Conversation Starters: 490 Questions to Get People Talking

Random Conversation Starters

Here are some conversation starters that span all kinds of topics.

1. What was the last funny video you saw?

2. What do you do to get rid of stress?

3. What is something you are obsessed with?

4. What three words best describe you?

5. What would be your perfect weekend?

6. What’s your favorite number? Why?

7. What are you going to do this weekend?

8. What’s the most useful thing you own?

9. What’s your favorite way to waste time?

10. What do you think of tattoos? Do you have any?

11. Do you have any pets? What are their names?

12. Where did you go last weekend? / What did you do last weekend?

13. What is something popular now that annoys you?

14. What did you do on your last vacation?

15. When was the last time you worked incredibly hard?

16. Are you very active, or do you prefer to just relax in your free time?

17. What do you do when you hang out with your friends?

18. Who is your oldest friend? Where did you meet them?

19. What’s the best / worst thing about your work/school?

20. If you had intro music, what song would it be? Why?

21. What were you really into when you were a kid?

22. If you could have any animal as a pet, what animal would you choose?

23. Have you ever saved an animal’s life? How about a person’s life?

24. If you opened a business, what kind of business would it be?

25. Who is your favorite entertainer (comedian, musician, actor, etc.)?

26. Are you a very organized person?

27. Have you ever given a presentation in front of a large group of people? How did it go?

28. What is the strangest dream you have ever had?

29. What is a controversial opinion you have?

30. Who in your life brings you the most joy?

31. Who had the biggest impact on the person you have become?

32. What is the most annoying habit someone can have?

33. Where is the most beautiful place you have been?

34. Where do you spend most of your free time/day?

35. Who was your best friend in elementary school?

36. How often do you stay up past 3 a.m.?

37. What’s your favorite season? Why?

38. Which is more important, having a great car or a great house? Why?

39. What animal or insect do you wish humans could eradicate?

40. Where is the most beautiful place near where you live?

41. What do you bring with you everywhere you go?

42. How much time do you spend on the internet? What do you usually do?

43. What is the most disgusting habit some people have?

44. Where and when was the most amazing sunset you have ever seen?

45. Which recent news story is the most interesting?

46. Where is the worst place you have been stuck for a long time?

47. If you had to change your name, what would your new name be?

48. What is something that really annoys you but doesn’t bother most people?

49. What word or saying from the past do you think should come back?

50. How should success be measured? And by that measurement, who is the most successful person you know?

51. What is your guilty pleasure?

52. Was there ever an event in your life that defied explanation?

53. If you could learn the answer to one question about your future, what would the question be?

54. Has anyone ever saved your life?

55. What benefit do you bring to the group when you hang out with friends?

56. How often do you curse? And what’s your go-to string of curse words?

57. What trends did you follow when you were younger?

58. What do you fear is hiding in the dark?

59. What was the best period of your life so far? What do you think will be the best period of your entire life?

60. What do you do to improve your mood when you are in a bad mood?

61. What is the silliest fear you have?

62. What are some things you want to accomplish before you die?

63. What is the best room in your house? Why?

64. Who is someone popular now that you really like? Why do you like them so much?

65. Where is the best place to take a date?

66. What smell brings back great memories?

67. What's the best pet name you can come up with for a specific type of pet?

68. How often do you help others? Who do you help? How do you help?

69. What are you best at?

70. What makes you nervous?

71. Who is the funniest person you’ve met?

72. What weird or useless talent do you have?

73. What are some strange beliefs that some people have?

74. Who would be the worst person to be stuck in an elevator with? How about the best person to be stuck in an elevator with?

75. What was the best birthday wish or gift you've ever received?

For more random questions try our random questions to ask friends.

