conversation starters

from The Splendid Table, NPR 

https://www.splendidtable.org/story/lets-get-this-party-started-conversation-starters-for-your-holiday-party

Conversation Starters from Henry Alford

• What was the best thing you ate this year?
• What new friends did you make this year?
• What do you wish you were doing more of in your life?
• What was the most helpful invention of the past 100 years?
• What was the most destructive?
• What are the first three things you would do if you were President?
• Who would you cast in the starring role of a movie about your mother?
• Describe your own version of heaven.
• In a world with laser surgery, space travel, and aerosol cheese... why hasn't anyone invented a pill that makes you feel like you got a good night's sleep?
• How might the world be made better if, outside of crises, the entire country had a 24 hour-long global moratorium on talking?

Some additional conversation starters from The Splendid Table

• What do you like most about yourself?
• Did you ever get into trouble as a kid? 
• Did you/do you like school? 
• Who was your most memorable teacher?
• Tell the story of your first kiss.
• If you could do anything, now, what would you do? 
• What age were you when you really knew who you were?
• What was your first job? 
• Do you have any phobias? 
• What do you find the most attractive in the opposite sex?
• Do you like to flirt?