My dinner guests barely know each other. What do I ask them?

Eight questions fitted to your guests that get a story out of everyone and corner no one.


When to use
The day before a dinner where half the table has never met the other half.
Time
5 min

The prompt

I’m hosting a dinner for . My worry is that . Write eight questions I can put to the whole table. Each one should be answerable by anyone in under a minute with a small story, not an opinion, and should work as well for the quietest guest as for the loudest. Skip work, politics and anything that sounds like a team-building exercise. Order them from easy starters to ones for later in the evening, and add one line on why each works. Then tell me which two to keep in my pocket if I only get to ask two.

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