Icebreakers

Core personality

• What’s something you’re really proud of and why?
• When you die, what do you want to be remembered for? (What would you want on your gravestone?)
• Dream job?
• Favorite possession?
• Dream house?
• If you had one superpower, what would it be?
• Favorite animal?
• Morning or night person?

I need to rephrase these instead of just being closed-ended.

Kids/Students

• Sports?
• Instruments?
• Favorite subject?
• Least favorite?
• Hidden talents?

Weird joke questions

• If you had a choice, how would you prefer to die?
• How many inane icebreaker questions would someone need to ask you before you strangled them? (How many if the person asking was Ryan Gosling?)
• When was the last time you lost the game?
• Do you prefer crunchy peanut butter or dogs?
• Describe yourself in haiku form
• If you could only use one dance move for the rest of your life, what would it be?
• Besides this one, what is the worst icebreaker question you’ve ever heard? (The best?)
• Which crime are you most likely to be convicted of?
• What’s your favorite password?
• (Similar to above) What’s your first pet’s name, the street you lived on as a kid, your mother’s maiden name, and the last four digits of your social security number?
• What is the last lie you told? Sorry, what is the last lie you told yourself?
• What is the weirdest thing you would do, right now, for $20?
• Bladerunner questions about tortoise: Blade Runner (1982) - Brion James as Leon - IMDb

  (Edited version of quotes, but without Leon interrupting:)

  You’re in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It’s crawling toward you. You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back, [their name].

  The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t. Not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that, [their name]?

  (It’d also be funny to do the “baseline test from Blade Runner 2049”)

• Do you dunk your donuts in coffee? Or do you pour coffee on donuts?
• What would you rather have, constipation or diarrhea? Do you prefer crunchy or smooth poops?
• What’s a secret you know about someone else that you’d be willing to tell to a complete stranger?
• What is one thing you’ve done that you’ll never do again?
• If you had a secret society, how would you select members?
• What celebrities do you think are in your league?
• What’s the weirdest thing in your house right now?

QotD

(Kind of like questions that can be posted to a chatroom.)

• What is the temperature of your thermostat?
• When do you start changing lanes? (Driving)
• What’s an unusual skill you have?
• What’s your go-to party trick?
• What’s a skill you’ve always wanted to learn?
• Weirdest food you’ve eaten? What was weird about it?
• Weirdest place you’ve visited?
• If you had to live in another country, which country would it be and why?
• Which historical figure would you have most liked to date? Who would have been most likely?
• What’s your favorite smell?
• What’s a hill you’ll die on?
• What’s your pet peeve?
• If you could live in any book, which book and why?
• Weirdest hobby you’ve tried?
• If you could try any job for a day, which would you do and why?

Todos

• Joke question: Ask the trolley problem.