The Lightning Round

There are two types of people: Those who have been in The Lightning Round and those who pray their day in its cross hairs of judgement never comes.

Lightning Round Questions:
  1. What television character are you?
  2. What is your favorite holiday?
  3. What is your least favorite holiday?
  4. If you could travel in time to any time and place within the span of your life to change one thing, what would it be?
  5. If you could travel in time to any time and place within the span of your life as an observer, when would it be?
  6. If you could choose one superpower, what superpower would you choose to have?
  7. What superpower would you choose to give me?
  8. If I gave you superpowers, would you be a superhero or a super villain?
  9. Which is more disturbing: Finding out your spouse has a secret credit card or a secret storage unit?
  10. Would you give up your best talent to conquer your greatest fear?
  11. Which is worse: Having to settle or being someone who has to be settled for?
  12. If I gave you $10,000 and a free first-class airplane ticket to anywhere, where would you go? You can only spend the money on the trip.
  13. Would you rather die by doing a bad thing well or a good thing poorly.
  14. If you somehow knew the city you were ultimately going to die in but not know when you were going to die there, would you go there for a single night?
  15. If you could change two things about yourself (one of them becomes significantly better but another becomes significantly worse), what would they be?
  16. Which of these would you be more uneasy about: An arranged marriage or an arranged career?
  17. Would you rather be the royal who marries the peasant or the peasant who marries the royal?
  18. If you were in a band, what role would you play? What type of music would the band play? How successful would they be?
  19. Considering aliens, will we make first contact or will they make first contact?
  20. Which will come first: time travelers or aliens to earth?
  21. If you could give away 100 IQ points, how would you allocate them? Who would you give them to?
  22. What is the most glamorous and what is the least glamorous illicit drug use method?
  23. Would you rather be always totally anonymous or always recognized and watched?
  24. Which guarantee would you rather have: Never have to have surgery or never have to pay for lunch?
  25. Going forward do you want more regrets or less accomplishment?
  26. How do you want to die?
  27. What sport would you like to play professionally?
  28. What sport would you least like to be so good at that you would feel compelled to play professionally?
  29. Would you guess there are more tattoos or piercings in this bar right now?
  30. Do you believe everything happens for a reason?
  31. Is this the best year of your life?
  32. How much would it take for you to change your name?
  33. What is the most disturbing invertebrate?
  34. Tell me about something you love doing that you’re terrible at.
  35. Tell me about something you really do not like doing that you’re great at.
  36. What smell/flavor/sight best summarizes summer to you?
  37. For the next 30 minutes you can appear anywhere in the world.  You can’t take anything with you or bring anything back.  Where do you go?
  38. Which numbers are better, the odds or the evens?
  39. If you had to move out of the OKC greater metro area to live for at least 10 years, where would you go? You don’t get any adjustments to your life (standard of living or otherwise); you are just relocating at your own expense.
  40. What will be your biggest future regret?
  41. Why and in what ways do you seek the approval of others?
  42. Would you rather be 10% smarter, healthier, or more athletic?
  43. What is the most limiting factor in your life?
  44. Should you be taking more chances? Fewer?
  45. What makes you special?
  46. What was your “closest call”?
  47. What do you find to be magical?
  48. What is the most overrated vacation experience? Why?
  49. Thinking about vacations, would you choose one destination to take every vacation for the rest of your life or to always have to go to a different destination never returning to the same place?
  50. How much more do you expect to learn from here on out?
  51. Which is more appealing: 10,000 years of reincarnation without any connection between lives or 10,000 years of immortality?
  52. Are you urban, suburban, or rural? Why and in what way?
  53. Yes or no, which is better? Why?
  54. What is the strangest conversation you’ve ever eavesdropped on?
  55. Which is the bigger threat to humanity: Artificial super intelligence or stupid humans?
  56. What is your useless superpower–something you are very good at that has very little real-world applicability?
  57. You’re about to go on a 75-mile trip. You will go 50 mph for the first 50 miles and 25 mph for the last 25–a 2-hour trip. Which is the halfway point? 50 miles/1 hour traveled or 37.5 miles/45 minutes traveled?
  58. Would you rather be nominated for and lose a very prestigious award or win a mediocre award?
  59. What would you like to ban if you could?
  60. Would you rather know What or Why?
  61. Would you rather have perfect spelling and poor pronunciation or perfect pronunciation and poor spelling?
  62. What is the least amount of money that if you lost it, you’d still feel sick about it a week later?
  63. Which would you choose if you had to? Never to receive another compliment or complaint
  64. If you had to replace them with a permanent tool, what is your ideal right arm and left arm? 
  65. If you were to be sworn in, what book would you swear on?
  66. Would you rather be stronger than you look or look stronger than you are?
  67. Would you rather have arms that were 6 inches longer or 4 inches shorter than yours are now?
  68. Would you rather be undeservingly hated or deservingly feared?
  69. Spiders, ants, or flies; you must choose one to forever be a chronic problem in any house in which you live.
  70. Would you rather be basically impossible to get ahold of or constantly available?
  71. Do you make too many mistakes or do you play it too safe?
  72. In which way do you need more improvement: Working harder or working smarter?
  73. What place specific to you can you never go but would most want to?
  74. Which is the best vacation spot for you: Mountains or beach?
  75. Are you a bullet dodger or a bullet swallower?
  76. Which chore would you rather never have to do again: laundry or dishes?
  77. Which of these do you associate with more? ‘Nobody listens to me’ or ‘Everybody questions me’.
  78. Are you older or younger than you are perceived to be?
  79. Which form of inertia is more challenging for you personally, getting started or stopping/changing direction?
  80. In bed would you rather be 10% more satisfied or 10% more satisfying? How much more of the other would get you to switch?
  81. What is something one can own that you would never buy for yourself, but if given to you, you would never sell?
  82. Would you rather your spouse/romantic partner be 25% more attractive to you but 10% less attractive to all others or the same attractiveness to you while being 25% more attractive to others?
  83. Assume you were to win/earn/inherit $10 million but somehow keep the level of privacy you have today. How much more would it need to be to have virtually no public privacy–everywhere you go, you’re recognized, and your every move in life is in some way public?
  84. If you were going to take a vacation with friends where the length in days was equal to the number of friends you were traveling with, what would be the optimal friends equals days number?
  85. If you could choose, which would you prefer: To never have a problem when travelling by plane or to never be in a car wreck?
  86. Which would you prefer? A. You get 2 weeks of paid vacation and your coworkers get 1 week; or B. You get 4 weeks and your coworkers get 8.
  87. What game show did you dream about being on as a kid?
  88. Which would you rather be true of you? I’m hardly ever wrong, but when I am, I’m crazy wrong. <or> I’m almost never right, but when I am wrong, I’m just barely wrong.