Virtual Team Brain Storm: Brain Teaser!

I hope everyone is doing well!  Enjoy the warm weather while you can! Team Brain Storm has 18 members…let me know if you have a friend that would like to join!

This week’s Brain Teaser is called An Upside-Down Spotted Striped Box:  This is a Trick Brain Teaser…this type of teaser appears difficult at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.

Follow these steps and see if you can figure this out.

1) Get a brown, cardboard box.
2) Get purple, orange, and turquoise paints.
3) Paint the box orange.
4) Paint on purple spots.
5) Paint on turquoise stripes.
7) Turn it upside down.
8) Lie on your side.

What is missing from this sequence?  If you would like a hint, see below.  The answer is also below. Good luck!

Kelly Lance
Team Captain

Hint

The answer isn't to get a paintbrush, wait for it to dry, paint the bottom, or something similar. Remember, this is a TRICK teaser.

Answer

Step 6!

Team Assisted Care: Morning Trivia with Carrie!

After a great exercise class Carrie leads the residents in Trivia fun!

Virtual Team Brain Storm: Trivia!

Good Morning Team Brain Storm:


This week, at one of our members’ requests, we have a few pieces of trivia. Good luck! Share with the team if you are able to solve them! The answers are below.

1) When NASA was considering animals to experiment on in space, they picked birds, because of the low maintenance. Although NASA was aware that most birds require gravity to swallow and would not survive the weightlessness of space, they did manage to find two types of bird that would survive the trip.

Which birds were they?

2) What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

Answers:


1) Doves and Pigeons.

Since most birds swallow water by tilting their heads back and using gravity to let the water run down their throats, they would dehydrate in space. Doves and Pigeons are the only birds that can drink without tilting their heads back.

2) Niagara Falls - The rim is worn down about 1 foot each year because of the hundreds of thousands of gallons of water that move over it every minute

Have a great week!

Virtual Team Brain Storm: Update!

This week, Team Brain Storm looked at research that revealed physical, social, and mental activity may protect memory and alertness. For example, mice raised in an “enriched” environment, which contains other mice and a variety of stimulating toys, displayed dendrite growth and performed better on learning tasks than inactive, isolated mice did. Thus, mental, social, and physical stimulation are all positive regulators of neural growth and seem to have an additive effect on learning and memory.


In our brain teaser for the week, team members had to find the odd ones out in the following groups of words. Each group of words has TWO words which do not belong.

Here is an example to get started:

Lily - Jane - Tulip - Rose

Jane does not belong as it's the only one which is not a flower.

Tulip also does not belong because it's the only one which is not a girl's name.


You're on your own for the rest! Answers are below.

1. Dodge - Ford - Lincoln - Hoover

2. King - Earl - Knight - Bishop

3. Yellow - Green - Dead - Black

Have a great week!

Kelly Lance

Answer

1. Hoover does not belong as it's the only one which is not a car manufacturer. Dodge does not belong as it's the only one which is not the last name of a President of USA.

 2.Bishop does not belong as it's the only one which is not a class of nobility. Earl does not belong as it's the only one which is not a Chess piece.

3. Dead does not belong as it's the only one which is not a color. Green does not belong as it's the only one which is not the name of a sea.

Virtual Team Word Challenger: Mind the Gap!

Which single three-letter word completes all of the following words?



H --- --- --- E R

T R --- --- --- S

R E P --- --- --- E D

C H --- --- --- I N G

 mailto:AlActivities@stleonard.net for the answer

Virtual Team Brain Storm Update: Optical Illusions!

Team Brain storm explored optical illusions this week and discovered first hand how our brains can sometimes balk at an image and give us false information. In these fun exercises, age and cognitive strength did not appear to offer any leverage for accuracy.-Debra


To join Virtual Team Brain Storm call Debra at 937-439-7117!

Virtual Team Memory Pillars Start their Week with Memory Jogging!

Team Memory Pillars started their week off with interesting research about a program of merging memory exercises with physical exercise.  A class in mental aerobics followed by a low-impact aerobic session proved to be both fun and challenging. This was an example of a preventative program concerning cognitive loss in the older adults

Team Assisted Care: Bunco!

Residents of Assisted Care are really enjoying the dice game Bunco. Lots of socialization and laughs, especially when someone throws what they're hoping for, and especially when someone lands three ones, or three twos, or three threes, etc. and yells Bunco!

~Submitted by Sister Christine Doerger~

Blue Zone Your Memory No 11: Online Quizzes and Games

Games for Memory!

The Mnemonicizer! http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/cognition/tutorials/mnemonics/index.html The Blind Spot! http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chvision.html Short Term Memory! http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/cognition/tutorials/STM/index.html Interference! http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/cognition/tutorials/Interference/auindex.html Human Memory! http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/cognition/tutorials/ModelOf/memory1.html Recognition! http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/cognition/tutorials/penny/pennies.html