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The ScoutNet UK Scouting Quiz No.8

Scouting the Early Years

Welcome to the eighth ScoutNet UK Scouting Quiz! The monthly quiz aimed to find out just how much you now about your organisation

This months quiz is aimed at all sections, and is about the history of the early years of Scouting.


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1. Where was the first official Scout Camp?
Brownsea Island, Dorset
Humshaugh, Northumberland
ugh, Northumberland">Humshaugh, Northumberland
Fordell Firs, Fife

2. In which year did Scouting begin?
1904
1906
1908

3. For what purpose was Scouting for Boys originally written?
As a handbook for the Scout Movement
As a training program for other Boys organisations
As a guide to how boys could improve themselves

4. Why did B-P found the Guiding movement?
He didn't want girls in Scouting
He didn't think girls were capable of Scouting
Scouting was not considered a proper activity for young Edwardian ladies

5. Which member of B-P's family did he initially put in charge of Guiding?
His mother, Henrietta
His mother, Henrietta">His mother, Henrietta
His sister, Agnes
His wife, Olave

6. In 1916 Baden-Powell started a section for younger boys, which was?
Cub Scouts
Wolf Cubs
Scout Cadets

7. On which of Rudyard Kipling's books did B-P base this younger section on?
Kim
The Just So Stories
The Jungle Book

8. Which of the following books was not written by Baden-Powell?
Aids to Scoutmastership
From the Shoulder
Rovering to Success

9. B-P set up a section for Scouts who had grown passed the age of 18, known as?
Senior Scouts
Rover Scouts
The Scame="9" value="The Scout Fellowship">The Scout Fellowship

10. The initial Scout Law had how many parts
10
9
7



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