Strangers, warming up

Eight people who have never met, drinks in hand, twenty minutes before a workshop starts. They will spend the next two days together.

113 questions

When did you last run to catch something, and did you catch it?
When did you last stand in the rain longer than you needed to?
When did you last talk out loud to an animal in the street?
When did you last take a photo of the sky, and where were you?
When did you last get lost, and who did you ask for directions?
When did you last write something by hand, and who was it for?
When did you last apologise out loud to a piece of furniture?
When did you last laugh at the wrong moment, and where were you?
When did you last argue out loud with a machine?
When did you last hold a door open far too long?
When did you last take the long way home on purpose?
When did you last stop walking to look up at a building?
When did you last lie about having read something?
When did you last hear your neighbours through a wall or floor?
When did you last knock on a door in your own street?
When did you last arrive far too early, and how did you kill time?
When did you last smell something in the street that stopped you?
When did you last eat a meal standing up, and what was it?
When did you last speak first to someone in a lift?
When did you last get up to check a noise at night?
When did you last raise your hand before you were sure?
When did you last teach somebody a shortcut, and did it work?
When did you last get caught staring, and at what?
When did you last drop something in public, and who picked it up?
When did you last take a shortcut that took longer?
When did you last climb something you were not supposed to?
When did you last fall asleep somewhere that was not a bed?
When did you last feed an animal that was not yours?
When did you last stay up past midnight finishing something?
When did you last dance where somebody could see you?
When did you last say something in a language you barely speak?
When did you last cross the road to avoid something?
What do you carry in your bag every day and never use?
What food do you love that you would never order in front of strangers?
What advice do you hand out that you have never once taken?
What rule in your house would look ridiculous to a visitor?
What are you good at that you would rather nobody found out?
What do people thank you for doing that you hate doing?
What are you superstitious about while insisting you are not?
What do you always say yes to and always regret by Friday?
What habit of a neighbour annoys you that you have started copying?
What have you kept broken for months because you will fix it someday?
What subject do you argue about loudly and know nothing about?
What place on your street do you praise and never visit?
What do you refuse to carry, even when the forecast says you need it?
What did a teacher tell you off for that you still do?
What do you know by heart that has never once been useful?
What do you check twice at night although you know it is fine?
What corner of your home stays spotless while the rest collapses?
What do you hide before someone comes over?
What do you refuse to eat that you have never tasted?
What do you keep buying even though it dies within a month?
What cannot you stand in others that you do every single day?
What do you own that only works if you hit it?
What noise do you make that you cannot stand hearing from anyone else?
What do you volunteer to do at parties that you do not enjoy?
What word do you keep using wrong and refuse to correct?
What do you say you will do at the weekend and never do?
What ugly thing in your street would you protest to protect?
What could you teach me to do properly in the next ten minutes?
What do you know how to fix that most people would throw away?
What do you cook without measuring anything, and who taught you?
How exactly do you make your coffee or tea in the morning?
What's a shortcut you worked out yourself that nobody taught you?
What can you identify by sound alone?
What smell do you notice that nobody else in the room does?
What word does your family use that nobody outside would understand?
What game do you know the real rules to?
What's the hardest thing you can do with your hands?
What do you know about your street that nobody walking through would notice?
What's the right way to end a phone call?
What do you notice first when you walk into someone's home?
How do you decide which queue to join at the supermarket?
What could you draw from memory better than anyone here?
Which chore do you enjoy, and what's your method?
What does everyone do wrong that you know the right way to do?
Do I seem like someone who sings in the car? Why or why not?
Guess what the person on your left eats for breakfast, and why.
Just by looking at me, guess the chore I never do. Why that one?
Do I seem like someone who keeps every receipt? Why or why not?
Guess which of us was the loudest child, and why.
Do I seem like someone who talks to animals? Why or why not?
Guess what's in my bag that shouldn't be there. Why that?
Guess who here would carry a spider outside. Why them?
Do I seem like someone who reads the last page first? Why or why not?
Guess how the person on your right spends a free Sunday morning, and why.
Guess which of us has cried at an advertisement. Why them?
Do I seem like someone who names their houseplants? Why or why not?
Guess what I would order in a restaurant I've never been to. Why?
Guess what song the person opposite knows every word to. Why that one?
Do I seem like someone who reads the comments? Why or why not?
Guess who here has a collection nobody knows about. Why them?
When did you last see your name spelled wrong on something official?
What hobby do you own all the equipment for and never do?
What did every other child find easy that you found impossible?
What can you fix that most people pay someone else to fix?
What's the right way to load a dishwasher, and who taught you?
What's the best way to spend three hours in your hometown?
What do you know well enough to shout at the television about?
What did you spend an entire weekend learning and never use again?
What's a word your family uses that nobody else would understand?
Do I seem like someone who makes the bed every morning? Why?
Guess what the person on your left does on a Saturday morning, and why.
Guess who here still owns a toy from childhood, and why them?
Guess my first job, and what makes you say that.
Do I seem like someone who talks to strangers on trains? Why?
Guess what's in my bag that nobody would expect, and why.
When did you last get caught in the rain, and did you run?
When did you last cut your own hair?
When did you last shout at a machine, and did it help?
What do you own that you never use and would never sell?
What are you bad at and refuse to stop doing?
What can you not do that everyone assumes you can?

Ask 7 of these around the table