Trivia for small teams
A quick trivia game for your next team meeting.
Use Showtime for a short quiz at the start of a team meeting, a Friday stand-up or a remote coffee break. It’s free for one to eight players, and everyone joins in their browser with a room code.
A setup that leaves time for the meeting
Start with five questions and a short timer. Allow a few minutes overall: the timer covers answers, while the host decides when to move past each reveal.
| Questions | 5 |
|---|---|
| Answer timer | 15 or 20 seconds |
| Difficulty | Easy to begin with |
| Packs | Surprise me, or ask the group to choose |
| Scoring | Classic Trivia |
| Tie-breaker | Off if you have a hard stop |
Leave room for people to opt out. A quick game should be a welcome break, not another thing to prepare for.
For a remote or hybrid team
Keep your Teams, Zoom, Google Meet or Slack call open. One person hosts a room and pastes the four-letter code into the meeting chat. Everyone opens Showtime in another tab and joins with a name.
People in the office and people at home play in the same room. Each person answers on their own device; screen sharing is optional. No one needs to install a meeting add-on or make another account.
Showtime doesn’t provide the call itself, so your existing microphone and camera settings stay with your meeting app.
Give everyone a shot at a point
Classic Trivia is usually the easier place to start with coworkers. Each correct answer earns a point, and nobody loses their chance because someone else clicked faster.
Switch to Fastest Finger First when the group wants a race. The first correct answer received by the server wins that question. Close finishes depend partly on network latency, so avoid treating the results as anything more serious than a game.
Each player gets one answer per question. Once everyone has answered, the game reveals the answer; if all guesses were wrong, no points are awarded.
Make it fit the group
Rotate who picks the packs. Someone who struggles with film trivia might be the person to beat on geography. There are 19 packs to mix, plus three difficulty levels. Open Specialist packs for a shared interest, such as food, space, books or Tech & IT. Those subjects stay out of Surprise me, so the host can choose them when they suit the group.
For a short stand-up, keep the same five-question setup each time. For a longer social call, choose more questions and let the conversation carry on between answers. You can play a rematch with the same settings or return to the lobby to change them.
Team quiz questions
Can we use it in Microsoft Teams or Zoom?
Yes. Keep the call open and play Showtime in a browser tab. It doesn’t need a Teams or Zoom integration, and it won’t ask for microphone or camera access.
Is this a game for large company events?
Showtime rooms support up to eight players, including the host. It suits a small team or a few coworkers rather than a whole-company quiz.
Do we need to prepare trivia questions?
No. Choose from the question packs already in the game. You can select the packs, difficulty, number of questions and timer in the lobby.
Does it have shared team scores?
Scores belong to individual players. You can play together as coworkers, but there isn’t a separate mode that combines several people’s scores into one team.
Can we keep the room private?
The host can add a password when creating the room. Share the code and password with the people you want to invite.
Try the setup before the meeting
Solo practice lets you check the packs, difficulty and timer on your own. You can also host a room and add clearly labelled bots at Easy, Medium or Hard. Bots count towards eight total places, so remove them in the lobby when you need seats for coworkers.
The specialist Tech & IT pack covers development, networks, systems and cyber security. It is opt-in, so it will not appear in a general-interest Surprise me game.