How's Your Scouting Knowledge?
 This Scout test was used 40 years ago at a troop meeting.
See how you fare against the Seventeeners of yesteryear.
Good Luck!
Check your answers at Wednesday's meeting.

      1. What wood burns just as well green as dead?

      2. What is the temperature of a normal human being?

      3. What makes you a Boy Scout?

      4. What is the part of the flag nearest the staff called?

      5. What should you do to milk when it gets near the boil?

      6. Why is a Lt-General senior to a Major-General? Because:

      7. What weighs more? 

      8. There are five places the American flag is flown both nite and day?    Select them!

      9. What are the two most essential points in choosing a backwoods campsite?

      10. What does a good cook see is on the fire before he starts eating?

      11. In cooking vegetables, what should you never forget to add to the water?

      Bonus Question!
      Why does it take longer to hoist a flag to halfmast than it does to hoist it to full mast? 


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(This quiz was developed from English and American Boy Scout sources.)