Interactive quiz ideas for the work Christmas party

If you want to build morale and create buy-in among your work teams (and obviously you do), Christmas is the time of year where it’s really important to show your staff they’re valued, and show them a good time.

The timing is perfect, as you’re either off for the week of Christmas, or if your peak trading is around Christmas, you’re doing something for them a little before or a little after to thank them for their hard work. There’s no time of year when more people are filled with goodwill and susceptible to some positive reinforcement.

The thing is, how do you meet expectations for a good work Christmas party these days? Watching any TV show or film made before 2005 that features a work Christmas party can look like something out of a time capsule, not too far removed from the dial-up internet sound and the golden age of video game arcades.

People are less likely to drink these days, more likely to be glued to their phones, and more likely to not even work in the same city as their colleagues (maybe even the same country).

The expectations around how a workplace celebrates and marks Christmas has changed considerably as a result.

Why include interactive quizzes at your work Christmas party?

Interactive quizzes are quizzes that can be displayed on any modern, web-enabled device. They can be used to deliver instant feedback, craft personalised user experiences, and collect data, and can generally bring a lot of interactivity to any number of employee experience-based scenarios (EX).

Let’s consider practicality number one when planning a present-day work Christmas party: location. Your people might be hybrid, and could even be remote, working in different cities, and perhaps even different countries.

The interactive quiz can unite teams wherever they have an internet connection (which if they’re working remote or hybrid, is everywhere), and if you build your online quiz on an enterprise-grade platform like Drimify, you can even integrate it with virtual event-hosting software, giving you a chance to recreate some of the magic of an in-person pub quiz-type event.

Quizzes can encourage team bonding

Competition encourages team bonding. If you and a person at your work you’ve never talked to before both ace the movie round in the office party virtual pub quiz, you instantly both know you’ve got more in common than you realised.

In a virtual setting – or even an in-person setting, you could even create teams, and assign each team a unique code to access the various levels of your work party’s online quiz.

Assuming it’s a multi-step experience, they could then nominate their chosen representative for each round. This way, they’re all having a direct contribution to the team’s overall performance.

Boost engagement and participation through competition

Quizzes are also a very black and white kind of game mechanic. It’s questions, and questions with right or wrong answers. This means there are points, opportunities for players to distinguish themselves in a more fun setting, and by adding a leaderboard with prize draws for the top 10 or top 20, you can really motivate your employees to go all in.

If you’re using a quiz builder like Drimify, you could also look to use the quizzes as modules as part of a larger experience. Using Drimify’s Dynamic Path™, you can create a virtual advent calendar, made up of multiple interactive quizzes. You could use this to distribute a quiz round per week through December, or even a quiz round per day as you build up to the experience’s conclusion.

This allows your work Christmas party quiz to gain momentum over time, and deliver longer-term engagement to your teams.

Top interactive quiz ideas for your work Christmas party

So what is a Christmas quiz exactly? What could your work Christmas party EX quiz actually look like?

Here are some of the most interesting approaches you could take, either for quiz rounds, or as the concept for the entire experience:

1. The Christmas song trivia quiz

With the Drimify quiz templates, you have an audio quiz format, which allows you to upload audio or video files, and you can then challenge your teams to name the song, name the artist, or finish off the lyrics from multiple choice options.

2. The Christmas movie quiz

You could similarly use this multimedia functionality to create a movie quiz, with actual scenes from movies, or even intros.

You could also go down the more classic movie trivia route, whether it’s a yearly recap of the last 12 months in movies, or a more thorough approach to let the real cinephiles in your organisation show what they know.

3. The retro game show quiz round

Depending on the demographic of your workforce, it might make sense to replicate a particular style of interactive quiz for your work Christmas party. Deliver a Jeopardy round where all the questions are reversed, and they have to select the right question to a given answer.

You could apply this to Mastermind, Pointless, or any other game show that resonates with your audience.

Pro tip: If your employees have mostly just entered the workforce, do your research before putting the effort in with this style of quiz. It’s fun to do high-concept, but only if everyone is in on the joke (or enough people are that they can bring everyone else with them, and it can be a unifying experience).

Tailor your topics and questions to your target audience

Interactive quizzes are communications exercises, and the aim is to deliver a fun and engaging experience to a very important group: your workforce.

If you’re a sporting goods company, make sure you cover sports. If you’re a movie studio, streaming platform, or cinema chain, make sure you tailor some of it to film and TV.

Trivia and general knowledge is defined by an audience. What’s obvious to some is specialist subject stuff to others. Be cognisant of this when constructing your online Christmas quiz.

Making your interactive quiz work for your business

People who play together, stay together. It’s a fact of life. Students who get involved with sports and clubs at school and at university are way less likely to drop out.

People who move to new areas find it way easier to assimilate when they join recreational clubs where they can interact with people with similar interests.

The same is true for businesses – if there’s more to the employee experience than just work, you get more buy-in, better retention, and nearly always a better company culture.

The online quiz is an incredibly effective solution for adding structure and interactivity to the work Christmas party, whether you’re all in the same place, or linked by the internet.

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