Office Icebreaker Jeopardy

In this classic party game, players state two true facts and one false one, and others must guess the lie.

What is two truths and a lie?

This icebreaker uses a grid of squares, each printed with a trait like "has a pet," that players fill in with matching signatures.

What is human bingo?

This hypothetical icebreaker question always poses a forced choice between two options, such as flying or being invisible.

What is would you rather?

This getting-to-know-you exercise asks each person to imagine being stranded and pick a small number of items to bring along.

What is the desert island game?

This wordless team-building exercise asks a group to arrange themselves in a line by birthday month and day without speaking.

What is the silent birthday line-up?

This light yellow adhesive-backed paper pad, developed at 3M, can be stuck to a surface and removed without leaving residue.

What is a sticky note?

This bent piece of wire, patented in several forms in the late 1800s, holds a few loose sheets of paper together without adhesive.

What is a paper clip?

This spring-loaded clip has two foldable metal handles and grips a thicker stack of paper than a simple wire clip can manage.

What is a binder clip?

This three-ring device organizes hole-punched loose-leaf paper into a portable, page-turnable collection.

What is a binder?

This desk tool, operated by pressing a lever, punches evenly spaced round holes along the edge of paper for insertion into a ring binder.

What is a hole punch?

This fictional Pawnee, Indiana government department is the workplace at the center of the sitcom Parks and Recreation.

What is the Parks and Recreation Department?

This fictional Madison Avenue advertising agency is the central workplace of the period drama Mad Men.

What is Sterling Cooper?

This fictional Bay Area startup, maker of a data-compression app, is the workplace at the center of the comedy Silicon Valley.

What is Pied Piper?

This corporation, whose employees undergo a memory-splitting procedure so they cannot recall their outside lives at work, drives the plot of the drama Severance.

What is Lumon Industries?

This fictional big-box retail store in St. Louis, Missouri is the workplace at the center of the sitcom Superstore.

What is Cloud 9?

This seed of a cherry-like fruit is roasted and ground before it is brewed into coffee.

What is a coffee bean?

This East African country is widely credited as the birthplace of coffee, according to the legend of a goat herder named Kaldi.

What is Ethiopia?

This concentrated coffee beverage is brewed by forcing hot water through finely ground coffee under pressure, and forms the base of lattes and cappuccinos.

What is espresso?

This espresso-based drink is named for the brown, hooded robes of Capuchin friars, which its layer of milk foam resembles in color.

What is a cappuccino?

This coffee-brewing device, named for a country in Western Europe, steeps coarse grounds in hot water before a mesh plunger is pressed down to separate them.

What is a French press?

This day of the work week, sitting right in the middle of a standard five-day schedule, has earned the nickname "hump day."

What is Wednesday?

This standard midday break gives employees time away from their desks to eat, historically lasting about sixty minutes.

What is a lunch break?

This dress-down office tradition, letting staff wear more relaxed clothing one day a week, is often traced to Hawaiian shirt promotions in the 1960s.

What is Casual Friday?

This informal term describes the sense of dread some workers feel as a weekend ends and the coming work week looms.

What are the Sunday scaries?

This term describes the dip in energy and focus that many workers experience in the early afternoon, often not long after lunch.

What is the afternoon slump?

This three-letter field in an email sends a copy to a recipient whose address stays hidden from everyone else on the thread.

What is BCC?

This punctuation-based symbol, formed from a colon and a closing parenthesis, is the original sideways smiling face.

What is a smiley emoticon?

This yellow emoji, showing tears streaming from a laughing face, was named Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year for 2015.

What is the face with tears of joy emoji?

This all-capitals abbreviation, meaning "as soon as possible," often appears in an email subject line to signal urgency.

What is ASAP?

This email action sends a message to every recipient on the original thread at once, and is often flagged as poor inbox etiquette when overused.

What is reply all?