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Office party trivia questions and answers
20 questions about the stuff of working life: email, coffee, keyboards, Post-it notes, famous companies and the sitcom everyone quotes.
Easy 20 questions 30 s each · about 15 min Checked against two sources
For the end-of-year party, a team lunch or the last hour of an offsite. Nobody needs to know the business to score: the questions are about the things on every desk, the companies everyone has heard of and the office in The Office. Twenty questions take about 15 minutes, which fits neatly between the food and the speeches.
How to run it
- Mix departments in each team and let them pick a team name. The leaderboard shows team names, not people.
- Run it on the big screen in the meeting room or the bar. Players answer on their phones, so nobody has to leave their seat.
- Question 20 is a year. Use it as the tie-breaker if two teams finish level.
Questions and answers
1Which company was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976?Easy
- AApple
- BMicrosoft
- CDell
- DIntel
Reveal answer
A. Apple
Jobs and Wozniak started Apple in 1976 to sell the Apple I computer, which Wozniak had designed. Ronald Wayne was a third, short-lived partner.
2What does CC stand for on an email?Easy
- ACourtesy call
- BCarbon copy
- CCopy confirmed
- DChain copy
Reveal answer
B. Carbon copy
Carbon copy comes from the carbon paper once placed between sheets in a typewriter to make a duplicate. BCC is a blind carbon copy that other recipients cannot see.
3Who founded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975?Easy
- ASteve Ballmer
- BLarry Ellison
- CBill Gates
- DMichael Dell
Reveal answer
C. Bill Gates
Gates and Allen set up Microsoft on 4 April 1975 to sell a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800. Steve Ballmer joined in 1980 and later became chief executive.
4Post-it notes are made by which company?Medium
- AStaples
- B3M
- CBic
- DAvery
Reveal answer
B. 3M
3M scientist Spencer Silver made a weak adhesive by accident in 1968. His colleague Art Fry used it to keep a bookmark in his hymn book, and the note went on sale in 1980.
5The flat-pack furniture company IKEA was founded in which country?Easy
- ADenmark
- BNetherlands
- CSweden
- DNorway
Reveal answer
C. Sweden
Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA in Sweden in 1943, when he was 17. The name combines his initials with his family farm, Elmtaryd, and his village, Agunnaryd.
6What is the name of Google's parent company, created in 2015?Medium
- AMeta
- BAlphabet
- COmega
- DNexus
Reveal answer
B. Alphabet
Alphabet was formed in October 2015 as a holding company, with Google as its largest subsidiary. Meta is the parent of Facebook and Instagram.
7Which company's slogan is Just Do It?Easy
- AAdidas
- BReebok
- CPuma
- DNike
Reveal answer
D. Nike
The line was coined at an advertising agency meeting in 1988 and has been Nike's slogan ever since.
8Where does the keyboard layout QWERTY get its name?Medium
- AFrom its inventor's surname
- BFrom the first six letters on the top row
- CFrom a Latin word for typing
- DFrom the model number of the first typewriter
Reveal answer
B. From the first six letters on the top row
Q, W, E, R, T and Y are the first six keys on the top letter row. The layout was designed for mechanical typewriters in the 1870s.
9True or false: on a Windows computer, Ctrl and C copies the selected text.Medium
- ATrue
- BFalse
Reveal answer
A. True
Ctrl and C copies, Ctrl and V pastes and Ctrl and X cuts. On a Mac the Command key does the same job.
10In the US version of The Office, what is the name of the paper company?Easy
- AWernham Hogg
- BDunder Mifflin
- CSabre
- DPrestige Worldwide
Reveal answer
B. Dunder Mifflin
The show follows the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin. Wernham Hogg is the company in the original British series.
11In which year did Apple release the first iPhone?Medium
- A2005
- B2007
- C2009
- D2010
Reveal answer
B. 2007
Steve Jobs announced the iPhone in January 2007 and it went on sale in the United States that June. The App Store followed a year later.
12The coffee drink cappuccino is named after the colour of the robes of which religious order?Hard
- AThe Benedictines
- BThe Jesuits
- CThe Capuchin friars
- DThe Dominicans
Reveal answer
C. The Capuchin friars
The Capuchin friars wear brown robes, and the drink's milky brown colour was said to match them. The capuchin monkey got its name the same way.
13Which country grows more coffee than any other?Easy
- AColombia
- BEthiopia
- CBrazil
- DVietnam
Reveal answer
C. Brazil
Brazil has led world coffee production since the mid-1800s and grew about 30 percent of the world's beans in 2023. Vietnam is second.
14The name Google comes from a misspelling of which word?Medium
- AGoggle
- BGaggle
- CGoogol
- DGobble
Reveal answer
C. Googol
A googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. The founders chose it to suggest the search engine would index a huge number of pages.
15Who founded Amazon in 1994?Medium
- AJeff Bezos
- BElon Musk
- CJack Ma
- DReed Hastings
Reveal answer
A. Jeff Bezos
Bezos started Amazon as an online bookshop in a garage near Seattle. Jack Ma founded Alibaba and Reed Hastings co-founded Netflix.
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Questions about this template
Do people need to know our company to play this quiz?
No. The questions are about working life in general: email, coffee, Post-it notes, keyboards, well-known companies and The Office. Add your own questions about the team if you want an inside round.
How do we play it at a party or an offsite?
Press Go live and put the PIN or QR code on a screen or projector. Everyone joins from their phone, answers within the timer and watches the leaderboard after each question. The free plan covers 100 players in a session.
Do colleagues need an app or an account to join?
No. Players open the link or scan the code, type the PIN and a name, and play in the browser. Only the host needs a RiLiFi account.
Can I add questions about our own office?
Yes. Use this template to make a copy, then add questions about the team, the building or the year's events, change the points, and delete any question that does not fit.
Sources
Every answer shown here was checked against two sources, listed below. Links last checked 22 October 2026.
- Apple Inc. - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- britannica.combritannica.com
- Carbon copy - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- britannica.combritannica.com
- Microsoft - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- britannica.combritannica.com
- Post-it note - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- post-it.compost-it.com
- IKEA - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- britannica.combritannica.com
- Alphabet Inc. - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- britannica.combritannica.com
- Just Do It - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- britannica.combritannica.com
- QWERTY - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- kids.britannica.comkids.britannica.com
- Control-C - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Keyboard shortcuts in Windows | Microsoft Supportsupport.microsoft.com
- The Office (American TV series) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- The Office - NBC.comnbc.com
- iPhone (1st generation) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- britannica.combritannica.com
- Cappuccino - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- britannica.combritannica.com
- List of countries by coffee production - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- britannica.combritannica.com
- Google - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- britannica.combritannica.com
- Amazon (company) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- britannica.combritannica.com
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