314 Ice Breaker Questions

1. What foreign country would you like to visit? Why?
2. What's the story behind the longest time you've gone without sleep?
3. Describe the circumstances around your first kiss.
4. Who is the most famous person you've known or met?  How did it happen?
5. When I go into a restaurant, what I really like most is ____________.
6. When I dated, I was considered ____________ because ________________.
7. If you could do one miracle (other than make the whole world Christian) what would you do?
8. What do you miss about your childhood?
9. If given a choice, how would you choose to die? How do you not want to die?
10. What is your biggest fear of death?
11. If you could go to college (again), what would you study?
12. Who is your number one advisor in life? Why?
13. What is the worst storm or disaster you've been in? What was it like?
14. Describe the most boring day/event/ period of time you can remember.
15. What day of your life would you most like to relive? Why?
16. What's the smallest space you've lived in? What was it like?
17. What would you have been voted "most likely to ___________ " in high school?
18. One of my biggest pet peeves is _______________________
19. Just for the fun/thrill of it, before I die I'd like to _____________________
20. My number two career choice would be __________________
21. As a time-traveler, I would like to visit ____________________ because ________________
22. People might be surprised to find out that I _______________
23. I am most like my mom in that I ________________________
24. I am most like my dad in that I _________________________
25. I wish that before I got married someone had told me ____________________________
26. I am a bundle of nerves/all thumbs when it comes to _____________________________
27. I will probably never ___________________, but it would still be fun if I could.
28. What are a couple of things you remember about your grandparents?
29. What does your name mean? Why were you named that?
30. What is a favorite quote or motto?
31. If you were to describe yourself in terms of a flavor, What would your flavor be?
32. What was the best gift you ever received as a child?
33. What kind of tree best typifies your life so far (strong oak, wispy willow, fruitful apple, etc.)?  Why?
34. If you could eliminate one kind of animal from the earth, which animal would you choose? Why?
35. If you could raise one person from the dead, who would you raise and why?
36. If you suddenly went blind, what would you miss most about sight? Why?
37. What has been one of the greatest adventures you have ever been on?
38. What is the nicest thing anybody ever said to you?
39. Who was one of the most interesting persons you or your family ever entertained?
40. Share what you would choose if you had three wishes and why those three?
41. What one thing would you like your friends to know?
42. What is your favorite city? Why?
43. Where do you go or what do you do when life gets too heavy for you? Why?
44. Which do you value most - sight or speech? Why?
45. Using a fruit or vegetable as a metaphor, how would you describe your life this week (dried fig, ripe cantaloupe, smashed banana)?
46. When you were growing up, who was the neighborhood bully? What made that person so frightening?
47. What is the fondest memory of a picnic? Why was it so special?
48. What is the most daring thing you have ever done? What made it so daring?
49. What is the best news you have heard this week? The worst news?
50. What do you like best about your children? Why?
51. If your house was on fire, what three items (not people) would you try to save?
52. What was your first job? What do you remember most about it?
53. Who was the best boss you ever had? What made him or her so good?
54. When you were a child, what did your parents want you to be when you grew up? What did you want to be?
55. Who was one of your heroes when you were growing up?  How did you try to imitate him or her?
56. It's very difficult for me to discipline myself with regards to _______________________.
57. Tell the group briefly the story of your wedding day. (If you warn them in advance, each couple can bring their pictures to share with the group - a great way to get back ground on them.).
58. What is your greatest fear? Why?
59. Who is your hero or role-model today?
60. What have you learned this week?
61. What is an early memory of your childhood play? Where were you and what was it like?
62. What is your favorite Sunday afternoon pastime and why?
63. What improvement would you like to see in your present vocation by this time next year?
64. What hobby was most enjoyable in your teens?
65. After a hard day at school/work, how do you relax with your friends?
66. If you were to take a vacation with a friend, where would you go and what would you do?
67. If you could do any job you wanted to do, what would you be doing in 5 years?
68. What was your favorite animal that you had in your childhood? What made it special?
69. Who is the most influential person (besides Christ) in your life? How?
70. What one quality in you Christian life do you want to be good at in 5 years?
71. What is one thing which has helped your prayer life and one thing which has hindered your prayer life?
72. When you are fifty, what do you hope to be doing?
73. Was there a situation in the recent past in which you were instrumental in the growth of another person? If so, in what way were you instrumental?
74. Observing your present ministry, what one area do you feel needs the greatest amount of attention?
75. If you had the ability to do anything you desired in terms of ministry, no matter how far fetched it might seem, what would that area of ministry be?
76. In Jr. High, where did you live and what is one thing that you remember about that time?
77. If you knew that you could not fail, what are two things that you would like to do or accomplish in the next 10 years?
78. Where did you go to school as a child and what do you remember?
79. What three adjectives could best describe your past week? What triggered good feelings? Bad?
80. If you could be doing anything you want this time next year, what would it be?
81. If you could go back in time and change any particular year of your life, which would it be and what would you do differently?
82. What are the two or three most valuable possessions you have? Why are they valuable to you?
83. What is one thing you are looking forward to that you know will happen in the near future?
84. When you were in high school, what activity did you most enjoy doing with your folks?
85. What do you do to release tension at the end of the day or week?
86. If you had to describe one frustration you've had with this group, what would it be?
87. What was your favorite TV program when you were 12 years old and why?
88. What was something you did this last week where your Christian faith did/did not make a difference?
89. What one aspect of your marriage do you see a need for a change in? What are your current plans to bring this about?
90. What kind of dreams for you future did you have when you were 12 years old.
91. If you went home and found a check written to you in your mailbox for $1,000,000 how would you use the money?
92. When you were an adolescent, what did you want to grow up to be? How does that influence you now?
93. What is the one thing you did this week with another person that you wish you had the chance to do over again?
94. What was your favorite subject in school? Why?
95. What prompted you to think about God today?
96. How did you feel whenever you were introduced to someone new to you when you were a child? How do you experience that now?
97. What experience today gave you a happy moment? Why?
98. If you could make up any title in the world to hang outside your door, what would it be? Why?
99. What did you or your family do on Sunday afternoons when you were between the ages of 6 and 12? How did you feel about doing it?

