If you love asking thought-provoking and unique questions at dinner parties or when hanging out with friends or a significant other, I’ve got a great list of fun questions. Some of these questions are super personal, and others are just a little bit silly!
These conversation starters will get lots of conversation flowing, and you’ll probably learn tons of interesting information about your friends or family.
Save a few of these in your notes app on your phone or just memorize one to whip out the next time the conversation lulls!
Dinner Party Questions Ideas
- If you died and you were standing at the gates of whatever afterlife you believe in and they told you that you could go back to earth for 5 minutes to see one place before entering (no seeing family or friends), where would you choose to go?
- If a crystal ball could show you something about your future or past, what would you choose to see?
- What is one job you know you’d be great at, even though you have no experience?
- If you were a ghostwriter for books, what would be the most embarrassing book for people to find out you wrote?
- If your pet suddenly spoke one sentence (and never spoke again), what would be the most unsettling thing it could say?
- If you met an alien and were allowed to ask three questions, what would they be?
- If you could rewatch any TV show for the first time, what would it be?
- If you were to accidentally walk out of Target without paying for an item, how expensive would it need to be for you to return and pay for it?
- If you could have dinner with your great-great grandparents or your great-great-grandchildren, who would you choose and why?
- If you had to hide a giraffe from the government, where would you put it and why?
- If you went to sleep and woke up in a medieval king’s court and you were the jester, what would you do on the spot to entertain him?
- If everyone you ever met was in one room at once, who would you be most excited to see?
- What’s the last thing that cost you nothing but made you happy?
- If you were going about your normal day, how many owls would you need to see before you thought something was wrong?
- What would the title of a movie about your life be?
- If you had the power to eliminate any crime, but you had to commit it first, what would the crime be?
- What’s the best compliment you’ve ever received?
- If time froze for 24 hours and only you could move around freely, what would you do?
- If sneezing were to cease and no one could sneeze again, how long would it take you to notice?
- What was the hometown scandal of your childhood?
- What is your favorite thing about yourself?
- If you had a box of lost items from throughout your life, what’s the first thing you’d look for in the box?
- What category of Jeopardy could you immediately sweep?
- If you had to be locked in a store, what would you choose and why?
- You’re in the Beast’s castle when the spell is cast to transform everything; what object do you turn into?
- You’re given three all-expense paid trips – one with a significant other, one with your best friend, and one solo. Where are you going for each of them?
- If you had to wash your brain, would you use hot or cold water?
- What is the least amount of money that would have to be buried in a porta-potty for you to go after it?
- What’s your least favorite pasta shape?
- If you could have one non-domesticated pet, what would it be?
- Who is one person in your life that you can be 100% yourself with?
What’s your favorite unusual question to ask your friends?
