Quizzes & Word Games

Quizzes / Word Games

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Facilitator Diversional Therapist, Lifestyle / Activity Staff or Volunteer

Objective of Activity

Mental Stimulation and to minimise cognitive decline. Capability Verbal communication skills and ability to share long term memories in a group setting

Environment Lounge area Equipment

 Scissors  A box to put all the questions into  Answer Sheet

Instructions

 Pick-a-Box was a highly successful Australian TV quiz show of the 1950s and 1960s.

 For this version of Pick-a-Box, print the questions, laminate if you want to reuse for sturdiness cut them out.

 Put them all in a box and ask your clients to choose one at random.

 Read the question out for everyone to hear it.

 Allow the person who pulled the question out first chance to answer it

 Keep your answer sheet handy!

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Q2 Q1 In 1911 Douglas Q3 Who did Mawson’s ship docked The population of Prince Fredrik marry? in Hobart on its way to Tasmania in 1842 the Antarctic. What was was ……. ? the ships name?

Q4 The Beaconsfield mine Q6 collapse, which killed Q5 By 1842 convict voyages In 2003 which Tasma- one and left two to Tasmania had been nian won the reality TV miners trapped ceased. show Big Brother? underground for a True or False? fortnight, occurred on the ……?

Q9 Q7 Q8 Which never constructed The first Sydney to Joseph Lyons was the Tasmanian Dam lead to Hobart Race occurred first Tasmanian to great protests in the early in 19…… ? …… ? 1980’s ?

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Q10 As of 2008 Tasmania was Q11 the Australian state with Q12 Mt Wellington is the In what year did the highest fertility rate, imposing backdrop to with women having on Port Arthur close as a Hobart. prison? average 2.24 children. How high is it? True or False?

Q13 Q14 Q15 What is the ‘nickname’ What is the capital What is the name of for Tasmania? city of Tasmania? the river that Hobart lies along?

Q17 Q16 If you wanted to visit a What is a Tasmanian Q18 seahorse farm, where What is the name of Devil? would you head? Tasmania’s main port?

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Q20 Q21 Q19 What is the name of the What was the year of What is the second town that has Australia’s the Tasman Bridge largest city in oldest bridge? disaster? Tasmania?

Q22 What was the original Q23 Q24 name of the small What was the original What is the most island near Port name of Tasmania? famous Tasmanian Arthur which was animal that is now used as a burial site? extinct?

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Answers Q1: Mary Donaldson

Q2: Aurora

Q3: About 57,000

Q4: On the 26th April 2006

Q5: Regina Bird

Q6: False

Q7: Become Prime Minister

Q8: 1945

Q9: The Franklin Dam

Q10: True

Q11: 1271 Metres

Q12: 1877

Q13: Apple Isle

Q14: Hobart

Q15: The Derwent River

Q16: A small black and white marsupial, native to Tasmania

Q17: Beauty Point. Beauty Point claims to be the only place in the world with a seahorse farm. Seahorse World is about 50 minute drive from Launceston. It is both an educational tourist attraction and acentre for research helping to ensure that the humble hippocampus (seahorse) is around for many years to come.

Q18: Devonport, in the northern part of Tasmania, is the main port. Hobart has one of the world’s finest deep- water ports; most shipping into Hobart is done by cruise liner during the summer.

Q19: Launceston

Q20: Richmond. The Richmond bridge is the oldest bridge in Australia built in 1823, while the Ross Bridge is the second oldest built between 1832 - 1836.

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Answers Q21: 1975. At 21:27 on the 5th of January 1975 the “Lake Illawarra” crashed into the Tasman Bridge.

Q22: Opossum Island. Now known as the Isle of the Dead, was chosen by Rev. John Manton in 1833, and was used to bury convicts, ex-convicts and free people. Between 1833 and 1877 about 1000 burials were pre formed on the island. The free people were buried on the highest part of the island, while the convicts and ex-convicts were buried on the lower parts of the island in unmarked graves.

Q23: Van Diemen’s Land. It was named after Anthony Van Diemen, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies Company. It was renamed Tasmania in 1856.

Q24: The Tasmanian Tiger. The tiger looked like a large, long dog, with stripes, a heavy stiff tail and a big head. Fully grown it measured about 180cm ( 6ft) from nose to tail tip, stood about 58cm (2 ft) high at the shoulder and weighed up to 30kg. The short, soft fur was brown except for the 13 - 20 brown-black stripes that extended from the base of the tail to almost the shoulders.

The last known Tasmanian Tiger died in the Hobart Zoo on the 7th September, 1936. However it wasn't until 1986 it was declared extinct by international standards.

The Tasmanian Devil is a “little cousin” of the Tiger, but is not extinct,

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Goals of Activity PHYSICAL:  Maintain sitting posture and balance  Encourage walking to group if ambulant

SENSORY:  Maximise the use of auditory and visual skills  Reduce risk of sensory isolation by utilising senses: hearing and vision

COGNITIVE:  Maintain alertness and concentration span and attention skills  Utilize comprehension and broad thinking skills  Stimulate residual mental abilities to optimise cognitive functioning  Promote visualisation skills  Maintain/build alertness and concentration span  Prompts past learned skills of a familiar nature  Stimulate long-term memories

COMMUNICATION:  Maintain social interaction and motivation to communicate within the group  Expression should be encouraged to maintain skills at both a simple and more complex level of communication  Stimulate and motivate social contact and communication skills, especially relation to the group  Maintain verbal and non-verbal skills

SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL:  Provide an avenue for interaction with fellow residents to promote and maintain social skills  Facilitate feelings of self-worth; increase self-esteem by promoting self-expression of one’s own ideas and current affairs  Promote a sense of belonging, feelings of self-worth and self-esteem, especially on completion of quiz or word game  Peer support and encouragement, self-expression and assistance are provided in an enjoyable group environment  Reduce risk of social isolation  Maintain past interests, promote a sense of well-being  Increase self-esteem with group participation  Have fun

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Residents Who Regularly Attend: Comments/ Prompts/Assistance Required:

Name of Person Completing Form: Signature :

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Plan is to be reviewed annually or as required. Date Revised: