Q 01/05

The first organised US summer camp is usually credited to a camp founded in 1861 in which state?

A) Maine

B) Vermont

C) Connecticut

D) New Hampshire

Answer · why

C) Connecticut

Frederick W. Gunn ran it for schoolboys as a fortnight of outdoor living, and the idea took thirty years to spread.

Q 02/05

How many camps did the American Camp Association count in the United States in 2024?

A) About 400

B) About 2,500

C) About 20,000

D) About 60,000

Answer · why

C) About 20,000

Enrolment has been drifting down for years, blamed on smaller families and the rise of summer tutoring programmes.

Q 03/05

In 1900 there were fewer than 100 camps in the United States. How many were running by 1918?

A) About 250

B) About 500

C) About 4,000

D) Over 1,000

Answer · why

D) Over 1,000

Girls' camps had only begun appearing around 1900, most of them clustered in New England.

Q 04/05

In the US and Canada, residential places where children stay overnight are known as what?

A) Bunk camps

B) Sleepaway camps

C) Long camps

D) Full camps

Answer · why

B) Sleepaway camps

For many children it is the first extended stretch of time they have ever spent away from home.

Q 05/05

What three things make up a s'more?

A) Toasted marshmallow, chocolate and graham crackers

B) Marshmallow, caramel and shortbread

C) Marshmallow, peanut butter and crackers

D) Chocolate, banana and wafers

Answer · why

A) Toasted marshmallow, chocolate and graham crackers

The name is a contraction of 'some more', and its ancestor was a buttered marshmallow on a saltine called the Marshmallow Marguerite.