4. TRAINING and TESTING

Exercise: QUIZ QUESTIONS

Quiz Questions

is probably one of the best (and easiest) (and funnest) ways to practice visualisation.

And also: to push this key-element to becoming second nature in the most playful way.

This is how it works:

=> Step 1a: Read the question

=> Step 1b: Pick out key-word(s)

=> Step 1c: Change key-word(s) into pictures

=> Step 2a: Read the answer

=> Step 2b: Pick key-word(s)

=> Step 2c: Change that into a picture

=> Step 3: CONNECT THOSE TWO PICTURES !!!

=> Step 4: Revise

=> Step 5: Test

Here is an example, taken from the one million pound questions of: Who wants to be a millionaire.

However any other quizbook (i.e. trivial pursuit) will do.

Let’s go through the process step by step.

Here are 10 (sample) questions:

• Which of the following is a knot?
• Which instrument is particularly associated with the Dolmetsch family?
• In what kind of book would you find Mercator’s projection?
• What was the horse of Lord Cardigan, who led the charge of the Light Brigade, called?
• Which of the Marx Brothers was nicknamed Harpo?
• What is the nationality of a person born and brought up in the European city of Tirana?
• In which city was Charlie Chaplin born?
• Which sport uses a club called a ‘caman’?
• Britain fought the Peninsular War against which country?
• What is the Dogger Bank?

Read each question (Step 1a) and pick out one (or more than one) key-word that kind of summarises the whole question (Step 1b).

Here is my own choice:

•  Knot
•  Dolmetsch
•  Mercator
•  Cardigan
•  Marx & Harp
•  Tirana
•  Charlie Chaplin
•  Caman
•  Peninsular
•  Dogger Bank

Now change these words into pictures (Step 1c)

Remember: your own pictures are better than mine.

However, if you would like some hints, then CLICK HERE.

Now, do the same with the answers (Step 2 a,b,c)

Here are the answers:

• Alpine Butterfly
• Recorder
• Atlas
• Ronald
• Adolph
• Albanian
• London
• Shinty
• France
• Fishing Ground

As before,  change these words into pictures.

Remember: your own pictures are better than mine.

However, if you would like some hints, then CLICK HERE.

And now, bring it all together:

See the keywords in pictures and connect them (Step 3):

Step 4: Revision:

Revise as you see fit. Simply go through the sequence again.

You know: should one of the connections be a little bit weak, you know what to do. Don’t you?

And now you may test yourself. (Step 5)

Test 1 has 4 suggestions = possible answers.

Read the question, SEE the key-word in a picture, and let the answer come to you.   CLICK HERE

Test 2 has no suggestions. CLICK HERE

And you will notice that by now you do feel quite proficient. And it is a good feeling. Isn’t it. You will be a real master if you practice this type of exercise on a regular basis.

Find a strategy that works for you.

I, myself, have a book with 8 thousand question on my desk, and every day, before I start my day’s work I practice with 10 questions.It is not that much. A few minutes.

However: It wakes me up. It gets my creativity going.

And it is a fun way to practice the third key-element: Visualisation.

Now over to you: Make an effort to incorporate this exercise into your daily routine!

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