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500 Good questions to ask

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Here is my ridiculously long list of good questions to ask. Use them to get a conversation going or as a fun way to pass the time with friends, a date or someone you just met. With 500 questions to choose from, I'm confident everyone can find plenty of good questions to ask! The title says 500, but there are actually more.

Good questions to ask

  1. What weird food combinations do you really enjoy?
  2. What social stigma does society need to get over?
  3. What food have you never eaten but would really like to try?
  4. What’s something you really resent paying for?
  5. What would a world populated by clones of you be like?
  6. Do you think that aliens exist?
  7. What are you currently worried about?
  8. Where are some unusual places you’ve been?
  9. Where do you get your news?
  10. What are some red flags to watch out for in daily life?
  11. What movie can you watch over and over without ever getting tired of?
  12. When you are old, what do you think children will ask you to tell stories about?
  13. If you could switch two movie characters, what switch would lead to the most inappropriate movies?
  14. What inanimate object would be the most annoying if it played loud upbeat music while being used?
  15. When did something start out badly for you but in the end, it was great?
  16. How would your country change if everyone, regardless of age, could vote?
  17. What animal would be cutest if scaled down to the size of a cat?
  18. If your job gave you a surprise three day paid break to rest and recuperate, what would you do with those three days?
  19. What’s wrong but sounds right?
  20. What’s the most epic way you’ve seen someone quit or be fired?
  21. If you couldn’t be convicted of any one type of crime, what criminal charge would you like to be immune to?
  22. What’s something that will always be in fashion, no matter how much time passes?
  23. What actors or actresses play the same character in almost every movie or show they do?
  24. In the past people were buried with the items they would need in the afterlife, what would you want buried with you so you could use it in the afterlife?
  25. What’s the best / worst practical joke that you’ve played on someone or that was played on you?
  26. Who do you go out of your way to be nice to?
  27. Where do you get most of the decorations for your home?
  28. What food is delicious but a pain to eat?
  29. Who was your craziest / most interesting teacher?
  30. What “old person” things do you do?
  31. What was the last photo you took?
  32. What is the most amazing slow motion video you’ve seen?
  33. Which celebrity do you think is the most down to earth?
  34. What would be the worst thing to hear as you are going under anesthesia before heart surgery?
  35. What’s the spiciest thing you’ve ever eaten?
  36. What’s the most expensive thing you’ve broken?
  37. What obstacles would be included in the World’s most amazing obstacle course?
  38. What makes you roll your eyes every time you hear it?
  39. What do you think you are much better at than you actually are?
  40. Should kidneys be able to be bought and sold?
  41. What’s the most comfortable bed or chair you’ve ever been in?
  42. What’s the coldest you’ve ever been?
  43. When was the last time you slept more than nine hours?
  44. What do you need help with most often?
  45. How much sleep do you usually get?
  46. What makes you happy?

