Birthdays matter in aged care. In all my years on the floor, I have never seen a resident who didn’t light up when the cake came out and the whole room sang. Ask about birthdays and the stories come thick and fast: the cake Mum made from the Women’s Weekly book, getting the bumps in the school playground, a 21st in the local hall with a big silver key, or the card that came from the Queen on Nana’s 100th.
This Birthday Quiz for Seniors has 27 multiple-choice questions in four rounds: a USA & Canada Round, a British Round, an Australia & New Zealand Round, and a short Everyone Remembers round that suits any group. It is a cheerful birthday quiz for seniors that works for a monthly birthday morning tea or any day you feel like a party.
How to Play
Read each question and the four choices slowly, then give the group plenty of time to think. Play in teams, as one big group, or just for fun. There is no need to keep score.
Each round stands on its own, so you can run just the round that suits your residents, or play them all for a mixed room.
The printable A4 PDF has large print, each round starting on a new page, an answer key for every round for the activity leader, and reminiscing questions for each round.
A taste of what’s inside
Here are two sample questions from each country round.
🇺🇸🇨🇦 USA & Canada Round
For his 11th birthday in 1946, young Elvis Presley wanted a rifle, but his mother talked him into something else at the Tupelo hardware store. What was it?
- AA trumpet
- BA guitar
- CA harmonica
- DA piano
In parts of Atlantic Canada, such as Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, family might sneak up on the birthday person and rub what on their nose for good luck?
- AFlour
- BJam
- CButter
- DMaple syrup
+ 7 more questions in the printable A4 PDF
🇬🇧 British Round
In British school playgrounds, what happened when a child got “the bumps” on their birthday?
- AThey got a sweet for every year
- BThey hopped once round the playground
- CThey wore a paper crown all day
- DFriends lifted them up and bumped them, once for each year
In the Beatles’ 1967 song, Paul McCartney asks “Will you still need me, will you still feed me” when he reaches which age?
- AFifty-five
- BSixty-four
- CSeventy
- DEighty-one
+ 5 more questions in the printable A4 PDF
🇦🇺🇳🇿 Australia & New Zealand Round
Which magazine published the famous 1980 Children’s Birthday Cake Book, with the duck cake, the train cake and the swimming pool cake?
- ANew Idea
- BWoman’s Day
- CThe Australian Women’s Weekly
- DBetter Homes and Gardens
New Zealand’s much-loved hokey pokey ice cream is vanilla with little lumps of what?
- AChocolate chips
- BPeanuts
- CMarshmallow
- DHoneycomb toffee
+ 5 more questions in the printable A4 PDF
⭐ PLUS a bonus Everyone Remembers round, 4 questions everyone can join in on
🌏 Don’t skip a round just because it’s not your country. Most of these questions work wherever your residents grew up. Australians and Brits love the American questions too, and everyone has a story about birthday cake and party games.
Premium Members get all 27 questions, the answer keys, reminiscing questions and the printable A4 PDF.
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1. The tune of “Happy Birthday to You” was written in 1893 by two sisters from Kentucky for a kindergarten class. What was the song first called?
A. Good Night, Dear Children
B. Hello to You All
C. Good Morning to All
D. Happy Day to You
2. In 1962, which film star sang a breathy “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” to John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden?
A. Marilyn Monroe
B. Doris Day
C. Elizabeth Taylor
D. Grace Kelly
3. Which made-up American homemaker had her name on the boxed cake mixes that baked many a birthday cake from 1947 on?
A. Little Debbie
B. Sara Lee
C. Duncan Hines
D. Betty Crocker
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