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36 Questions To Ask Someone To 'Dig A Little Deeper' Than The Surface

Easy ways to keep the conversation interesting.

Cambre Codington

Feb 12, 2019

Syracuse University

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36 Questions To Ask Someone To 'Dig A Little Deeper' Than The Surface

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Sometimes getting to know someone can be slightly awkward or even uncomfortable, especially when you get past the basics. Corny, but sometimes 20 questions is the best game to play to get to know someone more than just their name and where they're from. Below are 36 questions to choose from to either ask yourself or ask the person you're trying to get to know.

1. Do you prefer writing with black or blue pen?

2. Would you prefer to live in the country or the city?

3. If you could learn a new skill, what would it be?

4. Do you drink your tea or coffee with sugar?

5. What was your favorite book as a child?

6. Do you prefer baths or showers?

7. If you could be a mythical creature, which would you choose?

8. Do you prefer reading paper or electronic books?

9. What is your favorite item of clothing?

10. Do you like your name? Would you ever change it?

11. Who is a mentor to you?

12. Would you ever want to be famous? If so, what for?

13. Are you a restless sleeper?

14. Do you consider yourself a romantic?

15. Which element best represents you?

16.Who do you want to be closer to?

17. Do you miss someone right now?

18.Tell about an early childhood memory.

19. What is the strangest thing you've ever eaten?

20. What are you most thankful for?

21. Have you ever met someone famous?

22. Do you keep a diary or journal?

23. What is your astrology sign?

24. What do you want your legacy to be?

25. Do you like reading? What was the last thing you read?

26. What is your love language?

27. What are you afraid of?

28. What is your favorite scent?

29. If money wasn't a factor, would you live your life differently?

30. Do you prefer lakes or oceans?

31. If you had to have a tattoo, what would it be and why?

32. Where do you feel the safest?

33. What is one thing you want to overcome/conquer?

34. If you could travel back to any era, which would you choose?

35. Describe yourself using one word.

36. What is your biggest regret and why?

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You get homework assigned on the first day of class

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You learn attendance is mandatory and will be taken every class

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Participation is mandatory and you have to play "icebreaker games"

Everybody is going out because its 'syllabus week' but you're laying in bed watching Grey's Anatomy

Looking outside anytime past 8 PM every night of this week

Nobody actually has any idea what's happening this entire week

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Syllabus week is over and you realize you actually have to try now...or not

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Now it's time to get back into the REAL swing of things. Second semester is really here and we all have to deal with it.

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Whether you specialized in ringing people up or preparing the food, if you worked at Panera Bread it holds a special place in your heart. Here are some signs that you worked at Panera in high school.

1. You own so many pairs of khaki pants you don’t even know what to do with them

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36 Questions To Ask Someone To 'Dig A Little Deeper' Than The Surface

Easy ways to keep the conversation interesting.

In This Article:

1. Do you prefer writing with black or blue pen?

2. Would you prefer to live in the country or the city?

3. If you could learn a new skill, what would it be?

4. Do you drink your tea or coffee with sugar?

5. What was your favorite book as a child?

6. Do you prefer baths or showers?

7. If you could be a mythical creature, which would you choose?

8. Do you prefer reading paper or electronic books?

9. What is your favorite item of clothing?

10. Do you like your name? Would you ever change it?

11. Who is a mentor to you?

12. Would you ever want to be famous? If so, what for?

13. Are you a restless sleeper?

14. Do you consider yourself a romantic?

15. Which element best represents you?

16.Who do you want to be closer to?

17. Do you miss someone right now?

18.Tell about an early childhood memory.

19. What is the strangest thing you've ever eaten?

20. What are you most thankful for?

21. Have you ever met someone famous?

22. Do you keep a diary or journal?

23. What is your astrology sign?

24. What do you want your legacy to be?

25. Do you like reading? What was the last thing you read?

26. What is your love language?

27. What are you afraid of?

28. What is your favorite scent?

29. If money wasn't a factor, would you live your life differently?

30. Do you prefer lakes or oceans?

31. If you had to have a tattoo, what would it be and why?

32. Where do you feel the safest?

33. What is one thing you want to overcome/conquer?

34. If you could travel back to any era, which would you choose?

35. Describe yourself using one word.

36. What is your biggest regret and why?

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Feeling Lost During Syllabus Week? You're Not Alone!

The professor starts to go over something more than the syllabus

You get homework assigned on the first day of class

There are multiple group projects on the syllabus

You learn attendance is mandatory and will be taken every class

Professor starts chatting about their personal life and what inspired them to teach this class

Participation is mandatory and you have to play "icebreaker games"

Everybody is going out because its 'syllabus week' but you're laying in bed watching Grey's Anatomy

Looking outside anytime past 8 PM every night of this week

Nobody actually has any idea what's happening this entire week

Syllabus week is over and you realize you actually have to try now...or not

Chips, apple or bread?

1. You own so many pairs of khaki pants you don’t even know what to do with them

2. Chips, apple or bread is probably your most repeated phrase

3. Taking bakery items with you out to parties was a must

4. Taking bakery items home to your parents was also a must (if you wanted to live)

5. Your friends expected you to give them free stuff

6. Being put on dishes made you question humanity

7. You saw everyone and their mother (especially their mothers)

8. Working the opening shift was actually the worst thing to ever happen to you

9. Being able to predict what people would order

10. Making coffee was your least favorite thing to do

11.Being put on the dining room was the absolute WORST

12. Secretly putting in your Panera card number when other people didn’t have them or want them.

13. You would still come in on days you weren’t working to take advantage of your discount

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Making the world safer through language.

1. Use singular they for people whose pronouns you don't know, people who use those pronouns, and stop using him/her.

2. Stop using the words "opposite sex" or "both sexes" or "opposite gender" or "both genders".

3. Ask people's pronouns when you meet them.

4. Use the word cisgender.

5. Stop saying "born a boy/girl" about a transgender or non-binary person.

6. Stop using the term 'preferred pronouns'.

7. Stop using a transgender or non-binary person's dead name.

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