During the trivia game, one of the members of the opposing team was thought to have been Steve Carrell making an uncredited cameo, though NBC later denied this.
On the team board, you can see that one team is named "Joey Triviani", a pun on the character name Joey Tribbiani in the sitcom Friends (1994).
At the bar the Dunder Mifflin 'A' team is made up of Jim, Ryan, Darryl, and Andy (3 white guys and a black guy), just like the group on the TV show The A-Team (1983).
During the office-wide brainstorming session at the beginning of the episode, it is determined that an infinite number of things can be done with paper. This harkens back to the season 4 story arc involving Ryan (at corporate) launching a new website for the company: Dunder Mifflin Infinity.
Behind Gabe at his Tallahassee 'office' is a Florida State University hat. FSU is a major University in Tallahassee.
