Questions to ask instead of ‘When are you having kids?’

Questions for people you’ve just met

Have you watched anything good on Netflix lately?

What have you been reading lately?

What is your phone wallpaper and why?

Where’s your next holiday/Where do you want to go once the pandemic is over?

Do you have pets?

I really love your (item of clothing/jewellery), where did you get it?

Questions for getting to know people better

Who is your heroine?

What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given?

What are you passionate about?

If you could start a charity, what would it be for?

What’s a time when you’ve been made welcome and accepted in a social group

What culture would you like to learn more about?

What would you make socially acceptable if you could?

What is your impractical superpower? (e.g. never spilling a drink, always know when someone changes the thermostat, can quote every episode of The Simpsons)

What could you teach someone else to do? (e.g. knit, tie their shoelaces, pick floor varnish)

If you hosted your own podcast, who would you want as your first guest?

If you could eliminate one thing from your daily routine, what would it be?

If you could be an expert in a subject, what would it be?

If your pet could answer one question, what you ask them?

Fun questions to get people talking

If you owned a bar, what would it be called, what would it look like?

If you were a robot/in a simulation, would you want to know?

You’re invisible for 12 hours - what do you do?

Jurassic Park is real - would you visit?

You can buy any existing .com domain - which one would it be?

You can hybrid any 2 animals - which 2 and why?

You can change one thing about the way the human body evolved - what is it?

You sell your soul to the devil - what do you get in return?

You have to build a robot with a single purpose - what is it’s purpose?

What cartoon universe would you want to live in?

If someone was going to assassinate you, how would they do it?

You’re given a bird as a ‘familiar’ to guide you through your life - what kind of bird is it?

You’re a pirate captain - what’s your pirate ship called?