Test Your Knowledge of Outward Bound
Q: What is the name of the Outward Bound Flag and what does it mean?
Q: When the Outward Bound model was first brought to the United States, which popular US volunteer group did Outward Bound train the first participants of?
Q: What life altering event at a young age caused Kurt Hahn to be sensitive to the sun for the rest of his life, coining the phrase “Your disability is your opportunity”
Q: Which political figure did Kurt Hahn openly stand up against which caused him to be imprisoned and later deported from his home country?
Q: Which philosopher did Kurt Hahn base a lot of his educational theory on?
Q: In 1965, while on visit to the US to celebrate the success of the first Outward Bound school in Colorado, which historic event did Hahn drop what he was doing in order to be involved with the people?
Q: Which US President attended an Outward Bound course?
Q: What movie is former U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel Bob Rheault, founder of the Outward Bound Veteran’s program, portrayed in?
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Q: What is the name of the Outward Bound Flag and what does it mean?
A: Blue Peter, Nautical flag indicating a ship is leaving the safety of harbor
Q: When the Outward Bound model was first brought to the United States, which popular US volunteer group did Outward Bound train the first participants of?
A: The Peace Corps
Q: What life altering event at a young age caused Kurt Hahn to be sensitive to the sun for the rest of his life, coining the phrase “Your disability is your opportunity”
A: Severe sunstroke while out sailing
Q: Which political figure did Kurt Hahn openly stand up against which caused him to be imprisoned and later deported from his home country?
A: Adolf Hitler
Q: Which philosopher did Kurt Hahn base a lot of his educational theory on?
A: Plato
Q: In 1965, while on visit to the US to celebrate the success of the first Outward Bound school in Colorado, which historic event did Hahn drop what he was doing in order to be involved with the people?
A: Watts Riots, Los Angeles
Q: Which US President attended an Outward Bound course?
A: Jimmy Carter, who went on a course with North Carolina Outward Bound School (NCOBS)
Q: What movie is former U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel Bob Rheault, founder of the Outward Bound Veteran’s program, portrayed in?
A: Apocalypse Now, Colonel Walter Kurtz
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WHO brought OB to the US? Josh Miner – to COBS in 1962. Peace Corps course was in 1963 – Nepal 1
WHO started CalOBS? Gary Templin, Victor Walsh, and Jed Williamson – 1971
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