Fun and funny questions

  1. What riddles do you know?
  2. What movie quotes do you use on a regular basis?
  3. What’s the funniest joke you know by heart?
  4. What’s the funniest actual name you’ve heard of someone having?
  5. What’s the craziest conversation you’ve overheard?
  6. What movie, picture, or video always makes you laugh no matter how often you watch it?
  7. If animals could talk, which animal would be the most annoying?
  8. Which protagonist from a book or movie would make the worst roommate?
  9. What’s the most ridiculous thing you have bought?
  10. What’s the funniest comedy skit you’ve seen?
  11. What’s the most depressing meal you’ve eaten?
  12. What’s the worst backhanded compliment you could give someone?
  13. What’s the funniest thing you’ve done or had happen while your mind was wandering?
  14. When was the last time you face palmed?
  15. What’s the silliest thing you’ve seen someone get upset about?
  16. What’s the most boring super hero you can come up with?
  17. If you could hand out medals for surviving life’s small annoyances, what annoyances deserve a medal and what would it look like?
  18. What’s the craziest video you’ve ever seen?
  19. What’s your “Back in my day, we…”?
  20. What’s the worst thing you’ve eaten out of politeness?
  21. What would be the click-bait titles of some popular movies?
  22. What’s the scariest non-horror movie?
  23. What’s the grossest food that you just can’t get enough of?
  24. What’s the dumbest thing someone has argued with you about?
  25. What fashion trend makes you cringe or laugh every time you see it?
  26. What’s your best story of you or someone else trying to be sneaky and failing miserably?
  27. What’s the funniest thing you’ve seen a kid do?
  28. What would the adult version of an ice-cream truck sell and what song would it play?
  29. When was the most inappropriate time you busted out in laughter?
  30. What’s the funniest TV show you’ve ever seen?
  31. What sport could you play the longest in a televised game, without anyone discovering you aren’t a professional athlete?
  32. If you were a clown themed super hero, what powers would you have?
  33. What escalated very quickly?
  34. Which celebrity is the most likely to have a collection of canes that are just for show?
  35. What seemingly innocent question makes you think “It’s a trap!”?
  36. What’s the strangest thing someone has confidently told you that you knew for a fact was completely made up?
  37. What outfit could you put together from clothes you own to get the most laughs?
  38. What outdated slang do you use on a regular basis?
  39. What’s the biggest overreaction you’ve ever seen?
  40. What normally delicious food gets ruined when you wrap it in a tortilla?
  41. What piece of “art” would you create if you had to pretend to be an artist and submit something to a gallery?
  42. What’s the worst thing you ate from a fast food restaurant?
  43. What was the last situation where some weird stuff went down and everyone acted like it was normal, and you weren’t sure if you were crazy or everyone around you was crazy?
  44. What are some of the dumbest lyrics you’ve heard in a song?
  45. What would be the worst food to be liquefied and drunk through a straw?
  46. If you wanted to slowly drive a roommate insane using only notes, what kind of notes would you leave around the house?
  47. If you had a giraffe that you needed to hide, where would you hide it?
  48. What songs do you only know the chorus to?
  49. Think of a brand, now what would an honest slogan for that brand be?
  50. In what situations, do you wish you could throw down a smoke bomb and disappear?
  51. What job are you grossly underqualified for but think you would be pretty good at?
  52. Which of your possessions are so precious that if you dropped them in a public toilet you would reach in and grab them?
  53. What do you pretend to understand but actually have no clue about?
  54. How do you think you’d fare in prison?
  55. What’s your favorite type of funny video to watch?
  56. What movie or book do you know the most quotes from?
  57. How well do you handle spicy food?

Random and weird questions

  1. What’s the most creative use of emojis you’ve ever seen?
  2. What’s your cure for hiccups?
  3. What smartphone feature would you actually be excited for a company to implement?
  4. What’s the most ironic thing you’ve seen happen?
  5. Do you eat food that’s past its expiration date if it still smells and looks fine?
  6. What app can you not believe someone hasn’t made yet?
  7. What would be the best thing you could reasonably expect to find in a cave?
  8. What bit of trivia do you know that is very interesting but also very useless?
  9. What animal or plant do you think should be renamed?
  10. What word is a lot of fun to say?
  11. What’s the funniest word in the English language?
  12. How do you make yourself sleep when you can’t seem to get to sleep?
  13. What animal would be the most terrifying if it could speak?
  14. What about humans confuses you the most?
  15. What’s the opposite of a koala?
  16. What’s the most ridiculous animal on the planet?
  17. What are some clever examples of misdirection you’ve seen?
  18. What’s the smartest thing you’ve seen an animal do?
  19. What’s the most annoying noise?
  20. What’s the most frustrating product you own?
  21. What odd smell do you really enjoy?
  22. Tear gas makes people cry and laughing gas makes people giggle, what other kinds of gases do you wish existed?
  23. What’s incredibly cheap and you would pay way more for?
  24. What would be an accurate tag line for each month?
  25. What word do you always misspell?
  26. What naps are the most satisfying?
  27. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve found lying on the ground / side of the road?
  28. What animal is the most majestic?
  29. What’s fine in small numbers but terrifying in large numbers?
  30. What animal would you most like to eat?
  31. What two things are terrible when separate but great when you put them together?
  32. What do you do when you hear something fall in the middle of the night while you are in bed?
  33. What’s the most disgusting sounding word in the English language?
  34. What happens regularly that would horrify a person from 100 years ago?
  35. What’s something commonly done that gets progressively weirder the more you think about it?
  36. What’s the cutest thing you can imagine? Something so cute it’s almost painful.
  37. What do you think about when you hear the word “classy”?
  38. If you were in charge of renaming things so that their names would be more accurate, what names would you come up with?
  39. What’s better broken than whole?
  40. What’s something that I don’t know?
  41. What would be the most unsettling thing to keep occasionally finding around your house?
  42. What weird potato chip flavor that doesn’t exist would you like to try?
  43. What did you eat so much of that now you hate it?
  44. Where’s the line between soup and cereal?
  45. What word do you always mispronounce?
  46. What’s the most annoying animal you’ve encountered?
  47. What’s your best example of correlation not equaling causation?
  48. What product do you wish a company would make a “smart” version of?
  49. What are some of your Pavlovian responses?
  50. If you could put a new idiom into common usage, what would it be?
  51. What are some of the most interesting facts about the natural world you know?
  52. What are some weird ice cream flavors you’ve seen or heard of, would you try them?
  53. Do you prefer to be too hot or too cold, and why?
  54. What is the strangest sport you’ve heard of?
  55. What appliance would you have the hardest time doing without?
  56. What part of the house do you hate to clean the most?
  57. What actors or actresses can’t play a different character because they played their most famous character too well?
  58. What does the opposite sex do that you wish that you could do, but it’s not anatomically feasible or it’s socially frowned upon?
  59. What is the strangest room or building you’ve been in?
  60. What is the perfect room temperature?
  61. What is the strangest or most interesting creature you have heard of?

