So you’re getting the team together for DIY trivia, excellent!
Trivia is an amazing team activity. It’s relatively easy to get rolling and is a great way to strengthen relationships with healthy competition and exploring fun topics outside of the workplace.
Here are 4 tips to make your next one a winner.
1. Tailor the Q&A
While grabbing an entire trivia off the internet or ChatGPT is fast, it won’t be tailored to your unique team.
Age appropriate.
There is no sense dropping in a stack of questions about Gone with the Wind for your Gen Z crew. Sabrina Carpenter or TikTok would be a better choice.
Stuff people care about
Find the things that are driving conversation in the office and reverse engineer a question about them. Perhaps the AFL is making waves so include a few timely questions about the popular teams.
Get personal
Throw in a question or two, or even a whole round, about people at the office or the business. Just remember to keep it light and avoid dry questions like “When was the company founded?” BORING! Plus, no one wants to feel like they’re being tested while they should be having fun.
The Q&A should feel like it has been written specifically for the players.
2. Make the Q&A dynamic
Short answer after short answer is not exciting, throw in a few different formats to break the monotony and keep people engaged, examples below:
Multi-choice
Throw in one funny option to add some humour to the question. For example, what is the title of the second Jurassic Park film? 2 Jurassic 2 Park.
This or That
These are great for revealing answers as you can get the players to nominate their answer before revealing it to raucous cheering
Image questions
Display a picture and ask a question about it. For example, an iconic album cover or business logo
Video questions
Play a short clip and ask people to identify facts from it
Audio question
Play a snippet of a famous song and challenge the players to work out the title and artist, they can also singalong for bonus points
3. Get the difficulty setting right
There is nothing worse than attending a trivia night that is way too hard and leaves people scratching their heads and feeling a little silly. By the same token, it should not be so easy that it’s not stimulating and a sense of achievement is lost in finding the answer. Here’s a good guideline for a 10 question round:
- 1 – easy lay up that 95% of people will get
- 5 – ‘getable’ questions
- 2 – medium questions
- 1 – hard question
- 1 – super hard question
Trivia is a celebration of knowledge in the room and should leave people feeling like legends.
4. Include some games
To break up the Q&A, throw in a couple of games to get people on their feet. Paper planes are a popular choice for pub trivia, make a plane throw it at an object. I’ll often get people to do their best slow motion run to the Baywatch theme song with those who participate earning bonus points.
I hope this enhances your next DIY office trivia!
If you really want to dial things up and blow the socks off your team with all of this and more then shoot me a message.
Much love,
Jacob Schnackenberg
CEO (Chief Entertainment Officer)
Yarnberg Entertainment
