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Team building quiz: 15 office trivia questions and answers

Fifteen questions for a team day, a workshop warm-up or an offsite evening. They are all about work, offices and the tools everyone uses, so nobody needs to know football or pop music to have a shot. Every question has four options and the answer sits right underneath.

Nothing here is behind a form. Use the questions as they are, print them, or put them in your own slides. If you would rather put them on the big screen and let the room answer from their own phones, one button copies the whole quiz into EventQuiz and gives it a join PIN.

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The questions

Mixed difficulty, so everyone gets a few and nobody gets them all. A good way to split a room is by table or by department, and to let each team agree on one answer.

  1. 1In email, what does CC stand for?

    • Common contact
    • Copy check
    • Carbon copy
    • Central channel

    Answer: Carbon copy

  2. 2Ray Tomlinson sent the first email between two computers on a network, and picked the @ sign for it. In which year?

    • 1971
    • 1965
    • 1983
    • 1991

    Answer: 1971

  3. 3What was the first thing Amazon sold?

    • Music CDs
    • Electronics
    • Toys
    • Books

    Answer: Books

  4. 4The camera often called the world's first webcam, set up in 1991 at the University of Cambridge, watched what?

    • A fish tank
    • A coffee pot
    • A car park
    • A printer

    Answer: A coffee pot

  5. 5In Dutch, the @ sign is called apenstaartje. What does that mean?

    • Small snail
    • Curly ear
    • Little monkey tail
    • Tiny whirlpool

    Answer: Little monkey tail

  6. 6Which company's very first logo showed Isaac Newton sitting under a tree?

    • Microsoft
    • Apple
    • IBM
    • Intel

    Answer: Apple

  7. 7The QWERTY keyboard layout was designed for which machine?

    • Telegraph
    • Early computer
    • Cash register
    • Typewriter

    Answer: Typewriter

  8. 8What does KPI stand for?

    • Key performance indicator
    • Key progress index
    • Known project issue
    • Key priority item

    Answer: Key performance indicator

  9. 9In Scrum, what is the short fixed cycle called in which a team delivers a piece of work, often two weeks long?

    • Lap
    • Round
    • Sprint
    • Run

    Answer: Sprint

  10. 10Which company started in a Palo Alto garage in 1939, a garage now known as the birthplace of Silicon Valley?

    • Apple
    • Intel
    • Google
    • Hewlett-Packard

    Answer: Hewlett-Packard

  11. 11How long is one pomodoro in the Pomodoro Technique?

    • 25 minutes
    • 15 minutes
    • 45 minutes
    • 60 minutes

    Answer: 25 minutes

  12. 12The word robot first appeared in a 1920 play written in which language?

    • German
    • Czech
    • Russian
    • Polish

    Answer: Czech

  13. 13Which of these was patented first?

    • The telephone
    • The radio
    • The television
    • The fax machine

    Answer: The fax machine

  14. 14Post-it Notes exist because an experiment went wrong. What was the scientist trying to make?

    • A waterproof paper
    • A cheaper envelope
    • A super strong glue
    • A new printer ink

    Answer: A super strong glue

  15. 15Which country does LEGO come from?

    • Denmark
    • Sweden
    • Germany
    • Netherlands

    Answer: Denmark

How to run it in the room

On paper it is simple: read the question, give the teams a few seconds, read the answer, keep score on a flip chart. On a screen it takes three steps.

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Copy the quiz

One button puts all fifteen questions in your account, with a join PIN already assigned. Swap in a question about your own company and it becomes yours.

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Open the big screen

The projector or TV shows the PIN, then the questions. Your own phone or laptop is the remote: you decide when the next question goes up.

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People join and play

They open eventquiz.app, type the PIN and a nickname. No app, no account, no email. After each question the screen shows how the room answered, and the leaderboard at the end.

What it costs

The questions on this page are free, with or without us. Running them on the big screen needs an account: the free trial asks for an email and no card, and gives you 24 hours from your first live session with up to 10 players in a game. A whole department is usually bigger than that, and that is Event Pass, 39 USD once, for 72 hours of live time with as many sessions as you want inside it. Nothing renews on its own.

If you are here because the free plan of some other tool stops at 10 players, the numbers across the market are written down on our Kahoot alternative page, vendor by vendor, with the date they were read.

Questions people ask

Can I use these questions for free?

Yes. Print them, read them aloud, put them in your slides. You do not need our permission and you do not need an account. A link back is welcome, not required.

Can I add questions about our own company?

Yes, and that is the best part of a team quiz. The copy lands in your account as an ordinary quiz, so you can add a question about your office, your product or your boss, add a picture, or turn one into a closest number question where the room types a number and the nearest guess takes the points.

How many people can play at once?

On the free trial, 10 players in a game. With an Event Pass we have measured 1,000 players in one room with no dropped answers.

Do players need an app or an account?

No. They open eventquiz.app in the phone browser, type the PIN and a nickname. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.

Do you have ready made quizzes for other occasions?

Two so far: this one and a Christmas quiz for the party season. If you want a theme, write to support@eventquiz.app and tell us which.

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