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The BIG Guiding Quiz - Find your answers here!

 Q&A

Q1: When was Girl Guiding start?

A: 1910

Q 2: Who established Girlguiding?

A: Baden-Powell and his sister Agnes Baden-Powell.

Q3: 22 February is World Thinking Day. But whose birthdays does it commemorate?

A: Robert and Olave Baden-Powell

Q4: What year did our President Tori James, the first Welsh woman reached the summit of Mount Everest?

A: 2003

B:2007

C: 2013

A: 2007

Q 5: What is the highest award members of Girlguiding can work towards?

A: The Queens Guide Award

Q 6: In 1966, six Guides broke a world record. What did they do to achieve it?

A: They were the fastest girls’ relay team to swim the English Channel

Q 7: What is the 4th word in the promise?

A: I

Q 8: Out of these 4 women who wasn’t a member of Girlguiding?

A: Dame Kelly Holmes

B: Clare Balding

C: JK Rowling

D: Nicola Sturgeon

A: none of them, they were ALL were members

Q 9: What were Brownies originally called?

A: Rosebuds

Q10 : The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) has 5 world centres, where are they located? Bonus point if you can name each one!

A: UK, Switzerland, India, Mexico, Africa (moving centre) PAX Lodge, Our Chalet, Our Cabana, Sangam, Kusafiri

Q 11: At the GRAMMYs in January this year, who became the youngest solo artist of all time to win Album of the Year?

A:  Billie Eilish

Q 12: Who is the only Disney princess who was inspired by an actual person?

A: Pocahontas

Q 13: Who was the first woman in space?

A: Valentina Tereshkova. On 16 June 1963

Q 14: What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?

A: The word is starting! starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, I.  Cool, huh?

Q 15: Who is the current captain of the Welsh rugby team?

A: Alun Wyn Jones

Q 16: How many number 1 singles has Tom Jones had? (Bonus points if you can name them)

A: 3 , Its not unusual, Green Green Grass of Home, Island in the stream)

Q 17: Who presents the TV show Dragon’s Den?

A: Evan Davis

Q 18: In what year was the very first Eisteddfod? Bonus point if you can tell me where?

A: 1176 at Cardigian Castle

Q 19 : What is the #1 tourist destination (Country) in the world?

A: France

Q20: Sanna Marin is the prime minister of Finland, she became the youngest leader of a nation in the world. How old is she? Options are:

A: 25

B: 34

C: 37

A: 34