Ice Breaker Questions!

This is a very long, cool list of ice breaker questions Jim Hough compiled from online submissions over 10 years.  Enjoy!

•If you could be one for just 24 hours, what cereal box cartoon character would you be? Why?

•What is your favorite animal? List three adjectives to explain your choice.

•What is your favorite color? List three adjectives to explain your choice.

•It's a very hot and muggy day. You desperately want something very cool and refreshing to quench your thirst and revitalize your body. What would you drink -- either make your own or store-bought.

•You discover that the person you're head-over-heels interested in loves a good homemade & handmade dessert. What will you concoct when you have this person over?

•What would you leave in your will for the person you care about the most?

•What do you consider to the most valuable thing you own: when you were a child/teenager/now?

•What's the kindest act you have ever seen done (either to/by you or another)?

•If you could have any job in the world, which one would you want?

•What were your best/worst subjects in school and what subjects would you want to learn now?

•What are you most talented at? What is your worst nightmare today?

•What is your favorite way to waste time at work without getting caught?

•If you could have had the starring role in one film already made, which movie would you pick?

•If you could eliminate one thing you do each day in the bathroom so that you never had to do it again, what would it be?

•If you could have been told one thing that you weren't told when you were a teenager, what would you like to have heard?

•You've just been hired to a promotions position at Kellogg Co. What would you put in a new breakfast cereal box as a gimmick?

•Just like "Everybody Wang Chung tonight!", what action would your name be if it were a verb? Answer for others in your group -- not yourself.

•If you were to get a tattoo, what would it say or what would the graphic be?

•If you could play any musical instrument, what would it be and why? If you already play an instrument(s), what do you play and why?

•When trick-or-treating as a kid, was there any kind of candy that you didn't like to get?

•If a movie was being made of your life and you could choose the actor/actress to play you, who would you choose and why?

•When you were in grade school, what did you want to be when you grew up? Why?

•If you owned a CB radio what would your "handle" be?

•If you were in the "Miss America" talent competition, what would your talent be? (Note: both guys & gals have to answer this question)

•If you had one extra hour of free time a day, how would you use it?

•The great theologian Andy Warhol stated that everyone gets 15 minutes of fame.  What happened during your 15 minutes?

•Name the most famous person you've had a face to face encounter with ("brush with greatness").

•If you could spend 15 minutes with any living person, who would it be and why?

•What article of clothing most closely describes your personality?

•What is the first thing you think of when you wake in the morning?

•If you had to, what part of your body would you get pierced?

•Who was your hero when you were a child, and what did you do to be like them?

•Based on something you've already done, how might you make it into the Guinness Book of World Records?

•What's the closest you've come to becoming a pop star/winning an Oscar?

•When was the last time you did something for the first time?  What was it?

•If you could be any animal in the world for 24 hours, which animal would you be? Why?

•If you had to be a flower, which one would you like to be and why?

•If you were stranded on a desert island, what three books and three people would you take with you? Why?

•What is your favorite commercial? What commercial annoys you the most?

•What's the most interesting "Ice Breaker" Question you have ever been asked?

•If there were a holiday in your honor what would it celebrate?

•What clubs were you a member of in High School? Are you still interested in any of the same things?

•If you were to be on a reality TV show which one would you be on and why?

•If you could be anything in the world, what would you be and why?

•If someone rented a billboard for you, what would you put on it?

•If you had to enter a competition for the "Most Uselessly Unique Talent," what would your talent be?

•If you had to be a teacher of something, what would you teach?

•What is one thing that you constantly think about (other than material things)?

•If you could have written any book, what book would you like to have written?

•Which member of your family has had the greatest influence on your current way of thinking?

•What do you keep in your wallet aside from money, cards and pictures?

•If you could plan your ultimate vacation, where would you go?

•Can you comfortably eat in a restaurant by yourself? Go to movie?

•What one thing (modern convenience) could you not live without?

•If you could meet anyone from history, who would you meet and why?

•If you could be one kind of beer which one would you be and why?

•If you could meet anyone from the Bible who would it be and what would you ask them? (Besides Jesus)

•If you could snap your fingers and appear somewhere else, where would you be?

