Girl Scout Trivia
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48 free Girl Scout trivia questions with answers — history quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
40 free Girl Scout trivia questions with answers. These Girl Scout trivia questions cover both halves of the organisation: the movement and the cookies. On one side, the woman who started it after meeting Robert Baden-Powell, the first troop meeting in Savannah in March 1912, the levels from Daisies to Ambassadors, the Gold Award, and the aviation programme that ran for three decades. On the other, the cookie programme: the Oklahoma troop that sold the first ones in 1917, the wartime years when calendars replaced them, the two bakeries that decide what a cookie is called in your state, and the record sellers who moved eighteen thousand boxes in a single season. Every question runs against a sourced account with the sentence that proves it attached, and the difficulty climbs from things a Brownie knows to details most troop leaders do not. Good for a troop meeting, a leader's icebreaker, or a cookie-booth quiz.
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Q 01Who founded the Girl Scouts of the USA?
Juliette Gordon Low
Juliette Gordon Low was 51 when she started the movement in 1912, and she paid most of its bills out of her own pocket in the early years.
Q 02A 1911 meeting with which British war hero inspired the founding of the Girl Scouts a year later?
Robert Baden-Powell
Robert Baden-Powell had already launched the Boy Scouts. He befriended the Girl Scouts' future founder, who worked with girls' groups in Britain before sailing home to start her own.
Q 03In which city did the first Girl Scout troop in the United States meet in 1912?
Savannah, Georgia
Savannah, Georgia was the founder's hometown. The house where she was born is now a museum owned by the Girl Scouts, and troops travel from across the country to visit it.
Q 04Which sense had the Girl Scouts' founder largely lost by the time she started the movement in 1912?
Hearing
Hearing: ear injuries in her twenties left her almost totally deaf, yet at 51 she criss-crossed the country recruiting leaders and girls for her new movement.
Q 05Which shape is the official emblem of the Girl Scouts?
A trefoil
A trefoil is the Girl Scout emblem, and the shortbread cookies called Trefoils are baked in the very same outline.
Q 06What is the highest honour a Girl Scout can earn?
The Gold Award
The Gold Award only got that name in 1980, after decades under other titles. It goes to older girls who lead a project that keeps helping their community.
Q 07The Girl Scouts belong to a world association that pairs their name with that of which other movement?
Girl Guides
Girl Guides is also what the first American troops were called in 1912, before they took the name Girl Scouts a year later.
Q 08Which Girl Scout level covers kindergarten and first grade?
Daisies
Daisies are named for the founder, whom an uncle nicknamed Daisy as a baby; she answered to it for the rest of her life.
Q 09Which Girl Scout cookie is baked gluten-free?
Toffee-tastic
Toffee-tastic is certified gluten-free, its production line cleaned and tested between runs, and it is sold only in some parts of the country.
Q 10Which Girl Scout level covers girls in grades 11 and 12?
Ambassadors
Ambassadors are the newest of the six levels, split off so that Seniors now cover only ninth and tenth grade.
Q 11Which school grades do Girl Scout Brownies cover?
Second and third
Second and third graders are Brownies. At first the Girl Scouts were meant for girls of ten and over, so the Brownie level was added for those still too young to join.
Q 12Which Senior programme, running from 1941 to the 1970s, was built around aviation?
Wing Scouts
In July 1942, 29 troop leaders from 15 states met in Philadelphia for its leadership training.
Q 13What did the United States issue in 1948 to honour the founder of the Girl Scouts?
A postage stamp
A postage stamp carried her portrait 21 years after her death. She had kept her final illness a secret and gone on working for the movement almost to the end.
Q 21Which city's Girl Scouts were the first to sell commercially baked cookies, in 1934?
Philadelphia
Philadelphia's council had sold home-baked cookies from the windows of the city's gas and electric company a year earlier, before turning to a commercial bakery.
Q 22ABC Bakers is one of two companies licensed to bake Girl Scout cookies; which is the other?
Little Brownie Bakers
Little Brownie Bakers and its one rival are all that remain of a crowded field: 29 bakers held licences in the late 1940s, 14 in the 1960s and four by 1978.
Q 23Once the baker is paid, who keeps the money from a box of Girl Scout cookies?
The local council and troop
Q 14In which state is the Onondaga Reservation, where an early Native American troop of Girl Scouts formed in 1921?
New York
New York is where Onondaga girls formed their troop, and a year later girls from the Mexican American community of Houston, Texas, started one of their own.
Q 15Our Chalet, a world centre where Girl Scouts can stay, sits in the Alps of which country?
Switzerland
Switzerland's Our Chalet was the very first world centre, open since 1932 beside the ski village of Adelboden, so visiting girls can climb in summer and ski in winter.
Q 16What do Girl Scouts call the ceremony that marks a girl's move up to the next level?
Bridging
Bridging ends with a welcome: girls who have moved up are greeted with the Girl Scout handshake, made with the left hand because it is nearer the heart.
Q 17The first known Girl Scout cookie sale took place in 1917 at a high school in Muskogee, in which state?
Oklahoma
Oklahoma's Muskogee troop baked the cookies at home and sold them in the school cafeteria; commercial bakeries did not take over the baking until the 1930s.
Q 18What festive name did the troop behind the first known Girl Scout cookie sale, in December 1917, go by?
The Mistletoe Troop
The Mistletoe Troop did the baking themselves and sold the cookies in their high school cafeteria that December.
Q 19In 1922 the Girl Scouts' own magazine printed a recipe for which simple cookie, urging troops to bake and sell it?
Sugar cookie
Sugar cookie recipes like that one, sent in by a Chicago Girl Scout director, kept girls baking at home with their mothers and selling door to door through the 1920s.
Q 20What did Girl Scouts sell during World War II, when baking ingredients ran short?
Calendars
Calendars needed no rationed ingredients. Troops also sold war bonds and tended Victory Gardens while the shortages lasted.
The local council and troop keep all of it, paying for camps, trips and projects that the girls in each troop choose for themselves.
Q 24Exploremores, a Girl Scout cookie launched in the mid-2020s, takes its flavour from which ice cream?
Rocky road
Rocky road is the model: the sandwich cookie is filled with chocolate, marshmallow and toasted-almond creme, and its name nods to the Girl Scout spirit of exploration.
Q 25Why can the same Girl Scout cookie go by two different names?
The bakery decides the name
The bakery decides the name: each council buys from one of two licensed bakers, so the box can read Samoas in one town and Caramel deLites in the next.
Q 26Which Girl Scout cookie sandwiches peanut butter between two oatmeal cookies?
Do-si-dos
Do-si-dos share their name with a square-dance move. The call comes from the French dos-à-dos, 'back to back', which is how the two dancers pass around each other.
Q 27Which Girl Scout cookie was added in 2017, a century after the first known cookie sale?
S'mores
S'mores came out as two quite different cookies under one name: one a chocolate-coated graham square, the other a sandwich cookie with a marshmallow-style filling.
Q 28Which girls' organisation, founded two years before the Girl Scouts, turned down a merger with them?
Camp Fire Girls
Camp Fire Girls were then the bigger movement and said no. The group later opened its doors to boys and is known today simply as Camp Fire.
Q 29Whom did the Girl Scouts' founder phone in 1912 to announce 'we're going to start it tonight'?
Her cousin
Her cousin Nina Pape took the call, in which the founder said she had something for the girls of her hometown, 'and all the world'. Eighteen girls signed up.
Q 30Roughly how many boxes of Girl Scout cookies are sold in a normal year?
About 200 million
About 200 million boxes are sold in a season of barely four months, by more than a million girls, none of whom is required to take part.