Funny Icebreaker Questions

Witty, funny icebreaker questions; the best starters for a party, meeting or any formal or informal gathering! Funny questions are a good way to break the ice, be it a friends-n-family get-together or an office seminar or meeting. They should be compelling enough and make the participants want to answer them! Awkward or embarrassing questions do not make for good icebreakers. Rather than adding a fun element to the gathering, they only take all the fun away. Funny ice breakers are meant to reduce tension in a group and make the participants comfortable. They add a tint of fun to the start of a meeting or party and encourage people to open up and be more participative.

Some Funny Icebreaker Questions

• Why are you here today? (A simple question that can invite all kinds of funny, witty answers.)
• If you were an animal, what would you be and why?
• If you were a cartoon, which one would you prefer being?
• What is the weirdest thing you have ever eaten?
• What's the worst thing you did as a kid?
• What do you do to have fun?
• Have you been told, you look like someone famous? (This question looks simple but some really funny answers can come up!)
• What is that one thing which makes you different?
• If you were the Miss World, what would your message for aspiring models be?
• If you were to name one piece of clothing that describes you, what would you say?
• If you could eliminate one thing from your daily schedule, what would it be and why?
• If you wake up as (name any famous personality), what's the first thing you would do?
• Name one funny trait you have, that you would like others to know.
• Which letter of the alphabet describes you best? (Interesting, isn't it?)
• If you turn into your partner for a day, what would you do?
• What's the funniest pick up line used on you?
• Share one truth and one lie about your personality and let the others guess which is what.
• If you were to write a book about yourself, what would you name it?
• Which body part would you choose to get a tattoo done?
• If you were to get a permanent tattoo done, what would it be and where?
• Name one thing that's impossible to do for everyone present here.
• Tea or coffee? Earth or Mars? Crayon or paintbrush? Candy or ice cream? Famous Five or Secret Seven? (You can add as many pairs as you can think of and make it a rapid-fire kind of an icebreaker questionnaire.)
• Tell us something you hate doing. Why?
• What's your pet peeve?
• Have you even been in jail?
• Were you ever drunk?
• Name one thing that drives you crazy.
• What's the one thing, you can't live without?
• As a child, what did you wish to become when you grew up? (A good conversation starter indeed!)
• What's your motto in life? (Now this one's an icebreaker question to get to know someone.)
• Share a funny incident in your life.
• If you could have an unlimited storage of one thing, what would it be?
• What's the funniest prank ever played on you?
• What's the naughtiest thing you have done in school?
• If given a chance, who would you like to be for a day? Or who would you like to exchange roles with?
• What's the funniest daily horoscope you have read?
• What's the silliest thing you have heard people say about you?
• Share one funniest, one silliest and one wackiest status you have put up on a social networking site.
• Would you rather be a giant rodent or a tiny elephant? (Here are some more would you rather questions you may choose from.)
• Ask everyone in the group to share a joke. Sounds cliche, but is great fun!
• Ask each of the participants to make a funny face and teach the others how to make it. This one's the funniest of icebreakers, I assure you.
• Ask each one in the group to say "hello" to the others in a funny and different way.

Funny Icebreakers for Different Occasions
Here's a set of some icebreaker games to supplement your fun question session to break the ice. If you see people opening up after the funny-questions activity, you can add one of these games and let the actual event begin. One thing with using questions as icebreakers is that the outcome depends on the answers people give. Sometimes, the answers can get really boring or you may have some guests shying away from answering or not showing much interest. That's when icebreaker games come handy.

Here's one. Give each member of the group five pieces of paper. Ask each one in the group to announce something funny that he/she has done and put out one piece of paper. Ask the others who have done the same funny thing to also put out a piece of paper. Continue till at least one in the group is left without paper. I call this game, Who's as Funny.

Wink before the Cop Sees is another interesting icebreaker activity. Make chits of paper as many as the number of people participating. Write the word 'cop' on one of the chits and write 'criminal' on another. Keep the rest of the chits blank. Shuffle the chits and ask the participants to draw one each. The one with the chit labeled 'criminal' has to wink at the others without letting the cop know about it. On seeing the 'criminal' wink, the person withdraws from the game. This continues till either the criminal has winked at all except the cop or the cop has identified the criminal. Exciting, isn't it?

Here's another fun game to break the ice. Let's name it Sock on Sock! Have two volunteers remove one of their shoes, wear hand gloves and try to wear multiple pairs of socks one over the other. This activity is sure to create laughter. Button the Eye, is another icebreaker activity, inviting greater participation than the previous one. Place a huge drawing (of a person, animal or cartoon) on the floor and have each of the participants drop a pair of buttons in place of the picture's eyes.

This one's another icebreaker game. I don't think it can be played in a group of total strangers. Here's how it is played. Ask every participant to check out for objects in their own wallets or purses and point out something that reminds him/her of anything funny. Each participant picks one object from his purse or wallet, shows it to everyone else and shares a funny incident associated with that object.

Tell a 'Fun' Tale, is what you may call this game. It's for sure an icebreaker. Moreover, it needs everyone to take part. Get everyone to sit in a circle. One person starts a story. The person next to him extends the story and this continues as long as the story finds a funny end. Whoever created the funniest part of the story, wins a prize!

This makes for a good set of funny icebreaker activities. While organizing any of these, just make sure you maintain the decor of the event you are organizing them for. For example, slapstick humor won't suit a formal gathering. So also, a little-smile-here-and-there kind of humor won't energize a crowd of teenagers in for a party! Introducing people to one another is not the only utility of icebreakers. They are the means by which people learn to laugh together.