Create Daily Trivia Icebreakers in Slack with OpenTDB & Google Sheets Log — n8n Workflow

Medium complexity⏰ Scheduled12 nodes🏷️ Miscellaneousby SOLOVIEVA ANNA

Overview

Who this workflow is for

This template is for teams who want a lightweight “daily icebreaker” in Slack and creators who’d like to build a reusable trivia database over time. It works well for remote teams, communities, and any workspace that enjoys a quick brain teaser each day.

What this workflow does

The workflow fetches a random multiple-choice question from the Open Trivia Database (OpenTDB), posts a nicely formatted trivia message to a Slack channel, and logs the full question and answer

Nodes used

Google SheetsHTTP RequestSlack

Workflow Preview

Daily trivia to Slack + Google Sheets
This workflow fetches a random multiple-choice trivia q
Trigger and difficulty routing
- Schedule Trigger starts the workflow once per day at
- Set: Choose Trivia Type randomly assigns a difficulty
Easy trivia branch
- HTTP OpenTDB Easy calls the OpenTDB API with `difficu
- Set Message Easy normalizes the response into common
Medium & hard trivia branches
- HTTP OpenTDB Medium and HTTP OpenTDB Hard call the sa
- Set Message Medium and Set Message Hard
Merge, Slack posting, and Sheets logging
- Merge combines items from the easy, medium, and hard
- Slack: Post Trivia uses `messageTitle` and `messageBo
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Merge
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Schedule Trigger
Sheets: Append Trivia
Slack: Post Trivia
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Switch: triviaType
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Set: Choose Trivia Type
HTTP OpenTDB Easy
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Set Message Easy
HTTP OpenTDB Medium
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Set Message Medium
HTTP OpenTDB Hard
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Set Message Hard
12 nodes13 edges

How it Works

  1. 1

    Trigger

    The workflow starts with a scheduled trigger, running on a defined schedule.

  2. 2

    Process

    Data flows through 12 nodes, connecting googlesheets, httprequest, merge.

  3. 3

    Output

    The workflow completes its automation and delivers the result to the configured destination.

Node Details (12)

GO

Google Sheets

googleSheets

#1
HT

HTTP Request

httpRequest

#2
SL

Slack

slack

#3

How to Import This Workflow

  1. 1Click Download JSON button on the right to save the workflow file.
  2. 2Open your n8n instance. Go to Workflows → New → Import from file.
  3. 3Select the downloaded create-daily-trivia-icebreakers-in-slack-with-opentdb-google-sheets-log file and click Import.
  4. 4Set up credentials for each service node (API keys, OAuth, etc.).
  5. 5Click Test Workflow to verify everything works, then activate it.

Or paste directly in n8n → Import from JSON:

{ "name": "Create Daily Trivia Icebreakers in Slack with OpenTDB & Google Sheets Log", "nodes": [...], ...}

Integrations

googlesheetshttprequestmergescheduletriggersetslackswitch

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Download JSONView on n8n.io
Nodes12
Complexitymedium
Triggerscheduled
CategoryMiscellaneous

Created by

SOLOVIEVA ANNA

SOLOVIEVA ANNA

@anna0726

Tags

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