Just because your teams are working exclusively online, doesn’t mean that team-building needs to suffer. In fact, bringing icebreakers and morale-boosting activities into the virtual realm is easier than you think.
Looking for entertaining games that everyone will enjoy? Pop culture is a treasure trove of inspiration. Take your lead from the music charts or turn to television for ideas. Alternatively, you can play movie trivia online. If standard questions aren’t taxing enough for your liking, why not make things more interesting with a brain-bending round of movie emoji trivia?
The movie emoji trivia game is guaranteed to put everyone through their paces. Even a self-declared film buff will struggle to provide a full set of correct answers. Never played it before? Those colorful hieroglyphs can seem a little enigmatic, but that’s exactly the point.
This game involves you taking the title of a famous movie, and then replicating it in emoji form. You can be as literal or as vague as you want. However, it’s best to stick to popular movies if you want everyone to stand a decent chance of landing on the right answer.
To play the game, simply put together a list of iconic movies. Once you’ve got this, you’ll need to think about how to reverse-engineer and retool their titles in an emoji format. Ideally, try and limit each title to a few emojis. However, there’s no hard and fast rule here. Some movie titles are going to be harder to translate than others, so feel free to go overboard occasionally.
Reveal one emoji puzzle at a time, giving participants a few moments to try and work them out before moving on to the next one. At the end of the round, ask players to send in their answers and reveal the results at the end of your event. If that sounds too much like hard work, go with a multiple-answer format instead.
Another approach is to ask participants to come up with their own movie emojis. Secretly give each player a movie title, then ask them to come up with a string of emojis that best capture the meaning. It’s up to you how to award points here. Award maximum points to those who come up with an emoji that everyone guesses, or reward those who create one that leaves everybody else clueless.
You can incorporate a round of movie emojis into a larger virtual team trivia event. If you’re hosting an entire event centered around the silver screen, think about including several rounds of movie emoji trivia. If you’re going to be testing participants with dozens of individual riddles, think about grouping them together into genres or themes. Start things off with a selection of action movies reimagined in emoji form, before moving on to horror classics, romantic comedies, and science-fiction masterpieces.
While movie title emojis offer a refreshing take on trivia games, it’s best to mix things up if you want your event to be as engaging as possible. Think about adding a guess-the-soundtrack round to your event, teasing players with a snippet of iconic theme songs. A quick game of spot the difference can also work well, while caption games allow your teams to get creative.
Keen to make your event as interactive as possible? Use collaboration tools to encourage participants to work together as you take a breather from emoji movie trivia. Digital whiteboards can be used to play movie-inspired Pictionary virtually. To break the ice, why not use live polls to get an idea of everybody’s cinematic tastes?
If you want to go all out, think about making fancy dress mandatory. Ask participants to come costumed as their favorite movie character, then launch a poll and ask everyone to vote on the best-dressed. As a show of thanks, you can even mail out care packages to your remote employees ahead of the event. Load up on those parcels with popcorn, party props, and more.
Never used an emoji before in your life? Below are some movie emoji trivia questions you can use for your next team-building event.
Answer: The Notebook
Answer: Fast & Furious
Answer: The Lion King
Answer: Harry Potter
Answer: World War Z
Answer: The Wizard of Oz
Answer: Apollo 13
Answer: Sherlock Holmes
Answer: Titanic
Answer: The Matrix
Answer: Pulp Fiction
Answer: Ratatouille
Answer: Jurassic Park
Answer: Toy Story
Answer: James Bond (007)
Answer: Aladdin
Answer: Bohemian Rhapsody
Answer: Murder on the Orient Express
Answer: Cars
Answer: Back to the Future
Answer: The Da Vinci Code
Answer: Cinderella
Answer: The Phantom of the Opera
Answer: Baby Driver
Answer: Rocketman
Answer: Interstellar
Answer: The Princess Diaries
Answer: Life of Pi
Answer: Hocus Pocus
Answer: The Little Mermaid
Answer: King Kong
Answer: Ghostbusters
Answer: Night of the Living Dead
Answer: Star Trek
Answer: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Answer: Forrest Gump
Answer: Finding Nemo
Answer: Batman Begins
Answer: Space Invaders
Answer: Shaun of the Dead
Answer: The Time Machine
Answer: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Answer: Star Wars
Answer: IT (2017)
Answer: The Hunger Games
Answer: Spider-Man
Answer: WALL-E
Answer: Sleeping Beauty
Answer: Little Women
Answer: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Answer: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Answer: The Lord of the Rings
Answer: Pirates of the Caribbean
Answer: Goldfinger
Answer: The Princess and The Frog
Answer: Alien
Answer: The Sound of Music
Answer: The Piano
Answer: Moonlight
Answer: The Silence of the Lambs
Answer: Singin’ in the Rain
Answer: Heat
Answer: Deadpool
Answer: Eat Pray Love
Answer: Blood Diamond
Answer: Captain America
Answer: The Graduate
Now you’ve got the hang of movie emoji trivia, you can start planning your next cinema-inspired team-building event. Before you start coming up with games, activities, and emoji riddles for your teams to decipher, you’ll first need a reliable conferencing platform.
Loaded with features to drive engagement and encourage collaboration, Gloww has everything you need for a memorable team-building event. With a user-friendly interface, it’s easy to create custom sessions in no time. There’s even a library of ready-made templates you can turn to if you’re feeling short on ideas. Add games, interactive elements, and multimedia assets to make your team-building movie night something truly special.
Ready to call action? You can get started with Gloww today. Interested in learning more about Gloww’s advanced features? Take a look at our pricing tiers to find out what’s in store for premium users. Need to speak to the team? Feel free to get in touch with any questions.
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This one is almost impossible to call, with tens of thousands of movies being produced every year. However, the general consensus is that, as of 2024, around half a million feature-length movies have been made.
