Get to Know You Questions for Teens

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Get to Know You Questions for Teens

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These 150 get to know you questions for teens are for classmates and group members to ask each other aloud: what do you own that is older than you are? Nothing asks about dating, bodies, grades, money or social accounts.

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Middle school and high school

Press Topic, then a level under Easy: middle school. Easy cards are the getting to know you questions for middle school and take one sentence: which month feels the most like you? Medium cards are the get to know you questions for high school students and ask for a story or an opinion.

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First-week partner interview marks the getting to know you questions for teens that suit two people who met this morning. Pairs ask each other three cards, press Show follow-up on the best answer, then introduce their partner to the group.

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Questions and answers

What are fun questions for teenagers who have just met?

Ones with a small story behind them: What would you put on first if this room needed music? Which snack would you smuggle into a long assembly? What tiny thing can rescue a bad Monday?

Which topics do the questions leave out?

Dating, bodies and looks, grades, home addresses, family money and social media accounts. Favorites names no title, artist or brand, so the person answering brings their own. Opinions that are yours asks about fairness and friendship, never politics or religion.

How do the questions work with a whole class or youth group?

Put people in pairs or threes, read one card to everyone and give them time to answer. Then press Next question and switch partners. In a circle, each person can choose between the card and its follow-up.

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Quick facts 25

  • How many schools have you been to, counting this one? Follow-up: Which of those schools had the best lunch?
  • What can make you lose track of a whole evening? Follow-up: How did the next morning go?
  • What can you make, mend or set up with nobody helping and nothing to read? Follow-up: Who taught you to do that?
  • What did you figure out on your own this year, with no lesson? Follow-up: What was your first attempt like?
  • What do people assume about you when they first meet you? Follow-up: What do they find out later?
  • What do people call you, and who calls you something else? Follow-up: Which of those names feels most like you?
  • What do you always have with you, apart from a phone? Follow-up: When did it last come in handy?
  • What do you own that is older than you are? Follow-up: How did it come to you?
  • What do you usually have for breakfast, if anything? Follow-up: Who or what decides that for you?
  • What goes through your headphones or your head on the morning commute? Follow-up: Which part of the route do you like best?
  • What have you done that probably nobody else in this room has? Follow-up: What led up to that?
  • What have you made that someone else still uses or keeps? Follow-up: Where do they keep it?
  • What is on your wall, your desk or your lock screen right now? Follow-up: How long has it been up there?
  • What is the coldest, hottest or wettest you have ever been? Follow-up: Where were you at the time?
  • What is the earliest thing you remember being good at? Follow-up: Who noticed it first?
  • What is the longest you have stuck with one activity? Follow-up: What kept you going with it?
  • What job, chore or responsibility is yours every week? Follow-up: What would happen if you skipped a week?
  • What number have you worn, or would you wear, on a jersey? Follow-up: What is that number's story?
  • What pets, plants or creatures share your life? Follow-up: Which one has the biggest personality?
  • What time does your alarm go off on a school day? Follow-up: How many times do you snooze it?
  • What would the people closest to you say you never stop talking about? Follow-up: How did that subject get hold of you?
  • Which do you have more of: hoodies, hats or shoes? Follow-up: Which single one would you keep?
  • Which is neater: your handwriting or your typing? Follow-up: What gives away that a note is yours?
  • Which phrase from another language have you picked up, and from where? Follow-up: When do you get to use that phrase?
  • Which task do you always save for last, and which do you get out of the way? Follow-up: What does that order say about you?

Favorites 25

  • What character from a story do you see a bit of yourself in? Follow-up: Which of their choices would you have made differently?
  • What do you like about this town that visitors would miss? Follow-up: What made you notice it in the first place?
  • What game, on a board, a screen or a field, do you never get tired of? Follow-up: Who do you play it with most?
  • What have you given someone that took real thought? Follow-up: How did you know it was right for them?
  • What have you seen live that a screen could not match? Follow-up: What do you remember hearing?
  • What is a movie, book or series you would defend against anyone? Follow-up: What is the best argument against it?
  • What is your favorite memory from a trip, a camp or a tournament? Follow-up: Who else was in that memory?
  • What is your favorite way to be creative, even badly? Follow-up: What did you last make that way?
  • What is your first move when a class is canceled? Follow-up: Who do you go and find?
  • What is your ideal lazy afternoon made of? Follow-up: What does doing nothing look like for you?
  • What kind of story do you like best: funny, scary, true or strange? Follow-up: Which one would you lend to me?
  • What would you put on first if this room needed music? Follow-up: What would you play second to keep the room?
  • Where around here would you take someone who has never visited? Follow-up: What would you skip on the tour?
  • Which album, playlist or song has been with you the longest? Follow-up: Where were you when it first stuck?
  • Which animal's daily routine would you happily copy? Follow-up: What does it do that you envy?
  • Which artist, author or creator would you most like to have lunch with? Follow-up: What would you ask before the food arrives?
  • Which color ends up on most of your stuff? Follow-up: How did that color take over?
  • Which dish would you like to be able to make perfectly? Follow-up: Who would you cook it for first?
  • Which hobby of yours would surprise your teachers? Follow-up: What first pulled you into it?
  • Which meal would you ask for on a day that went badly? Follow-up: Who makes that meal best?
  • Which month feels the most like you? Follow-up: What do you wear all through that month?
  • Which smell would you bottle if you could? Follow-up: Where would you open the bottle?
  • Which snack would you smuggle into a long assembly? Follow-up: Which snack do you never share?
  • Which teacher, coach or leader brought out your best, and how? Follow-up: What did they do that others did not?
  • Which tradition, at home or with friends, would you never give up? Follow-up: What is your part in that tradition?