76. What small thing went right for you today?

77. What's a favor you were nervous to ask for that turned out to be no big deal?

78. When have you realized halfway through a conversation that you were talking about two different things?

79. What do you notice first when you walk into someone else's home?

80. What's a piece of advice you ignored and were glad you did?

81. What ordinary errand somehow turned into an adventure?

82. What have you bought after watching someone demonstrate it?

83. Which household job do you secretly find satisfying?

84. What's something you can recognize by its sound before you see it?

85. When did you last change your mind about someone?

86. What's the most unlikely place you've run into someone you knew?

87. What do you take far too seriously and that makes it take longer than it should?

88. What question do people always ask you once they find out what you do?

89. What did you manage to fix with something that was absolutely not the right tool?

TV Conversation Starters

With so much great TV out there, it’s a great way to jump into a conversation.

90. What’s the best sitcom past or present?

91. What’s the best show currently on TV?

92. What will be the future of TV shows?

93. How often do you binge watch shows?

94. What cartoons did you watch as a child?

95. What’s the funniest TV series you have seen?

96. Which TV show do you want your life to be like?

97. How have TV shows changed over the years?

98. If you could bring back one TV show that was canceled, which one would you bring back?

99. What do you think about game shows? Do you have a favorite one?

100. What’s the most underrated or overrated TV show?

101. What do you think about reality TV? Why do you think it’s so popular?

102. Do you like reality TV shows? Why or why not? If so, which ones?

103. Which TV character would be a nightmare to share a kitchen with?

104. What TV plot did you predict long before the characters figured it out?

105. Which show's opening credits do you never skip?

106. Have you ever watched a show in secret so you wouldn't have to wait for someone?

107. Which minor TV character deserves a whole episode or series to themselves?

108. What TV scene made you pause so you could talk about it?

109. Which TV competition would you enter if losing didn't matter?

110. What's a TV habit you picked up from someone you used to live with?

111. Which fictional TV business would lose all its customers in a week?

Movie Conversation Starters

Everyone loves a good movie, so why not make it a conversation topic!

112. What is the most overrated movie?

113. What’s your favorite genre of movie?

114. Which do you prefer? Books or movies?

115. What movie scene choked you up the most?

116. Do you like documentaries? Why / why not?

117. What’s the worst movie you have seen recently?

118. What’s the strangest movie you have ever seen?

119. Do you like horror movies? Why or why not?

120. When was the last time you went to a movie theater?

121. What was the last movie you watched? How was it?

122. Do movies have the same power as books to change the world?

123. Do you prefer to watch movies in the theater or in the comfort of your own home?

124. What movie did you misunderstand when you were younger?

125. Which movie would you happily watch with someone who talks all the way through it?

126. What movie prop would you want on a shelf in your home?

127. What ordinary part of life do movies always get wrong?

128. Which movie villain makes a point you can really agree with?

129. What movie did the trailer completely mislead you about?

130. Which movie scene would be funniest if the actors had to swap roles?

131. What's the closest you've come to walking out of a movie?

132. Which movie would you show to someone who had never seen a movie before?

Book Conversation Starters

Here are some conversation starters for the book lovers out there.

133. What was the last book you read?

134. What was your favorite book as a child?

135. Do you prefer physical books or ebooks?

136. What is the longest book you’ve read?

137. What book genres do you like to read?

138. How fast do you read?

139. How often do you go to the library?

140. What book has influenced you the most?

141. Do you prefer fiction or nonfiction books?

142. What book has changed one of your long-held opinions?

143. What book has had the biggest effect on the modern world?

144. What was the worst book you had to read for school? How about the best book you had to read for school?

145. Do you think people read more or fewer books now than 50 years ago?

146. Now that indie publishing has become easier, have books gotten better, worse, or stayed the same?

147. What have you used as a bookmark that really shouldn't have been one?

148. Which book took you the longest to get started and then flew by?

149. What fictional place would you like a detailed map of?

150. Have you ever lent someone a book and regretted it?

151. What's a tiny detail from a book that you still remember years later?

152. Do you look up words you don't know while reading, or guess and keep going?

153. What book did you find at exactly the right time?

154. When has a book cover given you completely the wrong impression?

155. What would make you buy a second copy of a book you already own?

156. What's a story you wish you could hear from a different character's point of view?

Music Conversation Starters

Time to pump the jam! And by pump the jam, I mean ask conversation questions about music.