•If you could switch bodies with a certain celebrity, who would it be and why?

•If you could fly to a different time zone, which one would you fly to? Why?

•What cartoon character best represents your personal philosophy?

•If you could only where one color for the rest of your life, what would it be and why?

•If you could be any color in a Crayola box, what color would you be and why?

•If there was a whole different concept of reality (like The Matrix) what would it be?

•What is the craziest (or stupidest) thing you have ever done?

•Which of Snow White's 7 dwarfs describes you best and why? (Doc, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey)

•If you were attending a Halloween party, what would your costume be and why?

•Tell two truths and one lie about yourself to the others in your group.  Everyone try and guess the lie.

•What is a song for which you thought you knew the words and later found out that you had them wrong? (For example, I always used to sing the theme song to Top Gun– Highway to the Danger Zone– as “I went to the danger zone.)

•What was the worst whoop’n or punishment your parents ever gave you?

•If given a chance to get back at something during the past, what will be that time and why?

•Describe an interesting experience you had the last time your power went out.

•What is the best or most interesting class you have ever taken in high school, college or graduate school?

•If you had unlimited money and space, what one thing would you add to your bedroom?

•Who was your first big crush? Why did you like this person? Did he/she like you back?

•What is a fashion trend that you used to wear (in the 70s, 80s, etc.) that you would now be embarrassed to wear?

•If you could go only to one restaurant for the next five years, which would it be?

•What is something you have lost that you have never found, or were tremendously relieved when you did find it?

•What is one of the strangest southern expressions you have heard (or other idiomatic expression)?

•If you had the opportunity to live one year of your life over again, which year would you choose?

•If you were a professional wrestler, what would your ring name be and why?

•What's better -- toilet paper rolled over top or underneath?

•Which Scooby-Doo character are you most like (Scooby, Shaggy, Daphne, Fred, Velma, the monster, Scrappy?)

•If you had to endure one natural disaster (i.e. hurricane, tornado, etc), what would you pick and why?

•What movie or TV show do you take guilty pleasure in watching?

•If you had to describe your day as a traffic sign, what would it be?

•If you wrote a book about yourself...what would it be about?

•If your house were burning down, what would you take and why?

•If this were your last day alive, what would you say to each person in the group?

•You win a million dollars, but you have to give half to a charity. Which charity do you pick, and what do you do with the rest of the money?

•Do you have a birth mark? Where? Does it look like anything?

•You are planning the most awesome dinner party of your life. Which 3 celebrities/historical figures (past or present) would you add to your guest list to keep the dinner talk interesting?

•What is your favorite sport, and which team of that sport do you cheer for?

•If you could be a pair of jeans what style would you be?  Why?

•Name three things that this group doesn't know about you, (and only two of which are true...)

•If you were blind for the rest of your life... what would you miss seeing the most?

•If you had a "theme song" that played whenever you walk into a room full of people, what would it be?

•What time period from the past would you most have liked to live in and why?

•What is one thing about you people would be surprised to learn?

•If you could be any kitchen appliance, what would it be and why?

•Would you rather go the short way slow, or take the long way fast if you got there in the same amount of time?

•Where did you live at age five? What kind of car did you have? How was your home heated?

•Would you live in space if you could never come back to earth?

•Would you rather always be in a crowd, or be the only person on earth?

•What was your favorite decade? (50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, etc.)

•If you could only have one thing on a deserted island what would it be?

•Describe your past week as a type of landscape or a weather forecast.

•Ask the person next to you a question that you have always wanted to know about them.

•If you had the choice between an RV, a sports car, an SUV, or a bicycle, which would you choose and why?

•When you were in elementary school, what was your favorite activity at recess?

•If you had to move out of this country, what country would you move to? Why?

•Have you ever been in love?  For how long?  How many times?

•If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?

•If you had to lose one of your five senses, which one of them would you prefer to lose and why?

•What was one of the most fun things you and your college roommate did together?

•If you could live anywhere for one year, all expenses paid, where would you live?

•When you were 6 years old, what did you want to be when you grew up?

•If you had to paint the whole world only one color what would it be and why?

