Office Quiz: 18 Questions for a Team Break

An office quiz has a constraint a pub quiz does not: nobody should feel exposed in front of colleagues. That means no questions where the answer is obviously known by one department and nobody else.

Warm up

1. How many continents are there? — Seven
2. What is the capital of Germany? — Berlin
3. How many minutes in a day? — 1,440
4. Which planet is known as the Red Planet? — Mars
5. How many letters in the English alphabet? — Twenty-six
6. What is the largest ocean? — The Pacific

A bit harder

1. Which country has the most time zones? — France, counting its territories
2. What does ‘CC’ stand for in an email? — Carbon copy
3. Which company’s logo is a bitten apple? — Apple
4. How many hours ahead of London is Dubai in winter? — Four
5. What does ‘ETA’ stand for? — Estimated time of arrival
6. Which currency is used in Japan? — The yen

Tie-breakers

1. How many keys on a standard keyboard, roughly? — 104 on a full-size layout
2. How many seconds in an hour? — 3,600
3. How many countries are in the United Nations? — 193
4. How tall is the Burj Khalifa in metres? — 828 metres
5. How many bones in the human hand? — 27
6. How many working days in a standard year? — About 260

Twenty minutes is the ceiling for an office quiz. Past that it stops being a break and starts being another meeting.