157. What was the last song you listened to?

158. What is your favorite movie soundtrack?

159. Do you like classical music?

160. What song always puts you in a good mood?

161. What’s the best way to discover new music?

162. How has technology changed the music industry?

163. Are there any songs that always bring a tear to your eye?

164. What bands or types of music do you listen to when you exercise?

165. Which do you prefer, popular music or relatively unknown music?

166. Do you like going to concerts? Why or why not? What was the last concert you went to?

167. Who was the first band or musician you were really into? Do you still like them?

168. Records, tapes, CDs, MP3s, streaming. Which did you grow up with? What is good and bad about each?

169. What's a song you know every word to without ever choosing to learn it?

170. What sound from an instrument would you love to be able to make?

171. When has someone else's music won you over against your will?

172. What song would be the funniest choice for a funeral?

173. Have you ever heard a live musician make a mistake and save it brilliantly?

174. Which song do you like better when someone other than the original artist sings it?

175. What would you put on a playlist for someone who needs to clean their whole home?

176. What's a lyric you sang wrong for an embarrassingly long time?

177. Tell me about a time you heard an ordinary series of environment sounds that had an unintentional killer beat.

178. What song has become attached to a place for you?

179. What musical instrument did you try once and immediately gain respect for?

180. Who do you trust to control the music on a long journey?

App Conversation Starters

We’ve all got a ton on our phone, why not have a conversation about apps?

181. What are the three best apps on your phone?

182. What is the most useful app on your phone?

183. What do app makers do that really annoys you?

184. How many apps do you have on your phone?

185. What’s the most frustrating app you have tried?

186. What’s the most addictive game on your phone you have played?

187. Which app seemed like magic the first time you used it?

188. What is the strangest app you have heard of or tried?

189. What're the best and worst things about the marketplace where you get your apps?

190. Which app has helped society the most? Which one has hurt society the most?

191. An app mysteriously appears on your phone that does something amazing. What does it do?

192. What app did you download for one small job and somehow keep for years?

193. What app notification do you always open, even when you probably shouldn't?

194. What did an app recommend that was hilariously wrong for you?

195. If an app gave you a report on one habit you currently can't measure, what would you want it to count?

196. What makes you trust a stranger's review of an app?

Phone Conversation Starters

We’ve all got a phone, so we’ve all got something in common to talk about.

197. How often do you check your phone?

198. Do you text more or call more? Why?

199. What will phones be like in 10 years?

200. What do you wish your phone could do?

201. Do you always have to have the latest phone?

202. What is the most annoying thing about your phone?

203. How do you feel if you accidentally leave your phone at home?

204. What kind of case do you have for your phone? Why did you choose it?

205. What was your first smartphone? How did you feel when you got it?

206. Do you experience phantom vibration? (Feeling your phone vibrate even though it didn’t.)

207. What's a photo on your phone that needs a long explanation?

208. Who leaves the best voice messages, and what makes them good?

209. What's the funniest autocorrect mistake you've caught just before sending it?

210. What do you do with photos that are terrible pictures but great memories?

211. What makes you decide a message needs a call instead?

212. What's a contact name in your phone that only makes sense to you?

Sports Conversation Starters

Sports! There’s a reason it’s one of the most popular conversation topics.

