[For Seniors] Let's Enjoy Learning about the SDGs through Quizzes!

Last updated:2025/5/13

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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.

Do you know what day March 17 is every year?

Since 2020, it has been designated in Japan as “SDGs Day for Everyone to Think Together.”

The SDGs are 17 goals to be achieved by 2030, known in Japanese as the “Sustainable Development Goals.”

Right now, due to issues such as extreme weather, poverty, and infectious diseases, humanity is facing a crisis that could make it difficult to continue living on Earth.

Experts from various countries discussed these issues and decided on 17 goals.

So this time, we’ve prepared a three-choice SDGs quiz for older adults!

We want older adults to engage with the global issues represented by the SDGs.

In a quiz format, it might be a fun way to spark interest in learning about the SDGs.

[For Seniors] Let’s Have Fun Learning about the SDGs with Quizzes! (1–10)

The international poverty line is the “international standard for people living in extreme poverty.” Approximately how much is the daily living cost in Japanese yen that serves as the basis for the international poverty line revised in 2022?

500 yen
200 yen
100 yen

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200 yen

Data shows that half of the people forced to live in extreme poverty worldwide are children. Recently, there have also been more TV commercials highlighting children living in poverty. It may be important to understand the current situation and take action with a sense of urgency about the issue.

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March 17 is “Everyone Thinks About the SDGs Day,” but why was March 17 chosen?

A global conference on the SDGs was held.
mnemonic
17 This goal was achieved.

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mnemonic

It has been decided that March 17 will be the day to “Think about the 17 SDG Goals Together.” The idea is that the first word, “everyone” (minna), is associated with 3, and the “17 goals” is 17. On this day, companies and individuals share various initiatives related to the SDGs to encourage people to think about them.

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In Japan, it has become an issue that ingredients used in snacks and other sweets are produced through child labor. What is the ingredient in question?

Cocoa in chocolate
cookie flour
Raisins in raisin bread

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Cocoa in chocolate

In Côte d’Ivoire, a cacao-producing country, hundreds of thousands of children are made to work on plantations. Many of these are small family farms, and it is said that the trading price of cocoa beans is often unfairly low. On the farms, children from the families themselves, as well as children brought there through abduction and other means, are made to work.

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Due to deforestation and poaching, a certain animal has now become an endangered species. It’s also familiar in Japan and is included among the twelve zodiac animals—what animal is it?

sheep
horse
Tiger

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Tiger

It’s said that tigers currently live only in Asia. Due to illegal logging and poaching for traditional medicine and fur, tiger numbers are declining. In Russia in 2010, a “Tiger Summit” was held to discuss tigers facing the risk of extinction. July 29, the date the “Tiger Summit” was held, has been designated as Global Tiger Day.

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Something we commonly use in our daily lives is polluting the ocean. It is said that organisms that live centered around the sea are facing a life-threatening crisis. What is that “something?”

plastic
empty can
lumber

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plastic

Protecting marine resources is also one of the goals of the SDGs. The problem of marine pollution from plastic waste, such as PET bottles and plastic bags, is becoming increasingly serious. It is reported that animals that live mainly in the ocean—such as whales, turtles, and migratory birds—have plastic waste in their bodies. Plastic that is accidentally ingested cannot be digested and can be life-threatening. It is predicted that if we do not take measures against plastic waste by 2050, there will be more plastic waste in the ocean than fish.

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