Bonus Questions:

• If you needed money but could not explain why.
• If you were at a crossroads in your life and needed some good counsel.
• If you had a serious personal problem and needed someone to talk to -- one who would keep his/her mouth shut.
• If you had a spiritual problem and needed someone to listen and understand.
• If you were really down and needed a good laugh and a good time.

Double Mostest Bonus Questions:

1.What do you want most right now?

2.What are you most grateful for?

3.What was the warmest welcome you ever received?

4.What was the best thing about your youth?

5.What was the worst?

6.Who is the most interesting person you’ve ever met?

7.In what way are you least understood?

8.Who is the person you miss most right now?

9.What was the worst vacation you ever took?

10.What is the one non-monetary thing you have the highest hope of obtaining in life?

11.Where is the dirtiest place you’ve ever been?

12.What would you most readily die for?

13.What would you most like more sympathy for?

14.What is your favorite store in the world?

15.What is the strongest opinion you hold?

16.What is the most difficult problem you’ve ever had to solve?

17.When were you the strongest that you’ve ever had to be?

18.What room of your home do you spend most time in?

19.Where would you most like to be right now?

20.What was the biggest sin ever committed against you?

21.What is the truest example of confession you’ve ever witnessed?

22.Who is the person you know with the purest soul?

23.Who is the person most loyal to you?

24.What is the greatest thing you would sacrifice to find true love?

25.Who made the strongest first impression on you?

26.What turned out to be the most useful course you ever took in school?

27.Who has the strongest personality among the people you know?

28.What is the biggest injustice you have ever suffered?

29.What single word best describes you?

30.What single word do you hate most?

31.On whom did you make the strongest first impression?

32.When was your life most out of control?

33.When have you been most honorable?

34.Who is the person most similar to yourself in the world?

35.Who is the person most able to make you laugh?

36.What is the most valuable thing you own?

37.What is the best way for you to relieve tension?

38.What is the greatest life-forming experience you ever had?

39.What subject would you most like to learn more about?

40.What would you be best at, were you to change careers?

41.Whose words or actions can you most easily predict?

42.Who in life have you felt the strongest need to protect?

43.What would you most like to be remembered for after you die?

44.What is the strictest a parent should be?

45.What is the hardest thing about love?

46.What is the recurring dream that you most enjoy?

47.What are the best and worst letters you have ever received in the mail?