213. What sports do you like to watch?

214. Who are some of your favorite athletes?

215. Which sports do you like to play?

216. What is the hardest sport to excel at?

217. Who are the 3 greatest athletes of all time?

218. How much time do you spend watching sports in a week?

219. Do athletes deserve the high salaries they receive? Why or why not?

220. What defines a sport? Is fishing a sport? How about video game tournaments?

221. Do you play in any fantasy sports leagues? If so, how into fantasy sports are you?

222. Why do you think sports are common across almost all cultures present and past?

223. Do you play sports video games? Which ones? Is playing the video game or playing the sport more fun? Why?

224. Which sport is the most exciting to watch? Which is the most boring to watch?

225. What sport would you try if everyone else playing was also a beginner?

226. What's the most ridiculous rule you've agreed to in a casual game?

227. Which sporting skill looks effortless until you try it?

228. What's the best bit of advice a coach or teammate gave you?

229. How do you decide who gets picked first when nobody knows anyone's skill level?

230. What's a sporting event you'd attend just for the atmosphere?

231. What game gets surprisingly competitive in your family or friend group?

232. If you could put a microphone on one person during a match, who would you choose?

Restaurant Conversation Starters

Nearly everyone enjoys going out to eat at a restaurant. So, here are some questions to help you have a conversation about restaurants!

233. What restaurant do you eat at most?

234. What’s the worst fast food restaurant?

235. What is the best restaurant in your area?

236. What is the fanciest restaurant you have eaten at?

237. What kind of interior do you like a restaurant to have?

238. What is the worst restaurant you have ever eaten at?

239. If you opened a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?

240. What is the strangest themed restaurant you have heard of?

241. Would you eat at a restaurant that was really dirty if the food was amazing?

242. What is the most disgusting thing you have heard happened at a restaurant?

243. What was your favorite restaurant when you were a child?

244. When has a server talked you into ordering something you ended up loving?

245. How do you feel about sharing dishes when everyone wants different things?

246. What small thing makes a restaurant feel welcoming to you?

247. Have you ever ordered by pointing at what someone else was eating?

248. What's a restaurant sound you enjoy, and one you could do without?

249. What makes you decide to order dessert even when you're full?

250. What restaurant would you like to see behind the scenes for an hour?

251. How do you react when a restaurant changes something you always order?

252. What restaurant custom confused you the first time you experienced it?

253. How would you choose a restaurant for a group that can't agree on anything?

Travel Conversation Starters

Whether it is near or far, everyone loves a good vacation.

254. Where would you like to travel next?

255. What is the longest plane trip you have taken?

256. What's the best way to travel? (Plane, car, train, etc.)

257. Where is the most relaxing place you have been?

258. Do you prefer traveling alone or with a group?

259. What do you think of tour group packages?

260. Do you prefer to go off the beaten path when you travel?

261. What was the most overhyped place you've traveled to?

262. Have you traveled to any different countries? Which ones?

263. Where is the most awe-inspiring place you have been?

264. What's the best thing about traveling? How about the worst thing?

265. What is the worst hotel you have stayed at? How about the best hotel?

266. How do you think traveling to a lot of different countries changes a person?

267. Talk about some of the interesting people you have met while traveling.

268. What do you think of staycations? (Vacationing and seeing tourist attractions where you live.)

269. Where do you get your recommendations for what to do and where to stay when you travel?

270. What detour turned out to be better than the thing you were going to see?

271. What's something you learned to say while traveling that wasn't in your phrasebook?

272. When have you decided to stay somewhere longer than you planned?

273. What's the best advice a local person has given you while traveling?

274. What part of another place's daily routine suited you better than the one at home?

275. What do you like to do during the first hour after arriving somewhere?

276. What's a souvenir you actually use?

277. What travel delay led to a conversation you still remember?

278. How do you choose what to do when you have one free afternoon in a new place?

279. What food did you learn to eat differently while away from home?

280. What's the smallest bag you could take for a week away?

281. Have you ever followed a crowd while traveling just to see where it went?

282. What makes a rental vacation home feel comfortable for a few days?

Technology Conversation Starters

Tech, some hate it, and some love it, but even those who love it probably have a love/hate thing going on with it. Either way, it makes for some great conversation questions!

