Icebreaker Questions to Try with Your Team

Icebreaker questions are questions designed to encourage your team to get to know each other on a deeper level. Some icebreaker questions are fun or funny while others are thought-provoking. Regardless, icebreaker questions help to build trust within a team by helping everyone get to know each other, and by increasing trust, you can likewise improve collaboration and productivity.

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Use this list of 70 good icebreaker questions to help develop rapport and connections among employees:

1. ‘If you were a vegetable, which would you choose to be?’
2. ‘What’s your favorite family tradition?’
3. ‘If you could be any animal, which would you be and why?’
4. ‘What was your favorite band 10 years ago?’
5. ‘If you could live anywhere in the world and take anyone you want with you, where would you live and why?’
6. ‘What’s your favorite color and how does that color make you feel?’
7. ‘Imagine you’re sitting on a bench by the ocean. Who would you want sitting next to you and why?’
8. ‘What was your first job?’
9. ‘If you could choose to stay one age forever, which age would you choose to be and why?’
10. ‘If you could be in any movie, which would you choose, what character would you want to play, and why?’
11. ‘What’s the first concert you ever went to?’
12. ‘Have you ever met someone who’s famous? If so, who?’
13. ‘If you could meet any person in history, who would you choose and why?’
14. ‘What are your top three favorite foods?’
15. ‘If you were thinking about changing your name, what would you change it to? Why?’
16. ‘Name one phobia that you’d like to break.’
17. ‘If you were stranded on a desert island and could only take three things with you, what would you take and why?’
18. ‘What’s the last show that you binge-watched?’
19. ‘What item would you like to own that you don’t already and why?’
20. ‘If you could leave today and travel anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go and why?’
21. ‘Of all the places you’ve traveled to, which was your favorite, and why?’
22. ‘If you could pick any skill that you could learn in an instant, what skill would you choose and why?’
23. ‘What’s the last thing that made you smile?’
24. ‘Get something from your desk or purse and share with the rest of the team why it’s important to you.’
25. ‘What book are you reading right now?’
26. ‘What’s your favorite quote?’
27. ‘If you could choose any new hobby, regardless of cost, what hobby would you want to take up and why?’
28. ‘What’s your favorite time of the year and why?’
29. ‘Who had the most influence on you when you were growing up?’
30. ‘Do you remember the first item you purchased with your own money? If so, what was it?’
31. ‘What’s one thing you want to do in the next year that you have never done before and why?’
32. ‘What’s the best piece of advice you were ever given or ever heard?’
33. ‘How do you like your eggs?’
34. ‘Have you made any purchases recently that you later returned? If so, what was it and why did you return the item?’
35. ‘Do you collect anything? If so, what do you collect and why?’
36. ‘What’s your breakfast food of choice?’
37. ‘Would you rather work from home or be in an office?’
38. ‘Are you an early bird or a night owl?’
39. ‘What’s your beverage of choice first thing in the morning and how much of it do you drink?’
40. ‘What was the worst haircut you ever had?’
41. ‘If you were a professional wrestler, what song would you play as you were entering the ring?’
42. ‘Has anyone ever told you that you look like someone famous? If so, who?’
43. ‘If you had to eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?’
44. ‘What decade do you love the most and why?’
45. ‘Does the car you’re currently driving have a name? If so, what is it?’
46. ‘If you could add anyone’s face to Mount Rushmore, who would it be and why?’
47. ‘Describe your dream home.’
48. ‘What’s your favorite mythological or magical animal?’
49. ‘If you were going to compete at the Olympics, which sport would you want to compete in?’
50. ‘When you were a young child, what did you want to be as an adult?’
51. ‘What is your superpower?’
52. ‘If you had a time machine and could travel into the past or the future, which would you choose and why?’
53. ‘Have you completed any items off your bucket list? If so, what?’
54. ‘What languages can you speak?’
55. ‘If you could be any breed of dog, what would you be and why?’
56. ‘What was your favorite game to play when you were a kid?’
57. ‘If you could spend time with any cartoon character, who would it be and why?’
58. ‘If you could live in any country for a year, which would you choose and why?’
59. ‘If you could write any book that was guaranteed to become a bestseller, what would you write?’
60. ‘If you could teleport to anywhere right now, where would you go?’
61. ‘If you could change places with anyone in the world, who would you choose and why?’
62. ‘Would you rather live without heat and air conditioning or without social media?’
63. ‘Would you rather have the ability to make yourself invisible or to fly?’
64. ‘Would you rather be the smartest person in the room or the funniest?’
65. ‘What’s your favorite meal to cook and why?’
66. ‘Could you live without technology for 24 hours?’
67. ‘What fictional world or place would you like to visit?’
68. ‘If you could have dinner with two famous people, who would you pick?’
69. ‘If you could bring back any fashion trend, what would you choose?’
70. ‘If there was a way to guarantee you one thing in life other than money, what would it be?’