Funny Questions to Ask a Person

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Funny Questions to Ask a Person

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These 106 funny questions to ask a person come in six sets: for anyone, for someone new, silly ones with a straight follow-up, everyday habits, a group chat, and kids and grown-ups together.

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Funny get to know you questions

With someone new, take the set of that name: Which nickname did you try to give yourself that never stuck? Everyday habits, asked sideways is the safest set for people who have just met, because everyone has an alarm, a mug and a to-do list.

Silly questions with a straight follow-up

In this set the card is goofy and the follow-up is sincere: What would you whisper to a houseplant to make it try harder? Then: What is the kindest push anyone ever gave you? A silly round turns into a conversation without anyone noticing.

  • In a group chat, paste one card from Funny questions for a group chat and answer it yourself first.

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What are funny, interesting questions to ask someone?

Ones with a small true story behind them: What is the most trouble you have ever had with a simple door? What do you always say you will start on Monday? The laugh is in the answer, so no card needs a punchline.

What are the funniest questions to ask new people?

Ones that ask for a habit, not a secret: How do you choose a seat on a nearly empty bus? What do you take far too seriously for a hobby? Nobody is put on the spot, and the answers say a lot about a person.

What are silly questions to ask kids and grown-ups together?

For kids and grown-ups together holds 17 that a six-year-old and a grandparent can both answer: What would a grown-up be sent to their room for? What noise should a doorbell make?

What are humorous topics for conversation at a dinner or a party?

Everyday ones, asked from an odd angle: the order you eat a plate of food, the song you know one line of, the thing you keep just in case. The list of 18 under Everyday habits, asked sideways is all conversation starters of that kind.

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Funny questions for anyone 18

  • How long have you kept up pretending to like something? Follow-up: What gave you away in the end?
  • What have you done confidently and completely wrong in front of people? Follow-up: Who has never let you forget it?
  • What if a pet, yours or a neighbor's, could file one complaint about you? Follow-up: What would you say in your defense?
  • What is the least impressive thing you have ever bragged about? Follow-up: Who were you hoping to impress?
  • What is the most dramatic thing you have done over a minor inconvenience? Follow-up: Who was there to see the drama?
  • What is the most trouble you have ever had with a simple door? Follow-up: What did the sign on the door say?
  • What is the smallest thing that has ruined your whole morning? Follow-up: How long did you hold the grudge against it?
  • What is the strangest compliment you have ever been given? Follow-up: What did you manage to say back?
  • What would the plaque on your favorite chair say? Follow-up: Who is not allowed to sit in that chair?
  • What would the small print on you say? Follow-up: Who has read the small print and stayed anyway?
  • What would your cooking show be called, given how you really cook? Follow-up: What goes wrong in the first episode?
  • Which animal would you lose an argument to? Follow-up: What would the two of you be arguing about?
  • Which instruction did you once follow far too literally? Follow-up: How far did you get before you noticed?
  • Which of your opinions about sandwiches would you defend in court? Follow-up: Who would you call as your first witness?
  • Which present did you wrap so badly that the wrapping became the joke? Follow-up: How did they act when they unwrapped it?
  • Which saying did you mishear for years, and what did you think it was? Follow-up: Who finally corrected you?
  • Which word do you say wrong on purpose because your way is better? Follow-up: Who have you converted to your version?
  • Why do you think people wave at strangers on passing boats? Follow-up: Who was the last stranger you waved at?

