History Game for Guides

Thanks to "Cookiequeen", who shared this game with the Guiding Mailing List!

Equipment:

Make the following letters out of heavy paper or cardboard:

Print the following names on a large piece of newsprint of card board. These are the names that will be made during the game.

OLAVE BADEN POWELL
ROBERT BADEN POWELL
CRYSTAL PALACE
AGNES BADEN POWELL
BROWNSEA ISLAND
SCOUTING FOR BOYS
ST CATHARINES

To Play:

Players sit in patrols in a large circle. Post the list of names to be made where all can see. Put the letters in a pile in the middle of the circle. The Leader reads a question. The first person to answer correctly takes any letter to start spelling whichever name her patrol chooses. Continue reading the questions. Letters can be taken from the pile, or if the needed letter is gone, a player can take it from the patrol which has it. Continue until one patrol has completed a name from the list.

Sample Questions (and answers, in brackets):

1) Who started Girl Guides and Boy Scouts? (Lord Baden-Powell)
2) What was Lord Baden-Powell's first name? (Robert)
3) What book did he write for boys? (Scouting for Boys)
4) Where did he take boys on an experimental camp? (Brownsea Island)
5) Where did Girl Guides first appear? (Crystal Palace Rally)
6) What did they say they were? (Girl Scouts)
7) Whom did B-P ask to organize the girls? (His sister, Agnes)
8) Where was the Crystal Palace? (England)
9) Who gave the girls' organization the name "Guides"? (B-P)
10) What city in Canada had the first Canadian Girl Guides? (St. Catharines, Ontario)
11) What year did Guides begin in Canada? (1910)
12) Who was Canada's first Chief Commissioner? (Lady Mary Pellatt)
13) Where did Lady Pellatt live? (Casa Loma in Toronto)
14) Whom did Robert Baden-Powell marry? (Olave Soames)
15) What did Olave Baden-Powell become in 1930? (World Chief Guide)
16) When is Lord Baden-Powell's birthday? (February 22)
17) When is Lady Baden-Powell's birthday? (February 22)
18) What does the world of Guiding call Feb. 22? (Thinking Day)
19) What do we give money to, especially on Thinking Day? (Canadian World Friendship Fund)
20) Who is Canada's Chief Commissioner now? (Check in The Canadian Guider for the name of our current Chief.)
21) Where is Canadian Girl Guide headquarters building? (Toronto)

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