[For Seniors] Fun and Lively! Recommended Quiz Questions
How about quiz games like wordplay and riddles during recreation time at day service centers and other senior facilities? Puzzles that hide meanings in the arrangement, color, or orientation of letters, as well as riddles, are enjoyable brain teasers.
The answers often draw on familiar folk tales or everyday events, so seniors can experience that delightful “I get it!” moment of surprise and accomplishment when inspiration strikes.
The process of thinking stimulates the brain, and smiles and conversation naturally arise when the answer is revealed.
This time, we’ll introduce clever wordplay and riddle quizzes that are sure to get seniors excited and thinking, the kind that make you say, “Wow, that’s clever!”
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Health and Body Knowledge Quiz (1–10)
In addition to sourness, sweetness, and saltiness, the tongue can detect one more taste. What is the other one?
When we eat food, we sense various tastes with our tongues.
So, alongside sourness, sweetness, and saltiness, what is the other taste we actually perceive? Here’s a hint: many children tend to dislike it a bit, and many people come to appreciate its deliciousness more as they grow older.
The answer is bitterness.
The tongue has taste buds—organ-like sensors that detect tastes—that perceive each of these flavors.
Eat plenty and enjoy a wide variety of tastes!
When does “between meals” mean in terms of how to take medicine?
Among older adults, many probably receive medications from the hospital.
Some of you might also have been instructed to take your medicine “between meals.” So, when exactly does “between meals” mean you should take your medicine? Many people think it means during a meal, but that’s incorrect.
The answer is: between one meal and the next—for example, between breakfast and lunch, or between lunch and dinner.
Strictly speaking, the guideline is about 2 to 3 hours after eating.
If you’re an older adult and you’re given medicine with the instruction to take it “between meals,” please be careful to follow this timing.
Health and Body Knowledge Quiz (11–20)
What disease has an increased risk due to a weakening of the ability to swallow food?
A decline in muscle strength is something you may notice in everyday moments, and some people might feel that swallowing food has become harder than before.
Did you know that there’s a disease whose risk increases as your swallowing ability weakens? The answer is aspiration pneumonia—a dangerous condition in which food or saliva enters the airway and causes inflammation.
It can easily become severe and even be life-threatening, so keep this in mind and pay attention to your swallowing ability and the muscles of your face.
What foods are expected to be effective for cancerous eye strain?
Blueberries are a food that may help relieve eye strain.
Eye strain occurs when the muscles around the eyes become tense.
Blueberries are rich in a pigment called anthocyanin, which supports eye movement.
There is a pigment called rhodopsin that is necessary for capturing light; when the eyes are overused, the resynthesis of rhodopsin can’t keep up, leading to eye fatigue.
The anthocyanins in blueberries help promote the resynthesis of rhodopsin and can help alleviate eye fatigue.
When you feel a sneeze coming on, you can stop it by using a certain part of your body. How do you use that body part?
You’re about to sneeze in a quiet place… In times like that, knowing this method could come in handy! The spot is a part of your face—close to your nose, where the sneeze comes from.
The answer is to press under your nose with your finger.
If you say it’s the spot Kato-chan from The Drifters presses when he does “Kato-chan, pe!” older people might get it right away.
That said, it seems that stopping a sneeze isn’t very good for your body, so try using this only when you really have to!
When you can’t stop coughing, drinking a syrup made by soaking a certain vegetable in honey can calm it. What is that vegetable?
The correct answer is “daikon radish.” A compound found in daikon called isothiocyanate has anti-inflammatory effects, and honey contains an enzyme called glucose oxidase.
This enzyme reacts with oxygen in the air to produce hydrogen peroxide.
Hydrogen peroxide, also known as “oxydol,” has disinfectant properties—the same “oxydol” used to disinfect wounds.
Based on this, “honey daikon” appears to help soothe coughs by disinfecting the throat and reducing inflammation.
What should you do with one hand to sing in a high voice at karaoke?
Have you ever wished you could sing just a little higher at karaoke? It feels great when you can hit those high notes cleanly, doesn’t it? So what should you do with one of your hands to help with that? The answer is: hold something heavy in one hand.
When you sing, it’s important to use diaphragmatic breathing.
If your center of gravity is above your chest, you end up singing only with your mouth.
By holding something heavy, your center of gravity drops and you engage your core, which is said to help you reach higher notes than usual.
Give it a try!
What symptoms are likely to appear simultaneously when one becomes malnourished?
Eating is essential for living, and being mindful of nutrition leads to health and happiness.
When you fall into a state where this vital nutrition is lacking—so-called undernutrition—what symptom is said to commonly appear at the same time? Ideally, it’s best to have knowledge rather than experience, but some people may recall it from personal experience, such as having an unbalanced diet.
The answer is dehydration.
Knowing that a lack of nutrition can cause various adverse effects can help you pay closer attention to your nutrition.
For maintaining good health, how many grams or more of vegetables is it desirable to consume per day?
Although vegetables are strongly associated with being healthy, it can be hard to know how much you should actually eat if you’re just going about your day.
Let’s find out how much vegetable intake is recommended per day and use that to plan healthier daily meals.
First, think about how many vegetables you’re eating in your regular meals, then check the required amount.
By comparing whether you’re eating too much or too little, you’ll get a concrete picture of what you need—highly recommended.
The answer is “350 grams per day,” but that doesn’t mean anything goes as long as you hit that number.
In addition to how you reach that amount, be mindful of nutritional balance as well.
In prehistoric times, very few people got cavities. Why was that?
It’s surprising to think that our human ancestors, primitive people, didn’t have cavities, isn’t it? How could that be in a time without toothbrushes or toothpaste? The hint lies in the foods they ate back then.
The answer is that they only had hard foods.
Hard foods naturally increase the number of times you chew, which stimulates plenty of saliva, helping wash away bacteria and the like.
In contrast, in modern times, the increase in soft foods makes it easier for food to get stuck between teeth, and because we chew far fewer times, saliva production has greatly decreased, making us much more prone to cavities.