Our Favorite Team Building Questions for Remote Teams

Part of our onboarding process for new Zaengle team members is asking fun get-to-know-you questions.

At our regular standup meetings, the new hire asks the rest of the team a question. We all take turns answering it. Then someone else from the team asks the new hire a question.

We keep repeating this for each standup until everyone from the team has had a chance to ask the new hire a fun question.

Team building questions are an informal way for us to break the ice and get some good conversations flowing. The more off-the-wall the question, the better.

Over the years, we’ve heard some interesting questions! We’ve rounded up some of our favorites to share. Maybe you'll find them useful for your team.

1. If you hosted your own talk show, who would you want as your house band and your first guest?
2. If you could set one world record, what would it be?
3. What's your favorite game from childhood?
4. If you had one extra hour each day, how would you spend it?
5. What's your favorite food combination?
6. What's the best concert you've ever attended?
7. If you competed in MMA or wrestling, what would your walkout song be?
8. What's your favorite childhood book? And what's your favorite book now?
9. If you could gain one skill you don't currently have, what skill would you choose?
10. What sport would you want to play professionally?
11. What's your favorite family tradition?
12. What does your ideal weekend look like?
13. Imagine you’re in the Hunger Games. You’re on a team of 3. Who would you want as your other 2 team members?
14. What's one song that was popular during the year you were born?
15. If you were required by law to get a tattoo of an album cover on your forearm, which would you choose?
16. How do you like your eggs?
17. What's your favorite thing about where you live?
18. What's your favorite animated kids movie?
19. What was your first job?
20. What's one invention from a movie or TV show that doesn't exist but you wish did?
21. You can use 3 ingredients. What do you cook?
22. What's the best prank you've pulled?
23. If you could have any wild animal as a pet, what would you choose?
24. What's your favorite dad joke?
25. If you could be on any game show, what would you choose?
26. If you could've had any fictional character as your college roommate, who would you want?
27. What's your favorite kind of candy?
28. You have 3 wishes, but you can't use any of them to benefit yourself. What do you wish for?
29. What are your top 3 most used emojis?
30. If you had a time machine, what decade would you visit and why?
31. What was your favorite band 10 years ago?
32. What's one unusual talent you have?
33. If you had to remove all but 3 apps from your phone, what would you keep?
34. If you could take up one new hobby, what would you choose?
35. What's your favorite song right now?
36. What's one fashion trend you wish would come back in style?
37. What's the most daring thing you've done?
38. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
39. If you weren't doing what you're doing now for work, what would you want to do instead?
40. You won the lottery. How do you spend the money?
41. What's the best gift you've ever received?
42. If you could have one superpower, what would you want it to be?
43. What's a one-hit-wonder song you still like?
44. What's a small act of kindness you were once shown that you'll never forget?
45. What's something you're terrible at but you wish you were better at?
46. What's one thing about being an adult that you were excited for as a kid but now you realize it was way overrated?
47. You have to sing karaoke. What song do you pick?
48. If you could see one movie again for the first time, what would it be and why?
49. Without mentioning the song title, what lyric can you give that'll trigger the song in someone's head?
50. Your autobiography has just been published and it's time for you to pick a narrator for the audiobook. Who do you choose?