That Was The Year That Was is a fast-paced, highly engaging quiz event designed to break the ice, boost team bonding, and create an unforgettable experience. Perfect for conferences or after-dinner fun, this popular event draws teams into a time tunnel of history through archival footage, music, sound bites, and photomontages.
Teams will need to rely on each memberโs knowledge and quick thinking to answer questions on a wide range of topics, including sports, movies, music, world events, and trivia. With additional rounds customizable to your audience or conference theme, thereโs something for everyone. The event gets even more entertaining with a slide show at the end featuring the funniest team answers, photos, and videos.
The excitement builds as the winning teams are kept a mystery until the final question. That Was The Year That Was is not only a fun team challenge but also a great way to highlight individual strengths, test memory and recall, and reinforce your conference messages. Itโs guaranteed to be a memorable and hilarious activity that participants will talk about long after the event is over!
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Who is That Was The Year That Was suitable for?
- Indoors
- Groups from 12 - unlimited
- All organizations, backgrounds and ages
- Event duration from 30 minutes - 2 hours
- Competitive
Benefits & Outcomes
- Motivational fun
- Risk management
- Stimulates creativity
- Team bonding
- Energises a conference
- Fostering team unity
What our clients are saying
I just want to say a big thank you on behalf of Arctiq for the amazing team-building event you provided to us yesterday. Everything was so well planned, organized, prepared, and ran smoothly. Amanda and Jason did a phenomenal job hosting the event and making sure everything went well. Our team had such an amazing time. It was great energy, great collaboration, and lots of fun!!ย - Arctiq
Everyone had a fun time doing this activity and we now have a great keepsake, hanging in the office that demonstrates our teamwork!ย Jason did a fabulous job with the event โ heโs great to work with and he kept the energy up and helped us pull our panels together.ย - MPAC
Thank you again for the amazing job your team did. - Hulitun Society
We had a great time during the event. The final product was better than we expected. Everyone at Eventology went above and beyond to ensure our event was a success.ย - International Conference Services
Thanks again for all your help with the Big Picture. It is framed and on the wall and looks great. Iโll send you a picture. - Herschel
Thank you so much for such a successful event. We all had so much fun, and our big picture came out really nicely.ย - Malton Neighbourhood Services
The big picture was so impressive that had left a big impact on people at MTU and we are still talking about the event. - MTU Maintenance
A big thank you to your team for facilitating a wonderful event! Iโve received great feedback from our team. And thank you so much for the photos. - City of Burnaby
A huge thank you to all the Eventology team that was involved in this amazing team building event. Everyone was blown away by the Big Reveal and so much fun painting and seeing how everyone came together.ย This event went off so well and a Huge Thank You to Jason who is superb as ever and Amanda and Rina.
This event was a huge success thanks to your awesome team. - Roche
Thank you so much for sharing this. We had an absolute blast at the event and Mark was truly fantastic! We are so happy with the end result and our team had a great time doing the Big Picture activity.ย - Gordon Food Services
Thank you so much for sharing this. We had an absolute blast at the event and Mark was truly fantastic! We are so happy with the end result and our team had a great time doing the Big Picture activity.ย - Gordon Food Services









