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| IN THE BOY SCOUT HANDBOOK |
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| The NASA video seen here shows this SUV-sized rover as it nears its landing in Gail Crater in August of 2012 |
Curiosity
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ZOD: It has 12 signs |
the Zodiac
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| This Civil Rights leader convinced Nichelle Nichols to stay on "Star Trek", citing her as a positive inspiration |
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| Mitzi Gaynor sang Rodgers & Hammerstein's "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair" in this movie musical |
South Pacific
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| The Scout motto ain't be-bop-a-lula, it's "be" this; let's see if you are |
prepared
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| "It was Brigham Young who led the pioneers across the plains. They suffered with the trials they had to face" |
Utah
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| Valerie Ambroise won an essay contest & named this rover for a 19th-century African-American woman |
(Mary Jo: Who is Tubman?) (Alex: No, but you were close. Who is [*]?)
Sojourner
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Zech: an Old Testament book |
Zechariah
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| At 1968's Miss America Pageant, these were symbolically put in a trash can--but despite the legend were not burned |
bras
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| A giant mechanical spider plays a key role in this 1999 Will Smith movie set in the 19th Century |
Wild Wild West
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| Originally, this highest rank was called Wolf |
an Eagle Scout
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| "I love you, Catalina, you are very dear to me, I love you, Tamalpais, and I love Yosemite" |
California
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| Mars's color is from being covered in this which may have been caused by water starting the oxidation of iron |
rust
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ZPG: A balance where the number of people neither increases nor decreases |
zero population growth
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| In 1967 Time magazine ran the oxymoronic-sounding headline "San Francisco: Love on" this street |
Haight Street
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| Hitchcock couldn't film inside the U.N. for this 1959 thriller, so he re-created its rooms on a soundstage |
North By Northwest
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| Merit badge types include Indian lore, dentistry, motorboating & this, making a record of one's ancestry |
genealogy
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| "It's the spirit of friendship, it's the spirit of hope. It's the Razorbacks every game they play" |
Arkansas
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| In 2005 Opportunity found heat-shield rock, an iron-rich one of these space rocks, the first ever seen on another planet |
a meteorite
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Zr: Metallic element used for laboratory crucibles |
zirconium
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| On April 27, 1967 Canadian Prime Minister Pearson was in this city to open an expo |
Montreal
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| Nick Nolte has the best hands in football but a "bad attitude" in this satire on the business of football |
(Alex: And that book and movie was called [*].)
North Dallas Forty
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| This subdivision of a Boy Scout troop "is a team of six to eight boys who make things happen" |
a patrol
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| "Your freeborn single star sends out its radiance to nations near and far" |
(Alex: [*], yes, the Lone Star State.)
Texas
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| Seen here in a model, on July 20th, 1976, this first U.S. Mars lander successfully soft-landed |
Viking
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ZL: Polish unit of currency |
the zloty
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| Future Pope John Paul II was part of this 1962-65 council & helped draft its constitution on the church & the modern world |
(Rachel: What is Laterine II?)
Vatican II
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| Viggo Mortensen was nominated for an Oscar for his role as a Russian Mafioso in this 2007 film |
Eastern Promises
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| This founder of scouting said, "I don't consider a boy is a real scout till he has passed his First Class Scout" |
Lord Robert Baden-Powell
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| "The whole day through just an old sweet song..." |
(Alex: [*] on my mind--correct.)
Georgia
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