[For Seniors] Nostalgic quizzes that bring back memories! Showa-era entertainment and sports questions
It’s fun to look back on the past, isn’t it? Thinking about nostalgic topics—like entertainment, sports, and pop culture—can bring back memories and make our hearts skip with excitement.
How about we revisit those moments together through a quiz? Let’s enjoy a good time reminiscing about things that are commonplace now, or those that have changed with the times, and let the conversation blossom with memories.
I can almost hear everyone saying, “Oh yeah, I remember that!”
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Entertainment, Arts, and Sports (11–20)
What became widespread in Japan as a result of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics?
In 1964, the 18th Summer Olympics were held in Tokyo.
Along with that, something became widespread in Japan.
What was it? The answer is pictograms.
Simply put, pictograms are symbols that convey meanings or concepts.
They are also called picture words.
Examples include the figures indicating men’s and women’s restrooms, and the emergency exit sign.
For the Tokyo Olympics, pictograms for sports events and facilities were created as part of the hospitality effort.
What was the event called in which artworks on sports themes competed for rankings, which once used to be an Olympic discipline?
Although it is no longer an official event because preserving the quality of artworks and establishing objective scoring criteria are difficult, there used to be competitions in past modern Olympics in which artworks were ranked.
They were called “art competitions.” Japanese participants also took part in the Los Angeles and Berlin Olympics.
Starting with the Helsinki Olympics, instead of a competition, art exhibitions have been included as part of the cultural program, as stipulated by the Olympic Charter.
What bird always appears at the Olympic opening ceremony?
This is an issue that ties into the staging specified in the Olympic Charter.
The answer is “doves.” As many of you know, doves are recognized as a symbol of peace, and at the Olympic Opening Ceremony, doves were always released after the lighting of the Olympic flame.
However, due to a tragic accident at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, real doves no longer appear in the staging today.
That doesn’t mean doves have disappeared from the Olympics altogether—each country incorporates doves into their staging in different ways, so please keep an eye out for them.
It’s said that after the war, gateball was invented by a man in Hokkaido who had a certain occupation. What was his occupation?
The person who first came up with gateball was Eiji Suzuki, who ran a bakery in Hokkaido.
In the postwar years, when resources were scarce, he created it out of a desire to foster children and help them grow up healthy.
It’s said he took inspiration from the French game “croquet,” which resembles gateball and was introduced to Japan during the Meiji era.
Volleyball with six players per team is the mainstream today. However, when volleyball was first introduced to Japan, it did not have six players. How many players were there?
Volleyball was introduced to Japan during the Meiji era.
At that time, even in its birthplace, the United States, official rules had not yet been firmly established, and under that influence, Japan played with 16 players per side.
Today the number has been greatly reduced to six, but it seems there were many participants back then.
Before adopting the six-player format, Japan had a long period of nine-player volleyball.
Owing to that legacy, nine-player volleyball is still enjoyed in Japan today.