For your Trivial Pursuit themed event do one or more of these:
- Play a game of Trivial Pursuit at the unit or as families at home (there are loads of different versions for different ages and interests).
- In groups, create Trivial Pursuit boards on paper or card (1 for each group). Then, play the game but with slightly different rules: there is just one set of questions which the quizmaster holds, and each team must run up to hear the question and guess the answer - they can run back to ask their team.
- Create a giant Trivial Pursuit board on the floor (you can mark one out with chalk, masking tape, or just use coloured paper to creates the squares) and play a game with humans as the playing pieces.
- The sections of a Trivial Pursuit board represent the following themes. Do an activity connected to each of the 6 themes. We've provided you with ideas, but you can also make up your own to suit your group. Some of our ideas are connected to Belgium, but they don’t have to be.
Art and Literature: you could have a painting evening (eg Bob Ross), go to an art gallery, or do a treasure hunt looking for jigsaw pieces of famous paintings and then use the internet to find out more about those paintings once you have all the pieces;
Entertainment: in Belgium there are 3 official languages – find out what they are and learn how to say hello in all of them. You could watch a film in French, make and eat waffles, and even create your own chocolate bar and branding for it;
Sports and Leisure: you could go swimming, try a new sport, have a facial or a pamper night,or go to a live sports event. The national sport of Belgium is football - why not have a kickabout?
History: you could find out about famous or inspirational women through history, visit a museum, talk to people who were alive 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 years ago and ask them what life was like then. Belgium has been the home of the Smurfs since 1958 – what Smurf characters do you know, which is your favourite, and what would your Smurf name be? Read some Smurf or Tintin comics, and have a go at creating your own;
Science and Nature: go for an autumn walk or night hike and listen for what creatures you can hear. Collect different colour leaves on your walk and create a collage from them or try leaf printing. Carry out an experiment, find out more about space exploration, go for a walk on the beach and spot different shapes and textures of stones and shells. A famous scientist from Belgium, Henri Debehogne (30 December 1928 – 9 December 2007), was an astronomer who discovered lots of minor planets - go stargazing and see if you can identify a constellation you’ve not seen before.
Geography: plan a journey round the world – which countries/cities/wonders of the world would you visit and how would you travel? Take part in a quiz about where places are in the world. Research the flags of Europe – can you guess which is which? Play a game where you match the country to the flag. Try some traditional foods from different countries in Europe – take it further by trying to make them yourself. - In the game of Trivial Pursuit you collect ‘wedges’, also called ‘cheeses’. Have a cheese tasting evening – you could learn about cheeses from different places and vote for which one you like the best.
- Any other ideas you can think of!