Q 01/05

A classic s'more sandwiches a toasted marshmallow and chocolate between what?

A) Graham crackers

B) Digestive biscuits

C) Vanilla wafers

D) Shortbread

Answer · why

A) Graham crackers

The name is a contraction of 'some more', which had fully taken over by the end of the 1930s.

Q 02/05

A 1927 cookbook from which youth organization contained an early 'Some More' recipe?

A) Boy Scouts of America

B) Camp Fire Girls

C) Girl Scouts

D) YMCA

Answer · why

C) Girl Scouts

A Connecticut newspaper had already described Girl Scouts eating 'Some-mores' two years earlier, in 1925.

Q 03/05

On which date does the United States mark National S'mores Day?

A) July 4

B) August 10

C) September 1

D) June 21

Answer · why

B) August 10

It lands squarely in peak campfire season, which is no accident.

Q 04/05

Recreational camping is usually traced to Thomas Hiram Holding, a Briton who worked as what?

A) A travelling tailor

B) A railway engineer

C) A country doctor

D) A schoolmaster

Answer · why

A) A travelling tailor

His book Cycle and Camp in Connemara led to the Association of Cycle Campers, the first camping group, in 1901.

Q 05/05

Possibly the world's first commercial camping ground, Cunningham's camp, opened in 1894 on which island?

A) Isle of Wight

B) Anglesey

C) Isle of Man

D) Jersey

Answer · why

C) Isle of Man

It sat near Douglas and predated the Association of Cycle Campers' own first site at Weybridge by twelve years.