Work trivia is at its best when everyone can contribute without needing a niche hobby, a perfect memory, or a very loud buzzer voice.
This ready-to-run game uses eight inclusive rounds, simple scoring, and five final tie-breakers for meetings, team socials, and low-stakes bragging rights.
Quick-Start Team Warm-Up
Split into teams of two to six, give one point per correct answer, and collect answers after all 15 questions; no phones, no negative points, and no penalty for a creative team name. For more all-purpose material, bookmark our general knowledge trivia.
- What is the only even prime number?
Answer: 2 - Which month has an extra day during a leap year?
Answer: February - What color is created by mixing blue and yellow paint?
Answer: Green - What is the name of the imaginary line at 0 degrees longitude?
Answer: The prime meridian - Which kitchen appliance commonly has settings called defrost and reheat?
Answer: A microwave - What is the plural of “mouse” when referring to the animal?
Answer: Mice - How many sides does a hexagon have?
Answer: Six - Which planet is closest to the Sun?
Answer: Mercury - What do the initials WWW stand for?
Answer: World Wide Web - Which season begins around September in the Southern Hemisphere?
Answer: Spring - What is the name for a word made from the first letters of a phrase, such as NASA?
Answer: An acronym - Which metal is liquid at ordinary room temperature?
Answer: Mercury - How many minutes are in two hours?
Answer: 120 - What is the capital letter form of lowercase “q”?
Answer: Q - Which direction is opposite east?
Answer: West
Around the World Without a Business Trip
No expense report required for this round, just a map-shaped corner of the team brain.
- Which European capital is home to the Eiffel Tower?
Answer: Paris - Which country contains the city of Marrakech?
Answer: Morocco - What is the capital of South Korea?
Answer: Seoul - Which river flows through Cairo?
Answer: The Nile - Which country has a maple leaf on its flag?
Answer: Canada - What is the smallest continent by land area?
Answer: Australia - Which U.S. state contains Denali?
Answer: Alaska - What sea lies between Saudi Arabia and northeastern Africa?
Answer: The Red Sea - Which country is home to the ancient city of Angkor?
Answer: Cambodia - What is the capital of Argentina?
Answer: Buenos Aires - Which mountain range includes Mount Everest?
Answer: The Himalayas - Which river runs through Budapest?
Answer: The Danube - What country surrounds the independent enclave of Lesotho?
Answer: South Africa - Which Italian city is known for canals and gondolas?
Answer: Venice - What is the largest country by total area?
Answer: Russia
Science Break Room
This lab has no dress code, though imaginary safety goggles are always a strong look.
- What is the process by which liquid water becomes vapor?
Answer: Evaporation - Which planet is known for the Great Red Spot?
Answer: Jupiter - What is the chemical symbol for sodium?
Answer: Na - Which organ contains the body’s smallest bones?
Answer: The ear - What type of animal is an axolotl?
Answer: A salamander - What unit measures electrical resistance?
Answer: The ohm - What is the boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing can escape called?
Answer: The event horizon - Which pigment helps plants absorb light for photosynthesis?
Answer: Chlorophyll - What is the most abundant element in the universe?
Answer: Hydrogen - What branch of science studies weather?
Answer: Meteorology - Which layer of Earth lies directly beneath the crust?
Answer: The mantle - What is the name for an animal that eats both plants and animals?
Answer: An omnivore - Which blood type is often called the universal red-cell donor?
Answer: O negative - What simple machine is a ramp?
Answer: An inclined plane - Which scale runs from acidic below 7 to basic above 7?
Answer: The pH scale
Movies, Music, and Watercooler Culture
Here is the shared-playlist round, with no requirement to reveal anyone’s screen time. Movie buffs can keep rolling with our movie trivia, while Dunder Mifflin fans can visit The Office trivia.
- Which singer released the album 21?
Answer: Adele - What is the name of the fictional African nation in Black Panther?
Answer: Wakanda - Which band recorded “Dreams” on the album Rumours?
Answer: Fleetwood Mac - Who played Elle Woods in the 2001 film Legally Blonde?
Answer: Reese Witherspoon - Which television comedy is set in the town of Pawnee, Indiana?
Answer: Parks and Recreation - What is the name of the coffee shop in Friends?
Answer: Central Perk - Which animated film features the Madrigal family?
Answer: Encanto - Who sang “Respect” in the famous 1967 recording?
Answer: Aretha Franklin - Which actor plays the title character in the Indiana Jones films?
Answer: Harrison Ford - What is the fictional newspaper where Clark Kent works?
Answer: The Daily Planet - Which artist painted Campbell’s Soup Cans?
Answer: Andy Warhol - What is the subtitle of the second Lord of the Rings film?
Answer: The Two Towers - Which singer fronted the band No Doubt?
Answer: Gwen Stefani - What is the name of Wednesday Addams’s disembodied hand companion?
Answer: Thing - Which film series follows the archaeologist Lara Croft?
Answer: Tomb Raider
Lunch Break Food Round
Nobody has to share snacks, only answers, and the full buffet continues in our food trivia.
- What type of pastry is used for profiteroles?