Questions to get to know someone

  1. What’s the most interesting building you’ve ever seen or been in?
  2. What was the most unsettling film you’ve seen?
  3. What are you interested in that most people aren’t?
  4. What was cool when you were young but isn’t cool now?
  5. What game have you spent the most hours playing?
  6. What artist or band do you always recommend when someone asks for a music recommendation?
  7. What tips or tricks have you picked up from your job / jobs?
  8. What outdoor activity haven’t you tried, but would like to?
  9. What songs hit you with a wave of nostalgia every time you hear them?
  10. What’s the most interesting documentary you’ve ever watched?
  11. What was the last song you sang along to?
  12. How comfortable are you speaking in front of large groups of people?
  13. What did you think was going to be amazing but turned out to be horrible?
  14. As a child, what did you think would be awesome about being an adult, but isn’t as awesome as you thought it would be?
  15. What languages do you wish you could speak?
  16. What’s some insider knowledge that only people in your line of work have?
  17. What are some of the best vacations you’ve had?
  18. Who do you feel like you know even though you’ve never met them?
  19. What happens in your country regularly that people in most countries would find strange or bizarre?
  20. What’s the most amazing true story you’ve heard?
  21. What’s a common experience for many people that you’ve never experienced?
  22. What are some misconceptions about your hobby?
  23. What’s the longest rabbit hole you’ve been down?
  24. What’s the coolest animal you’ve seen in the wild?
  25. What did you believe for way too long as a child?
  26. Who is the most creative person you know?
  27. What did you like / dislike about where you grew up?
  28. What elements of pop culture will be forever tied in your mind to your childhood?
  29. What’s your good luck charm?
  30. What’s the oldest thing you own?
  31. What’s the weirdest thing that has happened to you while working at your job?
  32. What horror story do you have from a job you’ve had?
  33. What’s the best and worst thing about the country you are from?
  34. If you were hired to show tourists what life is really like where you live, what would you show them / have them do?
  35. What’s something common from your childhood that will seem strange to future generations?
  36. What’s the most amazing place in nature you’ve been?
  37. What do you look for when you buy clothes? (Good value, latest fashion, your own unique style, function, comfort, etc.)
  38. How much time do you spend on your phone?
  39. What sports if any do you like to watch? If you aren’t into traditional sports, weird and uncommon sports count too.
  40. How often did you climb trees as a child? Did you have a tree house or fort? When was the last time you climbed a tree?
  41. What was something you really wanted as a kid but now look back on and shake your head? (For me it was wanting to live in a water tower, or an inflatable giant soda can.)
  42. How much of an accent do you think you have? Are you proud of it or do you wish you could lose it for a more neutral accent?
  43. What rule in your home would seem strange to a guest?
  44. What’s the best concert you’ve been to? What made it so good?
  45. Where is the most enchanting place you’ve been?
  46. When you fidget, what do you do?
  47. What was the last book you read?
  48. How comfortable are you being without a phone?
  49. Have you ever or would you ever try cosplay?
  50. What makes your hometown special?
  51. What is or was your most treasured clothing item?
  52. What is the best museum or strangest museum you have been to?
  53. What feels like a lifetime ago but was relatively recent?
  54. What were some of your favorite toys as a child?
  55. How good is your sense of direction? How often do you get lost?
  56. Do you have a green thumb or hands of death when it comes to plants? What roughly is your kill / grow ratio?
  57. What are some of your favorite memories with your family?
  58. How much do you take care of your health?
  59. What are some of your happiest childhood memories?
  60. What’s your favorite store or type of store to walk around in? How about your least favorite?
  61. What was one experience that you were hesitant to try but are really glad you did?
  62. What songs do you know every word to?
  63. What was your favorite class in school?
  64. Do you prefer dogs or cats or another animal perhaps?
  65. What is your favorite animated film?
  66. Do you play video games? If so, what type of video games do you play the most? If not, why not?
  67. What are a couple of your favorite quotes?
  68. What brand are you most loyal to?
  69. What was one of the most interesting concerts you’ve been to?
  70. What’s the most beautiful beach you’ve been to?
  71. What’s your go to casino game?
  72. What’s your favorite holiday movie?
  73. Where is the best place you’ve been for taking walks?
  74. What was the darkest movie you’ve ever seen?
  75. What do you hate most and love most about your car / bike if you own one?
  76. What songs do you feel compelled to sing along with when you hear them, even if you don’t totally know all the words?
  77. Who is your favorite artist or what is your favorite art style?
  78. What's the most exotic food you've ever eaten?
  79. What's the last movie you watched?
  80. What do you like and dislike about your city or town?
  81. What is your favorite movie that came out in the last year?
  82. How do you feel about snakes and spiders?
  83. Do you buy designer clothes, avoid them, or simply go by style / price? Why?
  84. What is your favorite accessory?
  85. When was the last time you went camping?
  86. What scene from a movie still haunts you?
  87. What's your favorite TV show that has had new episodes recently released?
  88. What are some of your favorite things to do outside?
  89. Is there a country you’ve really been wanting to visit?
  90. What did you get in trouble for at school?
  91. Who taught you something you use every day?
  92. How do you like people to celebrate your birthday?
  93. What part of your work do people never see?
  94. What was your first way of earning money?
  95. What's something you like doing the slow way?

