Do you want to get to know someone better and establish a deeper connection with them? Then, all you need is to ask them the right questions to reveal something more about their personality, likes, and dislikes.
Luckily for you, I’ve found all of the right questions online and compiled them into this huge collection of favorite things questions.
They also serve as great conversation starters, and they can help you start and indulge in conversation if you’re a shy person by nature and don’t know how to approach someone.
Personal Favorite Things Questions
1. Who is your favorite person to be around to cheer you up?
2. What’s your favorite birthday present ever?
3. What is your favorite family tradition?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. What is your favorite family vacation?
6. What’s your favorite thing to do on Valentine’s Day?
7. Who is your favorite person to follow on Instagram?
8. Do you have a favorite friend?
9. What was your favorite unique trait as a teenager?
10. What’s your favorite memory of your maternal grandparents’ house?
11. Who was your favorite crush?
12. What’s your favorite smell you associate with where you grew up?
13. Where is your favorite place to relax?
14. Who is your favorite neighbor?
15. What’s your favorite thing you collected as a child?
16. What’s your favorite childhood memory?
17. What was your favorite thing about your childhood home?
18. Who was your favorite childhood friend?
19. Who is your favorite family member to spend time with?
20. What is your favorite thing to do with your family?
21. What’s your favorite childhood memory with your mother?
22. What is your parent’s favorite memory from when you and your siblings were babies?
23. What is your favorite birthday memory?
24. What’s your favorite childhood memory with your father?
25. What is your favorite hobby?
26. What is your favorite memory of being with your family?
27. Who is your favorite cousin?
28. Where is your favorite place to dine out on a special night?
29. What is your favorite memory of being with your friends?
30. Who is your favorite person in the whole world?
31. What’s your favorite memory of a pet you’ve lost?
32. What’s your favorite romantic activity?
33. If you have tattoos, which one is your favorite?
34. What is your favorite book?
35. What was your favorite stuffed animal?
36. Who are your favorite co-workers?
37. What is your favorite perfume/cologne scent?
38. What’s your favorite memory from college?
39. Do you have a favorite pet?
40. What is your favorite season, and why?
Favorite Things Questions Related To Food
1. What is your favorite pizza topping(s)?
2. What’s your favorite local cuisine?
3. What is your favorite drink at Starbucks?
4. What’s your favorite take-out or delivery food?
5. What’s your favorite food?
6. What’s your favorite meal to cook at home?
7. What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
8. What’s your favorite thing to bake?
9. What is your favorite dessert?
10. What’s your favorite type of cheese?
11. What is your favorite drink on hot summer days?
12. What’s your favorite type of wine?
13. What is your favorite candy?
14. What’s your favorite cocktail?
15. What is your favorite fast-food restaurant?
16. What’s your favorite fruit?
17. What’s your favorite food to eat while watching your favorite show?
18. What’s your favorite vegetable?
19. What are your favorite ice cream sundae toppings?
20. What’s your favorite type of cookies?
21. What is your favorite drink?
22. What’s your favorite seafood?
23. What’s your favorite lunchbox snack?
24. What’s your favorite pasta?
25. What is your favorite spicy food?
26. What’s your favorite cake?
27. What is your favorite type of cuisine?
28. What’s your favorite type of tea?
29. What is your favorite alcoholic beverage?
30. What’s your favorite thing to eat for breakfast?
31. What is your favorite soda?
32. What’s your favorite flavor of potato chips?
33. What is your favorite diner?
34. What’s your favorite snack?
35. What is your favorite caffeinated beverage?
36. What’s your favorite appetizer?
37. What is your favorite chocolate candy?
38. What’s your favorite junk food?
39. What is your favorite kind of sushi?
40. What’s your favorite birthday food?
41. What is your favorite way to cook a steak?
42. What’s your favorite childhood meal?
43. What is your favorite comfort food?
44. What’s your favorite Chinese meal?
45. What is your favorite cereal?
46. What’s your favorite thing to eat at a BBQ?
47. What’s your favorite type of pie?
48. What is your favorite thing at a buffet?
49. What’s your favorite midnight snack?
50. What is your favorite dish at Thanksgiving?
51. What’s your favorite type of sushi?
52. What’s your favorite meat?
53. What’s your favorite healthy food?
Favorite Things Questions Related To Art And Entertainment
1. What are your three favorite podcasts?
2. Watching movies in theaters or at home: which is your favorite?
3. What is your favorite Hobbit from the Lord of the Rings?
4. Who is your favorite director?
5. What’s your favorite website?
6. What is your favorite Simpsons character?
7. What’s your favorite play?
8. What is your favorite streaming service?
9. What’s your favorite song to listen to?
10. What is your favorite Marvel movie?
11. What is your favorite chick flick?
12. Who is your favorite fictional villain?
13. What’s your favorite game to play outside?
14. What are your top 5 favorite tv series?
15. What’s your favorite song to dance to?
16. What is your favorite South Park character?
