Icebreakers
These are fifty questions pertaining to just about everything.
They are meant to help your group build trust by increasing what they know
about one another.
Set Ground Rules: Always set the tone and a few
ground rules before embarking on this kind of activity.
Set a time limit for answers, give people the ability
to pass if they do not feel comfortable answering the question, set a time
limit for the activity and how many time each person must ask and answer
questions.
Questions
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Who is the most relevant person in our time?
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What is the title of the best book you have ever read? Why?
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What is the name of the best movie you have ever seen? Why?
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What comes to mind first when you hear the word "reality"?
Why?
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What is the most beautiful thing about people? Why?
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What is the most honest thing you have done?
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If you could change one thing about yourself what would you
change? Why?
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What is the ugliest thing you know? Why?
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What force of history are you most aware of as you plan your
life? Why?
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On what basis do you select your friends? Why?
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What is the most overwhelming thing you know? Why?
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What thing makes you most humble? Why?
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What is the greatest value that guides your life? Why?
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If you could chose to be an animal what animal would you
choose to be? Why?
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If you could smash one thing and one thing only, what would
you smash? Why?
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What is the greatest crime one person can commit against
another? Why?
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For what do you think you would be willing to lay down your
life? Why?
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What do you feel when you stand on the shore of the ocean?
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If you were tape recording the sound of violence, what sound
would you use? Why?
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What sound would you use for beauty? Why?
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If an atomic bomb were to explode a block away in ten minutes,
what would you do for those ten minutes?
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What one word would you put on your gravestone? Why?
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Choose a word that best describes your life up to this moment?
Why?
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What is the most beautiful thing you have ever seen?
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What is your biggest worry? Why?
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What idea does everyone in this room want to hear? Why?
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What do people like best about you? Why?
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What do you think of when you think of tragedy? Why?
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What person has influenced your life the most? Why?
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What skill do you need in order to succeed? Why?
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What talent should you develop? Why?
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What makes you most secure? Why?
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What institution is most in need of change? Why?
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Choose a word to describe a sunset? Why?
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When do you feel most lonely? Why?
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When do you sense being most alive? Why?
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What TV advertisement bothers you the most? Why?
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Choose a word you to describe the elderly population? Why?
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Why don't you speak to people in class who look lonely?
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What is the biggest waste you know of? Why?
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What will you be doing ten years from know?
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What future discovery do you anticipate the most? Why?
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What is the greatest music ever composed?
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What do you love most? Why?
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Why are you here?