All-Hands Warmup Pack: 24 World Record Trivia Questions

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All-hands meetings have a specific problem smaller syncs don't: warming up a room of fifty, a hundred, or five hundred people who mostly don't talk to each other day-to-day. This pack is 24 world-record and superlative questions — the biggest, fastest, tallest, deepest — picked because "biggest animal ever" is the kind of question that gets a reaction out of a genuinely large, mixed crowd in a way niche trivia doesn't.

The difficulty is deliberately mixed. A few are gimmes almost everyone gets right, which matters at scale — nobody wants to feel behind in front of the whole company. A few are genuinely surprising even to confident players; the pistol shrimp and bamboo-growth-speed questions both land as reveals. Every answer is on this page if you want to check it before hosting.

It runs as a live team quiz: share one link, everyone answers on their own device, and a live leaderboard updates after every question. No accounts, nothing to install — it works exactly the same whether five people join or five hundred.

How to run this with your team

Open the all-hands with it, before the updates start. Five to ten minutes of energy up front changes the tone of everything that follows — a room that's just competed together listens differently than one that just logged on.
The default subset is 15, not 12, for a reason. A bigger crowd benefits from a slightly longer warm-up round; adjust down if your all-hands runs tight on time.
Use Pause & Discuss on the genuine surprises. The pistol shrimp and Lake Superior questions both reward a beat of reaction from a big room — pause, let the noise happen, then move on.
Call out the leaderboard top three by name, on screen. At all-hands scale, a small, visible moment of recognition does more for engagement than the trivia itself — use the leaderboard as the excuse to do it.

The questions (24)

1.What is the largest animal ever known to have existed — larger even than any dinosaur?
- A.The blue whale
- B.The sperm whale
- C.Argentinosaurus
- D.The whale shark
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The blue whale
2.What is the fastest land animal in the world, capable of speeds over 100 km/h (60+ mph)?
- A.The pronghorn antelope
- B.The cheetah
- C.The lion
- D.The ostrich
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The cheetah
3.What is the tallest living animal in the world?
- A.The African elephant
- B.The polar bear
- C.The giraffe
- D.The moose
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The giraffe
4.As of the mid-2020s, what is the tallest building in the world?
- A.The Shanghai Tower
- B.One World Trade Center
- C.The Petronas Towers
- D.The Burj Khalifa
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The Burj Khalifa
5.What is the largest ocean on Earth by surface area?
- A.The Pacific Ocean
- B.The Atlantic Ocean
- C.The Indian Ocean
- D.The Arctic Ocean
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The Pacific Ocean
6.What is the smallest planet in our solar system?
- A.Mars
- B.Mercury
- C.Venus
- D.Pluto
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Mercury
7.What is the largest planet in our solar system?
- A.Saturn
- B.Neptune
- C.Jupiter
- D.Uranus
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Jupiter
8.What is the fastest bird in the world, reaching speeds over 240 mph (390 km/h) in a dive?
- A.The golden eagle
- B.The bald eagle
- C.The swift
- D.The peregrine falcon
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The peregrine falcon
9.What is the longest bone in the human body?
- A.The femur (thighbone)
- B.The tibia
- C.The humerus
- D.The spine
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The femur (thighbone)
10.What is the largest organ in the human body?
- A.The liver
- B.The skin
- C.The lungs
- D.The intestines
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The skin
11.What is the tallest waterfall in the world, located in Venezuela?
- A.Niagara Falls
- B.Victoria Falls
- C.Angel Falls
- D.Iguazu Falls
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Angel Falls
12.What is the largest big cat species in the world, larger even than lions?
- A.The jaguar
- B.The leopard
- C.The cougar
- D.The tiger
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The tiger
13.What is the world's tallest species of tree, with some individuals exceeding 380 feet (115+ meters)?
- A.The coast redwood
- B.The giant sequoia
- C.The Douglas fir
- D.The eucalyptus
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The coast redwood
14.What is the largest species of penguin in the world?
- A.The king penguin
- B.The emperor penguin
- C.The gentoo penguin
- D.The Adélie penguin
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The emperor penguin
15.What is the longest venomous snake in the world?
- A.The black mamba
- B.The reticulated python
- C.The king cobra
- D.The anaconda
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The king cobra
16.What is the largest rodent species in the world, native to South America?
- A.The beaver
- B.The porcupine
- C.The groundhog
- D.The capybara
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The capybara
17.What is the deepest known point in Earth's oceans, located in the Pacific?
- A.The Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench
- B.The Puerto Rico Trench
- C.The Tonga Trench
- D.The Java Trench
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The Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench
18.What is the fastest fish in the ocean, capable of speeds up to 68 mph (110 km/h)?
- A.The swordfish
- B.The sailfish
- C.The tuna
- D.The marlin
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The sailfish
19.What is the largest species of shark in the world — and the largest fish overall — despite being a gentle filter feeder?
- A.The great white shark
- B.The basking shark
- C.The whale shark
- D.The hammerhead shark
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The whale shark
20.What is the fastest-growing plant in the world, with some species growing up to 35 inches (91 cm) in a single day?
- A.Kudzu
- B.Ivy
- C.Duckweed
- D.Bamboo
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Bamboo
21.What is the loudest animal on Earth relative to its size — a shrimp whose claw-snap creates a sound louder than a gunshot?
- A.The pistol shrimp
- B.The mantis shrimp
- C.The blue whale
- D.The howler monkey
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The pistol shrimp
22.What is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area?
- A.Lake Baikal
- B.Lake Superior
- C.Lake Victoria
- D.The Caspian Sea
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Lake Superior
23.What is the largest known species of octopus in the world, native to the North Pacific?
- A.The blue-ringed octopus
- B.The common octopus
- C.The giant Pacific octopus
- D.The mimic octopus
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The giant Pacific octopus
24.What is the largest of the world's continents by land area?
- A.Africa
- B.North America
- C.Europe
- D.Asia
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Asia

FAQ

How long does this take?

About 12-13 minutes: hosting draws 15 of the 24 questions at 20 seconds each, plus leaderboard moments — sized for a bigger, whole-company crowd rather than a small team sync.

Do players need accounts?

No. Everyone joins with a link in their browser — no signups, no app, no player setup, which matters a lot at all-hands scale.

Will this work with a large number of players?

Yes — the format is built for it. Everyone answers on their own device at once; nobody waits for a turn, and the live leaderboard scales to a whole company the same way it works for five people.