Good questions to ask your friends

  1. When was the last time you got to tell someone “I told you so.”?
  2. When was the last time you were snooping, and found something you wish you hadn’t?
  3. What’s the most addicted to a game you’ve ever been?
  4. What’s your worst example of procrastination?
  5. Who has zero filter between their brain and mouth?
  6. What was your most recent lie?
  7. What’s something that all your friends agree on?
  8. What’s your best story from a wedding?
  9. What’s the worst hairstyle you’ve ever had?
  10. When was a time you acted nonchalant but were going crazy inside?
  11. What’s your funniest story involving a car?
  12. What’s the most awkward thing that happens to you on a regular basis?
  13. Where are you not welcome anymore?
  14. What’s your haunted house story?
  15. What did you Google last?
  16. What qualities do all your friends have in common?
  17. Who in your life has the best / worst luck?
  18. What’s the best way you or someone you know has gotten out of a ticket / trouble with the law?
  19. What’s your grossest bug story?
  20. What’s the most embarrassing story from your childhood?
  21. What’s the weirdest text or email you’ve gotten?
  22. What was the worst shopping experience you’ve ever had?
  23. What was the most important appointment or deadline you missed?
  24. What still makes you cringe when you think back on it?
  25. When was the last time you stayed up through the entire night?
  26. What has someone borrowed but never given back?
  27. Who in your life is the worst at using technology?
  28. What’s your best example of easy come, easy go?
  29. What’s the most physically painful thing you’ve ever experienced?
  30. What’s the most rage inducing game you’ve ever played?
  31. What’s your best example of fake it till you make it?
  32. What’s your “and then it got worse” story?
  33. What was the most amazing physical feat you’ve managed to pull off?
  34. What nicknames do you have for people in your life?
  35. What’s the silliest thing you’ve convinced someone of?
  36. What’s the shadiest thing you’ve seen someone do?
  37. What’s the clumsiest thing you’ve done?
  38. Where is the most uncomfortable place you have ever slept?
  39. When was the last time you were hopelessly lost?
  40. What is the craziest thing you've done this week?
  41. Who is the most hardcore person you know?
  42. What are some red flags and green flags for a new friendship?
  43. What is a memorable mess you had to clean up?
  44. Which two people you know would you like to introduce, and what do you think they’d talk about?
  45. What do you probably spend too much money or time on but it is totally worth it?
  46. What are you a stickler for?
  47. Which of our stories do we remember completely differently?
  48. What phrase have you stolen from me?
  49. Which friend would you believe was innocent after an arrest?
  50. Which photo of us would ruin our political careers?
  51. What's the most ridiculous reason you've dressed up?
  52. When have you covered for me without me knowing?
  53. Which joke about you have we run into the ground?
  54. Which friend could become rich without becoming unbearable?
  55. What's the pettiest thing you could send me a bill for?
  56. What should we never attempt on a trip together?
  57. What have you somehow never asked me?
  58. When have you been proud of me without saying anything?

