1. What are three things that make you smile each day?
This conversation starter can be used to help conversation partners learn more about each other by discussing positive experiences they have.
2. Tell me about a time when you felt proud.
This conversation starter can help people reflect on their feelings and the accomplishments and events that made them proud.
3. Who is someone that you admire?
This conversation starter can help two people to exchange ideas about people who have inspired them.
4. What does a typical day look like for you?
This conversation starter helps people learn more about each other by discussing daily routines.
5. What would you do with a million dollars?
This conversation starter is an opportunity for two people to use their imaginations and discuss what they would do if they were millionaires.
6. What would you eat if you could only have one food for the rest of your life?
This conversation starter helps people explore different types of food and their preferences.
7. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?
This conversation starter helps people talk about different cultures around the world and locations they would like to visit.
8. Where are some of the most interesting places you have been?
This conversation starter encourages two people to talk about past travels and share experiences of different places.
9. What’s the biggest lesson you have learned this year?
This conversation starter helps people reflect on their lives and the lessons they have learned over the past year.
10. What was your favorite book as a child?
This conversation starter helps two people to reflect on their childhood and recall stories from books they remembered the most.
11. What is something that challenges you?
This conversation starter allows two people to share their struggles and challenges and learn to cope together.
12. What did you do for fun as a kid?
This conversation starter helps two people to reminisce and share past experiences from their childhood.
13. What do you think is the most important quality someone should have?
This conversation starter allows two people to talk about their values and beliefs in order to gain a better understanding of each other.
14. If you could have a superpower, what would it be?
This conversation starter encourages two people to discuss their fantasies of different types of powers and superpowers.
15. What do you think most people don’t know about you?
This conversation starter allows two people to share more personal and intimate details about themselves.
16. If you could trade places with someone for a day, who would it be?
This conversation starter helps two people imagine a life in the shoes of someone else, and share those experiences and thoughts.
17. What would be the title of the movie about your life?
This conversation starter helps two people explore how they view their lives and how it could be summed up in a movie title.
18. What item would you take to a deserted island?
This conversation starter encourages two people to use their imagination and think about the items they would need if they were to be stranded on an island.
19. What type of music do you like?
This conversation starter allows two people to share their tastes and genres of music in order to understand each other more.
20. If you could have lunch with anyone living or dead, who would it be?
This conversation starter helps two people think of famous figures they would like to have lunch with and learn more about through conversation.