Funny get-to-know-you questions 18

  • How would you describe your dancing to someone who has to draw it? Follow-up: Where did you pick the moves up?
  • What can you do an alarmingly good impression of? Follow-up: Where did you study the original?
  • What did you practice in front of a mirror as a kid? Follow-up: How did the real performance go?
  • What do you always say you will start on Monday? Follow-up: Which Monday are we on by now?
  • What do you own that makes no sense for the person you are? Follow-up: How did it come to live with you?
  • What do you take far too seriously for a hobby? Follow-up: Who have you bored about it most recently?
  • What is the most effort you have put into dodging a small task? Follow-up: How long would the task itself have taken?
  • What is the most out-of-character thing you have ever done? Follow-up: Who would refuse to believe it?
  • What is the oddest thing that has made you cry with laughter? Follow-up: Who was laughing beside you?
  • What were you weirdly proud of at age seven? Follow-up: How much of that pride is left?
  • What would a detective conclude about you from your kitchen counter? Follow-up: Which clue on the counter would mislead them?
  • What would your friends say is the most you thing about you? Follow-up: Where do your friends have it wrong?
  • What would your shopping basket tell the person behind you in line? Follow-up: Which item explains you best?
  • Which hill are you standing on that nobody else cares about? Follow-up: How long have you been up there?
  • Which job would you be spectacularly bad at? Follow-up: How long before they sent you home?
  • Which law of your own invention do you obey every day? Follow-up: What goes on in your head if you break it?
  • Which nickname did you try to give yourself that never stuck? Follow-up: What did people call you in its place?
  • Which phase of yours are you glad left so few photos? Follow-up: What was the soundtrack to that phase?

Silly questions with a straight follow-up 18

  • How many goats could you look after responsibly? Follow-up: What is the most you have had to look after at once?
  • How would you sign off a letter to the moon? Follow-up: Who did you last write a real letter to?
  • If your week were a pot of stew, what is floating in it? Follow-up: What actually went well for you since Monday?
  • What does your handwriting think it is doing? Follow-up: What do you still prefer to write on paper?
  • What rank would you hold in an army of geese? Follow-up: When were you last put in charge of something real?
  • What would a dog who followed you all day think your job is? Follow-up: How would you explain your real job to the dog?
  • What would a tour guide point out in your living room? Follow-up: What do you own that you would never give away?
  • What would the motto over your front door be, if it had to be honest? Follow-up: What does your household do better than most?
  • What would you name a boat you do not own? Follow-up: Where would you want to sail first?
  • What would you name a restaurant that only serves toast? Follow-up: What dish would you really put on a menu?
  • What would you say when accepting an award for getting out of bed? Follow-up: What gets you up on a hard morning?
  • What would you teach a class of very keen ducks? Follow-up: What could you teach a class of real people?
  • What would you whisper to a houseplant to make it try harder? Follow-up: What is the kindest push anyone ever gave you?
  • What would your shoes say about where you have been? Follow-up: Where is the farthest those shoes have carried you?
  • Which chore would you do forever if it came with applause? Follow-up: Which chore do you honestly not mind?
  • Which potato dish are you today? Follow-up: What happened today to make you that one?
  • Which season would you fire, and for what offense? Follow-up: What do you love about the season you would keep?
  • Which vegetable has the best attitude? Follow-up: What is the best meal you ever made with it?

Everyday habits, asked sideways 18

  • How do you behave in an elevator with one other person? Follow-up: Where do your eyes go?
  • How do you choose a seat on a nearly empty bus? Follow-up: What would make you move seats?
  • How do you walk once you realize you are going the wrong way? Follow-up: What do you pretend to check before turning round?
  • How long can a mug stay on your desk before it becomes a resident? Follow-up: What is the mug count at this moment?
  • How many alarms does it take, and what do you say to the first one? Follow-up: What would mornings look like if you had your way?
  • In what order do you eat a plate of food, and what is the logic? Follow-up: Where else in life do you do it that way?
  • What do you buy every time and never finish? Follow-up: How much of it is waiting in the cupboard now?
  • What do you do after waving back at someone who was waving past you? Follow-up: What is your recovery move?
  • What do you keep just in case, and in case of what? Follow-up: When did just in case last come true?
  • What do you narrate out loud when you think nobody is home? Follow-up: Who has walked in on the narration?
  • What do you pretend to understand when someone explains it? Follow-up: What did you nod along to most recently?
  • What do you say to your reflection before something important? Follow-up: What does the reflection say back?
  • What is on your to-do list purely so you can cross it off? Follow-up: What has sat on the list the longest?
  • What is the strangest order you do things in when you get ready? Follow-up: Who pointed out that it was strange?
  • What is your first reaction when the phone actually rings? Follow-up: Who are you always glad to hear from?
  • What is your system for remembering things, and how often does it fail? Follow-up: What did the system lose most recently?
  • What would your daily routine look like as the rules of a board game? Follow-up: Which rule would the players argue over?
  • Which song do you only know one line of but sing anyway? Follow-up: What do you fill the rest with?

