Team Building Trivia Jeopardy
Pure fun for offsites: geography, movies, food, sports, and a grab-bag round. Costs nothing to copy, and every player's phone becomes a buzzer.
6 categories, 30 clues, Final Jeopardy. Everyone buzzes in from their phone.
Hosting opens the presenter screen with a join code for everyone's phones. Either way the board is a copy of your own. Free, no account needed.
Every clue on this board
This page is public, so anyone can read the answers — copy the board and swap a few clues before game day.
Name That Acronym
- $200
This aeronautics and space agency's name is an acronym for National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
What is NASA?
- $400
This word for underwater breathing gear began as an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.
What is scuba?
- $600
This word for a device that amplifies light began as an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.
What is a laser?
- $800
This system for detecting distant objects using radio waves got its name as an acronym for radio detection and ranging.
What is radar?
- $1,000
This postal code system introduced in the US in 1963 gets its name from an acronym meaning Zone Improvement Plan.
What is a ZIP code?
Office Movie Night
- $200
This 1999 comedy about disgruntled software engineers at Initech gave the world the phrase PC load letter.
What is Office Space?
- $400
This 2006 comedy stars Anne Hathaway as an assistant to a demanding fashion magazine editor played by Meryl Streep.
What is The Devil Wears Prada?
- $600
In this 2010 film about the founding of a social media giant, Jesse Eisenberg plays Mark Zuckerberg.
What is The Social Network?
- $800
This 1988 Christmas action film is set almost entirely inside a Los Angeles skyscraper called Nakatomi Plaza during a corporate party.
What is Die Hard?
- $1,000
This 1988 comedy stars Melanie Griffith as a secretary who poses as a business executive to get ahead on Wall Street.
What is Working Girl?
World Geography
- $200
This is the largest country in the world by land area, spanning eleven time zones.
What is Russia?
- $400
This African country is home to both the Sahara Desert's northern edge and ancient pyramids at Giza.
What is Egypt?
- $600
This South American country is the only one whose name comes directly from a line of latitude that runs through it.
What is Ecuador?
- $800
This landlocked country in the Himalayas is home to Mount Everest, which it shares with Tibet.
What is Nepal?
- $1,000
This narrow country stretches over 2,600 miles along South America's Pacific coast but averages only about 110 miles wide.
What is Chile?
Food and Drink
- $200
This Italian dish of dough topped with tomato sauce and cheese is traditionally baked in a wood-fired oven.
What is pizza?
- $400
This fermented beverage is made from grapes and comes in red, white, and rose varieties.
What is wine?
- $600
This Japanese dish typically features vinegared rice paired with raw fish or other toppings.
What is sushi?
- $800
This Mexican sauce blends chocolate with chiles and is traditionally served over meat, especially in the state of Puebla.
What is mole?
- $1,000
This French cooking technique involves slowly cooking food in its own fat at a low temperature, traditionally used to preserve duck or goose.
What is confit?
Sports and Games
- $200
This board game has players buy, sell, and trade properties named after Atlantic City streets.
What is Monopoly?
- $400
This sport is played on a diamond-shaped infield with four bases and a pitcher's mound at the center.
What is baseball?
- $600
This Olympic event combines swimming, cycling, and running in a single continuous race.
What is the triathlon?
- $800
This casino card game's name comes from a bonus hand pairing an ace with a black jack, and its target score is 21.
What is blackjack?
- $1,000
This precision sport traces its origins to Scotland and involves sliding a granite stone across ice toward a target called a house.
What is curling?
Pot Luck
- $200
This yellow fruit is technically classified by botanists as a berry, while strawberries are not.
What is a banana?
- $400
This planet is the largest in our solar system and has a giant storm known as the Great Red Spot.
What is Jupiter?
- $600
This author wrote Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth.
Who is William Shakespeare?
- $800
This precious metal has the chemical symbol Au, taken from its Latin name.
What is gold?
- $1,000
This 1969 event marked the first time humans walked on the surface of the moon.
What is the Apollo 11 moon landing?
Final Jeopardy — Group Dynamics
Psychologist Bruce Tuckman named the original stages of group development forming, storming, norming, and this rhyming fourth stage.
What is performing?
How to run this board
Not every game needs a learning objective. This one is straight general-knowledge trivia — acronyms, movies, geography, food and drink, sports, and a grab-bag round — built to give a team something to compete over that has nothing to do with work.
It shines at offsites and end-of-quarter socials. Draft teams randomly so the usual cliques get shuffled, and put something silly on the line: a trophy that lives on the winner's desk beats a gift card.
The categories are deliberately broad, so every player gets at least one round where they are the expert.
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