Do you have a ‘first date’ with someone you don’t know very well?  Perhaps you met them online and you fear the conversation might lag at times?  Try some of these conversation starters to banish those awkward silences.  Even if its not a first date these questions are fun to ask and compare your answers to.

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?

What place do you want to visit most?

If you could have any job in the world, what would it be?

What's your favorite word?  What's your least favorite word?

Do you believe in God?  Karma?

When you get to heaven, what do you hope that God says to you?  What do you think he will really say to you?

If you could interview anyone living or dead, who would it be?

If you were allowed one question of God, what would it be?

If you could start life over, would you choose to be a man or a woman?

Do you think there is life on other planets?

If you could relive your life what if anything would you change?

If you knew then what you know now, would have changed your teen years?

If you could be someone else for a day who would you be?

What might you invent to make your life easier?

What would you put in a time capsule that someone might unearth in 100 years?

If your house were on fire (and you, your family and pets were all out safely) and you could only grab 3 things to take out, what would they be?

What is your earliest childhood memory?

What is your best childhood memory?

What is the toy you remember playing most as a child?

What would be the title of your biography?

If you knew you'd be financially taken care of for the next year, what would you do with your time or where would you go?

What do you remember about your first birthday party? your first day of school, first day of Junior high, of senior high, of college? your first love? when we first met?

What’s your favorite season, and why?

What childhood games do you remember playing?

What were your favorite cartoons?

If you knew you had 24 hours to live what would you do?

What would be on the soundtrack to your life? or What kind of music would be the soundtrack to your life?

Do you have any scars? Where did you get them?

It's Friday morning and a genie gives you $5,000 is cash.  On Sunday evening at 11pm any money you haven't spent will disappear. What do you do with the money?

If you could be invisible for a day, where would you go, and what would you do?

When you have a snack, do you prefer something sweet like chocolate or salty and crunchy, like chips?

Tell me about the best novel you’ve read.

When you have some down time all to yourself, how do you like to spend it?

Tell the truth, what’s your favorite children’s movie – and why?

What’s the goofiest thing you’ve ever done?

If you could have one super power, like a super hero, what would it be?

Do you like to cook?  Do you eat out more than you eat at home?

If you could have a leisurely lunch with any three people in the world (at the same time), who would choose – and why?

Do you have a dream of doing something – anything – that you’ve never shared with anyone because you’re afraid they might laugh?

Do you believe its true, ‘you have to give to receive’?

What’s your favorite charity or cause – and why?

Do you recycle?  Do you recycle because you believe it’s the right thing to do or do you do it because you have to?

What kind of humor do you like?  Who’s your favorite comedian?

What’s your favorite TV show – and why?

If you could pass any law, what would it be – and why?

Do you have any phobias? 

What’s the one thing you wish you could have that would help you most with your day to day life?  Live-in maid?  Nanny?  Chauffeur?  Someone to run all your errands? 

Which do you prefer, or which describes you best?

Apple or PC?

Coffee or tea?

Decaf or regular?

TV or radio?

Beer or wine?

Chicken or steak?

Broiled or fried?

Sausage or bacon?

Early bird or night owl?

College basketball or NBA?

Coke or Pepsi?

Dogs or cats?

Cable or Satellite TV?

Automatic car or standard shift?

Paperbacks or hard covers?

Homebody or party animal?

Superman or Batman?

City or country?

Beach or mountains?

Superstore/Mega mall or small independent retailer?

Sauna or steam room?

Pool or hot tub?

Ocean, lake, or a good, old, chlorinated pool?

Church on Sunday or sleep in?

Sunrise or sunset?

Truth or dare?

Brady Bunch or Partridge Family?

Jay Leno or David Letterman?

Silver or gold?

Margarita – frozen or on the rocks?  With salt or without?

Chocolate chip cookies – with nuts or without?

Send an e-mail or call on the phone?

Jun  2003