ScoutingOctober 1999


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FLAG FIGURES

Test your flag math with the numerical problems below. Answers are not necessarily whole numbers.

Take the number of stars on the flag after Alaska became a state. Add that figure to the number of stars on America's first flag. Divide by the number of degrees of forward pitch of a flagstaff when carried.
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Start with the number of hours a day that the flag flies over the White House. Subtract the date (day of the month) of Flag Day. Then multiply that figure by the number of people in a formal flag-raising detail.
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Take the number of letters in the name of the purported maker of the first U.S. flag. add to that the number of stripes on the flag. Then multiplyby the number of letters in the last word of the Pledge of Allegiance.
( + ) * =
MIXED SIGNALS

Unscramble the words on the flags and pennants and match them with correct definitions.

 
NETRAMNO 
TREGOMM 
GUBNNIT 
EVEEER 
LARDHAY 
 

  1. To pass a rope through a pulley

  2. Rope for hoisting and lowering flag

  3. Object on top of flagstaff

  4. Metal eyelet for halyard

  5. Inexpensive cotton or thin wool cloth for flags and patriotic decoration
FLAG FACTS

  1. Which one of the following national flag situations does not require a uniformed Scout to salute?
    1. The raising and lowering of the colors
    2. The playing of the national anthem
    3. A flag-draped coffin passing by on TV
    4. The recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance

  2. The word flag comes from an old Anglo-Saxon word, "fleogan," meaning
    1. "Banner of honor"
    2. "To float in the wind"
    3. "Symbol of glory"
    4. "Flying the sky"

  3. The part of the flag that has the stars is called the
    1. Guidon
    2. Burgee
    3. Canton
    4. Halyard

  4. True or false: it is against the flag code to fly the flag at night.

  5. Which of the following terms is not a name for our national flag?
    1. "Old Glory"
    2. "Federal Pennant"
    3. "Stars and Stripes"
    4. "The Colors"

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