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Pioneering Knowledge
100

Scout leaders from all over the world came here to do their Wood Badge training

What is Gilwell Park?

100

The year the UConn Scouting Association was founded

What is 2013?

100

The number of troops in Connecticut

What is fifty-one?

100

Definition of animation

What is the technique of photographing or drawing successive drawings or positions of puppets, models, or otherwise to create an illusion of movement when the movie is shown as a sequence?

100
This is the best knot for joining two free ends of rope
What is the sheet bend?
200

The only US President to be an Eagle Scout

Who is Gerald Ford?

200

The name of the national service fraternity with scouting affiliation

What is Alpha Phi Omega?

200

The BSA councils in the state of Connecticut include

What is CT Yankee, CT Rivers, Housitonic, Greenwich, Narragansett (optional) Councils?

200

Birth and naturalization

What is how to become a citizen?

200

The best knot for shortening a length of rope temporarily

What is the sheep shank?

300

The first major organization to sponsor scouting programs and charter troops in the US

What is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (i.e. Mormons)?

300

Traditional scout uniform shirts have thick seams for this purpose

What is a makeshift stretcher?

300

What is the maximum age for Venturing Scouts?

What is 21 y/o?

300

This section of the Constitution charges the Federal Government to 'provide for the common defense'

What is the Preamble?

300

The most efficient way to catch fish in a survival situation

What is spear fishing?

400

This now appropriated symbol in the 1910's was used by the British Boy Scouts Association as a 'Sign of Thanks'

What is the swastika?

400

The first scout's promise in 1908 has scouts "do their duty" to whom

What is God and the King?

400

This Appalachian state will host the 2023 BSA National Jamboree

What is West Virginia?

400

The officer responsible for planning Scouting University

What is the Vice President?

400

The difference in bearing between the magnetic north and true north meridians

What is magnetic declination?

500

In which decade of the twentieth century did the BSA's membership peak?

What is the 1970s?

500

This country has both the highest participation (~25 million) and highest proportion of population (~9%) involved in Scouting and Guiding

What is Indonesia?

500

This Asian nation will host the 2023 World Scouting Jamboree

What is South Korea?

500

Which members taught which badges?

Evangelina taught Public Health

Michael taught Cit. World and Adam assisted

Jake taught American Business

Mike taught Cit. Nation

Coleman and Mike co-taught Animation

500

The strongest type of rope splice

What is the eye splice?