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Which San Diego restaurant was better than anticipated?

What do you think is the biggest problem with today’s society?

What’s not as great as everybody seems to think?

What would be the title of your autobiography?

What company will you never support again?

Who is the least likable character in all of TV and film?

Where's the best place to go swimming?

What is a product that is complete garbage yet lots of people love?

What part of San Diego infrastructure needs improvement the most?

What did you get in trouble for in school?

What’s a generally unloved product that you still adore?

What are some good things to do by yourself in San Diego?

What is the most underrated tourist attraction in San Diego?

What is something that you cannot believe is socially acceptable?

Would you support the legalization of marijuana if it was taxed and distributed like alcohol?

What are we doing today that will make people of the future think we’re idiots?

What’s the most mind-blowing true fact you know?

What was your favorite new song of 2013?

What’s the most comforting thought you dwell on?

Where should you go and what should you order if you’re looking for the best burrito in San Diego?

What’s a simple gesture others do that you really appreciate?

You wake up to discover you’re the last person on Earth. What’s the first thing you do?

If you were given $1 billion to spend improving San Diego, what would you do?

What’s one thing schools don’t teach but should?

What is your most strongly held belief or opinion?

What fad of the past would you like to see return?

What parts of town do you avoid? Why?

What do you miss most from the “olden days” of San Diego?

What did you learn from your biggest mistake?

To what seemingly socially acceptable thing do you have a fundamental objection?

If you were given $10,000 to start your own business and follow your dream, what would you do?

What is your New Year’s resolution that you’re going to follow through on for real this time?

What do you recognize as your own biggest hypocrisy?

If you could change one law, what would it be?

What is the best plot for a movie you can come up with?

What's the next big tech innovation you’re most looking forward to in the next 20 years?

You wake up to discover you’re the last person on Earth. What's the first thing you do?

When is the exact moment you realized that you’re an adult?

Now’s your chance to brag! What are you most proud of?

Write your obituary.

If you could get one skill uploaded to your brain ‘Matrix’ style, what would it be?

What fictional death affected you the most?

If money were no object, what would you devote your life to?

What are you completely and irrationally afraid of?

What is the stupidest thing you’ve ever been in trouble for?

In which fictional universe would you most like to live?

Zombie apocalypse breaks out in San Diego! What’s the plan?

You lose both your hands in a tragic accident, what tools do you get permanently attached in their place?

A friend is visiting from out of town, you only have time for one place to visit. Where would you go and why?

Honestly, what would you do if you found $1,000,000 in a bag... in nickels?

If you could choose one B-grade superpower, what would it be?

If a battle royale suddenly broke out right here and now, which historical figure would you want on your side?

What Boils Your Blood Most?

What is the most useless, yet interesting, fact you've always remembered?

What have you always wanted to see yourself saying in a magazine?

If an alien appears and offers to whisk you off forever to explore all of time and space, what would you do?

What's your best move?

What is the worst way a friend has ever wronged you?

Boom! You're back in 1980 totally as-is. What's the first thing you do?

What's the strangest thing you've ever woken up to?

What's the Last Thing You Quit?

Are you saving up for anything?

What's been the major turning point in your life?

What's your definition of alcoholism?

Is there life after death?

What drives you nuts about the people you live with?

Which would you rather give up for a year: your cell phone or your car?

Have you ever had to call 911?

If you are what you eat, what are you?

Books or e-reader?

Most embarrasing moment?

When's the last time you were really scared?

Do you have goals?

Do you go to farmers' markets?

Is San Diego Truly America's Finest City?

What killed the dinosaurs?

What makes you nervous?

What's your porn name?
(The name of your first pet with the street you grew up on.)

What's the biggest issue in America today?

Have a joke?

Do you have a song stuck in your head?

Would you want to know if you're being cheated on?

What's the sickest you've been?

Where's the farthest place you've traveled to?

Majority rule or minority rights?

What's the greatest invention of your lifetime?

What's your dream?

Name your worst habit.

What are you a slave to?

What's your favorite weekend getaway?

What's your favorite item in your wardrobe?

What do you deny yourself?

What word do you want eliminated from the English language?

How old were you when you had your first drink?

What have your children taught you?

What was your top moment of 2010?

What's your take on the Tea Party?

Is life fair?

Top three free things to do in San Diego?

What do you wish you could afford?

What was your last fight with your significant other about?

Describe your ideal day.

Have you been affected by the economy?

A solar flare will destroy Earth in 24 hours. How do you spend the time?

Is there a word you use that others don't know the meaning to?

Meg Whitman, Jerry Brown, or Someone Else?

What's the one thing you run out of that sends you immediately to the grocery store?

What's the last thing you lied about?

Have you ever been fired?

How do you personally benefit through taxes?

Do you think marijuana should be legal in California?

What's the Meaning of Life?

What's the most important thing you do every day?

Have you ever fallen in love with a place?

Have you ever served on a jury?

Why don't you eat meat?

What do you want done with your body after you die?

What's your favorite sporting event?

What do you love to do?

When’s the last time somebody ticked you off?

What's the best party you've been to?

How green are you?

What family traits have you inherited?

Does profanity bother you?

