Q 01/05

At the West Virginia camp counted as 4-H's first, which live animal did campers bring for the pot?

A) A rabbit

B) A chicken

C) A young goat

D) A piglet

Answer · why

B) A chicken

A chicken went into the cooking pot at Camp Good Luck in July 1915, where about 20 boys and girls slept in a farmer's barn. The campers killed a big r...

Q 02/05

Before Health took its place, which word did the fourth H of the 4-H emblem originally represent?

A) Honesty

B) Humility

C) Hustle

D) Harvest

Answer · why

C) Hustle

Hustle was the fourth H when a leaf was first added to the three-leaf design that early clubs in Iowa and Georgia had used. Health later replaced it.

Q 03/05

In the parliamentary procedure 4-H clubs teach, which words correctly open a member's motion?

A) I make a motion

B) I motion that

C) I propose that

D) I move that

Answer · why

D) I move that

I move that is the proper opening, and 4-H officer guides single out I make a motion as the classic slip. The same guides tell members to rise before ...

Q 04/05

The first state 4-H camp, in West Virginia, sits at the boyhood home of which Confederate general?

A) Jubal Early

B) Stonewall Jackson

C) James Longstreet

D) Joseph E. Johnston

Answer · why

B) Stonewall Jackson

Stonewall Jackson grew up on his uncle's farm at a grist mill near Weston. Its owners deeded the property to the state in 1921, and it became the Stat...

Q 05/05

National 4-H Congress grew out of 1920s trips to a livestock show in which city's Union Stock Yards?

A) Omaha

B) Fort Worth

C) Chicago

D) Denver

Answer · why

C) Chicago

Chicago's International Live Stock Exposition drew a 1920 educational tour of more than 100 young men and women, the forerunner of National 4-H Congre...