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Fun facts about jobs quiz — Icebreakers

The “Fun facts about jobs” quiz — Icebreakers. It has 25 questions in five categories: Who does that?, Jobs from the past, Before fame, What's in a name?, Tools of the trade. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Fun facts about jobs

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Who does that?

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What is the pictured professional called who advises restaurant guests about wine and serves it?

  2. 200

    Who uses mathematics and statistics to assess the financial costs of risk and uncertainty?

  3. 300

    What is the pictured…

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  4. 400

    What is the pictured…

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  5. 500

    Who professionally writes…

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Jobs from the past

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What was the pictured worker called who lit street gas lamps at night and extinguished them later?

  2. 200

    What was the town official called who walked the streets shouting news and official announcements?

  3. 300

    What was the pictured…

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  4. 400

    What was the worker…

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  5. 500

    What was the bowling…

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Before fame

  1. 100

    Which physicist worked at the Swiss Patent Office while producing his famous papers of 1905?

  2. 200

    Which famous inventor was already working as a telegrapher while still a teenager?

  3. 300

    Which mystery writer worked…

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  4. 400

    Which inventor of the…

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  5. 500

    Which future steel magnate…

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What's in a name?

  1. 100

    The English job name barber ultimately comes from a Latin word meaning what facial feature?

  2. 200

    The French word chef, which gave English the job title, literally means what body part?

  3. 300

    The English job name…

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  4. 400

    Before it meant an…

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  5. 500

    The English job name…

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Tools of the trade

  1. 100

    Which instrument does a doctor use to listen to a patient's heart and breathing?

  2. 200

    Which bubble-containing tool shows whether a surface is horizontal?

  3. 300

    Which small sewing tool…

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  4. 400

    What is the pictured…

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  5. 500

    What is the pictured…

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  3. Choose questions on the board, buzz in first and collect points.

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