17. What is your favorite fictional relationship?
18. What is your favorite movie?
19. What’s your favorite wedding song?
20. What is your favorite Pixar movie?
21. Who is your favorite painter?
22. What is your favorite song about love?
23. What would be your favorite museum exhibit – real or imagined?
24. What is your favorite Leonardo DiCaprio movie?
25. What’s your favorite video game?
26. What’s your favorite painting?
27. What’s your favorite song to hear at a sports game?
28. What is your favorite rap song?
29. What is your favorite actress over 50?
30. What is your favorite topic to read about?
31. What’s your favorite instrument to listen to/play?
32. What’s your favorite concert of all time?
33. What is your favorite guilty pleasure song?
34. What is your favorite canceled TV series?
35. Who is your favorite celebrity?
36. What’s your favorite form of entertainment?
37. Who’s your favorite author?
38. What is your favorite cover song?
39. What is your favorite classic movie?
40. Who is your favorite actor?
41. Who’s your favorite character from a book?
42. What is your favorite song to play in the car?
43. What is your favorite string instrument?
44. What’s your favorite TV show?
45. What’s your favorite Disney movie?
46. What is your favorite style of dance?
47. What is your favorite piece of music?
48. What’s your favorite board game?
49. What’s your favorite comic book?
50. What is your favorite disco song?
51. Who is your favorite classical composer?
52. What is your favorite game to play with your family?
53. What’s your favorite magazine to read?
54. What is your favorite one-hit wonder?
55. What’s your favorite social media app?
56. What’s your favorite card game?
57. What is your favorite music genre?
58. What is your favorite song you’re embarrassed to like?
59. Who is your favorite comic book character?
60. What’s your all-time favorite tv series?
61. What is your favorite Oscar-winning movie?
62. What is your favorite foreign band/artist?
63. What is your favorite movie setting?
64. Do you have a favorite Harry Potter movie?
65. What’s your favorite animated TV Show?
66. What is your favorite sci-fi movie?
67. Who is your favorite actress?
68. What is your favorite tearjerker movie?
69. What is your favorite band?
70. What is your favorite coming-of-age movie?
Favorite Things Questions Related To Sports
1. What’s your favorite sport to play?
2. What is your favorite extreme sport you’re too scared to do?
3. What is your favorite thing about the Olympics?
4. What is your favorite football team?
5. Do you have a favorite sports team?
6. What is your favorite basketball team?
7. What’s your favorite sport to watch live?
8. What is your favorite hockey team?
9. What’s your favorite sporting moment of all time?
10. What is your favorite baseball team?
11. Who is your favorite NBA player?
12. What is your favorite winter sport?
13. Who is your favorite female athlete?
14. What is your favorite sport you wish you were a pro at?
15. Who is your favorite football coach?
16. What is your favorite professional athlete?
Favorite Things Questions Related To Traveling
1. What’s your favorite way to travel?
2. What’s your favorite town?
3. Who are your favorite people to travel with?
4. What’s your favorite USA destination?
5. What’s your favorite place with a nice view?
6. What is your favorite country to travel to?
7. What’s your favorite place for spring break?
8. What’s your favorite time travel destination?
9. What’s your favorite place for skiing?
10. What’s your favorite childhood memory of traveling?
11. What’s your favorite travel accessory?
12. What is your favorite cold place to travel to?
13. What’s your favorite type of vacation?
14. What is your favorite warm place to travel to?
15. What’s your favorite thing to do on vacation?
16. What is your favorite historical monument/artifact to visit?
17. What’s your favorite thing about traveling?
18. What would be your favorite fictional place to travel to?
19. What’s your favorite length of vacation?
20. What is your favorite picture taken on vacation?
21. What’s your favorite thing about new countries?
22. What is your favorite thing to do at the beach?
23. What’s your favorite thing to do while traveling?
24. Where is your favorite place to picnic?
25. What’s your favorite souvenir?
26. What is your favorite thing about America?
27. What’s your favorite road to travel on?
28. What is your favorite ride at a carnival?
29. What’s your favorite sightseeing trip you did?
30. What is your favorite travel memory with your partner?
31. Where’s your favorite place to go with family?
32. What is your favorite travel necessity?
33. What’s your favorite food to pack while traveling?
34. What is your favorite USA state to travel to?
35. What’s your favorite travel tip?
36. What are your favorite things that make traveling even cooler?
37. What’s your favorite solo-travel experience?
38. What is your favorite experience of traveling abroad?
39. What’s your favorite travel journal or book?
40. What is your favorite place for adrenaline adventures, water rides, and different sports?
41. What’s your favorite offbeat destination for a weekend getaway?
42. What is your favorite island for a trip?
43. What’s your favorite thing from your last trip?
44. What is your favorite YouTube channel for travel videos?
45. What’s your favorite European destination?
Favorite Things Questions Related To Holidays
1. What’s your favorite thing to do on New Year’s Eve?
2. What’s your favorite Christmas song?
