Q 01/05

Who founded the Scout movement in 1907?

A) Ernest Thompson Seton

B) Daniel Carter Beard

C) William D. Boyce

D) Robert Baden-Powell

Answer · why

D) Robert Baden-Powell

Robert Baden-Powell, a British Army lieutenant-general, founded Scouting; he tested his ideas with an experimental camp for about 20 boys in August 19...

Q 02/05

Where in Poole Harbour did the first experimental Scout camp take place in August 1907?

A) Brownsea

B) Hayling

C) Canvey

D) Mersea

Answer · why

A) Brownsea

Brownsea Island, in Poole Harbour, hosted Baden-Powell's experimental camp of about 20 boys from 1 to 8 August 1907, its isolation keeping the press a...

Q 03/05

How was each day at the 1907 experimental camp begun?

A) A bugle reveille

B) A cannon shot

C) Ringing a ship's bell

D) A blast on a kudu horn

Answer · why

D) A blast on a kudu horn

A blast on a kudu horn woke the camp each morning; Baden-Powell had taken the horn during the 1896 Matabele campaign in what is now Zimbabwe.

Q 04/05

Which of these was NOT one of the four patrols at the 1907 experimental camp?

A) Wolves

B) Ravens

C) Curlews

D) Otters

Answer · why

D) Otters

Otters was not a patrol; the 1907 camp's four patrols were Wolves, Ravens, Curlews and Bulls, each marked by a coloured shoulder knot.

Q 05/05

Which Boer War siege made Baden-Powell a national hero in Britain?

A) Ladysmith

B) Kimberley

C) Mafeking

D) Bloemfontein

Answer · why

C) Mafeking

Mafeking, besieged for 217 days in 1899-1900, made Baden-Powell famous; a cadet corps of boys aged 12 to 15 carried messages there, an idea he later r...