Emergency Preparedness & First Aid
Holding two hands to your throat is the universal sign for this.
What is choking?
A needle is suspended in what substance?
What is water?
Pancake mix is this type of food.
For a Boy Scout, it’s the tie that binds.
What is a square knot?
Kangaroos & gorillas gather in these groups (as do Boy Scouts).
What are troops?
This is the ratio of chest compressions to breaths during CPR.
What is 30 to 2?
This method to determine the width of something involves going 50 paces in different directions.
What is the stick method?
A clove hitch is useful in camping; tie a rope to your sack of food, which you’ll hang high to make this alliterative “bag.”
What is a bear bag?
It’s a 10-letter word for a newbie as well as the second rank in Boy Scouts.
What is Tenderfoot?
This is how often you should update your emergency kit.
What is once or twice a year?
Orienteering began in this spicy country, where it was originally called "orientering."
What is Sweden?
When in person, we usually make this for desert at the cooking meeting.
What is peach cobbler?
This knot is used to move logs.
What is the timber hitch?
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?
This is how many gallons of water per person per day should you store in case of an emergency?
What is 1 gallon per person per day?
The international orienteering flag has these two colors.
What is white and orange?
These are the three macronutrients that you need to keep in mind while cooking.
What are proteins, carbohydrates, and fats?
This knot is used to hold down the tarp during campouts.
What is the taut-line hitch? (Will also accept two-half hitches)
The Boy Scouts logo features an eagle on this French-named item, a stylized lily.
What is a fleur-de-lis?
This is how long you should flush your eyes in case of chemicals.
What is 20 minutes?
This is what the degree arrow is called when the degree markings around the azimuth ring line up with your direction-of-travel arrow.
What is your bearing?
This famous revolutionary American invented the flat lid with a ridge for holding hot coals on dutch ovens.
Who is Paul Revere?
This knot is used to tie two ropes together of different sizes.
What is the sheet bend knot?
This Eagle Scout film director depicted Indiana Jones as a Boy Scout in “The Last Crusade.”
Who is Steven Spielberg?