is Wolf Scout
400
Two dangers that come with thunderstorms.
What are heavy rains (flash flooding), hail, lightning, tornados, high winds (microbursts)
400
Binding knot around the end of a rope to prevent its natural tendency to fray
What is whipping
400
The person who brought Scouting to the United States.
Who is William Boyce
400
In a fire, what RACE stands for.
What is:
Rescue (people in immediate danger)
Alarm (911)
Confine (the fire)
Extinguish/Evacuate
400
The name of the book that inspired Scouting.
What is "Aids to Scouting for N.-C.Os and Men"
500
The position you should take if you are caught outdoors in a field during a thunderstorm.
What is squat in a ball
500
The number of variations on the taut-line hitch.
What is three (Taut-line, Magnus hitch, Midshipman's hitch)
500
The location of the first Scouting campout.
What is Brownsea Island
500
Universal signal for help (it's a number).
What is "3" (Arrange things in threes, and in triangles.
SOS: . . . _ _ _ . . .
500
The official name for the knot we call a woggle.
What is a Turk's head knot