Deep and personal questions

  1. How do you judge a person?
  2. When was the last time you felt you had a new lease on life?
  3. What problem are you currently grappling with?
  4. What’s the hardest you’ve ever worked?
  5. Which of your vices or bad habits would be the hardest to give up?
  6. When was the last time you immediately regretted something you said?
  7. Who do you wish you could get back into contact with?
  8. What habit do you have now that you wish you started much earlier?
  9. When was the last time you yelled at someone?
  10. What’s the saddest scene in a movie or TV series?
  11. What’s the best lesson you’ve learned from a work of fiction?
  12. What’s the most anxiety inducing thing you do on a regular basis?
  13. Who did you use to look up to, but they screwed up and you lost faith in them?
  14. What would the box with all your hopes and dreams inside look like?
  15. What story you’ve heard has stayed with you and always disturbs you every time you think about it?
  16. Who is the most manipulative person you’ve ever met?
  17. How ambitious are you?
  18. What was the biggest realization you had about yourself?
  19. What were you completely certain of until you found out you were wrong?
  20. What do you do to make the world a better place?
  21. What values are most important to you?
  22. What memory of yours feels real but is most likely false?
  23. How much do you plan / prepare for the future?
  24. Do you think that wanting things necessarily leads to more sadness and misery?
  25. What are you waiting for?
  26. What choice would you make in a prisoner’s dilemma with a total stranger? How about with a friend or family member?
  27. What do you do when you feel like you are in a rut?
  28. What are some pieces of art that had a big impact on you?
  29. How self-motivated are you?
  30. What are the three most important life lessons you’ve learned?
  31. Do you think silence is relaxing or unnerving? Why do you think other people might feel the opposite way?
  32. Do you think you are a good leader or would make a good leader? Why or why not?
  33. How long would you choose to live given the choice of any number of years?
  34. How much faith do you put in humanity?
  35. Have you found your place in the world? How common or uncommon do you think it is to feel like you’ve found your place in the world?
  36. What three “tribes” do you feel closest to?
  37. How forgiving are you?
  38. What routine are you sick of but haven’t gotten around to changing it?
  39. How good are you at admitting when you are wrong?
  40. Who is the person you feel most comfortable around?
  41. Are you a patient person? What are you patient with that most people aren’t and what do you have no patience for?
  42. What is something that unnerves you but the majority of people don’t seem to be bothered by?
  43. How well do you take criticism?
  44. What is the best part of this period of your life? What do you think you’ll be nostalgic for?
  45. Do you think some adversity is good for a person? How much is too much?
  46. Where do you draw your inner strength from?
  47. Are relationships with your friends or your family more important to you?
  48. What is something you covet?
  49. How judgmental are you?
  50. What kind of people do you surround yourself with?
  51. What is the best way to spend a day alone?
  52. What were some of the non-tragic turning points in your life?
  53. What have you learned from someone much younger than you?
  54. Whose approval do you still catch yourself trying to earn?
  55. What have you stayed in longer than you should have?
  56. What do you owe someone that money can't repay?
  57. What do you miss about someone you've outgrown?
  58. What have you mistaken for love?
  59. Which of your parents' mistakes do you understand better now?
  60. What do you want credit for that nobody sees?
  61. What have you stopped trying to prove?
  62. What do you feel guilty enjoying?
  63. What promise to yourself have you quietly dropped?
  64. What part of getting older are you having trouble accepting?
  65. When has doing the right thing cost you a friendship?
  66. What would you refuse to sacrifice for someone you love?
  67. What have you inherited from your family besides possessions?
  68. What would you want settled before you died?