Answer: Choux pastry - Which country is the origin of Parmigiano Reggiano?
Answer: Italy - What fruit is dried to make a prune?
Answer: A plum - Which Japanese soup commonly uses fermented soybean paste?
Answer: Miso soup - What is the main flavoring in a traditional pesto alla Genovese?
Answer: Basil - Which grain is ground to make polenta?
Answer: Corn, or maize - What is the Spanish rice dish often cooked in a wide shallow pan?
Answer: Paella - Which citrus fruit is a cross between a pomelo and a sweet orange?
Answer: Grapefruit - What is paneer?
Answer: A fresh cheese - Which herb gives traditional béarnaise sauce its signature flavor?
Answer: Tarragon - What are the two main ingredients in a basic meringue?
Answer: Egg whites and sugar - Which Middle Eastern dip is made from roasted eggplant and tahini?
Answer: Baba ghanoush - What cooking term means cutting food into thin matchstick shapes?
Answer: Julienne - Which fruit gives key lime pie its name?
Answer: Key lime - What legume is traditionally used in falafel in much of the Middle East?
Answer: Chickpeas or fava beans, depending on the regional style
Words, Numbers, and Tiny Logic Wins
Teams can quietly confer here, which is office language for arguing lovingly about punctuation.
- What is 15 percent of 200?
Answer: 30 - Which word is an anagram of “listen”?
Answer: Silent - If a meeting begins at 2:45 p.m. and lasts 30 minutes, when does it end?
Answer: 3:15 p.m. - What is the next number in the sequence 2, 4, 8, 16?
Answer: 32 - Which punctuation mark joins two independent clauses without a conjunction?
Answer: A semicolon - What is the Roman numeral for 50?
Answer: L - If five folders each hold eight documents, how many documents are there?
Answer: 40 - What is the adjective in the sentence “The careful editor checked twice”?
Answer: Careful - Which number has a square root of 12?
Answer: 144 - What common English word becomes shorter when two letters are added to it?
Answer: Short - If all Bloops are Razzies and all Razzies are Lazzies, are all Bloops Lazzies?
Answer: Yes - What is 7 cubed?
Answer: 343 - Which prefix means one trillionth?
Answer: Pico- - What is the collective term for a word that imitates a sound, such as “buzz”?
Answer: Onomatopoeia - If a dozen bagels are divided equally among four people, how many does each person get?
Answer: Three
Games and Sports for Every Department
The competition stays friendly, even when someone remembers the obscure rule at exactly the right moment.
- Which sport uses the terms love, deuce, and ace?
Answer: Tennis - How many squares are on a standard chessboard?
Answer: 64 - Which country’s national rugby union team is nicknamed the All Blacks?
Answer: New Zealand - In baseball, how many outs end a half-inning?
Answer: Three - Which color property in Uno lets a player choose the next color?
Answer: A Wild card - What is the final event of a traditional triathlon?
Answer: Running - Which sport uses a shuttlecock?
Answer: Badminton - How many holes make up a standard full round of golf?
Answer: 18 - In chess, what is it called when the king is under immediate attack?
Answer: Check - Which board game centers on buying railroads and colored property groups?
Answer: Monopoly - What is a perfect score in ten-pin bowling?
Answer: 300 - Which swimming stroke uses a frog-like kick?
Answer: Breaststroke - In American football, how many points is a field goal worth?
Answer: Three - What is the center ring of a dartboard called?
Answer: The bullseye - Which country is credited with inventing table tennis as an indoor parlor game?
Answer: England
Final Round and Five Tie-Breakers
Questions 106–115 are worth one point each. If teams are tied, ask questions 116–120 one at a time and award the win to the closest numerical answer without going over, or simply closest if you prefer a gentler finish.
- Which language has the most native speakers worldwide?
Answer: Mandarin Chinese - What is the largest internal organ in the human body?
Answer: The liver - Which novelist created the fictional county of Yoknapatawpha?
Answer: William Faulkner - What is the capital of Finland?
Answer: Helsinki - Which element has atomic number 6?
Answer: Carbon - What is the name of the highest-scoring tile in English-language Scrabble?
Answer: There are two: Q and Z, worth 10 points each - Which ocean current helps warm western Europe?
Answer: The Gulf Stream and its northeastward extension, the North Atlantic Current - Who composed the ballet The Nutcracker?
Answer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Which country won the first Rugby World Cup in 1987?
Answer: New Zealand - What is the only mammal covered in true scales?
Answer: The pangolin - Tie-breaker: How many keys are on a standard modern piano?
Answer: 88 - Tie-breaker: How many elements are officially recognized on the periodic table?
Answer: 118 - Tie-breaker: In kilometers, what is the official marathon distance?
Answer: 42.195 kilometers - Tie-breaker: How many total squares of all sizes appear on a standard 8-by-8 chessboard?
Answer: 204 - Tie-breaker: In meters, how tall is Mount Everest according to the 2020 Nepal-China announcement?
Answer: 8,848.86 meters
Sources and Further Reading
- NASA Science
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- International Olympic Committee
- International Chess Federation
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