5 teams took part in this year’s event, after 8 rounds of questions, and a few biscuits, long Buckby emerged as the winners. The questions were varied from geography and history to scouting. The best answer we were given to the question “Who is the chief scout” was Patrick, I’m sure the cubs look up to him, but I’m not sure he is quite in Bear Grylls, league yet.

This years Scout Quiz was won by 4th Daventry to see full results with questions and answers.

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The District event took place on Sat 21st Nov and was a very good scouting evening. On the Monday of the same week I only had my own Long Buckby team and a promise of a Byfield team (who's team details had travelled bizzarly to Vietman). But things took shape by mid week and on the day we had 10 District packs represented. In fact such was the pace of late entries and changes I was wondering if some events would actually be pushed into requiring 4 heats. In the end all individual events were 3 heats and there were even heats in the relays.

Star Trek this year was a resounding success. We initially had 22 teams book to attend, which meant two teams starting at each of our 11 bases (checkpoints). On the night we had a total of 19 teams attend from all across the district which is a brilliant turnout. One of the reasons for teams not attending was large outbreaks of swine flu in their areas but we were not going to let that stop us.

The weather was perfect on the night, the best for Star Trek I can remember in a long time.
This year’s course was longer than in recent years but we thought it was time for a challenge. The total distance was a shade less than 12 miles, so to actually complete the course would have been a formidable task.