•If you were on the cover of a magazine, which one would it be and why?

•If you could be laid to rest anywhere, where would it be?  Why?

•Do you make your bed every morning or do you leave it unmade?

•If you had to be one or the other, would you rather be blind or deaf?  Why?

•When you are using the bathroom at someone else's house, do you leave anything behind different than it was when you got there?

•If you were a piece of fruit, what fruit would you choose to be?

•Would you rather meet the love of your life, knowing he/she will die within a year, or go without meeting him/her?  Explain.

•Sitting alone in a big field, looking at stars, what do you think/feel?

•Name one important characteristic you look for in someone you consider a friend.

•What's one of your favorite things to do when you have a night off?

•If you could be a professional at any sport, what would it be?

•If there was only one left of your most favorite things to eat, would you let your best friend have it or yourself?  Why or why not?

•If you could drive/ride/or fly anything to work, what would it be?  Why?

•If you could, would you become the President? Why or why not?

•If you were elected mayor of your city, what would be your first improvement, and why?

•If you were a piece of furniture what would you be?  Why?

•If you had a magic lamp and a genie who granted you 3 wishes, what would the 3 wishes be?

•Are there any interesting things your name spells with the letters rearranged?

•How many siblings do you have? Are you the oldest, a middle child, or youngest?

•If you could be any superhero, which one would you be and why?

•If you could be anywhere, doing anything right now, where would you be and what would you be doing?

•You are chosen to make dinner for a very special guest. What will you cook?

•What's the worst trouble you got into when you were young? What did you do?

•If you could listen to only one CD for the rest of your life, what would it be?

•Using only one word, name something significant about your life today.

•If your house was on fire, what one thing would you take? (assuming family and pets got out OK)

•If you could go bowling with any three people- dead or alive- Who would you take and why?

•If you could bring one person back from heaven who would it be and why?

•What would you do if you really really liked someone and after a while of hanging out you discovered that they did not believe in God?

•If someone gave you an island - What would you name it? Would you live there? What would you do with it?

•Would you rather live to be 100 and sick, or live to be 50(dying from a freak accident) and healthy?

•If you could spend your last hours of life with anyone, doing anything, who would you choose and what would you do?

•If you could have one thing to drink before you died what would it be? and why?

•If you were a tree what type would you be, where would you be and why?

•What do you have in your bag/wallet that best describes your personality?

•If you were a super hero what would your special power be and why?

•Describe a word beginning with the first letter of your name that sums you up?

•Did you have a nickname growing up? What was it and why were you called that?

•If you see your Maker at this point, what would You want Him to say as a welcome? Why?

•What is something you can do better than anyone else you know?

•If you had to be handcuffed to one person for an entire month, who would it be?

•If you could have a child with any famous person alive, who would it be? What would you name him/her?

•If you could be a cocktail, what cocktail would you be and why?

•If you had one song to play at your wedding what would it be?

•Name a major life experience that made you who you are today?

•What clubs where you involved in during High School and College?

•If you could take back something hurtful you've once said to someone, what would it be?

•If you could have a celebrity entourage with 3 celebrities, who would they be?

•If you could go back and change your career path what would you be doing now?

•If you could fly or breathe under water what would you prefer?

•If you could only take three people in an island on this group, whom will it be?

•If you could live to the age of 90 and either retain your looks or brains you had at 30, what would you keep?

•If you moved to Sesame Street, who would you want as your neighbor? Why?

•what was the most embarrassing thing you have done while on a date?

•If you could change one current event in the world what would it be and why?

•If you could have a condiment dispensed from your navel, what would it be? (Editor: I can't stop laughing about this one. How come the poster didn't also ask Why?)

•How many dates do you go on with someone before you introduce them to your parents?

•If you auditioned for American Idol, what song would you sing?

•If you could time travel, where would you go, and what would you do?

•If you were given the opportunity for free skydiving lessons would you take them? Why or why not?

•What is the hardest choice you have ever had to make? What was the outcome?

•If you had to lose one of your senses, what would you choose? Why?

•If you could instantly become fluent in another language, what would that language be and why?

