The right questions for meetings, team events, and building stronger connections at work
Great teams are built on trust, and trust starts with conversation. Team building questions break the ice, spark authentic discussions, and help teammates discover common ground they never knew they shared. Whether you are onboarding new hires, energizing a Monday morning standup, or bringing a distributed team together for a virtual offsite, the right questions transform awkward silences into genuine connections. With Quizado, you can go beyond simple discussion prompts and turn these questions into interactive games -- complete with scoring, leaderboards, and rounds that keep every participant engaged from start to finish.
These get-to-know-you questions are perfect for kicking off meetings, onboarding new hires, or warming up a group before a team activity. They are light, fun, and invite everyone to share something about themselves.
If you could have dinner with any person, living or dead, who would it be?
▼What's your most unpopular opinion?
▼What's a skill you'd love to learn but haven't had the chance to yet?
▼If you could instantly become an expert in one subject, what would it be?
▼What was your very first job?
▼What's the best piece of advice you've ever received?
▼If you could live in any city in the world for a year, where would you go?
▼What is the most interesting thing you have read or watched recently?
▼If you could have any superpower, but only at work, what would it be?
▼What is one thing on your bucket list you plan to accomplish in the next few years?
▼What is your go-to comfort food?
▼If your life had a soundtrack, what genre would it be?
▼What is one thing most people do not know about you?
▼If you could swap jobs with anyone on the team for a day, who would you choose?
▼What is the best trip or vacation you have ever taken?
▼Would-you-rather questions force a choice between two options, sparking debate and revealing preferences. They work especially well as quick warm-ups and in Majority Rules game rounds on Quizado.
Would you rather work from home forever or in a luxury office with every perk imaginable?
▼Would you rather have unlimited vacation days or a four-day work week guaranteed?
▼Would you rather always know the question on an exam or always know the answer?
▼Would you rather be able to speak every language or play every musical instrument?
▼Would you rather give up social media for a year or give up streaming services for a year?
▼Would you rather have the ability to read minds or the ability to see the future?
▼Would you rather lead a project you are passionate about or support a project that guarantees a promotion?
▼Would you rather never eat your favorite food again or only eat your favorite food forever?
▼Would you rather have a rewind button or a pause button for your life?
▼Would you rather receive honest feedback from your manager every day or once a quarter in great detail?
▼Would you rather have a personal chef or a personal driver for the rest of your life?
▼Would you rather be famous in your field but unknown to the public, or a household name but not known for any specific talent?
▼These general knowledge trivia questions are perfect for a quick team trivia round. They cover a range of topics and difficulty levels so everyone can contribute. Use Quizado to run them as an interactive game with scoring and leaderboards.
What is the only letter that does not appear in any U.S. state name?
▼How many minutes are in a full week?
▼What is the only planet in our solar system not named after a Greek or Roman deity?
▼What company was originally called "Cadabra"?
▼In what year was the first text message sent?
▼What is the most commonly spoken language in the world by total number of speakers?
▼How many colors are in a standard box of Crayola crayons?
▼What is the smallest bone in the human body?
▼What country consumes the most coffee per capita?
▼How many time zones does China have?
▼What is the longest word in the English language that uses each letter only once?
▼What household item was invented before the can opener?
▼What animal can sleep for up to three years?
▼What is the national sport of Canada?
▼How many dots are on a pair of standard dice?
▼These questions explore work styles, preferences, and team dynamics. They help teammates understand each other better and can surface valuable insights about how to collaborate more effectively.
What's the best team you've ever been part of, and what made it great?
▼If you could change one thing about our workplace, what would it be?
▼What does your ideal workday look like from start to finish?
▼What is a professional accomplishment you are most proud of?
▼How do you prefer to receive recognition for good work?
▼What is one thing you wish you had known when you started in your career?
▼If you could add any benefit or perk to our workplace, what would it be?
▼What is a work-related skill you have developed that you did not expect to need?
▼Do you prefer brainstorming in a group or working through ideas solo first?
▼What is a value or principle that guides how you approach your work?
▼What is the most valuable piece of feedback you have ever received at work?
▼If you could shadow anyone at the company for a day, who would it be and why?
▼Brain teasers and logic puzzles make excellent team building exercises. Teams must collaborate, think creatively, and communicate clearly to arrive at the answer. These work great as a competitive round in Quizado.
A man pushes his car to a hotel and loses his fortune. What happened?
▼I have cities but no houses, mountains but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?
▼You have two ropes that each take exactly one hour to burn, but they burn at uneven rates. How do you measure exactly 45 minutes?
▼Three switches outside a room control three light bulbs inside. You can flip switches as many times as you want but can only enter the room once. How do you determine which switch controls which bulb?
▼A farmer has a fox, a chicken, and a bag of grain. He must cross a river in a boat that can only carry him and one item at a time. The fox will eat the chicken, and the chicken will eat the grain if left alone together. How does he get everything across?
▼You have 12 identical-looking coins. One is counterfeit and either heavier or lighter than the rest. Using a balance scale only three times, how do you identify the counterfeit coin and determine if it is heavier or lighter?
▼Two fathers and two sons go fishing. Each catches one fish, but only three fish are caught in total. How is this possible?
▼What disappears as soon as you say its name?
▼A windowless room has three identical light bulbs. Each is controlled by one of three switches outside the room. How can you determine which switch controls which light if you can only enter the room once?
▼You are in a race and you overtake the person in second place. What position are you in now?
▼Laughter is one of the fastest ways to build team rapport. These lighthearted, humorous questions are designed to get people smiling and sharing stories. Perfect for ending meetings on a high note or breaking the ice at social events.
If your life had a theme song that played every time you walked into a room, what would it be?
▼What's the worst fashion trend you participated in?
▼What is the most ridiculous fact you know?
▼If you were a kitchen appliance, which one would you be and why?
▼What is the weirdest food combination you secretly enjoy?
▼If you could be any fictional villain, who would you choose?
▼What is the most useless talent you have?
▼If animals could talk, which species would be the rudest?
▼What would your autobiography be called?
▼If you had to eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?
▼What is the most embarrassing song on your current playlist?
▼If you could make one rule that everyone in the world had to follow, what would it be?
▼Start each meeting with 2-3 icebreaker questions to warm up the group. Rotate who picks the questions each week so everyone gets a turn to set the tone. This small ritual makes meetings feel more human and helps remote teammates stay connected.
Use Quizado to turn these questions into an interactive team trivia game. Mix icebreakers with real trivia questions, add Majority Rules rounds for the would-you-rather questions, and let the leaderboard drive friendly competition. Players join from their phones -- no app download needed.
Team retreats, offsites, and company events are the perfect setting for these questions. Use the icebreakers during welcome sessions, run trivia rounds after lunch, and save the funny questions for evening social time. Structure keeps energy high throughout the day.
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