NewsTracker Answers for week of Aug. 07, 2023

Q: Hundreds of teenage boy and girl Scouts have fallen ill at the World Scout Jamboree encampment in South Korea during a sweltering heat wave. Where is South Korea?

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Q: Nearly 40,000 Scouts – mostly middle and high school students – traveled from 155 countries to participate in the week-long event. Where did the worldwide Scouting Movement start?

A. Australia

B. Britain

C. Germany

D. United States

B. Robert Baden-Powell, a British general, started the Scouting in 1907 with a week-long camp with some students from boy’s schools in the London area. He based youth scouting on lessons he learned about military scouting during the Boer War in South Africa.

Q: Britain sent the largest group of Scouts, about 4,000, to the jamboree. It is moving those Scouts from the encampment tents to air-conditioned hotels in the South Korean capital of . . .

A. Beijing

B. Manila

C. Seoul

D. Tokyo

C. In the capital Seoul, officials reported last week that more than 20 South Koreans have died in the heat wave that is ravaging much of East Asia. None of the more than 400 reported heat stroke victims at the jamboree were considered critically ill.

Q: Scientists linked climate change to both the killer heat and deadly flooding that hit South Korea and what nearby island country?

A. Japan

B. Philippines

C. Singapore

D. Taiwan

A. About 120 miles from South Korea, Japan reported more than 70 heat-related deaths last month, including a 13-year-old on her way home from school. Typhoons and torrential rains this summer also caused flooding and landslides that killed scores of people in South Korea, Japan and other nations in East Asia.

Q: Scouts from the United States and Singapore joined the British in folding up their tents and heading for cooler quarters. Which of these nations once banned Scouting?

A. Germany

B. Poland

C. Spain

D. All of the above

D. Over the years, many authoritarian regimes around the world have banned Scouting. Scouts were often replaced with groups like the Young Pioneers, who trained youth to support communist regimes, or the Hitler Youth, teaching loyalty to a fascist dictator.