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For Seniors: Lively! Trivia and Fun Facts Quiz for August

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August still holds onto the summer heat.

Among staff at nursing homes and day service centers, many of you may be looking for recreational activities that don’t put a strain on older adults’ bodies.

With that in mind, we’ve gathered quizzes featuring trivia and fun facts that seniors can enjoy indoors.

Quizzes can be done while seated, either individually or in groups.

To help everyone feel the season, the questions focus on the month of August.

While enjoying the feeling of summer, some questions also invite you to reminisce about the past, which may help stimulate the brain.

We hope you enjoy a fun time with these quizzes.

[For Seniors] Liven Up! Trivia and Fun Facts Quiz for August (11–20)

Unlike modern watermelons, old watermelons lacked something. What was missing?

A quintessential symbol of summer: the watermelon.

Today, we’re all familiar with its round shape and striped pattern, but in fact, watermelons in the past were a little different—there was something they didn’t have.

What was it? “Weren’t they not red?” “Did they have more seeds?” “Weren’t they less sweet?” You can imagine all sorts of guesses.

It’s a summery question you can enjoy chatting about while you think of the answer.

So, the correct answer is… vertical stripes.

The now-standard pattern didn’t exist back then.

Even the appearance of watermelons has evolved over time.

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What fruit has its anniversary on August 17?

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Ice cream was originally served as a kind of medicine. What was the medicine for?

On hot summer days, you really feel like eating ice cream, don’t you? Many people think of ice cream as a dessert, but it actually wasn’t originally one.

In ancient Greece and Rome, it was reportedly eaten by soldiers for recovery from fatigue and as a health food.

Back then, people would pour honey or fruit syrups over natural ice or snow and eat it.

It seems that ice cream began to be eaten as a dessert like it is today around the 16th to 17th centuries, and it is said to have been introduced to Japan from the late Edo to the Meiji period.

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Festival Quiz

[For Senior Facilities • Brain Training] Brain training with a quiz on Japan’s iconic summer festivals! Use three hints to find the answer! 8 questions 🍉

Festival Quiz

With helpful hints, it’s easy to join in! Here are some ideas for a festival quiz.

In Japan, there are famous festivals held in the summer.

This time, let’s try a festival quiz where you use hints to figure out the answer.

For example, there’s a question that shows three hints: “streamers,” “kusudama,” and “Miyagi Prefecture.” Some of you might know the correct answer right away from those clues.

There are a total of eight festival quiz questions, so be sure to give them a try!

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Mosquitoes that appear in summer: Which one sucks blood, the female or the male?

Before you know it, you sometimes get bitten by a mosquito and start to itch, right? In fact, only female mosquitoes suck blood.

The reason they do is to obtain the protein needed for laying eggs, so males don’t feed on blood.

Usually, to get energy in the form of sugars, they sip nectar from flowers or sap from plants.

Since they can’t lay eggs without blood, female mosquitoes desperately seek it to leave offspring.

Mosquitoes are a pesky presence that shows up in summer, but it turns out they have a reason for sucking blood.

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What is the official name of the marble inside a bottle of ramune?

Ramune in glass bottles is a quintessential symbol of summer.

Drinking a well-chilled bottle of ramune on a hot summer day can blow the heat away.

Speaking of bottled ramune, its hallmark is the glass marble inside.

The official name of this marble is the “A-dama” (A marble).

Marbles that met the standard—specifically, those without any distortions that could be used as the bottle’s stopper—were called A-dama.

Those that didn’t meet the standard were called B-dama and became the toy marbles known as “bīdama.” Back when bottled ramune was first sold, many B-dama were produced, and shops that sold ramune would hand them out to children.

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[For Seniors] Lively and Fun! Trivia and Fun Facts Quiz for August (21–30)

Mosquitoes also suck things other than human blood. What are they?

When you think of mosquitoes, the first thing that comes to mind is probably “sucking blood.” But in fact, they drink more than just blood.

So what else do they drink? Here’s a hint: something sweet.

The answer is… flower nectar.

Mosquitoes actually sip nectar regularly to replenish their energy.

Only females drink blood, and only because they need it to develop their eggs—males drink nectar exclusively.

Learning a new side of a familiar creature can spark conversation and stimulate the brain while enjoying the feel of the season.

It’s a tidbit you’ll remember the next time you hear that buzzing sound in the summer.

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