Questions to ask your crush or a date

  1. What are your most important rules when going on a date?
  2. What was the best thing that happened to you today?
  3. Where’s your go to restaurant for amazing food?
  4. What kinds of things do you like to cook or are good at cooking?
  5. What’s the most recent show you’ve binge watched?
  6. What food do you crave most often?
  7. What’s your secret talent?
  8. What always cheers you up when you think about it?
  9. Do you like things to be carefully planned or do you prefer to just go with the flow?
  10. What fictional characters have you had a crush on over the years?
  11. What’s the weirdest crush you’ve had?
  12. What’s the funniest pick up line you’ve heard?
  13. What topic could you spend hours talking about?
  14. What awful movie do you love?
  15. What’s the best sandwich you’ve ever had?
  16. What do you think you do better than 90% of people?
  17. Do you prefer books or movies with happy endings or more dramatic endings and why?
  18. What do you do to relax and let off steam?
  19. What’s your favorite way to spend a rainy day?
  20. What does your perfect night out look like?
  21. What is your dream vacation?
  22. If you were a spice, what spice would you be?
  23. How adventurous are you when it comes to food?
  24. How well do you dance? What are some of your go to moves?
  25. What is the best thing going on in your life at the moment?
  26. What famous person are you a little too obsessed with?
  27. What unhealthy snack can you not get enough of?
  28. What do you know the most about?
  29. Have you ever or would you ever dye your hair a wild color?
  30. When are you at your happiest?
  31. What song or artist are you into at the moment?
  32. What is the best compliment you’ve ever received?
  33. Are you a morning person or a night person?
  34. What made you laugh recently?
  35. What flirting hint did you completely miss?
  36. What's the most ridiculous thing you've done to impress someone?
  37. What small detail did someone remember that won you over?
  38. How can your friends tell you like someone?
  39. What could you teach me without losing patience?
  40. When did you realize you were accidentally on a date?
  41. What small romantic gesture always works on you?
  42. What's a completely harmless thing that kills your attraction?
  43. What boring skill do you find strangely attractive?
  44. What excuse have you used to make a date last longer?
  45. What's the worst advice you've taken about dating?
  46. What would you write on a brutally honest dating profile for yourself?
  47. What romantic movie scene would be a nightmare in real life?
  48. What everyday errand could you turn into a date?
  49. How would you ask me out without using any words?
  50. What ridiculous rumor should we start about how we met?

What if questions

  1. What mythical creature do you wish actually existed?
  2. If someone narrated your life, who would you want to be the narrator?
  3. If you were given a PhD degree, but had no more knowledge of the subject of the degree besides what you have now, what degree would you want to be given to you?
  4. What TV show character would it be the most fun to change places with for a week?
  5. If you were moving to another country, but could only pack one carry-on sized bag, what would you pack?
  6. If magic was real, what spell would you try to learn first?
  7. If you were a ghost and could possess people, what would you make them do?
  8. If you could have an all-expenses paid trip to see any famous world monument, which monument would you choose?
  9. If you were given five million dollars to open a small museum, what kind of museum would you create?
  10. What would be some of the downsides of certain superpowers?
  11. If you could know the truth behind every conspiracy, but you would instantly die if you hinted that you knew the truth, would you want to know?
  12. If you were given one thousand acres of land that you didn’t need to pay taxes on but couldn’t sell, what would you do with it?
  13. What movie universe would be the worst to live out your life in?
  14. If you could hack into any one computer, which computer would you choose?
  15. If you built a themed hotel, what would the theme be and what would the rooms look like?
  16. What scientific discovery would change the course of humanity overnight if it was discovered?
  17. What would your perfect bar look like?
  18. If you had to disappear and start a whole new life, what would you want your new life to look like?
  19. If money and practicality weren’t a problem, what would be the most interesting way to get around town?
  20. What inconsequential super power would you like to have?
  21. If you had a head-up display (HUD) that showed three stats about any person you looked at, what three stats would you want it to show?
  22. If you could talk to animals and they would understand you, but you couldn’t understand them, what would you do with that power?
  23. If you could teleport anything you want, worth two million dollars or less, anywhere you want, what would you choose and where would you teleport it?
  24. If you lived in a virtual reality world of your own creation, what would it look like?
  25. If you owned a restaurant, what kind of food would it serve?
  26. An epic feast is held in your honor, what’s on the table?
  27. Would you want the ability to hear the thoughts of people near you if you couldn’t turn the ability off?
  28. If cartoon physics suddenly replaced real physics, what are some things you would want to try?
  29. What questions would you like to ask a time traveler from 200 years in the future?
  30. If you were given unlimited resources, how would you lure the worst of humanity into one stadium at the same time?
  31. How much of your body would you cybernetically enhance if you could?
  32. What two films would you like to combine into one?
  33. What is your ideal home aesthetic if money wasn’t an issue?
  34. If you could rename your country or state, what would you rename it and why?
  35. How do you think the internet would change if all advertising was banned on the internet?
  36. If you were a graffiti artist what would your tag look like?

