Rapid Fire Questions for Friends, Parties and Lightning Rounds

How this list was compiled: Written for this site on 2026-09-19; every question is our own wording and no list was copied from anywhere. The 300 opinion questions are built to be answered inside three seconds: one-word favorites, either-or picks, firsts and lasts, sentences to finish and snap rankings of three things, in a friends set, a funny set and an interesting set. None of them has a right answer. Nothing asks about a player's body, love life or health, or about what anyone earns or owns, and nothing involves drinking. No card asks for the name of a pet, a first school, a first job or a first concert, because those answers double as account security answers and a fast round is often filmed. The 100 Lightning round questions each have one short answer, printed in parentheses after the question, on the card and in this list, because in that round a reader holds the phone and the player never sees the screen. Half are general knowledge and half are quick recall: mental arithmetic, the calendar, the alphabet and short words to spell backward. Each general knowledge answer was checked on 2026-09-19 against the text of its English Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org), fetched that day; the sentence that states the fact was read before the question was kept, and each question records its article in the data file. The arithmetic, calendar and alphabet answers were computed the same day (two arithmetic cards added on 2026-09-20 were worked through), and the two plurals were read on Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org). Only facts that do not change from year to year were used, and questions with a disputed answer (the longest river, the number of continents) were left out. Levels are ours. For opinion cards, easy is food, habits and everyday things, medium makes most players hesitate, and hard asks for a few words, a small confession or a ranking that says something about you. For Lightning round cards, easy is what most ten-year-olds answer at once, medium is what most adults answer at once, and hard makes many adults pause. Licence: own work