283. What is your favorite piece of technology that you own?

284. What piece of technology is really frustrating to use?

285. What was the best invention of the last 50 years?

286. Does technology simplify life or make it more complicated?

287. Will technology save the human race or destroy it?

288. Which emerging technology are you most excited about?

289. What sci-fi movie or book would you like the future to be like?

290. What do you think the next big technological advance will be?

291. What technology from a science fiction movie would you most like to have?

292. What problems will technology solve in the next 5 years? What problems will it create?

293. What piece of technology would look like magic or a miracle to people in medieval Europe?

294. Can you think of any technology that has only made the world worse? How about a piece of technology that has only made the world better?

295. What piece of old technology do you keep because it still does its job perfectly?

296. What machine would you like to take apart just to see how it works?

297. When has a supposedly time-saving gadget created more work for you?

298. What job would you be happy to hand to a robot, and what part would you still want to do yourself?

299. Which useful technology would you miss most during a power cut?

300. What feature did you discover years after you bought something?

301. What's a task you still prefer to do without any technology helping you?

302. How much convenience would you give up to keep a device from collecting information about you?

Clothes / Fashion Conversation Starters

Conversation questions about clothes are always in fashion.

303. What is your favorite shirt?

304. Does fashion help society in any way?

305. What old trend is coming back these days?

306. What is a fashion trend you are really glad went away?

307. What is the most comfortable piece of clothing you own?

308. What is the most embarrassing piece of clothing you own?

309. How do clothes change how the opposite sex views a person?

310. Do you care about fashion? What style of clothes do you usually wear?

311. If you didn’t care at all what people thought of you, what clothes would you wear?

312. What is the best pair of shoes you have ever owned? Why were they so good?

313. Who do you think has the biggest impact on fashion trends: actors and actresses, musicians, fashion designers, or consumers?

314. What's a piece of clothing you keep mainly because of the story attached to it?

315. Have you ever dressed completely wrong for an occasion?

316. What's the strangest thing you've found in a pocket after putting something away for months?

317. Which accessory makes the biggest difference to an outfit?

318. What item did you think you would never wear until you tried it?

319. When have comfortable clothes saved an otherwise terrible day?

320. Would you rather have every outfit planned for you or an empty wardrobe and one afternoon to fill it?

Goals Conversation Starters

Let’s talk about goooooooooaaaaaaaaals!

321. What personal goals do you have?

322. What are your goals for the next two years?

323. How have your goals changed over your life?

324. How much do you plan for the future?

325. How do you plan to make the world a better place?

326. What are some goals you have already achieved?

327. What do you hope to achieve in your professional life?

328. Have your parents influenced what goals you have?

329. Do you usually achieve the goals you set? Why or why not?

330. What is the best way to stay motivated and complete goals?

331. What are some goals you have failed to accomplish?

332. What is the craziest, most outrageous thing you want to achieve?

333. When do you want to retire? What do you want to do when you retire?

334. What's a goal you gave up on because you found something better to do?

335. What have you kept doing long after the original reason disappeared?

336. What would you try for a month if being bad at it didn't bother you?

337. Have you ever reached a goal and felt differently than you expected?

338. What's something you'd like to make easier for your future self?

339. What's a goal you enjoy working on more than you expect to enjoy finishing?

Seasons Conversation Starters

There is a time for everything. A time to sow and a time to reap. And a time to discuss seasons!

340. Do you prefer summer or winter activities?

341. What do you like to do in the spring?

342. Did your family take seasonal vacations?

343. Which do you prefer, fall or spring?

344. Which season are you most active in?

345. What’s the most refreshing thing on a hot summer day?

346. What’s the best thing to do on a cold winter day?

347. Where is the nicest place you have been to in fall?

348. What is your favorite thing to eat or drink in winter?

349. Is it better to live where there are four seasons or where one season takes up most of the year?

350. What tells you a new season has arrived before you look at a calendar?

351. What weather makes an ordinary place look completely different?

352. What part of a season do people romanticize until they have to deal with it?

353. What's something you miss about a season while you're in the opposite one?

Holiday Conversation Starters

Time to celebrate with some holiday conversations!

