[For Seniors] Perfect Brain Training! Fun Trivia

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Leveraging my experience working as a care worker at a day service, I am currently active as a writer in the caregiving and welfare fields. Beyond writing, I hope to expand my work into web design and illustration. I am a mother of three who has begun studying to become a certified social worker.

When working at a senior care facility, you may sometimes need to come up with recreation activities or topics for conversations with older adults.

Do you ever struggle with ending up with similar recreation activities all the time or having the same conversations over and over?

So this time, we’ll introduce some fun trivia for older adults that can liven things up.

As people age and accumulate abundant knowledge and experience, they tend to have fewer opportunities to encounter new things and information.

However, incorporating new information such as trivia can evoke surprise and enjoyment, which is said to stimulate the brain.

After a long time, discovering something new and fun can make them want to share it with other seniors or their family members.

Trivia also helps promote communication by encouraging conversations with others.

[For Seniors] Perfect for Brain Training! Fun Trivia (71–80)

The calves are also called the “second heart.” Using a part of the body, what is it called as the “second” what?

The calf, located on the back of the lower leg, has a nickname that uses the name of a body organ: “the second ___.” What is it? The hints are that it’s an internal organ and an indispensable organ not only for humans but also for animals.

The answer is the second “heart”! Blood tends to pool in the legs, but by actively moving the calves, blood circulates better and can be sent back to the heart more effectively.

That’s why they’re called the “second heart.”

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When is the expiration date for the ice cream?

Chilled and delicious ice cream.

Many of you probably eat it often.

Here’s a question: do you know when ice cream expires? If you’re near a freezer, try taking out some ice cream and checking.

There’s probably no expiration date shown.

That’s because, in fact, ice cream doesn’t have a best-before date.

So you can technically eat ice cream that’s several years old.

However, that doesn’t apply if it has warmed up at some point or been opened.

Therefore, it’s basically recommended to eat it while it’s still new.

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What kind of hospitals are there more of than convenience stores?

Convenience stores are everywhere and handy—you probably have one in your neighborhood.

That aside, did you know there’s a type of clinic said to outnumber even convenience stores? The answer is dental clinics.

Their numbers have been increasing year by year, now totaling over 69,000.

For reference, there are about 55,000 convenience stores, which means there are over 10,000 more dental clinics.

Whether that’s true or not, try comparing the number of dental clinics and convenience stores in your area.

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In “cream puff,” the word choux comes from French and means a vegetable. Which vegetable is it?

A sweet and delicious cream puff filled with plenty of cream.

The “chou” in chou cream (cream puff) actually comes from the French word for a vegetable.

Hints for the vegetable: it’s a round, hefty leafy vegetable; you put it in yakisoba; and there’s a dish called “cabbage rolls.” The answer is, of course, cabbage! It’s said that the resemblance between the round shape of a cream puff and a cabbage is also related.

Incidentally, in French a cream puff is called “chou à la crème.”

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What does the “punch” in a punch perm refer to?

This may seem sudden, but what exactly does the “punch” in “punch perm” mean? The answer is: it’s the name of a magazine called Heibon Punch.

The punch perm, a short hairstyle with tight, firm curls, was devised by a barber in Kitakyushu in the 1970s.

A barber-supply company in the Kansai region then named it “punch perm,” borrowing the name from the hugely popular magazine Heibon Punch at the time.

With its intimidating look and the fact that it doesn’t lose shape easily even in a fight, the punch perm became especially popular among tough-looking types.

Fittingly, its origin story packs a punch too!

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What is the name of the event, mainly held in Nagasaki and Saga prefectures, in which the spirits of ancestors and Obon offerings are placed on a boat and floated down a river?

One interesting aspect of the traditional Japanese custom of Obon is that the events vary by region.

Among these Obon events, what is the name of the ceremony, practiced mainly in Nagasaki and Saga Prefectures, in which ancestors’ spirits and Obon offerings are placed on boats and sometimes actually set adrift down a river? The answer is “Shōrō-nagashi” (Spirit Boat Procession).

Because of Masashi Sada’s hit song, it is often associated with a fleeting, melancholy image, but in reality it’s a lively event.

The boats are gorgeously decorated with family crests and lanterns, and the finale echoes with the loud crackle of firecrackers—an event that truly stirs the emotions.

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Like humans, do dogs also lose their baby teeth and grow permanent teeth?

They are born with permanent teeth from the start, so they don't go through tooth replacement.
A baby tooth falls out and a permanent tooth grows in.

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A baby tooth falls out and a permanent tooth grows in.

Just like humans, dogs lose their baby teeth, which are then replaced by permanent teeth. Dogs have a total of 42 permanent teeth. Their baby teeth begin to emerge at around three weeks of age and are usually fully in by about three months, after which the baby teeth start to fall out over the following month or so. Cats also transition from baby teeth to permanent teeth in the same way.

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