Guide
Corporate quiz ideas that work for mixed teams
A company quiz has a harder job than a pub quiz: it has to include the newest joiner, avoid anything that feels like a test, and finish before people drift back to their laptops.
Short answer
Run three short rounds in 30 minutes — an inclusive warm-up, a shared-knowledge round and a light company round — with 20-second questions, classic scoring and a leaderboard between rounds.
Updated: 2026-09-20 · The Trivolino team
Concrete round ideas
- Warm-up mix: five very accessible general knowledge questions. The aim is that everyone scores.
- Around the world: geography and culture questions drawn from the countries your colleagues come from.
- Light logic: times, simple arithmetic and sequences — no maths anxiety, nothing requiring paper.
- Guess the year: events everyone has lived through, answered as a decade or a year range.
- Picture round: product shots, office landmarks, city skylines. Images work far better than read-out clues.
- Odd one out: four options, one that does not belong, with a one-line explanation on reveal.
- Company round (optional): five questions everyone could plausibly know, written from suggestions across several teams.
A 30-minute agenda
- 0:00–0:04 — Lobby open on the big screen, everyone scans, you explain scoring in one sentence.
- 0:04–0:12 — Warm-up round, six questions, 20 seconds each. Leaderboard.
- 0:12–0:22 — Main round, eight questions, 20–25 seconds. Leaderboard.
- 0:22–0:28 — Final round, five questions, higher points.
- 0:28–0:30 — Podium, full rankings, a small prize.
Keeping it inclusive
- Aim for a third easy, a third medium, a third harder — and put the easy ones first.
- Avoid questions that only one department or one nationality can answer, unless the round is labelled as such.
- Skip questions about salaries, performance, org charts, personal lives or anything confidential.
- Use classic scoring rather than a speed bonus when people are reading in a second language.
- Let teams gather round one phone and enter a team name as their nickname if you prefer team play.
Collecting company questions safely
Ask two or three colleagues from different teams for suggestions, and tell them exactly what is off limits: personal data, salary or performance information, customer names under NDA, and anything that identifies an individual's private life.
Review every suggestion yourself before it goes in, and make sure a person who joined last month could still plausibly guess the answer. 'Which year did we move office?' works. 'Who forgot to book the meeting room in March?' does not.
Hybrid and remote teams
Share the big-screen display view over your video call so remote colleagues see the same questions and countdown, and let them join by opening the join link rather than scanning.
Ask remote colleagues to answer on their phone rather than in the same browser as the call, so a screen-share hiccup does not cost them a question.