48.What is the best thing you have ever won as a prize?

49.Who do you think was the worst criminal in history?

50.What is the most spontaneous you have ever been?

51.What is the poorest you have ever been?

52.What have you been most ignorant about in your life?

53.How do you waste the biggest chunk of time each day or week?

54.What have you been most naïve about?

55.What is the most interesting kind of life to lead?

56.Who is the person most sensitive to your needs?

57.What is the hardest thing to forgive?

58.What is the one thing about your country that makes you angriest? And proudest?

59.What do you most want the current president to accomplish?

60.When did you have the weakest self-confidence ever?

61.What is the most inexplicable thing you’ve ever witnessed?

62.What is the least gratitude you’ve ever been shown?

63.What is the best single piece of advice you ever received?

64.What’s the best advice you didn’t heed?

65.For whose life have you had the most sympathy or pity?

66.What has been the biggest accomplishment of your life?

67.What’s the thing you know the most about?

68.When were you closest to being a champion?

69.When were you most moved by a ceremony?

70.Who is the person you know with the freest spirit?

71.What was the most difficult choice you were ever forced to make?

72.What was the best gift you ever gave to someone?

73.What experience has made you wisest?

74.What was the hardest decision you ever had to make?

75.What is the thing of highest value that you have ever lost?

76.What problem do you think is most common among friends your age?

77.What is the most valuable quality in a friend?

78.What is the strongest quality in your best friend?

79.What is the most painful thing you’ve ever had to tell a friend?

80.What is the biggest favor a friend has done for you?

81.What is the one thing a friend has that you would most like to have for yourself?

82.What is the worst character trait in a friend that you can overlook?

83.What are the circumstances in which you most resist change in your life?

84.What was the best toy you have ever owned?

85.When in your life have you felt loneliest?

86.When did you need the most perseverance in your life?

87.What is the strongest craving you get?

88.When were you most disappointed in yourself?

89.What is the least you expect from your kids after they’ve grown up?

90.Which law would you most like to change?

91.What is the single worst thing about living at this time in history?

92.What was your best experience in school?

93.What’s the most meaningful compliment you’ve ever received?

94.When have you been most supportive of another person?

95.What is the most disturbing poverty you have ever seen?

96.What is the easiest money you have ever earned?

97.What is the most you’ve spent on something really stupid?

98.In what way did you most worry your parents while growing up?

99.What is the most satisfying thing you do each day or week?

100.What is the one thing you are proudest of in life?

101.What one thing would you most like to happen tomorrow?

102.What is the worst quality you inherited from your parents?

103.What has truly been the most embarrassing moment in your life?

104.What have you lost that you would most like to retrieve?

105.What is the best ritual of your daily life?

106.Who is the person you’d like to help most?

107.What is the biggest risk you’ve ever taken?

108.What is the worst thing about your present job? And the best?

109.What’s the best and worst thing about your boss?

110.What one person most affected the choices you made in your career?

111.What’s the closest you’ve ever come to death?

112.In which year of your life did you change the most?

113.What is the quality in your father you would most like to share?

114.What’s the best thing you’ve ever gotten for free?

115.Who had the most enviable parents among your friends?

116.What is the thing you’re best at?

117.Who is the one person you have learned most from in life?

118.What is the worst thing you have to do each morning?

119.What invention of this century has had the biggest impact on your life?

120.What was the luckiest moment of your life?

121.What aspect of your reputation is least deserved?

122.Of the people you know, who has a natural sense of style you most envy?

123.When did you show the most courage ever?

124.Who is the person you find hardest to please?

125.What was the hardest secret you’ve ever had to keep?

126.What are you most unappreciated for?

127.What is the biggest lie you’ve ever been told?

128.What was the hardest apology you ever delivered?

129.What is the one thing you’d most like to forget?

130.What is the single thing in your life you are least likely ever to forget?

131.What’s the most cash you’ve ever held in your hands at one time?

132.Who is the easiest person to be with that you know?

133.What is your biggest self-doubt?

Happiness: How would you prioritize the following list for importance to your happiness?

• Close family: warm and secure
• Friend: one abiding friendship
• Travel: all expenses paid
• Recognition: success and fame
• Wealth: a vast fortune
• Job: secure and fulfilling
• Health: long life/no sickness
• Contribution: my life to count