A short quiz is one of the easiest ways to break up a long meeting or kick off a team offsite — it doesn't need a facilitator with special training, just a list of good prompts. Here's a 15-minute set: ten open icebreaker questions to get people talking, followed by a ten-question trivia round for a bit of friendly competition.

Part 1: Icebreaker Round (no wrong answers)

Go around the room, or drop these into a chat thread if your team is remote:

  1. If you could have any superpower at work, what would it be?
  2. What's one skill you'd like to learn this year?
  3. What was your very first job?
  4. What's your go-to productivity trick?
  5. If our team had a mascot, what would it be?
  6. What's the best piece of work advice you've ever received?
  7. What's one app or tool you couldn't work without?
  8. What's a hobby outside of work that might surprise your teammates?
  9. What's your favorite way to celebrate a win?
  10. If you could swap roles with anyone on the team for a day, who would it be?

Part 2: Workplace Trivia Round

  1. What does "CEO" stand for?
  2. In what year did the World Wide Web become publicly available?
  3. What does "ROI" stand for in business?
  4. What language has the most total speakers worldwide, counting non-native speakers?
  5. What does "WFH" commonly stand for?
  6. How many hours is a standard full-time work week in the U.S.?
  7. What does "KPI" stand for?
  8. What is a short, stand-up meeting called in agile/scrum teams?
  9. What does "B2B" stand for?
  10. What global event in 2020 is widely credited with accelerating the shift to remote work?

Trivia Answers

1. Chief Executive Officer  ·  2. 1991  ·  3. Return on Investment  ·  4. English  ·  5. Work From Home  ·  6. 40 hours  ·  7. Key Performance Indicator  ·  8. A stand-up (or daily stand-up)  ·  9. Business to Business  ·  10. The COVID-19 pandemic

Running it as a live scored game

For an in-person or remote meeting, turn the trivia round into a live game with the free quiz maker — everyone joins from their own phone or laptop with a code, and the scoreboard updates in real time. See our team-building quizzes for more ready-made options, or our guide on hosting a quiz for large groups if it's a bigger event.