Questions we have asked
One a day. Nobody has to answer. Here is what people did answer.
- Finish it, then explain: "I'm too old for ___."
- What's the best thing about where you live that tourists never find?
- What toy or object will you never throw away, even though it's worth nothing?
- What's a hill you'll die on that doesn't matter at all?
- Show us the thing in your home that every guest asks about.
- Tell us about a stranger you met once and never forgot.
- What food do you refuse to eat, no matter how it's cooked?
- What does your town look like at 7 in the morning?
- What's the strangest request you ever got at work?
- You can teleport anywhere for one hour, today only. Where do you go, and what do you do there?
- What's the story behind your scar?
- What's the last thing you cooked, and where did the recipe come from?
- What's something everyone loves that you just don't get?
- What smell takes you straight back to childhood, and to where exactly?
- Show us your local grocery store or market. The rest of the world finds it fascinating, we promise.
- What meal do you cook on autopilot — no recipe, no thinking?
- What's the most trouble you ever got into at school?
- What's the oldest object you own? Photo, plus its history.
- What everyday thing do you do "wrong" on purpose, because your way is better?
- What does everyone get wrong about your job?
- Teach us a word from your language that English badly needs.
- What did you believe as a kid for embarrassingly long?
- Show us the most ordinary street in your town — not the famous part.
- Empty your bag or your pockets and show us what you carry every day.
- What food combination do you love that everyone around you finds disgusting?
- What's the dumbest way you ever injured yourself?
- What superstition do you follow even though you know it's nonsense?
- Show us your pet doing absolutely nothing special.
- What time do you actually go to bed, and what keeps you up?
- What's completely normal where you live but shocks visitors?
- What poster was on your teenage bedroom wall?
- What food from your childhood do you still secretly eat?
- Show us your workspace exactly as it is right now. No tidying up first.
- What was your first job, and what did it teach you?
- How do you take your coffee or tea? Defend it.
- Take a photo out of your window right now and tell us what we're looking at.
- What's the most useless talent you have?
- What's the worst haircut you ever had?
- Show us your sky right now.
- What's the oldest thing in your fridge right now? Go and check. We'll wait.
- What job did you want when you were seven, and how close did you get?