[Battle of Wits] Stimulate your intellectual curiosity! Quiz questions that get adults excited
Have you ever had the conversation fizzle out when a group of adults gets together? That’s when lively quiz questions are perfect.
Riddles that require wit, trick questions, and brain-teasing puzzles you solve by thinking flexibly have a depth that adults can truly appreciate.
The instant you figure out the answer brings a rush of satisfaction, and the clever twists that make you want to say “You got me!” will draw you in.
We’re bringing you a selection of captivating questions that can turn time with friends or family into an intellectually engaging, laughter-filled moment.
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Adult General Knowledge Quiz Compilation to Deepen Trivia, Kanji, and Overall Knowledge (11–20)
Difficult Kanji Quiz
A quiz that tests the depth of your knowledge is the difficult-kanji quiz.
Even familiar words can become unreadable when written in kanji.
Understanding the origins and history of kanji can offer hints for solving them.
It can also serve as brain training, making it a quiz especially recommended for adults.
By competing to see how many you can answer correctly within a time limit, you can rediscover both the fun of quizzes and the richness of the Japanese language.
For example, reading “鮎の塩焼き” as “ayu” (grilled sweetfish) is easy, but you might hesitate when faced with seemingly tricky ones like “海藻” (seaweed) or “海胆” (sea urchin).
Learning the unfamiliar difficult kanji is a form of study in itself.
Hiragana Fill-in-the-Blank Quiz
It’s a quiz where a row of hiragana includes some blanks, and you complete the word by filling those blanks with the same character.
By setting a time limit, players quickly retrieve the matching character from memory, making it a solid brain-training exercise.
The more characters there are, the higher the difficulty, so gradually increase the length to encourage players to recall more words.
You can also use multiple symbols for the blanks and require two different hiragana characters to be filled in—this variant raises the difficulty and is highly recommended.
Flash Idea Prefecture Quiz
There are many types of prefecture quizzes, such as “Which prefecture is the most XX?” or “What is the capital of XX Prefecture?” Among them, the one we’re introducing this time focuses on kanji used in prefecture names, with prompts like “Name the prefectures that include the kanji XX.” Even if you know them all, many people might find it hard to recall them right away when asked in this way.
It’s a quiz idea you can enjoy like brain training.
Three Great ______ of the World
In certain genres, the most representative items are sometimes called the “Big Three.” How about a quiz that explores the world’s various “Big Three”? Present categories that are defined as having a Big Three—such as currencies or delicacies—and have participants guess the answers.
You can easily adjust the difficulty to suit the players, for example by having them provide all three answers, or by giving one or two as hints and asking them to guess the rest.
Since the items known as the Big Three vary in how well-known they are, deciding how to provide hints is also important.
Kanji that are actually difficult but taught in elementary school
Kanji are often taught all together in class, so unless we make a point of reviewing them, it’s easy to overlook the finer details.
Here, we’re focusing on kanji learned in elementary school that you might have forgotten: it’s a quiz where you write the kanji that match the given readings.
Your knowledge of each character will be tested, including commonly seen kanji with easily missed readings and characters with special pronunciations.
Let’s also pay attention to when in elementary school each kanji is taught as we work through each question.
Buzzword Quiz
The “U-Can New Words and Buzzwords Awards” have become a year-end tradition in Japan.
Every year, the winner is either a word that everyone agrees deserves the top spot or one that makes people go “huh?”, but either way it gets people talking.
How about testing how many of those buzzwords you know with a Buzzword Quiz? Younger people tend to be more tuned in to new words and trends, so it could be fun to organize a “Buzzword Quiz Tournament” as an event when a slightly older crowd gets together.
Still, it’s funny how we seem to forget these buzzwords after just a year.
Kanji mistake search
This is a quiz where you find the one character with a different shape hidden among a large array of identical kanji.
Since you can reliably solve it by checking each character one by one, set a time limit and compete on how quickly you can find it.
The key is to choose a kanji to mix in that has a very similar shape, and to design it so it blends in when you glance at the whole set.
The more strokes a kanji has, the harder it is to spot subtle differences, so increasing the number of strokes gradually to raise the difficulty should make it even more exciting.