Nautical Trivia

Activity Title: Nautical Trivia

Intervention: Participant is given the opportunity to enhance cognition while answering trivia questions with a nautical theme.

Nautical Trivia Questions:
1. The study of the sea
2. Nautical word used to attract attention
3. A very strong wind and rainstorm with destructive power
4. A structure extending out from shore into the water
5. The international distress signal broadcast by voice
6. A signal
7. To overturn a vessel
8. Kind of cloth that was formerly used for sails
9. A strong puff of wind
10. To empty a vessel of water
11. An instrument used to point direction
12. Nautical term for "stop"
13. Goods carried for sale or trade by a vessel
14. An imaginary inhabitant of the sea, half woman, half fish
15. A non-sailor
16. A system of signaling, using series of dots and dashes
17. An abbreviation made from the words radio direction and range
18. The commander of a fleet
19. A term that refers to someone who lives on the beach
20. International distress signal sent by radio
21. What is SOS short for?
22. Slang name for the British Royal Navy
23. A device for giving warning of a vessel's position in dense fog
24. A building that may be seen by ships at sea to warn them of their proximity to rocks, reef, land, etc.
25. A small shellfish that sticks to the underwater parts of vessels

Answer Key:
1.Oceanography
2. Ahoy
3. Hurricane
4. Pier
5. Mayday
6. Beacon
7. Capsize
8. Canvas
9. Gust
10. To Bail
11. Compass
12. Avast
13. Cargo
14. Mermaid
15. Landlubber
16. Morse Code
17. Radar
18. Admiral
19. Beachcomber
20. SOS
21. Save Our Souls
22. Andrew
23. Fog Horn
24. Lighthouse
25. Barnacle

Optional: Follow with a Gilligan's Island episode to go along with theme and to enable participant(s) to reminisce.

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