Q 01/05

Who founded the Girl Scouts of the USA?

A) Josephine Holloway

B) Clara Barton

C) Jane Addams

D) Juliette Gordon Low

Answer · why

D) 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 02/05

A 1911 meeting with which British war hero inspired the founding of the Girl Scouts a year later?

A) Herbert Kitchener

B) Robert Baden-Powell

C) Winston Churchill

D) Douglas Haig

Answer · why

B) 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 befor...

Q 03/05

In which city did the first Girl Scout troop in the United States meet in 1912?

A) Savannah, Georgia

B) Richmond, Virginia

C) Mobile, Alabama

D) Charleston, South Carolina

Answer · why

A) 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...

Q 04/05

Which sense had the Girl Scouts' founder largely lost by the time she started the movement in 1912?

A) Sight

B) Hearing

C) Smell

D) Taste

Answer · why

B) 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 m...

Q 05/05

Which shape is the official emblem of the Girl Scouts?

A) A fleur-de-lis

B) A trefoil

C) A compass rose

D) A five-pointed star

Answer · why

B) A trefoil

A trefoil is the Girl Scout emblem, and the shortbread cookies called Trefoils are baked in the very same outline.