354. What is the biggest holiday for your family?

355. What is your favorite holiday?

356. What holidays have been over-commercialized?

357. Do you wish there were more or fewer holidays? Why?

358. What do you know about the history of some holidays?

359. What kinds of food do you usually eat on your favorite holiday?

360. If you had to get rid of a holiday, which would you get rid of? Why?

361. Does having a day off for a holiday increase or decrease productivity at work?

362. If some of the lesser-known holidays were commercialized, what would the commercialization look like?

363. If you could make a holiday, what would it be like? What traditions would it have? What would people eat on your holiday?

364. What's the most misleading way someone has wrapped a holiday present?

365. What's a holiday task you like being in charge of?

366. When has a holiday plan gone wrong and become the story everyone tells afterward?

367. What would you keep if you had to celebrate your favorite holiday with almost no money?

368. What's a holiday tradition you've borrowed from someone else?

369. How early is too early to put up holiday decorations?

370. What holiday leftover is better than the meal it came from?

371. Have you ever celebrated a holiday somewhere that did it completely differently?

372. Who would you invite to a holiday meal if you could add one unexpected guest?

Education Conversation Starters

Sharpen your pencils. It’s time for an education conversation.

373. What do you think of online education?

374. What do you think of standardized tests?

375. Are bigger or smaller schools better?

376. Is teaching a skill that can be taught?

377. What will the future of education be? What would be the best outcome, and what is the most likely outcome?

378. What do you think of homeschooling?

379. How can governments make education more efficient?

380. How has the education you received changed your life?

381. How can technology improve education? Can it hurt education?

382. What or who has taught you most of the information you use regularly?

383. What are some good and bad things about the education system in your country?

384. What did you learn by doing it wrong first?

385. What's something you can explain much better with your hands than with words?

386. What school project do you still remember in far more detail than you expected?

387. What subject would you enjoy learning if there were no tests or grades?

388. When has someone younger than you taught you something useful?

389. What skill did you think everyone knew until you had to explain it?

390. What would you ask a teacher you haven't seen since school?

391. What topic did you revisit as an adult and finally find interesting?

392. What have you learned from watching someone who didn't know they were teaching you?

393. How do you tell when you understand something well enough to teach it?

394. What would you add to a school day for students who need a break from sitting still?

395. What's something you wish came with a practice version before the real thing?

Food Conversation Starters

Whether they are a foodie or not, everyone has to eat, and that makes it a great topic to have a conversation about.

396. What is your favorite cuisine or type of food?

397. What foods do you absolutely hate?

398. What do you think of buffets?

399. When was the last time you had a food fight?

400. What food looks disgusting but tastes delicious?

401. What do you get every time you go grocery shopping?

402. If your life was a meal, what kind of meal would it be?

403. What would you want your last meal to be if you were on death row?

404. What food do you know you shouldn’t eat but can’t stop yourself?

405. Do you like spicy food? Why or why not? What is the spiciest thing you have ever eaten?

406. Does the government have a place in regulating food? To what extent should government regulate food?

407. When people make mistakes about food (especially foreign food), do you feel the need to correct them?

408. What's a meal you can make without measuring anything?

409. What ingredient did you buy for one recipe but now use it in tons of things?

410. When did a cooking mistake make something better?

411. What do you cook when you want to avoid doing dishes afterwards?

412. What food did you learn to like by trying it a different way?

413. What's the most ambitious thing you've tried to cook for other people?

414. Which kitchen smell tells you that you're about to have a good meal?

415. What would you cook from three ingredients you already have at home?

416. What food do you insist needs to be eaten in a particular order?

417. What's a recipe you've changed so much that the original author might object?

418. What snack combination would you offer someone without telling them what's in it first?

419. What cooking job do you like to give a guest who wants to help?

420. What have you eaten straight from a garden, tree, or plant?

421. What food takes much longer to make than it does to eat, but is still worth it?

Weird Conversation Starters

Bring your creativity; you are going to need it.

