A family dinner

Several generations at one table, a holiday. Grandparents, parents, adult children, maybe kids.

83 questions

When did you last talk out loud to an animal in the street?
What rule in your house would look ridiculous to a visitor?
What do you know how to fix that most people would throw away?
What do you cook without measuring anything, and who taught you?
What word does your family use that nobody outside would understand?
What game do you know the real rules to?
Which chore do you enjoy, and what's your method?
Do I seem like someone who sings in the car? Why or why not?
What tradition do you complain about and would miss if it stopped?
What's the right way to load a dishwasher, and who taught you?
What do you make that people always ask you to bring?
What's a stain or a mess you know exactly how to get out?
What's a word your family uses that nobody else would understand?
When did you last hold a baby, and whose was it?
When did you last make something with your hands?
Which family tradition do you mock and would fight to keep?
What gift did you keep for years and never once use?
Do I seem like someone who dances at weddings? Why or why not?
When did you last climb a tree, and who was watching?
When did you last sing out loud in a car?
When did you last dance in a kitchen, and what was playing?
When did you last fall over in front of other people?
When did you last write a letter and put a stamp on it?
When did you last fix something instead of throwing it away?
When did you last get in trouble at school, and for what?
When did you last get lost, and who found you?
When did you last cry at a film, and which one?
When did you last burn a meal, and who ate it anyway?
When did you last wear something belonging to someone at this table?
When did you last win something, and where is it now?
When did you last shout at a machine?
When did you last get a haircut you hated?
When did you last break something and say nothing?
When did you last hide from someone knocking at the door?
When did you last hear your own voice on a recording?
When did you last use a paper map, and where were you going?
When did you last play a game you are too old for?
When did you last get soaked by rain and keep walking?
When did you last name something: a pet, a car, a plant?
When did you last carry something far too heavy on your own?
When did you last hear a word only our family uses?
When did you last take something apart to see inside it?
When did you last stand in a queue for hours, and what for?
What rule in this house makes no sense, and who would defend it?
What household job do you do badly on purpose?
What do you keep in a drawer that you will never use again?
What subject did you fail and still love?
What did you hate as a child that you now do for fun?
What food do you pretend to like at this table?
What chore did you volunteer for to escape a worse one?
What lie did you tell as a child that worked?
What are adults wrong about that you will never get wrong?
What are you allowed to do that you think you should not be?
What are you better at than your parents, and do they know?
What appliance in this house has never worked, and why is it here?
What do you cook without measuring anything, and where did you learn it?
How do you get a stain out of a white shirt?
How do you fold a fitted sheet, and who showed you?
What is your method for getting back to sleep at three in the morning?
How do you know when it is going to rain?
Who taught you to drive, and what did they shout?
What tool do you own that nobody else knows how to use?
What plant have you kept alive longest, and what does it need?
What have you mended instead of replacing, and who taught you the stitch?
Which chore was yours as a kid, and what was your system?
Explain a game you play at break that no adult knows the rules to.
Which video game could you explain to a grandparent in one minute?
What is the correct way to build a den, and where should it go?
What is the best hiding place in this house, and why does it work?
What did you play outside at nine, and what were the rules?
What did you once have to know how to do that nobody needs now?
Guess what your parents were like at seventeen. Then let them correct you.
Guess the job I wanted at ten, and why that fits me.
Guess what I got told off for most as a child. Why that?
Do I seem like someone who reads the instructions before building it? Why?
Guess what I would grab first if the house flooded, and why that.
Guess which food I refused to eat as a child, and how you know.
Do I seem like someone who sleeps through thunderstorms? Why or why not?
Kids: guess what your parents did for fun before you were born.
Parents: guess your child's proudest moment this year, then let them correct you.
Guess what is in my bag right now that should not be there.
Guess which of us would last longest camping alone, and say why.
Do I seem like someone who talks to animals when alone? Why?

Ask 7 of these around the table