Excellent Conversation Questions

Once you've practised asking questions for a while, you'll Realize just how great questions are for starting conversations, Helping them flow - and for getting to know someone better. Now it's time to have some fun with it!

What makes for excellent conversation questions?

1. It's easy to answer
2. It doesn't cause offence
3. It includes everyone
4. People won't be judged too harshly on their responses!

This last point is particularly important, as people will be
reluctant to talk if they feel they will be judged. So you can see
a good conversation question is also about tone and
circumstances.

Below is a list of great conversation questions to delve deeper
into the personalities of people you feel comfortable with and find
out a few more things about them. These are great for social
gatherings and parties - anywhere where you want to have fun
and get to know someone in the process.

It's a great spin on the old party game - 'Twenty Questions' -
but see where each question leads you when you get the answers.
Don't turn your questioning into an interrogation and listen to the
answers you get. Pick up on these answers and as subsidiary
questions, add your own answers - whatever seems appropriate
and whatever the other person seems to want you to do. Just go with
the flow and enjoy it!

1. If you were God for a day, what would you do?
2. If you could be the parent of one famous person, who would you want
it to be and why?
3. What was the last thing you regret buying?
4. If you had a chance to bring one person back from the dead, who
would it be and why?
5. What three things you regret not learning to do?
6. If you had a crystal ball that could tell you the truth about any one
thing you wished to know about yourself, life, the future, or anything else,
what would you want to know?
7. What's worse... having expectations that are too high, or having no
expectations at all?
8. How do you know when you're in love?
9. What is the most important invention or innovation that has happened
during your life-time?
10. How would you spend your ideal day?
11. What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?
12. What three adjectives might other people use to describe your
personality?
13. Who would you choose to be shipwrecked on a desert island with?
14. What's your idea of a perfect romantic evening?
15. If you were to be remembered for one thing, what would you like it
to be?
16. If you were guaranteed honest responses to any three questions,
whom would you question, and what would you ask them?
17. If you saw someone shoplifting, what would you do?
18. Is there anything you'd willingly give your life for?
19. If you could re-live a day of your life again, which would it be
and why?
20. If you could be invisible for a day, what would you do?

These are all light-hearted questions that should cause no-one offence,
but they also touch on philosophical issues and allow you to really get
to know a person - if they're honest with their answers. You make it a lot
more likely that they'll tell the truth is you set the scene and provide a
relaxed atmosphere and if you're prepared to chip in with your own answers.

Under those circumstances, these provide excellent conversation questions to enable you to know more about your friends than you might ever have found out in any other way.

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