422. If your mind were an island, what would it look like?

423. What flavor of ice cream do you wish existed?

424. If you had a personal mascot, what would your mascot be?

425. If you were a king/queen, what would your throne look like?

426. Time freezes for everyone but you for one day. What do you do?

427. You have to relive one day of your life forever, but you can do whatever you want each time. Which day do you choose?

428. What does your own personal hell look like? How about your own personal heaven?

429. You find a remote that can rewind, fast forward, stop, and start time. What do you do with it?

430. If you could call up anyone in the world and have a one-hour conversation, who would you call?

431. The world has become infested with rabid dogs with the intelligence of a 5-year-old, where do you hole up to survive the “a-pup-calypse”?

432. A portal to another world opens in front of you. You don’t know how long it will stay open or if you’ll be able to get back after you go through. What do you do?

433. Every object you lose turns up in the same room. What does that room look like by now?

434. You can hear one type of animal complain about humans. Which animal do you choose?

435. Your home gets a one-star review from a ghost. What did it complain about?

436. You have to give a guided tour of your life using five objects. What do you put on display?

437. A tiny brass band follows you for one day. When would it be useful, and when would it be unbearable?

438. You get to rename one completely ordinary object, and everyone has to use the new name. What do you choose?

439. A shop sells the feeling of finishing different jobs. Which feeling do you buy?

440. For one week, all your clothes make a sound when you move. What sound could you live with?

441. You can send one harmless inconvenience to your worst enemy. What do you send?

442. A talking door will only open after you've told it something interesting. What do you tell it?

443. You discover that two objects in your home have been arguing for years. Which two are they?

444. You can make one boring task look spectacular to anyone watching. Which task gets the special effects?

Hobbies and Free Time Conversation Starters

445. What hobby would you try if you could borrow all the equipment for a weekend?

446. What have you made that you like partly because it came out a bit wrong?

447. What's a word from one of your hobbies that sounds ridiculous to everyone else?

448. What activity takes so much setting up that getting ready becomes half the fun?

449. What material would you like to learn to work with?

450. What did you start collecting without deciding to collect it?

451. What do you enjoy doing alongside someone without needing to talk much?

452. Which part of someone else's hobby do you enjoy watching but have no desire to try?

453. Have you ever got someone interested in a hobby and then watched them get much better than you?

454. What small purchase was the first sign that you were taking a hobby seriously?

455. You can borrow an expert for an hour to help with an unfinished project. Where do you put them to work?

456. What trick could you learn in a week that would be worth showing someone?

457. How do you decide something you've made is finished?

458. What cheap tool or supply would you defend against a much more expensive version?

Home and Everyday Life Conversation Starters

459. What's the first thing you do when you get home after being away?

460. What part of your home has slowly become the place where miscellaneous things gather?

461. What's a house rule you didn't realize was unusual until you visited someone else?

462. What would you change if your home had one extra square meter of space?

463. When has moving furniture made a room feel completely different?

464. What's something about your home you had to change because of a child or a pet?

465. What in your home do you hate cleaning most?

466. What's a chore you and someone else disagree about the correct way to do?

467. How much notice do you want before someone drops by?

468. What's a small home improvement you've kept postponing even though it would take ten minutes?

469. What's the best thing about being home when everyone else is out?

470. What do you do with a gift you don't like when the person who gave it to you comes over?

471. How do you decide which side of a shared bed, sofa, or table is yours?

472. What's a household item you notice only when it's missing?

473. What do you like about your home at a particular time of day?

Local Places and Community Conversation Starters

474. What local shortcut would you struggle to explain to someone who didn't already know the area?

475. Which local place would you be saddest to see close?

476. What's an ordinary building near you that you'd like to see inside?

477. What do newcomers tend to misunderstand about where you live?

478. What's the best free thing to do within walking distance of your home?

479. What local business remembers you, and what do they remember?

480. Where would you put a public bench if you got to choose the spot?

481. What's a local event you attended out of curiosity and ended up enjoying?

482. If they decided to put up a statue of you around where you live, what would you want it to look like?