Opinion questions

  1. What invention doesn’t get a lot of love, but has greatly improved the world?
  2. What unethical experiment would have the biggest positive impact on society as a whole?
  3. Which celebrity or band has the worst fan base?
  4. What’s something people don’t worry about but really should?
  5. Do you think that children born today will have better or worse lives than their parents?
  6. Which charity or charitable cause is most deserving of money?
  7. What goal do you think humanity is not focused enough on achieving?
  8. What character in a movie could have been great, but the actor they cast didn’t fit the role?
  9. What really needs to be modernized?
  10. When is censorship warranted?
  11. What current trend do you hope will go on for a long time?
  12. What’s the most pleasant sounding accent?
  13. What’s something that everyone, absolutely everyone, in the entire world can agree on?
  14. What country is the strangest from your cultural standpoint?
  15. If there was a book of commandments for the modern world, what would some of the rules be?
  16. What life skills are rarely taught but extremely useful?
  17. What’s the most historic thing that has happened in your lifetime?
  18. What has been blown way out of proportion?
  19. What’s about to get much better?
  20. Do you think that humans will ever be able to live together in harmony?
  21. What do you think could be done to improve the media?
  22. What’s the worst movie trope?
  23. Which apocalyptic dystopia do you think is most likely?
  24. What’s something that everyone agrees we should change, but somehow it never changes?
  25. What company do you despise?
  26. What’s the most overrated product out on the market?
  27. What’s something that everyone knows is true, but we don’t like to admit it?
  28. What’s the most boring sport, and what would you do to make it more exciting?
  29. What’s the creepiest tech out there?
  30. What big event do you think will happen soon that most people aren’t expecting?
  31. What current trend makes no sense to you?
  32. What do a lot of people have very strong opinions about, even though they know very little about it?
  33. What’s legal now, but probably won’t be in 25 years?
  34. What’s something that people think makes them look cool, but actually has the opposite effect?
  35. What from the present will withstand the test of time?
  36. What was ruined because it became popular?
  37. What small change greatly improves a person’s appearance?
  38. What do a lot of people hope will happen but is just not going to happen?
  39. Which way should toilet paper hang, over or under?
  40. What are some of the most common misconceptions?
  41. What job doesn’t exist now but will exist in the future?
  42. What profession doesn’t get enough credit or respect?
  43. What’s the most annoying thing about the social media platform you use most often?
  44. How much do you think names affect the outcomes of people’s lives?
  45. What product or service is way more expensive than it needs to be?
  46. What’s the weirdest thing about modern life that people just accept as normal?
  47. What’s quickly becoming obsolete?
  48. Would you rather AI and scientists oversee a country’s policies or politicians?
  49. What famous person is actually making the world a better place?
  50. How do you think countries could allocate their resources better?
  51. How would you like to see the education system change?
  52. Why do you think in western society it has been relatively uncommon for men to wear make up?
  53. Do you think people are wiser now than they were 100 years ago? Why or why not?
  54. In general, is it better for a person to stand out and be different or blend in with everyone else?
  55. How much do you trust or distrust authority figures?
  56. What do you think the people in charge at your job or school could be doing better?
  57. How much of a role do you think A.I. will play in the near future?
  58. What do you think about reality TV shows?
  59. Do you think that humans as a species have changed much in the last 2000 years? Not human technology but humans themselves. Why or why not?
  60. What is the single most important thing a single individual can do to further the greater good?
  61. What do you think the next big tech thing will be?
  62. How big of a part of success does luck play?
  63. Most cultures have some form of dance, what benefit do you think dancing gave to early humans?
  64. Which drugs, if any, do you think should be legalized and why?
  65. What are the three biggest threats facing the world?
  66. What is worth standing in line for?
  67. What trend are you tired of?
  68. What just around the corner tech are you eager to get your hands on?
  69. What near future predictions do you have?
  70. What trend do you think is on the way out?
  71. What about modern society baffles you?
  72. What innovative idea or product have you heard about recently?
  73. What do you think of the electric scooters you find in most big cities?
  74. Which do you prefer, shopping online or in person?

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