200 “Favorite Things” Questions to Ask to Get to Know Someone Better

College should be seen as a great time of learning in a person’s life, whether it be in school or off-campus.

A good portion of this learning should come from making friends with students from all different walks of life and understanding their perspectives on the world.

However, college is a little bit different from high school, where you spend time with the same classmates for eight hours a day and five days a week.

Making friends, especially when you’re a freshman, can be very difficult. How do you get the conversation started? How do you fill in awkward silences?

Small talk is effective, but how do you begin to form a deeper connection? The best way to figure out if you and your potential friend have anything in common boils down to sharing the same favorite things.

With this list of two hundred “favorite” questions, which reflect on topics such as food, travel, and music, you can get to know anyone better! 

In this article:

• Favorite Questions About Random Things

• Favorite Questions About Career & Aspirations

• Favorite Questions About Traveling & Adventures

• Favorite  Questions About Entertainment

• Favorite Questions About Animals

• Favorite Questions About Food & Drinks

• Favorite Questions About Clothes & Accessories

• Favorite Questions About Music

• Favorite Questions About People & Family

• Favorite Questions About Memories & Childhood

Favorite Questions About Random Things 

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1. What is your favorite color? 
2. If you have tattoos, which one is your favorite?
3. What is your favorite season?
4. What is your favorite ghost story?
5. What is your favorite car to drive?
6. What is your favorite Halloween costume? 
7. What is your favorite work of art? 
8. What is your favorite comic book character?
9. What is your favorite book?
10.  Do you have a favorite sports team? 
11.  What is your favorite flower?
12.  What is your favorite moment in history?
13.  What is your favorite magazine? 
14.  What is your favorite type of weather? 
15.  What is your favorite planet?
16.  Android or Apple: which is your favorite? 
17.  Where is your favorite place to relax? 
18.  What was your favorite stuffed animal?
19.  What is your favorite perfume/cologne scent? 
20.  What is your favorite color of nail polish?

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Favorite Questions About Career & Aspirations 

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1.  What is your favorite job that you have had so far?
2.  What is/was your favorite thing to do at that job? 
3.  Who are your favorite coworkers?
4.  Who are your favorite former coworkers? 
5.  Who is your favorite boss? 
6.  When is your favorite time to work?
7.  What is your favorite story from work? 
8.  Where would be your favorite place to work?
9.  What is your favorite benefit from work? 
10.  What is your favorite thing to do after work? 
11.  What is your favorite goal you’ve achieved? 
12.  What is your favorite goal you’re currently working on?
13.  What’s your favorite memory from college?
14.  What was your favorite thing you learned in college/trade school? 
15.  Where would be your favorite place to live?
16.  What would be your favorite way to spend a million dollars?
17.  Where would be your favorite place to retire? 
18.  What is your favorite thing on your bucket list? 
19.  What is your favorite language to study? 
20.  Where would be your favorite place to get married? 

Favorite Questions About Traveling & Adventures

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1.  What is your favorite country to travel to?
2.  What is your favorite continent to travel to?
3.  What is your favorite cold place to travel to?
4.  What is your favorite warm place to travel to?  
5.  What is your favorite historical monument/artifact to visit? 
6.  What would be your favorite fictional place to travel to? 
7.  What is your favorite vacation that you have ever been on? 
8.  What is your favorite picture taken on vacation? 
9.  What is your favorite mode of transportation to use on vacation? 
10.  Who is your favorite person to travel with?
11.  What is your favorite thing to bring with you when traveling?
12.  Do you have a favorite beach? 
13.  What is your favorite thing to do at the beach? 
14.  Swimming or boogie boarding – which is your favorite? 
15.  What is your favorite food that you have had while on vacation? 
16.  Where is your favorite place to go hiking?
17.  Do you have a favorite hiking buddy?
18.  What is your favorite road trip? 
19.  Skiing, sledding, or ice skating – which is your favorite?
20.  Where is your favorite place to picnic? 

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Favorite Questions About Entertainment

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1.  What is your favorite romance movie?
2.  What is your favorite Oscar-winning movie? 
3.  What is your favorite movie setting?
4.  Who is your favorite director?
5.  What is your favorite movie to watch with friends?
6.  Do you have a favorite Harry Potter movie? 
7.  What is your favorite sci-fi movie? 
8.  What is your favorite emotional movie?
9.  What is your favorite coming-of-age movie? 
10.  Watching movies in theaters or at home: which is your favorite? 
11.  What is your favorite television series? 
12.  What is your favorite television character? 
13.  What is your favorite viewing service?
14.  Who is your favorite fictional villain? 
15.  What is your favorite fictional relationship?
16.  Do you have a favorite hobby? 
17.  What is your favorite sport?  
18.  Do you have a favorite sports team? 
19.  Do you have a favorite sport to watch?
20.  Where is your favorite sports arena/stadium? 

