Getting to know you (2)

Here are 50 more getting to know you quetions. some of these amuse me greatly, try and guess which ones.

51. Do you have any specific long-term goals? What is one and how do you plan on reaching it?

52. For what in your life do you feel most grateful?

53. How do you react when people sing "Happy Birthday" to you in a restaurant?

54. What is the worst psychological torture you can imagine suffering? Anything causing even minor physical injury should not be considered.

55. Would you like your spouse to be both smarter and more attractive than you?

56. If you found that a good friend had AIDS, would you avoid him? What if your brother or sister had it?

57. Would you be willing to give up sex for one year if you knew it would give you a much deeper sense of peace than you have now?

58. A good friend pulls of a well-conceived practical joke that plays on one of your foibles and makes you look ridiculous. How would you react?*

59. By controlling medical research funds, you are in the position to guarantee that a cure will be found in 15 years for any disease you choose. Unfortunately, no progress on any others would be made during that period. Would you target one disease?

60. Would you add one year to your life if it meant taking one year from the life of someone in the world selected at random? Would it matter if you were told whose life you had shortened?

61. Can you urinate in front of another person?

62. If you walked out of your house one morning and saw a bird with a broken wing huddled in some nearby bushes, what would you do?

63. Assume there were a technological breakthrough that would allow people to travel as easily and cheaply between continents as between nearby cities. Unfortunately, there would also be 100,000 deaths a year from the device. Would you try to prevent its use?*

64. You and a person you love deeply are placed in separate rooms with a button next to each of you. You know that you will both be killed unless one of you presses your button before 60 minutes pass; furthermore, the first to press the button will save the other person, but will immediately be killed. What do you think you would do?

65. When you tell a story, do you often exaggerate or embellish it? If so, why?

66. Do you feel that advice from older people carries a special weigh because of their greater experience?*

67. Without your kidney as a transplant, someone close to you will die within one month. The odds that you will survive the operation are only 50 percent, but should you survive you would be certain of normal life expectancy. Would you consent to the operation?*

68. When has your life dramatically changed as the result of some seemingly random external influence? How much do you feel in control of the course of your life?*

69. If a friend were almost always late, would you resent it or simply allow for it? Can you be counted on to be on time?

70. When did you last yell at someone? Why? Did you later regret it?

71. Would you be willing to have horrible nightmares every night for a year if you would be rewarded with extraordinary wealth?*

72. If you could have free, unlimited service for five years from an extremely good cook, chauffeur, housekeeper, masseuse, or personal secretary, which would you choose?

73. Would you be willing to go to a slaughterhouse and kill a cow? Do you eat meat?

74. Would you enjoy spending a month of solitude in a beautiful natural settings? Food and shelter would be provided but you would not see another person.

75. After a medical examination, your doctor calls and gravely says you have a rare lymphatic cancer and only a few months to live. Five days later, she informs you that the lab tests were mislabeled; you are perfectly healthy. Forced for a moment to look death in the face, you have been allowed to turn and go on. During those difficult days you would certainly have gained some insights about yourself. Do you think they would be worth the pain?

76. One hot summer afternoon, while walking through a parking lot at a large shopping center, you notice a dog suffering badly from the heat inside a locked car. What would you do?

77. Do you feel ill at ease going alone to either dinner or a movie? What about going on a vacation by yourself?

78. If you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are now living?

79. For $20,000 would you go for three months without washing, brushing your teeth, or using deodorant? Assume you could not explain your reasons to anyone, and that there would be no long-term effect on your career.*

80. Would you rather die peacefully among friends at age 50, or painfull and alone at age 80? Assume that most of the last 30 years would be good ones.

81. If you were to discovere that your closest friend was a heroin dealer, what would you do?

82. Is it easy for you to accept help when you need it? Will you ask for help?

83. If you were helping to raise money for a charity and someone agreed to make a large contribution if you would perform at the upcoming fund-raising show, would you? If so, what would you like to perform? Assume the show would have an audience of about 1,000.

84. Would you have one of your fingers surgically removed if it somehow guaranteed immunity from all major diseases?

85. Would you like to be famous? In what way?

86. How do you picture your funeral? Is it important for you to have people mourn your death?

*87. Which of the following restrictions could you best tolerate: leaving the country permanently, or never leaving the state in which you now live?

88. You, your closest friend, and your father are on vacation together, hiking in a remote jungle. Your two companions stumble into a nest of poisonous vipers and are bitten repeatedly. You know that neither will live without an immediate shot of anti-venom, yet there is only a single dose of anti-venom and it is in your pocket. What would you do?

89. Where would you choose to be if you could place yourself anywhere on a scale from one to ten, where one is hardship, struggle, and extraordinary accomplishment and ten is comfort, peace of mind, and no accomplishment. Why? Where are you now?

90. If you could choose the sex and physical appearance of your soon-to-be-born child, would you do it?*

91. Would you rather play a game with someone more or less talented than you? Would it matter who was watching?

92. Is there something you've dreamed of doing for a long time? Why haven't you done it?*

93. While in the government, you discover the President is commiting extortion and other serious crimes. By exposing the situation you might bring about the President's downfall, but your career would be destroyed because you would be framed, fired, and publicly humiliated on other matters. Knowing you would vindicated five years later, would you blow the whistle? What if you knew you would never be vindicated?

94. On a busy street you are approached apologetically by a well-dressed stranger who asks you for a dollar to catch a bus and make a phone call. He says he has lost his wallet. What would you do? If approached in the same way by a haggard-looking stranger claiming to be hungry and unable to find a job, what would you do?

95. If by sacrificing your life you could contribute so much to the world that you would be honored in all nations, would you be willing to do so? If so, would you make the same sacrifice knowing that someone you thoroughly disliked would receive the honor while you went unrecognized?

96. Knowing you had a 50 percent chance of winning and would be paid 10 times the amount of your bet if you won, what fraction of what you now own would you be willing to wager?

97. What are your most compulsive habits? Do you regularly struggle to break these habits?

98. You know you will die of an incurable disease within three months. Would you allow yourself to be frozen within the week if you knew it would give you a modest chance of being revived in 1,000 years and living a greatly extended life?

99. You are driving late at night in a safe but deserted neighborhood when a dog suddenly darts in front of your car. Though you slam on the breaks, you hit the animal. Would you stop to see how injured the animal was? If you did so and found that the dog was dead but had a name tag, would you contact the owner?

100. What do you most strive for in your life: accomplishment, security, love, power, excitement, knowledge, or something else?