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210 Questions To Ask Friends (For All Situations)
210 Questions To Ask Friends (For All Situations)
210 Questions To Ask Friends (For All Situations)
Whether your goal is to learn something new, deepen the bond with a friend, or just have an interesti
it can be hard to come up with questions to ask your friends.
This article contains over 200 questions to ask friends in different situations. These are the 10 best qu
get to know your friends:[1]
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These questions are taken from Berkeley University’s 36 Questions for Increasing Closeness.
These questions are best suited for one-on-one situations than groups or high-energy environments
11. When you were a kid, did you look forward to being an adult?
12. Do you ever risk eating dodgy smelling food that you’re not 100% sure about?
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16. Do you ever participate in the local cultural stuff your city has to offer?
17. Do you care about updating your phone to a new model often?
20. Would you rather get 10 million $ today, or in monthly payments spread out across your lifetime?
21. What’s the first thing you would look at if you were choosing an apartment to rent?
23. What do you think about old black & white movies?
25. Did you ever want to have an exotic or dangerous animal for a pet?
32. If you had to go to war, would you rather be on the front lines – fighting, or in the back – doing lo
33. Which armed forces would you join? (Navy, Air Force, etc)
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Funny questions usually work better in high-energy environment such as parties.
7. What’s the stupidest thing you’d do if you had a week left to live?
8. You’re stranded on a deserted island, would you pick to have a hot tub or a shower?
9. What’s one amazing combination of foods that no one knows about except you?
10. In a zombie apocalypse, what kind of weapon would you pick from the things that you have at ho
11. Was there ever something that you thought was possible after watching some movie as a kid, tha
absolutely ridiculous to think of in retrospect?
12. Are there any words that annoy you for no reason, that just can’t stand hearing or saying?
13. What kind of food could disappear from the world forever and never be missed?
14. Do you recall the moment you laughed the hardest in your life?
15. Would you play Russian roulette with a 5 in 6 chance of becoming ultra-rich and a 1 in 6 chance o
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16. Why do people set their favorite song as their ringtone, if it gets annoying after a few days?
17. What do you feel when you hear someone scraping a fork on their teeth while they’re eating?
18. How long do you think you’d be okay with eating the same thing every day?
19. Why have a separate word for raisins instead of just calling them dried grapes?
20. If I turned into a zombie, would you try to keep me around in case a cure appears, or kill me straig
21. Would you fly a jet plane into an erupting volcano… if after dying, you’d immediately come back t
happened? You know, just for a new experience…
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22. Does peanut butter go on top or the bottom of a peanut butter jelly sandwich?
23. Have you ever seen a badly behaved pet and wondered… why do they put up with this guy?
24. Do you ever catch yourself viewing clerks and other people you meet during the day as machines
serve their function only, rather than just seeing them as another person, who is just like you?
25. Have you seen the new movie that just came out?
27. Do you ever just go outside and wander off someplace new?
29. Would you start doing recreational drugs if they had absolutely no negative side-effects?
30. Do you get invested in “your team” winning when it comes to the Olympics and other big compet
Make sure to talk to your friend in a calm environment where you won’t risk getting interrupted while
questions.
4. What is the most inspiring thing you have seen someone do?
11. Do you ever want everyone in the world to hear the song you’re listening to?
12. Is there a country that you visited where you definitely wouldn’t want to live?
13. Have you ever finished a video game/movie and started it right over, then and there?
15. Do you think your life story could be made into a good biographical movie?
17. What kind of side job do you think would fit you?
20. How do you feel about buying and using secondhand items?
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23. Do you ever catch yourself having a racist thought and have to correct yourself?
25. Was there ever a moment you were seriously scared thinking that your parents may die?
27. What kind of stuff do you miss from when you were younger?
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10. Are you okay with being alone for long periods of time?
11. Do you see the beauty in things people don’t normally see it in?
12. Would you take a 50/50 chance of losing everything you currently have vs becoming wealthy, if al
was push a button?
13. What do you think is the most important thing in maintaining a friendship?
14. Do you think you should clean up after yourself in a fast food joint if there are employees paid to
15. Do you think tattoos must have meaning behind them or is it okay to have them simply as a piece
17. Is the way you will be buried important to you, or is it up to the people that will have to deal with i
19. Why do some people enjoy knowing that something they like isn’t popular?
20. How would you spend your time if you were imprisoned in a room for life but had unlimited optio
except for human contact?
22. Have you ever lost or thrown away something that had sentimental value attached to it?
26. If you had a serious medical condition and your immediate future depended on it, how easy woul
junk food and all your bad habits forever?
27. Have you ever forgiven someone, but later thought that you shouldn’t have?
28. What kind of “perfect relationship” would you want with an ideal hypothetical friend that you don
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29. Have you ever looked back at something traumatic and felt glad it happened, because it helped y
30. What’s the longest time you had to wait for something?
3. In which ways are you still the same person you were when you were a kid?
4. Do you think your parents gave preference to you or any of your siblings?
6. Do you think I know you well? (Follow up: What’s one thing that would make me know you better?)
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9. What’s the stupidest excuse you came up with to stay at home instead of going to school?
10. Is there anything about our school you appreciate now, that you didn’t appreciate before?
4. Am I a shy person?
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10. Could you name one of the most life-changing events for me?
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8. With tattoos being so popular, why don’t people do the same thing to their clothes?
9. Ever tried putting a bunch of glue on your palm and then peeling it off?
10. What percentage of your shopping time is spent on reading the labels and contents of the food y
2. What kind of key can’t unlock anything yet still works properly? (Answer: Musical key.)
3. Who’s constantly working at the gym but never gets buff? (Answer: The exercise equipment.)
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4. What kind of prison doesn’t need any locks or doors? (Answer: A deep well.)
5. What comes out of nowhere and goes nowhere? (Answer: This question.)
6. What kind of computer can do math despite not being plugged into the electricity slot? (Answer: Y
7. What sounds differently, but is basically the same in its essence? (Answer: Languages.)
8. A woman said she lost her purse, but it was never found by anyone. How is that possible? (Answer:
10. Who’s always praying, despite not being religious at all? (Answer: The praying mantis.)
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Nicole
June 20, 2021 at 3:48 am
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susan
June 14, 2021 at 4:09 am
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Tina
May 18, 2021 at 5:31 am Take this quiz to see how you can boost your social skills.
This is actually a useful set of questions, thank you!
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Tina
May 18, 2021 at 3:33 pm
I’m also curiuous.. This might pose a challenge.. But could it be possible to create a similar cheat
joking? Like humor strategies or something.
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March 17, 2021 at 2:39 pm
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January 24, 2021 at 4:11 am
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Toni
December 3, 2020 at 2:00 pm
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Good job! really helped!
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Gabi
January 7, 2019 at 2:29 am
David, thank you for your effort. I was just wondering, how long did it take you to write these que
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David Morin
January 7, 2019 at 12:29 pm
I’m not sure, I didn’t time it. I did it over a couple of days, so maybe around 10 hours of research,
proof-reading? 🙂
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