Funny questions for a group chat 17

  • What are you supposed to be doing right now and not answering this? Follow-up: How long will this chat cost you today?
  • What is everyone eating right now, honestly? Follow-up: Who has the plate the rest of us want?
  • What is the most recent thing you looked up to settle an argument? Follow-up: Who turned out to be right?
  • What is the oldest unanswered message sitting in your phone? Follow-up: What would you reply to it today?
  • What is the view from exactly where you are sitting? Follow-up: What would improve that view the most?
  • What is the worst autocorrect that ever went out under your name? Follow-up: Who was on the receiving end?
  • What is your day so far, told as a sports commentary? Follow-up: What is the score at this point?
  • What job would each of us hold in a very badly run bakery? Follow-up: Who burns the first batch?
  • What last made you laugh alone like a fool? Follow-up: Where were you standing when it happened?
  • What should this chat really be named, going by what gets posted? Follow-up: Who would vote against the new name?
  • What sound is your household making at this exact hour? Follow-up: Who or what is behind the sound?
  • What would a stranger guess about us from the last ten messages alone? Follow-up: Which message would throw them off most?
  • What would this group be banned from, and for what? Follow-up: Which of us gets everyone banned?
  • Which message in this chat deserves a frame on the wall? Follow-up: Who was the author of it?
  • Which of us will answer this last, and what will the excuse be? Follow-up: What is your own slowest reply on record?
  • Which photo on your phone would make no sense to anyone else? Follow-up: What is the explanation, in one line?
  • Which sticker, picture or reaction do you send far too often? Follow-up: Who receives it the most?

For kids and grown-ups together 17

  • What did you get completely wrong when you were smaller? Follow-up: How did you find out you had it wrong?
  • What is the funniest face you can make without using your hands? Follow-up: Who at the table can copy it best?
  • What is the least believable thing that has really made you late? Follow-up: Who refused to believe it?
  • What is the silliest thing a grown-up has said to you with a straight face? Follow-up: What did you answer?
  • What is the worst possible thing to put on a pizza? Follow-up: Who here would eat it anyway?
  • What noise should a doorbell make? Follow-up: Who would get the biggest fright from it?
  • What should be the first rule at a school for grown-ups? Follow-up: What is on the first homework sheet?
  • What would a grown-up be sent to their room for? Follow-up: How long should they have to stay there?
  • What would a grown-up have to do to win a gold star from you? Follow-up: Where would you stick the star?
  • What would a very small dragon pack for school lunch? Follow-up: Who would the dragon share it with?
  • What would you name a very slow racehorse? Follow-up: What is the fast horse in the next stall called?
  • Which animal would be the worst at hide and seek? Follow-up: Where would it try to hide?
  • Which chore would be fun if it were a competition? Follow-up: What does the champion get to skip?
  • Which of us would a dog pick to follow home? Follow-up: What would the dog be hoping for?
  • Which rule would you make if you ran the house for one afternoon? Follow-up: What happens to a rule breaker?
  • Which word sounds funnier the more times you say it? Follow-up: How many times before it stops sounding like a word?
  • Whose shoes at this table would be the funniest to spend a day in? Follow-up: What would they get wrong about being you?