•What is your favorite "made up" word from your childhood or that of one of your children? What does it mean?

•If I could live in any other time period of the past, it would be (and tell us why):

•Of all of the Gilligan's Island characters, I am most like (and tell us why):

•What do you dislike about failure? What can you learn from it?

•Which of your parents rules do you appreciate the most? Why?

•What obstacles do you find when trying to become a close friend to someone of the opposite sex?

•One of the worst ways I ever reacted to a declaration of love was...

•If you can give one sentence advice about how to live life, what would it be?

•How do you express your anger to your enemy? To your best friends? To a parent?

•One particular day/night that I wanted to last forever was...

•Cite a situation wherein you felt life had been unfair to you?

•Have you ever said something you regretted, but were then glad you said it?

•Have you ever said something you regretted, but were then glad you said it?

•If you could have any kind of a job in the entertainment industry, what do you think you would do best?

•If I asked your high school friends what they thought you would be doing today, what would they say?

•If you had your own talk show, who would your first three guests be?

•When people look at me, they would never guess that I: (What?)

•Who was your favorite band, group, or solo when you were in high school?

•If you could be invisible for one day, where would you like to be?

•What is your favorite tradition? (family tradition, church tradition, whatever)

•Would you ever be on a reality TV show? Why/why not? If you would, which one?

•When was your worst/most recent/dramatic/(whatever) car trouble?

•Where did you grow up? (Editor: Simple. No one's posted this until now?!)

•If you were stranded on a deserted island with one book, what would you want that book to be?

•Did you have a collection of some kind as a child? If so, what was it?

•If you could mix three animals together, which ones would you choose to make the ultimate animal?

•You have to wear a t-shirt with one word on it for the rest of your life. Which word do you choose?

•How many places have you lived? You can share the number of physical residences and/or the number of cities.

•What was your first job where you got paid by someone other than your parents?

•How many brothers and sisters do you have? What's your birth order?

•What's the funniest thing you did as a kid that your parents still talk about to this day?

•If you could be one Disney character who would you be and why?

•Has modern technology enhanced or complicated your life? Why?

•What is your favorite house decor style? Traditional, Contemporary, Country, Colonial? Why?

•If you could attend any college, free of charge, what college would that be and what major would you pursue? Why?

•What was the cheapest gas price you can remember? What year was that?

•Have you ever gone back to the town where you grew up in? If yes, how has it changed? Is your old house still there?

•If you were handed free opera tickets, would you go or sell them? Why?

•What is the farthest road trip you have taken? To where and how long was it?

•What is your favorite kind of pie? Describe taking a bite using three adjectives.

•Name two words you always seem to spell incorrectly. Try to spell it now!

•What was the title of the last self-help book you read? Did it help?

•How often do you bid on EBay? What was the last item you won?

•When you lose electricity in a storm, do you light the candles or turn on the flashlight? How many of each do you own?

•Have you ever been a participant in a parade? What did you do?

•If you could be permanently one color for the rest of your life, what color would it be & why?

•If you can thank God for one thing in your life, what would it be?

•If you were to be a natural element, which would you rather be: fire or water?

•What was the most mischievous April Fool’s prank you’ve done?

•Say your first middle and last name with the letters flipped? (Example... John Lee Smith--- Nohj Eel Htims)

•If you had to choose between being deaf or blind which would you choose and why?

•If you could perform in the Olympics, what would you like to do?

•Would you rather spend the rest of your life in love with a rich person or a poor person?

•It's Saturday morning. What's the first thing you do when you wake up.

•If you could erase one day in history which one would it be and why?

•If you had one free day to do anything you want, what would you do?

•Do you prefer eating the frosting of the cupcake or the cupcake first?

•What is something unexpected that has changed about you in the last few years?

•Would you ever loan a significant amount of money to a friend/relative ? Why or why not?

•Would you ever use a dating service (match.com, e-harmony, etc.) to find someone? Why/Why not.

•So you win a pet monkey at a fair, but this isn't just any old monkey. It can do one trick for you whenever you want from getting a pop out of the fridge to washing your hair. What would be the trick?

•If you could visit any place in the world where would it be and why?