Funny quizzes that liven up a welcome party
Speaking of welcome parties, new students and new hires are often nervous, aren’t they?
That’s why many organizers plan some entertainment to create a friendly atmosphere.
Still, it can be really hard to decide what to do for entertainment at parties—not just welcome parties.
But quizzes are perfect for this kind of occasion!
You can freely customize the questions and the way people answer, so you can create a quiz that’s just right for your event.
In this article, we’ll introduce quiz ideas that are especially well-suited for welcome parties, so please use them as a reference.
Fun quizzes to liven up a welcome party (1–10)
[Trivia Quiz] Words That Are Actually Abbreviations
In everyday life, many of the words we use as if they were obvious are actually abbreviations—quite a few people have probably had that experience.
You may even have discovered the original, unabbreviated term for the first time.
For example, the word den-sha (“train”) is itself an abbreviation of dendō kyakusha (“electric passenger car”), and looking into how such abbreviations started can be pretty interesting.
A trivia quiz themed around abbreviations that everyone commonly uses is sure to be a hit at events like welcome parties.
The more surprising the better, so do some solid research and try creating a quiz.
New Employee Profile Quiz
Here’s a quiz that both introduces the new members and gets everyone excited—the “Profile Quiz”! For example, you might ask, “Which of the following is Newcomer A’s hobby?” and everyone answers together.
Since we’ll be sharing good times and tough times with these teammates from now on, we want to get to know them, right?
General Knowledge Quiz
It’s not that you’re in trouble if you don’t understand this; rather, if you can solve all of it, you could be called a trivia master, so you can try it without feeling pressured.
That said, if you don’t understand any of it at all, there might be various issues to consider…
Creative Kanji Quiz
When it comes to kanji-based quizzes, a variety of ideas come to mind: quizzes on difficult-to-read kanji, fill-in-the-blank puzzles for two-character and four-character compounds, synonym and antonym quizzes, and so on.
What we’re introducing here, however, is a “creative kanji quiz.” As the name suggests, “creative kanji” involves producing original characters by combining actual kanji and the like.
There’s even a contest hosted by The Sankei Shimbun and the Shirakawa Shizuka Institute of East Asian Characters and Culture at Ritsumeikan University, so quite a few people may have tried coming up with their own creative kanji.
For a quiz, you can use creative kanji that have actually won awards, or you can intentionally use original creations devised by the quizmaster.
The latter puts the quizmaster’s sense to the test and might make things even more exciting!
Seemingly readable yet unreadable fish-radical kanji, Part 2! 30 questions in total!
Whether people can read kanji has suddenly become a hot topic in recent years.
Many older folks may be surprised and ask, “You can’t read this kanji?”—but how many of the kanji with the ‘fish’ radical can they read themselves? Since age doesn’t matter much here, this is a quiz you can definitely enjoy thinking about together in a lively, fun way.
Industry Jargon Quiz
There are many different industries in this world.
And in each of those industries, there’s indispensable “industry jargon.” You’re not considered fully fledged until you can use it properly.
Since we want you to learn that jargon early on, how about turning it into a quiz for the welcome party? It’s a confidence-boosting activity that’s educational, too!
Witty Riddle
With ordinary quizzes, things tend to get repetitive, but when it comes to brain teasers, you really have to think, so you use your head and get to hear all kinds of answers—it’s interesting, isn’t it? Some questions make you wonder if they even count as brain teasers, but they’re still quite fun to think about.
Trivia Quiz
Are you familiar with the word “trivia”? It refers to tidbits of knowledge that make you go “huh, interesting.” How about turning them into a quiz? If you’re someone who reads a variety of books, watches TV, or browses online articles, you might be great at this—and it could even make you the star of the welcome party!
Guess the Names of Popular Snack Characters
Famous snacks that everyone knows often have popular characters featured on their packaging, right? That said, the character names usually aren’t printed, so many people just call them by whatever name comes to mind.
For example, Koikeya’s Karu-Mucho is known for the “Hee Grandma,” who screams “Hee!” because it’s so spicy, but she actually has a real name: Tomi Morita! If you plan a quiz where people guess the real names of popular snack characters like that, it’s sure to be a hit at welcome parties and with people of all ages.
Since you’re at it, make sure to give the corresponding snack as a prize to anyone who gets it right!
Fastest-finger word association quiz
While flexibility and flashes of inspiration are expected from those answering, the “fast-buzzer word association quiz” also seems to test the question writer’s sense of balance.
As the name suggests, it’s a quiz where players use a few hints and buzz in as soon as they figure out the associated word.
But if the answer becomes obvious after just two or three hints, it won’t be exciting; on the other hand, making it so hard that no one can get it would be a letdown, too.
It could be fun to tweak the rules—for example, reveal panels one by one with hints on them, and award more points to those who answer correctly with fewer hints!