What's your favorite day of the year?

Are you more focused on the past, present, or future?

Should the rich have to pay higher taxes to help the poor?

Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace?

What's the poorest you've ever been?

Do you like your name?

What would people be surprised to know about you?

What's the most reckless thing you've ever done?

What's the worst way to die?

Have you ever been robbed?

What are you afraid of?

What do you do to relax?

Which year would you go to if you could travel through time?

What keeps you up at night?

Where do you take out-of-town guests?

What's your most memorable meal?

Would you tell someone if they had bad breath or body odor?

Have you ever smuggled anything?

What would no one guess from looking at you?

What are you best at?

Anyone famous go to your high school?

Have you had a near-death experience?

What's your biggest regret?

What movie character do you most identify with?

Have you ever stolen anything?

What manners are missing in society?

What are you most proud of?

What's the most money you made selling something?

What's the worst law you've broken?

Has a woman ever asked you out?

How many songs do you know all the words to?

How would you prefer to die?

Do you have a family member you're disappointed in?

Have you ever pawned anything?

Have you exacted revenge on someone?

What was your first kiss like?

What would you sacrifice to be rich?

Have you ever happened upon a movie being filmed?

Have You Ever Broken Up a Fight?

Who have you been told you look like?

What's your favorite modern invention?

What's your favorite website?

How did you meet your spouse?

What do you wish adults understood about kids?

What's your guilty pleasure?

Did anyone ruin something they were supposed to fix?

What's your least favorite commercial?

What have you done that most people haven't?

What was your first pet?

Have you ever shot a gun?

Have you ever been on TV?

Has a stranger ever done anything nice for you?

What words do you always misspell?

How much money have you found?

What was your worst haircut?

What song best describes your life?

What's your favorite movie based on a book?

If you had paper and pencil, what would you draw right now?

Have you ever been stabbed by a pencil?

What's the best and worst thing about where you live?

Have you ever kept a New Year's resolution?

What famous person have you been told you look like?

What was the best year of your life?

What did you want to be when you grew up?

What's your favorite board game?

What's your most interesting holiday memory?

What phrase or saying do you hate?

What's the best/worst pickup line you've heard?

What are your thoughts on the election?

When was the last time you called your mom?

What have you done to make your car look cool?

What's your phobia?

Have you ever met anyone online?

Have you ever had a nickname?

Do you remember your first kiss?

Have you ever gotten a black eye?

What famous person have you been told you look like?

Were you ever humiliated by a teacher?

What advice would you give someone half your age?

Have you ever broken anything in someone's house?

Which actor would play you?

If you could have any question answered, what would it be?

What has been your worst outcome from oversleeping?

Who is your favorite superhero?

What's the biggest meal you ever had?

Have you ever given a gift anonymously?

What sound or song is your ring tone?

What's the ugliest thing in your wardrobe?

What was your favorite thing at the Fair?

What's the first concert you saw?

Have you ever been to a psychic?

What was something your parents lied to you about?

What's your comfort food?

What's your favorite kind of music?

What's the funniest outgoing message that you've heard on an answering machine?

What's your favorite drink?

Have you ever had a personality conflict with someone?

Have you ever been someplace you had no business being?

What do you think about politicians?

What has been your worst experience with the police?

What's the first movie you saw?

What famous person have you been told you look like?

Have you ever asked someone for their autograph?

What was the first joke you ever told?

When was the first time you got drunk?

Which fictional character would you most like to be?

Does the opposite sex have it easier?

Have you ever been in love?

How often do you lie?

What's the best way to get over a broken heart?

Before you die ...

How many tats?

What do you want to see more of, and less of, in 2008?

What was the happiest day of your life?

What's the worst gift you've ever received?

What's the best deal you ever got on a purchase?

What was your worst injury?

Have you ever won anything?

What was your first car?

Do you believe in aliens and UFOs?

When was your worst Thanksgiving?

What's in your purse or wallet?

If your house was going to burn down, what would you take?

How do you handle telemarketers?

What music groups or singers did you like as a kid?

What's your favorite day of the week?

What would you like it to say on your tombstone and in the obituary?

Do you own a gun?

What bugs freak you out?

When was the last time you were on a bus, and your worst experience?

What's your favorite thing to do on the weekend?

What's your all-time favorite commercial?

What's the most memorable sports event you've watched?

Have you had a horrible roommate?

What song do you dislike but can't get out of your head?

Which superhero would you like for a neighbor?

What's your worst experience from lending someone money?

Have you ever seen a ghost?

What's the longest amount of time you've stood in line for something?

Do you collect anything?

What famous person have people told you that you look like?

What event in history would you change?

What was your worst meal?

What would your dream car be?

What was your worst fight?

What's the dumbest thing you've ever done?

What would your dream vacation be?

Which era do you wish you were born in, if not now?

What law would you change and why?

Do you have any recurring dreams?

Have you ever met anyone famous?

What talent don't you have that you wish you did?

What was your scariest experience?

What movie have you walked out of?

What TV show would you like to be on?

What was your favorite childhood toy?

What's the craziest thing a boss ever told you?

What famous person do people say you look like?

What is your dream job?

Do you find facial hair attractive?

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