Career / Job
- What do you do for a living?
- How does someone get into that job?
- What’s the most challenging part about your job?
- What do you love most about your job?
- If you could start over again, would you choose the same career?
- How would you describe your job to a 6-year-old?
Childhood
- What was your childhood like?
- What is your favorite memory from your childhood?
- Do you feel your childhood was happier than most other people's?
- As a child, what were you most afraid of?
- Which wallpaper hung on your wall when you were a child?
- What was your favorite piece of clothing you owed as a child?
- What would change about the way you were raised?
- What is the weirdest thing you believed in as a child?
- What were your best friends like when you were a child?
Family
- How close are you with your family?
- What is your relationship with your family like?
- When was the last time you argued with your parents and why?
- What do your parents do for a living?
- What were your favorite family vacations?
- What do you admire most about your parents?
Feelings
- What is your biggest fear?
- What fear would you like to overcome?
- What’s the one thing that drives you crazy?
Food
- What is the weirdest thing you have ever eaten?
- What are your favorite midnight snacks?
- What is your favorite food and why?
- What kind of food do you hate most?
- What food did you like as a child that grosses you out now?
Friends
- What do you and your friends do for fun?
- How did you meet your best friend?
- Have you ever been in love with your best friend?
- How has your circle of friends changed over the course of your life?
- What qualities do you value most in a friend?
- What do you think is the best way to make friends?
Future plans
- What do you want to be doing in five years?
- How do you envision your life after college?
Life Experiences
- What was the worst purchase you’ve ever made?
- What was the hardest thing you have ever done?
- What’s one mistake you keep repeating?
- Have you ever started writing a book? What happened?
- Which recent news story stuck with you the most?
Memories
- What is your most terrible memory?
- What was the best birthday gift you’ve ever had?
- As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
- What was the best birthday you ever had?
- What was the best party you have been to?
Opinions
- Why do you think there are so many religions in the world?
- What is your opinion about (recent news story)?
- What do you hate most about first dates?
- What do you like most about your country?
- What do you think about [enter topic]?
Passions
- Is there something that you've dreamt of doing for a long time? * Why haven't you done it?
- What are your passions in life?
- What motivates you the most in life? What makes you feel discouraged or disengaged?
- What is your biggest goal in life?
- If you had to choose one activity that you had to do every single day for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Personal
- Do you have any scars? How did you get them?
- What is the first thing you remember after your birth?
- What has caused you the most emotional pain in your life?
- Have you ever believed in God? Do you still believe?/Why did you stop?
- What do you do when you can't fall asleep?
- What makes you relax?
- What do you value most in a friendship?
- What does friendship mean to you?
- What are you most proud of?
- What do you like about yourself / hate about yourself?
- What do you like to do when you want to relax?
- What’s your favorite way to waste time?
- What was the highlight of your week?
- When do you feel most alone?
- What are some strange believes that you have?
- Have you ever won an award? What was it for?
- What’s the strangest dream you've ever had?
- What role does money play in your life?
- For what in your life do you feel most grateful?
Preferences
- What is your favorite movie?
- What is your favorite piece of jewellery you own?
- What is your favorite type of clothing?
- What are you doing with pleasure, that others don't enjoy at all?
- Would you like to be famous? In what way?
Self-improvement
- Who is your role model/mentor?
- What is the greatest accomplishment of your life?
- What is the one thing that made you improve the most on a personal level?
- What was the toughest period in your life?
- What do you do to improve your mood when you are in a bad mood?
- If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be?
- What does a perfect day look like for you?
- Do you have a morning ritual? What is it?
- What is the best piece of advice you've received?
- If you could sit down with your 15-year old self, what would you tell him or her?
- What was your New Year’s resolution this year? Did you break it? * How long did it take you to break it?
Sexual
- What turns you on most?
- What is your favorite sex position?
- What was the craziest sex dream you’ve had?
- What do you think about SM?
- What would you like to try sexually, that you haven’t tried yet?
- What is an experience that the opposite sex can have and you can’t, but that you would like to make?
Stories & Secrets
- Do you have a secret nobody knows about? Tell me about it.
- When was the last time you peed in your pants?
- When did you last cry in front of another person?
- What is the closest you ever gotten to being famous?
- What’s your funniest “drunk” story?
- What was the most embarrassing moment in your life so far?
- What's the craziest thing you've ever done?
- Have you ever experienced something paranormal?
- What is your craziest dating story?
- What was the weirdest sexual experience you ever had?
- What type of porn do you watch the most?
- Which book are you ashamed to admit you love?
Thought Experiments
- If you ruled the world, what would you change?
- If you could go back or forth in time but never come back, what would you do?
- If you had $10 million in the bank, what would you be doing differently?
- If someone could tell you the truth about the future, what would you want to know?
- Given the choice of anyone in the world, alive or dead whom would you want to have a meaningful conversation with?
- If you knew that in one year you died suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are living now?
- If tomorrow was your last day, how would you spend it?
- If you were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone, what would you most regret not having told someone? Why haven't you told them yet?
- If you could choose a superpower, what would it be and why?
- What would you choose to eat if you had to eat it every day for the rest of your life?
- If you could master any instrument, what would it be?
- What would you do if you only had 7 days left to live?
- If you could have any animal as a pet, what animal would you choose?
- What three things would you bring to a deserted island?
Travel
- What are the most interesting things to see in your country?
- When and where was your best vacation?
- Which country would you like to live in?
- What is the farthest county you have ever been in?
- What is the most exotic place you have visited?
Any
question whose answer will vary can be considered a open Question. For
example you ask someone what they like and why they like it? The answer
to this will vary from person to person. One more example you can take
is ask people do you believe in ghosts or something like that? Again
the answers will vary and thus such questions are considered open ended
questions :)
I
don't have tons of examples, but maybe a few to get you started.
Firstly, an open question is one that cannot simply be answered by "yes"
or "no". A couple of examples of closed questions are:
- Did you enjoy the concert?
- Did you think the salmon was cooked properly?
- Do you like Mr. Johnson's new fedora?
You can say yes or no without further elaboration necessary.
Some open questions may be as follows:
- If I meet you in nine years from now, what would you have had to do to consider yourself to be a good parent?
- Tell me where you read or heard about fly fishing?
- What is the main point you are trying to discover when reading this essay?
To maybe make the first three questions open questions, you may reword them as follows (or any way similar):
- What was your favorite part of the concert and why?
- If you did not enjoy the way the salmon was cooked, how would you have preferred it and what difference do you think it would have made to the taste?
- Mr. Johnson's new fedora is certainly unique - can you think of any other types of hats throughout history that may also look good on him - can you name a couple?
This
is probably the shortest answer I've ever written on Quora - it worries
me that this means it is not informational in nature. I hope you get
the idea. If not, I'm certain others will give you answers more along
what you are looking for...
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