Some questions I've used in the past when encountering new people. I used them once at a speed dating event. I also just like asking them to new people I meet.
- What ingredient do you use most when cooking?
- Do you have a television? How would your perception of reality change if you did or didn't?
- If you were locked in a single room for the rest of your life what color would you paint the walls?
- How has the definition of sanity changed in the last 100 years?
- If an alien race came to earth and offered to take you away to a better life would you do it? Would you trust them?
- How are your relationships influenced by society/upbringing?
- What makes you human?
- Do you have faith in humanity?
- What side will you be on when the revolution comes?
- If you could be frozen in cryogenic stasis and safely awoken later how many years would you like to be frozen?
- How has power influenced your love life?
- What is the difference between sacred and profane space and time?
- How much fun do you think it was to create these questions?
- What's your typical behavior when you encounter social awkwardness?
- When was the last time you had sex?
- What do you find most annoying in your life right now?
- A roach can live for 9 days without his head. What's he thinking about for the duration?
- Do you have any phobias?
- What have you never eaten that you really want to eat?
- What do you want to buy?
- Is it important to wear sexy underwear to feel sexy?
- Would you enjoy weightlessness?
- How do your expectations of life shape your life?
- What would your life be like without plastic?
- How do you stimulate creativity in yourself?
- Do you feel the urge to talk during silence?
- What is natural?
- Can you chew your own teeth?
- What is the real cause of boredom?
- Would you eat alien meat if offered?
- If most of us were wind-up toys could we trust those of us that weren't to wind us up?
- Do you think that by asking questions I'm controlling this conversation?
- Which is more important in communication; the medium or the message?
- Do you have enough?
- If two cartoon characters could mate which would make the cutest children? The ugliest?
- What substance other that water would you most like to swim in?
- What purpose do you think celebrity serves?
- When is it OK to sexually objectify others?
- Describe your funeral.
- What is original?
- If the head of the person sitting next to you suddenly exploded what would you do?
- Generally how do you feel during encounters with police?
- Have you ever experienced a ghost or apparition?
- How frequently do you identify misogynistic behavior in others? Do you ever identify similar behavior in yourself?
- How does your view of yourself affect your perception of others?
- When do you feel the most free?
- If you could graft one appendage to your body what would it be and where would you graft it?
- Do you consider yourself a realist or a romantic?
- What color socks are you wearing?
- What kind of fantasy world would you most like to live in?
- Which historical figure would you most like to be emperor of the world?
- What do you think your handwriting style says about you?
- What historical period would you most like to live in?
- What superpower would you most like to have?