Favorite Questions About Animals 

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1.  Do you have a favorite pet?
2.  If you have a pet, what’s your favorite thing to do with them? 
3. What is your pet’s favorite place to go? 
4. What is your favorite brand of pet food to buy?
5.  Dogs or cats: which is your favorite? 
6.  What is your favorite breed of dog? 
7.  What is your favorite bird?
8.  What is your favorite fish?  
9. What’s your favorite insect? 
10.  What is your favorite reptile?
11.  What is your favorite amphibian? 
12.  What is your favorite thing to buy at the pet store?
13.  Do you have a favorite wildcat?
14.  What is your favorite fictional animal character? 
15.  What is your favorite animal to see at the zoo?
16.  What is your favorite underwater mammal?
17.  What is your favorite farm animal? 
18.  What is your favorite extinct animal? 
19.  What is your favorite anthropomorphic animal? 
20. What is your favorite small animal? 

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Favorite Questions About Food & Drinks

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1. What is your favorite spicy food?
2. What is your favorite fruit?
3. Do you have a favorite vegetable? 
4. What is your favorite type of cuisine?
5. What is your favorite alcoholic beverage?
6. What is your favorite fast-food restaurant?
7. What is your favorite upscale restaurant? 
8. What is your favorite appetizer?
9. What is your favorite soda?
10. What is your favorite dessert?
11. Ice cream or cake: which one’s your favorite?
12. What is your favorite diner?
13. What is your favorite candy? 
14. Coke or Pepsi – which is your favorite?
15. What is your favorite dish to cook? 
16. What is your favorite pasta dish? 
17. What is your favorite healthy meal? 
18. What is your favorite breakfast food?
19. What is your favorite kind of cheese? 
20. What is your favorite caffeinated beverage? 

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Favorite Questions About Clothes & Accessories 

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1. What is your favorite outfit?
2. What is your favorite hat? 
3. What are your favorite pair of shoes?
4. What is your favorite jacket? 
5. Do you have a favorite pair of glasses? 
6. Do you have a favorite bracelet?
7. Do you have a favorite pair of earrings? 
8. What is your favorite sweater? 
9. What is your favorite type of formal wear? 
10. Where is your favorite place to go shopping for clothes?
11. What is your favorite clothing brand?
12. What is your favorite fashion show?
13. What is your favorite sweatshirt? 
14. What is your favorite makeup item? 
15. What is your favorite swimsuit?
16. Who is your favorite fashion icon?
17. What is your favorite outfit to wear on a lazy day? 
18. What is your favorite backpack/handbag? 
19. What is your favorite hairstyle?
20. What is your favorite hair color?

Favorite Questions About Music

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1. Who is your favorite songwriter?
2. What is your favorite album?
3. What is your favorite song about love?
4. What is your favorite song about heartbreak?
5. What is your favorite rap song?
6. What is your favorite song from your childhood?
7. What is your favorite concert you have been to?
8. What is your father’s favorite song?
9. What is your mother’s favorite song?
10. What is your favorite guilty pleasure song?
11. What is your favorite cover song? 
12. What is your favorite band? 
13. What is your favorite song to play in the car?
14. What is your favorite song to play in the club?
15. Who is your favorite guitar player?
16. Who is your favorite drummer? 
17. Who is your favorite vocalist? 
18. What is your favorite musical instrument? 
19. What is your favorite piece of music?
20. Who is your favorite classical composer? 

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Favorite Questions About People & Family

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1. What is your favorite thing to do with your family? 
2. What is your favorite family tradition? 
3. What is your favorite family recipe? 
4. What is your favorite family vacation?
5. What is your favorite gift that you have received from your family? 
6. Who is your favorite family member? 
7. Who is your favorite parent? 
8. Who is your favorite cousin?
9. Do you have a favorite friend? 
10. What is your favorite activity to do with your friends?
11. Where is your favorite place to go with your friends? 
12. Who was your favorite crush? 
13. Who is your favorite author?
14. Who is your favorite illustrator?
15. Who is your favorite chef? 
16. Who is your favorite celebrity?
17. Who is your favorite historical figure?
18. Who is your favorite inspirational figure?
19. Who is your favorite sports player?
20. Who is your favorite neighbor? 

Favorite Questions About Memories & Childhood

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1. What was your favorite thing about your childhood home? 
2. What were your favorite childhood television shows?
3. Who was your favorite childhood friend? 
4. What was your favorite animal as a child?
5. What was your favorite childhood food?
6. What was your favorite childhood movie? 
7. Who was your favorite teacher? 
8. What was your favorite playdate? 
9. Did you have a favorite childhood toy? 
10. What was your favorite childhood song?
11. Did you have a favorite school subject? 
12. What was your favorite school lunch?
13. What was your favorite after-school activity?
14. What is your favorite memory?
15. What is your favorite memory of school? 
16. What is your favorite holiday memory?
17. What is your favorite birthday memory? 
18. What is your favorite memory of being with your family?
19. What is your favorite memory of being with your friends?
20. What is your favorite vacation memory? 

Final Thoughts

In college, the benefit of having friends in your classes cannot be understated. If you miss a class, your friend can always fill you in on what you missed.

If you have trouble understanding an assignment, you and your friend can brainstorm together.

Sometimes, the biggest factor when it comes to acing a class is the solidarity and comradery you share with your classmates.

However, in order to build a deeper connection with your peers, you have to get to know them better.

Ask them about their favorite things with this favorite questions list to see if you have anything in common. Who knows? Maybe it will be the start of a wonderful, thoughtful friendship!

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Catherine Cannavina

Catherine attends Hofstra University. She is a motivated and goal-oriented individual who is always looking to learn more. Catherine has previously done freelance work with Fansided and BVM Sports.