School, minus the grades 25

  • How do you like to learn something hard: alone first or with people? Follow-up: What do you do when that way fails?
  • What caught you off guard in your early days at this school? Follow-up: Who made that first stretch easier?
  • What did a class change your mind about? Follow-up: What did you think before that class?
  • What did you learn outside a classroom that helped inside one? Follow-up: Where did that lesson come from?
  • What do people borrow from you most at school? Follow-up: How often does it come back?
  • What do you actually talk about at lunch? Follow-up: Who starts those conversations?
  • What do you do in the minutes before the first bell? Follow-up: Who is usually with you then?
  • What do you doodle, fold or fiddle with when a class drags? Follow-up: Which class gets the most of it?
  • What do you look forward to between the first bell and lunch? Follow-up: Who do you always pass on the way?
  • What do you wish teachers asked students at the start of a year? Follow-up: How would you answer it yourself?
  • What does a teacher do that makes you want to try harder? Follow-up: When did you last see that happen?
  • What elective or club would you try if a friend came along? Follow-up: Which friend would you drag along?
  • What is your move when a problem will not budge? Follow-up: How long do you wait before asking someone?
  • What kind of assignment lets you show what you can really do? Follow-up: What was the last one like that?
  • What part of school are you better at than you expected to be? Follow-up: When did that become clear to you?
  • Which assembly, visitor or trip from past years do you still remember? Follow-up: What stuck with you from it?
  • Which class do you walk into in the best mood? Follow-up: What happens in the first five minutes there?
  • Which comment on your work, from a teacher or coach, do you still use? Follow-up: What did you do differently after it?
  • Which corner of the school building feels calmest to you? Follow-up: What is it about that corner?
  • Which group role do you end up with, whether you want it or not? Follow-up: Which role would you rather have?
  • Which piece of school work did you keep instead of throwing away? Follow-up: What would you add if you did it again?
  • Which school event do you circle on the calendar? Follow-up: What is your part in that event?
  • Which subject connects most to what you do outside school? Follow-up: Where did you last notice the link?
  • Which subject did you like more in elementary school than now? Follow-up: What changed about that subject?
  • Which tradition at this school should stay forever? Follow-up: Which tradition would you quietly retire?

Outside school 25

  • What competition, performance or event are you getting ready for? Follow-up: Which part of it worries you least?
  • What did you do last summer that you would do again? Follow-up: What would you change the second time?
  • What do weekends have that weekdays are missing? Follow-up: What time does that start?
  • What do you and your family or friends do every week without fail? Follow-up: What happens when someone misses it?
  • What do you do every week that your classmates might not know about? Follow-up: How many weeks or years has it been?
  • What do you do in your neighborhood or community that you care about? Follow-up: Who first asked you to join in?
  • What do you do outside school that feels the most like you? Follow-up: When did it start to feel that way?
  • What do you do with friends that costs nothing? Follow-up: Who usually comes up with it?
  • What do you like to do outdoors when the weather is good? Follow-up: Where is your usual spot for it?
  • What have you built, grown, fixed or organized outside school? Follow-up: What went wrong along the way?
  • What have you learned from a job, a team or a volunteer shift? Follow-up: Who taught it to you without meaning to?
  • What have you quit, and what did you do with the time instead? Follow-up: Which part of it do you still miss?
  • What is on your list to attempt before this school year is over? Follow-up: What keeps pushing it down the list?
  • What is the hardest you have worked at something nobody assigned? Follow-up: What stopped you from dropping it?
  • What is the most responsibility anyone has trusted you with? Follow-up: What did you do to deserve that trust?
  • What is your weekend morning like before noon? Follow-up: What would you change about those mornings?
  • What job, paid or not, have you done for someone outside your family? Follow-up: What did you learn on the first day?
  • What resets you when school has worn you out? Follow-up: How long does it take to work?
  • What sport, game or activity do you do just for fun, not to win? Follow-up: Who do you do it with?
  • What takes up most of your week once classes end? Follow-up: Which day of it is the busiest?
  • What would you do with a weekday when everyone else was busy? Follow-up: Which hour would you stretch?
  • What would you start if you had three friends and a free summer? Follow-up: What name would go on the sign?
  • Where do you spend the most time when you are not at school or at home? Follow-up: What keeps you going back there?
  • Which of your activities would you keep if you could keep only one? Follow-up: Which would be hardest to give up?
  • Which team, cast, crew or squad counts on you outside school? Follow-up: What is your part in that group?

