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50 free Girl Scout trivia questions with answers — history quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free Girl Scout trivia questions with answers. These Girl Scout trivia questions cover both halves of the organisation: the movement and the cookies. On one side, the woman who started it after meeting Robert Baden-Powell, the first troop meeting in Savannah in March 1912, the levels from Daisies to Ambassadors, the Gold Award, and the aviation programme that ran for three decades. On the other, the cookie programme: the Oklahoma troop that sold the first ones in 1917, the wartime years when calendars replaced them, the two bakeries that decide what a cookie is called in your state, and the record sellers who moved eighteen thousand boxes in a single season. Every question runs against a sourced account with the sentence that proves it attached, and the difficulty climbs from things a Brownie knows to details most troop leaders do not. Good for a troop meeting, a leader's icebreaker, or a cookie-booth quiz.
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Q 01Who founded the Girl Scouts of the USA?
Juliette Gordon Low
She had met Robert Baden-Powell a year earlier and came home determined to build something for girls.
Q 02In which year was the organisation founded?
1912
The first troop meeting took place on 12 March that year, and the date is still marked as its birthday.
Q 03In which city did the first troop meet?
Savannah, Georgia
The founder's historic district there became the national programme centre in 1956.
Q 04Roughly how many members has the organisation grown to?
Near 3.7 million
It has been organised and run exclusively for girls since its first meeting.
Q 05What did the founder leave to the Savannah troops in her will?
Her carriage house
The building at 330 Drayton Street became the First Headquarters and is still in use.
Q 06What is the organisation's highest honour for older members?
The Gold Award
Bronze and Silver sit below it, and older members work through both on the way up.
Q 07Which international body is the organisation a member of?
WAGGGS
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts links national organisations across the world.
Q 08Which level covers kindergarten and first grade?
Daisies
That programme started in 1984, succeeding a 1976 pilot called Pixies.
Q 09In which year did the Daisy programme begin?
1984
It replaced a short-lived pilot scheme for the same age group called Pixies.
Q 10Which level was created in 2008 for girls in grades 11 and 12?
Ambassadors
The same reorganisation moved sixth graders up from Junior to Cadette.
Q 11Since the 2008 reorganisation, which grades have Brownies covered?
Second and third
In the 1938 structure, Brownies ran from age seven to nine before the divisions were redrawn.
Q 12Which Senior programme, running from 1941 to the 1970s, was built around aviation?
Wing Scouts
In July 1942, 29 troop leaders from 15 states met in Philadelphia for its leadership training.
Q 13In which year was the first troop for African American girls founded?
1917
An American Indian troop followed in New York State in 1921 and a Mexican American troop in Houston in 1922.
Q 21How many cookies were in a box in 1943?
48
Rationing shaped the whole programme that year, from ingredients to packaging.
Q 22How many bakeries were licensed to make the cookies from the 1990s?
Two
ABC Bakers and Little Brownie Bakers between them decide which varieties a council can sell.
Q 23Roughly what share of the money does the local troop keep?
10 to 20 per cent
Most goes to the regional council for programming, and the bakery takes 25 to 35 per cent.
Q 24Up to how many cookie varieties are offered at once?
Q 14Where was the first American Indian troop formed, in 1921?
New York State
Most units were segregated at that time under state and local laws and customs.
Q 15Which city hosted the first troop for Mexican American girls, in 1922?
Houston
Josephine Groves Holloway went on to found unofficial African American troops in Tennessee in 1933.
Q 16Which scheme, introduced in 2003, ran alongside traditional badge work for older members?
Studio 2B
Its booklets covered topics like environmentalism or self-confidence rather than a single skill.
Q 17Where were the first known Girl Scout cookies sold, in December 1917?
Muskogee, Oklahoma
The Mistletoe Troop baked and sold them at their local high school.
Q 18Which Oklahoma unit made those first sales?
The Mistletoe Troop
Five years later the national magazine printed a sugar cookie recipe and suggested every troop try it.
Q 19In which year did the official manual suggest selling cookies to fund a troop?
1928
A magazine recipe six years earlier had already shown troops how to bake a simple sugar cookie.
Q 20What else did the Girl Scouts sell during the Second World War, when baking ingredients ran short?
Calendars
They also collected fat in cans for the war effort and sold war bonds at no profit.
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The same recipe can carry different names depending on which bakery a council uses.
Q 25Why can the same cookie have two different names?
The bakery decides the name
There has never been a move to standardise them, which is why Samoas and Caramel deLites coexist.
Q 26How many boxes did Elizabeth Brinton, the 'Cookie Queen', sell in 1985?
18000
She sold to a sitting president, Ronald Reagan, and her record stood for 29 years.
Q 27Which president did that record-setting seller sell cookies to?
Ronald Reagan
Over her whole time as a member she moved more than 100,000 boxes.
Q 28Who broke that 29-year sales record in 2014?
Katie Francis
She was twelve years old, and sold 18,107 boxes to do it.
Q 29How many boxes did New Jersey's Charlotte McCourt sell in 2017?
Over 25,000
Her pitch letter, which honestly rated each cookie, went viral and did most of the work.
Q 30How many boxes were left unsold in June 2021?
About 15 million
Normal sales run to roughly 200 million boxes a year, so the pandemic hit hard.