A work quiz lives or dies on the questions being answerable by everyone from the intern to the director, with a few that spark arguments. Here are thirty, grouped by format, followed by the trick that makes a work quiz unforgettable.
Round 1: warm up (multiple choice)
- ✓ Which planet is known as the Red Planet? | Venus | Mars* | Jupiter | Mercury
- ✓ How many strings does a standard guitar have? | Four | Five | Six* | Seven
- ✓ What is the capital of Australia? | Sydney | Melbourne | Canberra* | Perth
- ✓ Which ocean is the largest? | Atlantic | Indian | Arctic | Pacific*
- ✓ What does HTTP stand for? | HyperText Transfer Protocol* | High Transfer Text Protocol | Hyper Transfer Type Path | Host Transfer Text Process
- ✓ A group of crows is called a... | Pack | Murder* | Flock | Gaggle
Round 2: multi-select
Circle every correct answer. A wrong pick cancels the points, so teams must actually discuss.
- ✓ Which of these are mammals? | Dolphin* | Penguin | Bat* | Shark
- ✓ Pick the countries in Africa. | Egypt* | Tunisia* | Syria | Iran
- ✓ Which are programming languages? | Python* | HTML | Rust* | HTTP
- ✓ Pick the prime numbers. | 31* | 33 | 51 | 61*
- ✓ Which of these are open source? | Linux* | Windows | Firefox* | Safari
Round 3: put in order
- ✓ order: Fastest to slowest | Light | Sound | A jet at cruise | A cheetah
- ✓ order: Largest to smallest data size | Terabyte | Gigabyte | Megabyte | Kilobyte
- ✓ order: Steps of a software release, first to last | Planning | Development | Testing | Deployment
- ✓ order: Our products by launch date (fill in your own)
- ✓ order: Most to fewest cups of coffee consumed (fill in your team)
Round 4: type in
- ✓ Type the chemical symbol for gold. | Au
- ✓ How many bones does an adult human have? | 206
- ✓ What year was the first email sent? | 1971
- ✓ What is the only continent with land in all four hemispheres? | Africa
- ✓ Type the missing word: "To be or not to ___" | Be
- ✓ How many keys are on a standard piano? | 88
- ✓ What is the world's most spoken first language? | Mandarin Chinese
- ✓ Which company created the GIF format? | CompuServe
- ✓ Type the Roman numeral for 1000. | M
- ✓ A day on Venus is longer than what? | Its year (a Venusian year)
The trick that makes it unforgettable
Swap three questions for company specific ones. "Order our products by launch date." "Pick all the countries our team has offices in." "Type the exact number of people in the company." Nothing lands harder than a question only your room can answer, and the arguments they start are the ones people retell on Monday.
Paste any of the above straight into a quiz tool that imports the format (Qwizbee does, with the star marking correct answers and the "order:" prefix for sequencing). Set 20 seconds for multiple choice, 25 for multi select and order, 15 for type ins, and you have a tight 30 minute game.