Fun quizzes that will liven up a year-end party. Questions everyone can enjoy.
Are you wondering what kind of activities would let everyone enjoy your year-end party? If so, we recommend fun quizzes! In this article, we’ll introduce a wide variety of entertaining quizzes that will liven up your year-end party, including intro music quizzes, general knowledge quizzes, and kanji quizzes.
We’ve gathered quizzes that can be enjoyed at company year-end parties with multiple generations, as well as parties with friends of the same age.
Use these ideas to help make your year-end party at the close of the year a truly enjoyable time!
Fun quizzes that liven up year-end parties: questions everyone can enjoy (1–10)
Who am I? quiz
In the “Who am I?” quiz, you infer what something is from multiple clues.
For example, if the clue is “I have a red, square body and I always stand with my mouth open,” the answer would be “a mailbox.” You can create clues by personifying objects like this, or you can be direct, such as “a red, square box for putting letters in.” It’s recommended to adjust the difficulty of the clues to the participants’ ages, but make sure the answers are things everyone knows.
Surname Ranking Game
In this game, players take turns naming surnames they know, each time choosing one that is less common than the previous surname.
If someone suddenly picks an extremely rare surname, the game ends quickly, so it can be a bit tricky to gradually work your way down the rankings by naming surnames that are only slightly less common each time.
True-or-False Quiz
Prepare O and X (true/false) placards and present a quiz.
For each question, participants raise either the O or the X.
The contestant with the most correct answers wins a luxurious prize—it’s a simple, sure-to-excite quiz format.
You can have one representative answer for each team, or have entire teams answer together for even more excitement.
Prefecture Silhouette Quiz
Back in elementary school, we learned the locations of all 47 prefectures and their capitals, right? Even if it’s your own area or somewhere you’re not very familiar with, I think many people can say, “I can roughly tell where most prefectures are!” But how about when it’s a silhouette quiz? You can recognize big clusters like the Japanese archipelago, Hokkaido, Shikoku, or Kyushu, but it’s surprisingly hard to identify a single prefecture just by its shape.
This would be even more exciting at gatherings with people from many regions, like office year-end parties or university club get-togethers!
Employee Quiz
A great recommendation for workplace parties is an employee quiz.
For this quiz, you survey employees in advance about their hobbies, special skills, favorite foods, and so on, and create questions based on the results.
If you make it multiple choice with three options, it’s easier for everyone to answer, even questions about colleagues they don’t often interact with.
This quiz can be a chance to discover appealing qualities in others that you wouldn’t see just from working together, and it will likely help deepen relationships.
You might be especially surprised by the unexpected sides of people you rarely get a chance to chat with.
Guess the anime from the quote!
Quotes from anime and famous people are popular on platforms like Twitter.
Here’s a quiz where you guess the source of anime quotes that moved you or even changed your life.
It might be more fun if you play with people from a similar generation.
General Knowledge Quiz
Why not incorporate a casual general-knowledge quiz into your party? Quizzes are easy for everyone to join, and if the content is general knowledge, people of all ages can enjoy them.
Try creating a quiz that covers a wide range of topics—from ranking-style questions that also offer learning opportunities to subcultures like anime and music.
To make it fun even for those unfamiliar with certain topics, a three-choice multiple-choice format is recommended.
If it’s a party with coworkers or hobby friends, it might also be interesting to include community-specific “relatable” topics in the questions!
Trivia Quiz
There are lots of trivia facts you’d never learn just living your everyday life, right? But when you do know them, they can spark conversations or come in handy in unexpected moments! This trivia quiz lets you discover and enjoy those tidbits you wouldn’t learn unless you went looking for them yourself.
As the name suggests, we’ll prepare plenty of trivia across all sorts of genres and present them in quiz form.
Multiple-choice works well, and a simple true/false format is also easy and sure to get people excited.
Arunashi quiz
How about slipping a short brain-teaser into the lively year-end party entertainment? The “Aru-Nashi” quiz is a game where you divide several words into “has” and “has not” groups and try to figure out what the qualifying feature is.
Start with about three words in each group, then gradually increase the number of words or convert them into hiragana or the alphabet to make it easier to solve.
A shift in perspective is the key to the correct answer! Don’t get fixated on the letters as written—keep your mind flexible and give it a try.
Intro Quiz
It’s a quiz where you play just a short snippet of a song’s intro and guess the title.
It’s a classic format you sometimes see on TV, and it’s guaranteed to get everyone excited.
It’s important to choose highly recognizable songs—like this year’s hits or tracks everyone gets pumped up to at karaoke.