3. What is your favorite holiday food?
4. What’s your favorite thing about Christmas?
5. What is your favorite holiday memory?
6. What is your favorite way to spend the holidays?
7. What’s your favorite thing about Halloween?
8. What’s your favorite Christmas tradition?
9. Who is your favorite person/people to spend holidays with?
10. What is your favorite holiday?
11. What is your favorite Valentine’s Day activity?
Favorite Things Questions Related To Education, Career, And Work
1. Who was your favorite teacher?
2. What’s your favorite accomplishment in your career so far?
3. When is your favorite time to work?
4. What’s your favorite memory about going to school?
5. What is your favorite job that you have had so far?
6. What’s your favorite memory about going to university?
7. What is/was your favorite thing to do at yournjob?
8. What was your favorite subject in middle school?
9. What is your favorite story from work?
10. Who was your favorite boss that you have had?
11. Where would be your favorite place to work?
12. What is your favorite benefit from work?
13. What is your favorite song to listen to before you start working?
14. What is your favorite thing to do after work?
15. What is your favorite day of the week you feel most productive?
16. What is your favorite goal you’ve achieved?
17. What is your favorite thing about working from home?
18. What was your favorite thing you learned in college/trade school?
19. What is your favorite thing about working with a team in the office?
20. What is your favorite language to study?
21. What is your favorite thing to do after a stressful day at work?
What Are Good Random Questions To Ask?
1. What’s the best gift you have ever received?
2. What is your favorite fashion show?
3. What is your favorite extracurricular activity?
4. What’s your favorite breed of dog?
5. What is your favorite planet?
6. What is your favorite underwater mammal?
7. What is your favorite day of the week?
8. What is your favorite makeup item?
9. What’s your favorite thing to do with your pets?
10. What is your favorite way to communicate?
11. Android or Apple: which is your favorite?
12. Who is your favorite fashion icon?
13. What is your favorite car to drive?
14. What is your favorite thing to do when you’re sick?
15. What is your favorite outfit to wear on a lazy day?
16. What’s your favorite sea creature?
17. What is your favorite color of nail polish?
18. What is your favorite thing you’ve done in the last 24 hours?
19. What is your favorite hair color?
20. What is your favorite activity to do with your friends?
21. What is your favorite crafty thing to make?
22. Where would be your favorite place to retire?
23. What is your favorite outfit at the moment?
24. What’s your favorite native animal?
25. What’s your favorite thing to do first thing in the morning?
26. Where would be your favorite place to get married?
27. What’s your favorite thing to do with your pets?
28. Who is your favorite historical figure?
29. What would be your favorite way to spend a million dollars?
30. What is your favorite color of clothes?
31. Dogs or cats: which is your favorite?
32. Who is your favorite inspirational figure?
33. What’s your favorite thing to do when you feel stressed?
34. What’s your favorite item of clothing?
35. Do you have a favorite beach?
36. Did you have a favorite childhood toy?
37. What’s your favorite hair product?
38. What is your favorite farm animal?
39. What’s your favorite thing to do when you feel sad?
40. What is your favorite thing in the sky?
41. What’s your favorite brand of skincare?
42. What’s your favorite time of year and why?
43. What is your favorite extinct animal?
44. What’s your favorite type of underwear?
45. What is your favorite thing about a rainy day?
46. What’s your favorite way to spend a Friday night?
47. Who’s your favorite bag designer?
48. Which store has been your favorite place to find unexpected deals?
49. What is your favorite pair of shoes?
50. What’s your favorite brand of sneakers?
51. What is your favorite wild animal you’d like as a pet?
52. What is your favorite ghost story?
53. Which one of the natural wonders of the world is your favorite?
54. What is your favorite animal to see at the zoo?
55. What is your favorite store at the mall?
56. Do you have a favorite pair of glasses?
57. What’s your favorite sight in nature?
58. What is your favorite car to drive?
59. What is your favorite makeup you can’t live without?
60. What’s your favorite thing to do in nature?
61. What is your favorite flower?
62. What is your favorite type of formal wear?
63. What is your favorite occasion to dress up for?
64. What’s your favorite thing to waste money on?
65. What is your favorite moment in history?
66. What is your favorite country? And why?
67. What is your favorite hairstyle?
68. Where is your favorite place to go shopping for clothes?
69. What is your favorite type of weather?
70. What is your favorite place for a piercing?
71. What is your favorite clothing brand?
72. What’s your favorite time of the day?
73. What is your favorite thing to wear to bed?
74. What is your favorite quote?
In Short
Whether you want to get to know someone better or you simply want to start a chat with someone, these favorite things questions will serve you well.
With the help of these questions, not only you’ll manage to learn something new about the other person, but you’ll also be able to understand what your similarities and differences are. This will definitely help you bond and build a strong connection.