I was asked by Camp Med, a licensed day care program and summer camp sponsored by the City of South Pasadena, to give a presentation to our campers about the upcoming Summer Olympics, as I would be leaving for Beijing shortly to work on the Games. I view if I just talk and the kids just listen, it could get kind of boring. So instead, I proposed an Olympic house Feud.
The campers were divided into 4 groups. The winning group would each receive a prize. The way it worked is that I would ask a request and give one specific group a occasion to respond. Unlike television house Feud where only one someone can participate, here anything from the group could chip in. The team leader would then try to write down the best answer. If the riposte was wrong, the request would move to the next group. If one group was noticeably weaker, they would get the easier questions.
What struck me is how engaged the kids got. You could see the wheels turning. They started thinking. They wanted to give the right answer. They wanted to win. They were having fun and so were the other counselors.
The questions asked required dissimilar skills, memory, reasoning and also listening (to what I had talked about throughout the summer). Due to the internet, it was very easy to come up with questions as complicated trivia, kids and data sites exist.
When I returned from the Olympics, the kids were very interested about my experience. It was as if the Olympic house Feud had opened the door for them to be aware and interested in the Olympics. The event was such a success that we are following it up with a Halloween house Feud. For Halloween house Feud, more jokes and questions with an element of levity will be included. And there will be more questions that our younger kids can answer.
Attached are the questions (with answers) to both house Feuds:
Olympic house Feud
1. Where am I going tomorrow?
China
2. The J in Beijing, how is it pronounced?
As a z
3. How far away is Beijing from Los Angeles?
6300 miles
4. China is the 3rd largest country in the world. What is the largest country in the world?
Russia
5. What is the second largest country in the world?
Canada
6. Which country is imaginable to win the most medals at the Summer Olympics?
China
7. Where was the last Olympics?
Turin, Italy
8. Which country won the most medals at the Winter Olympics in Italy?
Germany (29)
9. The Us won the second most medals. How many medals did the Us win in Italy?
25
10. Who is shooting to win 8 Gold Medals and what sport is he in?
Michael Phelps, Swimming
11. Dara Torres is on the Us Olympic Swimming team. How old is she?
41
12. Why have so many Swimming world records been recorded in the last combine of months?
The swimsuit: Speedo's Lzr Racer.
13. What women's sport will no longer be in the Olympics after this year?
Softball
14. Why are some of the athletes not going to occasion Ceremonies?
To avoid the air pollution
15. What kind of work do I do at the Olympics?
Ticketing
16. Name this preeminent someone I gave Olympic tickets to in Korea in 1988? Clue 1; He lives in California and is over 50. Clue 2: He's been in science fiction movies. Clue 3: He received weightlifting tickets.
Arnold Schwarzennegger
17. Name this preeminent someone I gave Olympic tickets to in Spain in 1992. Clue 1: He lives in California and is over 60. Clue 2: He was in 1 of the batman movies. Clue 3: He received basketball tickets.
Jack Nicholson
18. How many Olympics have I worked on?
11
19. Name a summer Olympic event that many find best to watch on tv than see in person?
Gymnastics, diving, water polo
20. Where will the next Olympics be?
Vancouver Canada
21. What year?
2010
22. What country did the Olympic Games generate over 2700 years ago?
Greece
23. As a 12 year old boy, at the Mexico City Olympics, I was in attendance when Bob Beamon thoroughly shattered a world record. He beat the previous world narrative by so much that Sports visible named this 1 of the 5 most sports moments of the 20th century. What sport did he break the narrative in? Clue: It was in track & field.
Bob Beamon set a world narrative for the long jump with a jump of (29 ft. 2½ in.). It was one of the most amazing feats in the history of the Olympics. He shattered the narrative by more than 21 inches. It has since been called the perfect jump.
24. What Olympic occasion did Sports visible call the most sports occasion of the 20th century? Clue: It happened at a Winter Olympics. Clue 2: It complex the United States
In 1980 at Lake Placid, a group of amateur & collegiate hockey players from the Us defeated the best pro hockey team in the world, the Soviet Union, 4-3. This has since been named the Miracle on Ice.
Halloween house Feud
1. What year did the first Casper the friendly Ghost cartoon appear?
1924? 500Bc? 2004? 500Bc? 1945? (this one) The Middle Ages?
2. Boris Karloff played what preeminent movie character?
Frankenstein
3. What do you get when you cross Bambi with a ghost?
Bamboo
4. Bela Lugosi played what preeminent movie character?
Dracula
5. How much does the world's biggest pumpkin weigh? A: 245 pounds, B: 485 pounds, C: 685 pounds, D: 1,385 pounds (this one)
6.What preeminent movie character did Lon Chaney Jr. Play. Clue: Michael J. Fox, also played this character.
The werewolf
7. agreeing to those silly, scary movies, when do werewolves come out?
At Full Moons
8 What do birds give out on Halloween night?
Tweets...
9. Bodies that are wrapped in cloth and stored in tombs are known as what?
Mummies.
10. In folklore, a male witch is known as a?
Warlock
11. As a Halloween treat, what chocolate candy bar do kids like best of all?
Snickers
12. agreeing to legend, which Halloween beast ordinarily has all of the following: a unibrow, tattoos, and a long middle finger?
A: a werewolf (this one), B: a vampire, C: a witch, D: a golem
13. If you were to draw a witch, what specific item might you want to contain on her face?
Warts
14. A whole of preeminent Science-fiction and scary movies were filmed in South Pasadena, name 1:
o Back to the future (1985)
o Back to the future Part Ii (1989)
o Back to the future Part Iii (1990)
o Halloween (1978)
o Halloween Ii (1981)
o Halloween: 25 Years of Terror (2006)
o Hell Night (1981)
o Jurassic Park Iii (2001)
o Prom Night (2008)
o Scream 2 (1997)
o Teen Wolf (1985)
o Terminator, The (1984)
15. What's a monsters favorite dessert?
I-Scream!!
16. Name 1 of the 5 most favorite Halloween costumes for kids last year (2007)?
Princess (10.7%)
Spider-Man (4.8%)
Pirate (4.7%)
Witch (4.2%)
Fairy (2.8%)
