Are you on the hunt for some great icebreaker questions for adults? Do you sometimes find your meetings or team outings get stale and quiet?
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There are over 130 creative icebreaker questions below to get you started. Enjoy!
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- How would you describe your job to a bunch of kindergarteners?
- Have you ever met a celebrity?
- What is your earliest memory of this job?
- Are you a morning or night person?
- Have you ever planted a vegetable garden?
- Would you rather be hated for who you are or loved for who you are not?
- What is one strange, but true fact about yourself?
- What is your real favorite movie, and what movie do you pretend is your favorite to sound cultured?
- If you could live in another historical period, would you? If so, which one?
- 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?
- Describe your own outlook on life in six words.
- In one word, what is the greatest challenge you have faced this month?
- What’s your favorite dish to cook for friends? For just you?
- Have you ever ridden on a motorcycle?
- Would you rather have unlimited money or your dream job?
- What are your pet peeves or interesting things about you that you dislike?
- In a one-story pink house, there was a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower– everything was pink! What color were the stairs?
- Describe the best museum/gig/play/game you’ve ever been to.
- Which is better: arriving late for work or leaving early?
- Do you wear a wig?
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- What would we most likely find you doing on the weekend?
- Which person in your life do you most admire? Why?
- Have you ever been mistaken for someone famous?
- If you could eliminate one thing from your daily routine, what would it be and why?
- What’s your morning ritual like?
- If you could live in your favorite sitcom, which character would you be?
- Describe one past action (big or small) you took to improve the quality of your life.
- Share with us a fun experience you’ve had recently.
- Would you rather spill coffee on your desk or your clothes?
- Did you ever put something inside your high school locker that shouldn’t have been in there?
- Would you rather be bitten by a werewolf or a zombie?
- I do not have wings, but I can fly. I don’t have eyes, but I will cry! What am I?
- Have you ever been to Europe?
- What gets sharper the more you use it?
- Do you like to dance?
- Would you rather have perfect parents or the perfect partner?
- What is the scariest thing you have ever done for fun?
- Have you ever been a car salesperson?
- If you could invite four famous people to dinner, who would you choose and why?
- What was the last thing to pleasantly surprise you?
- Would you rather swallow a bug or lick a frog?
- Name one of your favorite things about someone in your family.
- Name a turning point in your life that makes you smile/cry.
- What is next in this sequence? JFMAMJJASON . . .
- Do you like working from home or in the office?
- What is something silly about yourself that you do over and over again when you’re rushing?
- If you could live in any sitcom, which one would it be?
- What was your dream job when you were a kid?
- What kind of reality show would you appear in?
- If you could visit any place in the world, where would you choose to go and why?
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- Have you ever run a marathon?
- Have you any shortcomings?
- If you could replay a fun (or deep or big) moment in your life, what would you choose?
- Would you like to be a millionaire?
- If someone made a movie of your life would it be a drama, a comedy, a romantic-comedy, action film, or science fiction?
- What would be a perfect afternoon for you?
- Do you often visit restaurants?
- If an electric train is traveling south, which way is the smoke going?
- Would you rather accidentally ruin a child’s birthday party or accidentally ruin a wedding?
- Have you visited more than 15 countries?
- Would you rather get a paper cut every day or stub your toe every day?
- When was the last time you felt like you were “in trouble”?
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- People say I put doctors out of business. Sometimes I am sour. Sometimes I am sweet. I can be eaten and can also be drunk. What am I?
- How would you spend your time if you do not need to work anymore?
- If you could talk to anyone and have them answer any question, who would it be and what would you ask them?
- What is your idea of a dream vacation?
- Would you rather live in the desert or in the arctic?
- If you were given 24 hours to live, what would you do?
- Have you ever locked yourself out of the house?
- What is one place you never ever want to go?
- Have you ever played a musical instrument?
- How do you like to brainstorm? What methods are most effective?
- What is something you want to focus on this week?
- Are you always so polite as today?
- I have lots of memories, but I own nothing. What am I?
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- What are your favorite hobbies?
- What is your usual office lunch?
- Would you like to find yourself in a harem?
- Do you go to work with pleasure?
- How do you like to spend a rainy day?
- Name three days consecutively where none of the seven days of the week appear.
- What do you like to do in your free time?
- What was your favorite after-school activity?
- What song describes your life right now?
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- If you paint a brown house white, it will become a white house; if the stoplight changes from red to green, the light is green. So, if you throw a white shirt into the Red Sea, what will it become?
- Mia gets in the shower, but surprisingly her hair is not wet when she gets out. How is this possible?
- Are you able to love?
- If you could live in any country, where would you live?
- Do you like music?
- Would you rather travel 100 years back in history or 100 years into the future?
- What is the most embarrassing thing you accidentally messaged to someone?
- Would you rather sit in a room with a snake or a tarantula?
- Have you ever planned a wedding?
- What was the last movie you have seen?
- Would you rather live in a sitcom universe or in a romantic comedy?
- What is your first memory of speaking in front of a group?
- If you could instantly become an expert in something, what would it be?
- What is the weirdest job you have heard of?
- Would you rather have a runny nose or a persistent cough?
- Would you rather live forever or be remembered forever?
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- What one thing have you done at work that went unnoticed?
- What is one thing you like about virtual work or meetings?
- What’s one thing you’re learning now, and why is it important?
- Have you ever lived in another state?
- Who was your hero when you were a child, and what did you do to be like them?
- Would you rather get famous taking credit for someone else’s work, or have someone else get famous for taking credit for your work?
- What is your favorite question to ask a stranger?
- What is something new you learned about yourself or a household member by working at home?
- Have you ever been to Disney World?
- Have you ever ridden in a limousine?
- Who was your favorite teacher and why?
- Tell us about your first kiss.
- Alcohol makes me thrive and multiply, yet water will kill me. What am I?
- What was the worst job you have ever had?
- Have you ever driven a riding lawn mower?
- Misquoted movies or mistaken lyrics?
- What was the silliest thing you or someone else has ever said during a meeting?
- Have you ever been on tv/the radio?
- Which of Snow White’s seven dwarfs describes you best (Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, or Sneezy)?
- What’s your favorite town/city in the world? Why?
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- Have you ever had to go to the hospital?
- Which is better: starting work five years later or ending five years earlier?
- Can you share one quote or saying you love, that keeps you going in life?
- What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever eaten?
- What was the best job you’ve ever had? And the worst?
- What did you do with the time you didn’t spend commuting today?
- Have you ever lived in a different country?
- What languages do you know how to speak?
- What is the weirdest thing you have ever eaten?
- What is your talent?
- What is the worst advice you’ve ever given?
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