Pressing Questions

Want to get to know your co-workers? Want to start a conversation? Want to hear alternative points of view? Want to hear ideas and thoughts that you'd have no idea were even out there? Want to get really interesting at a party? Then start asking:

General Purpose:
What's your favorite color?
What's your dream car?
What's your least favorite smell?
What is the song in your head today?
What would you do with $1 million?
Where would you most like to live?
Favorite book/author?
What was your first car?
Can you recite poetry? If so, please do.
Hamburgers or hot dogs?
What's your favorite quote?
Of all the people in the world, the person I'd most like to punch in the face is . . .
I really really really want to have . . .
Who are the brain police?
Paper or plastic?
Death or dishonor?
In the ABC Movie Of The Week about your workplace/family/friends, who will play the various roles?
Would you take a bullet for anyone? Who?

The Deeply Personal/Memories:
What is your deepest fear?
What's the most embarrassing thing you've ever done/happened to you?
What's the weirdest/grossest thing you've ever had in your mouth?
Have you ever been caught stealing?
What is best in life?
What is most important in life?
What's the coolest place you've ever visited?
Favorite fast food?
___________ never ever should go on a pizza.
What's on your mousepad?
What color are your bedsheets?
What's the greatest/most memorable thing you've ever been told?
What's the most profound thing you've ever heard or read?
What are you reading right now?
What's your computer screen saver?
Have you ever been arrested/charged/convicted? Of what?
Where's the strangest place you've ever slept/Strangest thing you've ever slept on?
What's the most depraved/nasty/randy/raucous sexual thing you've ever done?
My idea of perfect happiness is . . .
What's your favorite board game?
What is under your bed?
Favorite vegetable? Leas favorite vegetable?
What's your favorite magazine?
Chocolate or vanilla?
Ketchup or mustard?
When I was a little kid, I really wanted to be ______________.
What do you sleep with?
Thunderstorms, cool or frightening?
What's your favorite smell?

The Hypothetical:
If you were all-powerful, what would be your first order of business?
Which dead historical figure would you most like to have sex with?
Which do you choose: the ability to fly or to be invisible?
Which three dead historical figures would you like to have dinner with?
If you could ask God two questions, what would they be?
Will the earth end in fire or in ice?
When snow melts, where does the white go?
Can a sad man sing a happy song?
Is the glass half empty or half full?
Is it right to steal food for a starving family?

Film:
What's your favorite film?
What's the greatest film of all time?
What's your favorite comedy/documentary/drama/thriller/western/musical?
Who's the greatest director of all time?
Who's the greatest actor of all time?
What is the worst film/director/actor of all time?
What's your greatest/worst movie experience?
Name your ultimate double features.

Music:
What are your desert island albums?
What one genre of music do you most despise?
What's your favorite album of all time?
Who/What is the greatest act of all time?
What was your first concert?
What was your greatest concert?
What was the worst concert experience ever?
Best guitar player of them all?

Holidays:
What's the best gift you've ever received?
What is your single greatest memory of Christmas?
What's your worst holiday story?
What's your best Halloween story/costume?
What have you always wanted to dress up for Halloween but never have?