I plan on implementing a fun survey at work, the results of which will be published in our workplace newsletter. I want it to contain 100 interesting questions that would be appropriate to ask/answer of employees.
Here are a few examples of what I’m looking for:
Favorite cereal?
Know how do drive a stick shift?
Best thing I cook:
Coffee or tea?
I do not own a…
Dream job:
Longest road trip:
I have never…
Oldest living relative:
Anyway, you get the idea. I have around 60 questions and I’m running out of ideas.
Help a brother out!
Thanks,
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(and go ahead and let fly with the joke responses, I know they’re coming)
Favorite: book, movie, tv show, song, Christmas or Holiday song, dog breed, pet,pie, cookie, fast food place. casual restaurant, fine dining restaurant, NFL team, college team, NHL team …
dog or cat? pie or cake? white milk or chocolate milk? hamburger or cheeseburger? Coke or Pepsi? chocolate or vanilla? ice cream or frozen yogurt? f ootball, basketball or baseball? Speed skating or figure skating?
Most famous person you’ve met? Or seen?
How many states have you visited? (US-centric)
Do you believe in ghosts?
*Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?
What is the highest place you’ve ever been? (Mountain/building)
What was your first car? (Mercury Bobcat that we called the “screaming tree” due to its red blood paint and fake wood paneling)
How fast have you ever driven in a car? ( 126 mph 1988 SAAB 900S on I680 headed down into the Missouri River valley just Northeast of Omaha)
What did you wear to prom? (red cumberbunded tux- but it matched my date’s dress that she bought over a year earlier. She was so scary that I ended up breaking up with her two weeks after prom when she started humming, “here comes the bride”)
Who taught you to drive? (Dick Hunhoff- my geometry teacher and driver’s ed instructor!)
Where was your High School’s party location? (In a pasture 12 miles northwest of town, just across the county line as for some reason kids thought that being over the county line prevented being arrested.)
Which of your parents are you more like?
Are you your mom’s favorite child?
Which of your siblings turned out the most different than expected?
I think the key is to think about nostalgic things that people inevitably have a story about - traveling, cars, alcohol, dating, HS.
Agreed. We did something like this at an old job (and posted the results of a few surveys every week, inviting people to guess whose responses were whose). More than about a dozen questions becomes boring for both the person filling it out, and the person reading it.
~If I could have any super power, it would be…
~The best place to go for lunch around work is…
~The most McNuggets I’ve ever eaten in one sitting is…
~My dream car is a…
~The craziest thing I would do for a Klondike bar is…
~If I was in that Twilight Zone episode where the guy had that button that, when pushed, will kill a random person, and I had the button, I would push it … many times
~If I could pick one country in the world to utterly obliterate and wipe off the face of the earth, it would be…
~If I could splice 2 animals into one and create an abominable hybrid with both their strengths and weaknesses, excluding humans, I would use … and …
~In my experience, the race who is the best at sex is… (note: doesn’t have to be a human)
~The best tasting thing I’ve ever had in my mouth is…
~The perfect cock size to have (male)/have inside me (female) is…
~The person I’d be most likely to kill at work is…
Actually, I did this around five years ago and got a very good response - more than 30, as I recall. And since I only publish one a month, that gave me nearly three years of material.
It eventually petered out, obviously. So I want to give it another go with different questions, hence this thread.
I see you only registered here in 2009, so you didn’t get your old questions here. If it’s okay with the SDMB management, perhaps you could mine a few of the funnier thread subjects in IMHO, such as “What’s the stupidest way you’ve injured yourself” (me: I cut my finger on cocktail seafood sauce–NOT the bottle) or “What useless talent do you have” (me: a really good voice impression of Bela Lugosi as Dracula).
When you play Monopoly, which token do you choose?
Is the glass half empty, half full or at 50% capacity?
Paper or plastic?
Automatic transmission or stick?
Cable or satellite?
PC or Mac?
Yes or no: Is 42 the answer?
(Star Wars geeky) Who shot first?
Can you identify a Wilhelm Scream? (Bonus points to anyone who does one as they answer the survey)
How many licks does it take? (People over 40 or so will probably answer three as that’s what Mr.Owl said when asked about getting to the center of Tootsie Roll Pops, but younger types may come up with their own meaning to the question, which might be interesting.)
If you could wear anything to work besides (whatever your corporate or business uniform is), what would you wear?
What’s the most valuable thing in your house, and where is it hidden? (You’ll want to bury this one down the list a ways, so they’re getting bored with answering odd questions and won’t think twice about answering)
Can you do a really GOOD maniacal laugh? (Hope the best one is not from someone in senior management)