Nothing brings a lounge together like a pot of tea. In all my years on the floor, the tea trolley has started more conversations than any activity I could plan. One resident will tell you about the tea set that only came out for visitors, another about boiling the billy on a camping trip, and someone else will remember the tea lady at work or a tall glass of iced tea on a hot summer porch.
This Tea Time 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 gentle tea quiz for seniors that works best with a cuppa in hand.
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
Red Rose Tea’s much-loved Canadian TV ads ended with which famous line?
- A“Tea for two, and two for tea.”
- B“Only in Canada, you say? Pity.”
- C“The tea of the true north.”
- D“Always the right cup.”
In the TV ads for which iced tea did people take a sip and fall backwards into a swimming pool?
- ALipton
- BSnapple
- CNestea
- DArizona
+ 7 more questions in the printable A4 PDF
🇬🇧 British Round
Which tea brand’s TV adverts starred chimpanzees dressed up as people, from 1956 until 2002?
- ATyphoo
- BTetley
- CTwinings
- DPG Tips
What were the smart waitresses in the J. Lyons tea shops and Corner Houses nicknamed?
- AClippies
- BNippies
- CDashers
- DHoppers
+ 5 more questions in the printable A4 PDF
🇦🇺🇳🇿 Australia & New Zealand Round
In 1903, which famous Australian song was arranged as an advertising jingle for Billy Tea?
- AAdvance Australia Fair
- BClick Go the Shears
- CWaltzing Matilda
- DBotany Bay
Bell Tea, a New Zealand favourite since 1898, was started in which city?
- AAuckland
- BWellington
- CDunedin
- DNapier
+ 5 more questions in the printable A4 PDF
⭐ PLUS a bonus Everyone Remembers round, 4 questions everyone can join in on
Premium Members get all 27 questions, the answer keys, reminiscing questions and the printable A4 PDF.
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1. The Boston Tea Party, when colonists tipped chests of British tea into Boston Harbor, happened in which year?
A. 1492
B. 1620
C. 1773
D. 1865
2. In the American South, what do people call iced tea made with plenty of sugar?
A. Sweet tea
B. Sugar tea
C. Southern punch
D. Honey tea
3. Iced tea became famous across America after it was served to hot, thirsty crowds at which 1904 event in St. Louis?
A. A presidential inauguration
B. The World’s Fair
C. A Mississippi riverboat race
D. The first Thanksgiving parade
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