Opinions that are yours 25

  • How can you tell a fair rule from an unfair one? Follow-up: Which rule passes your test?
  • How can you tell that someone is wise and not just clever? Follow-up: Who do you know who is both?
  • How do you cheer up a friend who has had a rough week? Follow-up: How do you tell what a friend wants?
  • What do people walk past every day that deserves a second look? Follow-up: What gets far too much attention?
  • What do people your age understand that older people often miss? Follow-up: How would you put it so they would get it?
  • What does a room need before you would choose to stay in it? Follow-up: Which room near here gets it right?
  • What does someone do that makes you want to keep talking to them? Follow-up: Who do you know who is like that?
  • What is a fair way to split work in a group? Follow-up: What do you do when it is not split that way?
  • What is something popular that you just do not get? Follow-up: What do you think people see in it?
  • What is the best thing to do when plans get canceled? Follow-up: What would spoil even that?
  • What is worth being bad at for a while? Follow-up: What are you bad at right now on purpose?
  • What makes a compliment mean something? Follow-up: Which compliment have you kept?
  • What makes a song good: the words, the beat or the memory? Follow-up: Which song proves your point?
  • What part of a school day will sound ridiculous to students fifty years from now? Follow-up: What should stay exactly as it is?
  • What should people stop apologizing for? Follow-up: What do you still say sorry for anyway?
  • What tiny thing can rescue a bad Monday? Follow-up: When did one last rescue yours?
  • What turns a room you were given into a room that is yours? Follow-up: Which place passes that test?
  • When is it right to back out of something you said yes to? Follow-up: What is a bad reason that you have used?
  • Which age looks like the most fun, going by the people you know? Follow-up: What would you miss about your age now?
  • Which is better for a Saturday: one friend all day or a crowd for an hour? Follow-up: When does the other one win?
  • Which is more fun: planning something or doing it on the spot? Follow-up: What is your best unplanned day so far?
  • Which is worse: being early or being late? Follow-up: What is your record for either?
  • Which ordinary object would you miss within an hour if it vanished? Follow-up: What would have to stand in for it?
  • Which rule did you think was pointless until you saw what it prevented? Follow-up: What changed your view of it?
  • Which well-loved dish leaves you unmoved? Follow-up: What do you think people really taste?

Plans and someday 25

  • What are you working toward that nobody is making you do? Follow-up: How far along are you?
  • What decision are you glad you do not have to make yet? Follow-up: When do you think it will arrive?
  • What do you know well enough to pass on to someone younger? Follow-up: Who passed it on to you in the first place?
  • What do you picture when you hear the word success? Follow-up: Where did that picture come from?
  • What do you want people to say about you at graduation? Follow-up: What would you have to do between now and then?
  • What do you want to be noticeably better at twelve months from now? Follow-up: What is the first step toward it?
  • What do you want to be old enough for? Follow-up: What will you do the day it happens?
  • What do you want to be trusted with next? Follow-up: Who would need to say yes?
  • What habit would you like to have locked in by the time you leave school? Follow-up: What is in the way right now?
  • What is one promise you would make to your future self? Follow-up: How will you remember it?
  • What is one thing you plan to finish before the semester ends? Follow-up: What is left to do on it?
  • What is something you want to understand before you are thirty? Follow-up: Who might help you understand it?
  • What is the first thing you do when a long break begins? Follow-up: What will you eat that day?
  • What is the next thing you are counting down to? Follow-up: How many days is it now?
  • What problem would you like to spend years working on? Follow-up: Where would you begin on it?
  • What would you like to be the first in your family to do? Follow-up: Who would be most surprised?
  • What would you like to build, write or make someday? Follow-up: Who would it be for?
  • What would you sign up for tomorrow if it were free and nearby? Follow-up: What would you hope to get out of it?
  • What would you want within walking distance of where you live someday? Follow-up: What could be far away without bothering you?
  • Where do you picture your closest friends a decade from now? Follow-up: What do you hope they say about you?
  • Where do you want to have stood, even once? Follow-up: What would you do when you got there?
  • Where is the first place you will drive to once you have a license? Follow-up: Who rides with you?
  • Where would you go if you had a week and a ticket anywhere? Follow-up: Who gets the second ticket?
  • Which job have you watched someone do and thought, I could do that? Follow-up: Which part of it would you be bad at?
  • Who do you want to still know in twenty years? Follow-up: What would the two of you be doing?
How this list was compiled

Written for this page by the Game Night Generator editors in October 2026; no question or follow-up is copied from another list. Every card is a question one teenager can ask another aloud, and each has its own follow-up. Favorites cards name no title, artist or brand; the person answering supplies their own. Every line was screened against the site blocklist: nothing about dating, crushes, bodies or looks, grades or test scores, a home address, family money or social media accounts, no alcohol or drugs, no politics or religion, no real people and no brand names. Levels are an editor's judgment, not a measurement: easy cards are written for middle school and can be answered in a sentence, medium cards are written for high school and ask for a story or an opinion. On 2026-10-02 a script compared every question and follow-up with every other list on this site, and lines that repeated one elsewhere were rewritten. Licence: own work