[For Seniors] Quizzes related to April. Perfect for brain training.
We’d like to introduce quizzes about April that are perfect for brain training for older adults.
April brings warmer weather and a sense of excitement.
From plum blossoms and cherry blossoms to many other flowers, the scenery becomes vividly colorful.
In this article, we’ve gathered quizzes featuring kanji and fun facts related to the plants, animals, and foods of April.
We hope these quiz-based activities will help older adults fully enjoy the spring season.
Please use them as a reference for indoor recreation at senior facilities or for outings like cherry-blossom viewing!
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[For Seniors] April-themed Quiz. Perfect for Brain Training (21–30)
Spring Flavors Kanji Quiz
This is a quiz where participants answer the readings of kanji with the theme of delicious foods suited to the spring season.
Since “food” and “spring” serve as hints, the scope is narrowed and it’s easier to arrive at the correct answers—another key point.
You can start with items that are easy to associate with spring flavors, then move on to foods that span late winter to spring or spring to early summer, allowing you to adjust the difficulty.
By learning which foods are especially tasty in the current season through the quiz, participants may also become more interested in food.
Spring Flower Kanji Quiz
Spring is a warm season that overcomes winter’s chill, and as temperatures rise, various flowers begin to appear.
How about a kanji quiz that focuses on spring plants, especially flowers? Since the theme of spring flowers serves as a hint, it should make it easier to arrive at the answers.
Even if you know the names of certain flowers, you might not realize they bloom in spring, so this can offer new discoveries as well.
By learning about spring flowers, this quiz could also give people something to look forward to when they go outside.
Spring Birdsong Quiz
This might be a bit of a niche quiz.
It’s a game where you listen to birdsong and guess which bird is calling.
If you like wild birds, you might enjoy solving it, but if you’re not familiar with them, you might feel a bit hesitant—don’t worry, it’s a multiple-choice quiz.
You may discover, “Oh, so this bird sounds like that!” If you use bird images, it’ll look cute, and above all, the birds’ calls make it a soothing quiz.
Strawberries are actually vegetables.
When I was a kid, every summer there was that rumor going around like “watermelon isn’t a fruit, it’s a vegetable.” Looking back, it’s kind of cute and charming how it came up year after year.
Come to think of it, strawberries are also classified as vegetables by Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
It feels odd to call something that sweet and delicious a vegetable, doesn’t it? Surprisingly, bananas and pineapples are also categorized as vegetables.
That said, these are nowadays sometimes referred to as “fruit-type vegetables,” and are treated a bit differently from ordinary vegetables.
If it’s a sweet, tasty fruit, I just want to call them all fruit already.
Asparagus was originally used for ornamental purposes.
Asparagus has a slightly different form compared to other vegetables.
I’ve heard it takes at least three years from sowing the seeds to harvesting.
I’ve tried growing it a few times myself, but I never made it to harvest…
If you manage it properly, you can keep harvesting for about ten years.
Interestingly, asparagus was originally imported as an ornamental plant and only later became a food.
The curiosity of the person who thought, “Maybe I’ll try eating that plant that looks like a horsetail,” is pretty incredible, isn’t it?
About 20% of elementary school students wear uniforms.
It’s said that about 20% of elementary school students wear uniforms.
The wearing rate varies by region, with higher rates in western Japan, Shikoku, and the Chugoku region.
Some parents point out benefits of having uniforms, such as not having to worry about what to wear and avoiding differences caused by casual clothes.
However, since elementary school children are in a period of rapid growth, uniforms can quickly become too small.
Replacing them can also be costly.
Incidentally, uniforms were introduced in elementary schools during the Meiji era.
The topic of uniforms also seems likely to lead into discussions with older adults about what they wore in their own elementary school days.
There’s an unusual surname that’s written with the characters for April 1st but read as “Watanuki.”
When April comes, we often get a spell of pleasantly warm weather, don’t we? So here are some fun facts related to the springtime mood.
There are people whose surname is written with the characters for “April 1” (四月一日) and read as Watanuki.
It’s an unusual surname, but it has an origin that’s very fitting for April.
As it gets warmer in April, people used to switch from winter kimono padded with cotton to ones with the cotton removed.
Because the cotton (wata) was taken out (nuku) on April 1, the name became Watanuki.
Japan has many other rare surnames as well.
It might be fun to look for them together with older people.