Best Friend Quiz Questions and Answers (With Scoring)

A best friend quiz only works if there's a real answer key. Without one, "close enough" turns into an argument five questions in. WhatsQuiz builds quizzes straight from a group's actual WhatsApp chat export — reading real messages and turning them into questions with provable answers — and that same discipline (collect the truth first, then quiz) makes a manual version work too. Below: 35 questions across five tiers, a scoring system, and how to handle ties.

How do you collect the answer key without spoiling the surprise?

Get the answer key before anyone sees the questions. Two ways to do it cleanly:

• Send a private form. Message the friend the 35 questions as a private list and have them fill in answers before the quiz night, with a "don't share this" instruction.
• Write it down live, sealed. If it's a surprise element of a birthday, have them answer on paper an hour before guests arrive, then seal it in an envelope for the reveal.

Either way, the golden rule is the same: whoever the quiz is about answers first and alone. Everyone else is being scored against that document, not against each other's opinions.

The 35 questions

Warm-up (7)

1. What's their middle name?
2. What month is their birthday?
3. What's their coffee or tea order?
4. What was their childhood nickname?
5. What's their go-to karaoke song?
6. What's their shoe size?
7. What was the name of their first pet?

Habits and preferences (7)

8. What TV show do they rewatch when stressed?
9. What's the app they open first every morning?
10. What's their most-used emoji?
11. What's their weirdest food combination?
12. What time do they actually get up on a weekday?
13. What's their standard order at the pub?
14. What's the one chore they'll never complain about?

History (7)

15. What was their first job?
16. Who was their first serious partner?
17. What subject did they secretly enjoy at school?
18. What was the first concert they went to?
19. What car did they learn to drive in?
20. What's the longest they've kept the same haircut?
21. Which country outside their own have they visited most?

Opinions (7)

22. What's the movie they think is overrated?
23. What's their most unpopular opinion at work?
24. Who's the friend they'd call at 3am — and it's not you?
25. What's the food they claim to love but privately don't?
26. Which family member do they secretly agree with most?
27. What's the compliment they never tire of hearing?
28. What's the app they check most often and won't admit to?

The reveal tier (7)

29. What are they insecure about that they don't talk about?
30. What's the last thing that made them properly cry?
31. Who owes them money right now?
32. What's a goal they've had for years and told almost no one?
33. What's the argument between you they still think they won?
34. What's the moment they'd say made your friendship "real"?
35. What's the one thing about them that most people get completely wrong?

How do you score it fairly?

One point per correct answer, judged by the answer key holder only — not by group consensus. Then translate the raw score into a band, because a percentage reads like an exam and a band reads like a verdict.

Score out of 35	Verdict
Under 17	Acquaintance who oversold the friendship.
18-24	Solid friend, not best friend.
25-30	Genuine best friend.
31-34	You've been paying attention for years.
35	Suspiciously perfect — check they didn't see the sheet.

Two scoring rules keep it fun instead of tense: no points deducted for wrong guesses, and the answer key holder reads their own answer aloud before revealing whether the guess was right. The gap between guess and truth is what the room actually enjoys.

How do you break a tie?

Hold back three questions from the reveal tier and don't use them in the main round. If two guests finish level, read those three cold as sudden-death — whoever gets more wins outright. Reveal-tier questions separate real closeness from good general knowledge, so they make a fairer tie-break than another round of easy facts.

If you're still tied after that, give it to whoever's known the friend longest. Seniority is a legitimate tie-break in a friendship quiz, even if it's not a very satisfying one.

What if the group keeps arguing about "close enough" answers?

Set the rule before the quiz starts, not during it: the answer key holder's judgement is final, full stop. Most disputes come from an over-precise question ("what's their favourite film" invites debate about first vs current favourite) — write "as of right now" or "of all time" into the question itself so there's less room to argue later.

Want a version built from real evidence instead of guesswork?

If you and your best friend share a WhatsApp group chat, upload the export to WhatsQuiz instead of writing your own answer key by hand. It reads the actual messages and generates questions — and answers — pulled from things that were genuinely said, which settles "close enough" disputes automatically because the proof is right there in the chat.

For more question sets and formats, see the best friend quiz questions and answer key with 55 questions or the two-way version where both friends answer.

What should I read next?

• 55 best friend quiz questions, trivia and answer key — a bigger set with a built-in trivia round.
• How well do you know me — questions for best friends — the tiered, catch-up-focused version.
• Hard 'how well do you know me' questions — for when the easy round finishes too fast.