40 Quiz Questions to Ask About Your Best Friend

The best quiz questions to ask about a best friend aren't "what's their favorite color" — they're the specific, verifiable, slightly unflattering details that only someone who actually pays attention would know. Below are 40 questions across five categories, from easy warm-ups to the ones that reveal real knowledge.

What makes a great "best friend" quiz question?

Three qualities:

• Verifiable. There's one right answer, and your friend knows it.
• Specific. "What band did they last see live" beats "what music do they like".
• Slightly personal. Not embarrassing, just detailed enough that a stranger would guess wrong.

Skip questions your friend couldn't confidently answer about themselves. If the answer is fuzzy, the quiz breaks.

The 40 questions

The basics (8) — warm-up round

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

Preferences and habits (8)

9. What's the meal they order 80% of the time at their favorite restaurant?
10. What TV show do they rewatch when they're stressed?
11. What's their weirdest food combination?
12. What's the app they open first thing in the morning?
13. What's the celebrity they'd be genuinely starstruck by?
14. What's their most-used emoji?
15. What was the last book they finished (not started)?
16. What time do they actually wake up on a weekday?

History and memory (8)

17. What was their first job?
18. Who was their first proper crush?
19. What was the name of their favorite teacher?
20. What subject did they secretly love in school?
21. What was the first concert they went to?
22. Which country outside their own have they visited most?
23. What's the longest they've kept the same haircut?
24. What was their first car — or what car do they wish they'd had?

Opinions and hot takes (8)

25. What food do they publicly claim to love but privately don't?
26. What's the movie they say is overrated?
27. Which of their family members do they secretly agree with most?
28. What's the one household chore they'll never complain about?
29. Who's the friend they'd call at 3am — and it's not you?
30. What's their most unpopular opinion at work?
31. Which app on their phone do they open the most?
32. What's the compliment they never get tired of hearing?

The reveal round (8) — where "best" is earned

33. What are they insecure about that they don't talk about?
34. What's the last thing that made them properly cry?
35. Who owes them money right now?
36. What's the goal they've had for years and haven't told anyone?
37. Which family member are they closest to — and which do they avoid?
38. What's the argument you've had that they still think they were right about?
39. What's the moment in your friendship they'd cite as when it became "real"?
40. What's the one thing about them that most people get wrong?

How to run it as a party game

Format that works every time for birthday parties or reunions:

1. Have the friend fill in their own answers on paper first (this is the answer key).
2. Give each guest a blank copy. 20 minutes to answer.
3. Score together, question by question, letting the friend read their answers out loud.
4. Highest score wins something small — a bottle, a book, bragging rights.

The scoring session is the entertainment. Watch for the answers that make the friend say "how did you know that" — those are the moments the room enjoys most.

Can I generate this from actual evidence?

Yes. If you and your best friend are in the same WhatsApp group chat, upload the export to WhatsQuiz. It pulls real, specific questions from the chat itself — the trip they suggested, the running joke you started, the argument from three summers ago — which land harder than generic questions because they're demonstrably true.

For adjacent formats, see how well do you know me — 60 stumping questions if you want the reverse angle (them quizzing you), or funny quiz questions for group chats if you want a broader group game.

The one rule

Don't ask questions you don't already know the answer to. A best-friend quiz is a proof, not a survey. If half the answers are news to you, you have a very charming friend and a slightly overstated title.