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1. Early Days
In what country, state and city were you born? What hospital?
What was the main source of the town's income?
Who was the most influential person to you as a child?
Did you have pets? What were their names? Were they usually strays? How did you acquire them?
What was your favorite game?
Did you have a nickname? How did you get it? Has it stuck with you?
What were you most afraid of as a child?
Do you recall any interesting stories related to you by any of your elder relatives that you have never forgotten and you think are worth telling to this audience?
Was there much music in your house or was it relatively quiet? What type of music?
Did you have a lawn? Have to mow it? Did you have gardens of flowers, vegetables or herbs? Did you help care for them?
What kind of chores were you required to do for the family?
Were you or your parents interested in the news? Which news stories made the greatest impression on you?
Which door did you use mostly? Front door, back door, kitchen door, side door? Was there usually someone there to greet you when you came home?
What was the street like where you lived? Did you have a front stoop or porch? Informal or formal?
Did you ever go door-to-door selling anything to your neighbors?
Did you ever want to run away? Why?
Did you have the pride of having a farm or business handed down from generation to generation?
If you lived on a farm, what was the week like? What was Sunday like?
How did friendships differ from rural life vs large city life (if you have experienced both)?
Did you ever dream of leaving your small town?
What did you raise on your farm? How large was it? How many acres? How many buildings? How did things change seasonally?
Who helped your family on your farm? Hired hands or neighbors?
What time did you get up in the morning? What were the sounds of the farm, fields, farmhouse, barns?
What animals did you witness giving birth? Were they vet-assisted, or did the family hold the vigil? What do you remember about your veterinarian?
Did you take your crops to market? Tell about the good and lean years.
What is your horoscope?
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Gemini
Cancer
Leo
Virgo
Libra
Scorpio
Sagittarius
Capricorn
Aquarius
Pisces
Was your neighborhood a good, safe place in which to take walks? Do you remember any incidences?
What were the names of neighborhood landmarks? The ice cream store? Drugstore? Barber shop? Grocery store? Flower shop? Shoe repair shop? What do you remember most vividly about them?
Did you go to camp? Did anyone from your neighborhood go with you? Do you remember any of the counselors or groups of kids? What did you do at camp?
Were you considered rich, poor, or middle class? Were times ever tough for all of you, or was it always smooth sailing? Did you have to go without things that your friends had?
What did you do to make your room your own? Did you sleep with a stuffed animal or doll? What was your animal or doll's name?
How did you celebrate each major holiday?
Where were the telephones in your home? Were you allowed to stay on the phone as long as you wanted or was there a time limit?
Who were your best friends in your neighborhood? Do you still know them or know what happened to them?
What is your first memory?
Have your pets been like family members, or just like animals? Did you ever have a dog that ran away? Try to list all the pets you've had through the years and their personalities.
Did your father have a favorite saying you can remember him repeating? Did your mother have a favorite saying you can remember her repeating?
What did you ever do that got you into trouble with your parents? At school? What were the punishments?
Who were your neighbors? Did the neighbors form a tight community? Did you ever have to help out in an emergency?
2. Education
What was the name of your school? How big was it? What did it look like? Was it a private or public school?
What was your favorite subject to study?
What was your favorite sport?
Is there a teacher that you remember having been particularly influential?
How would you describe yourself as a student, both socially and academically?
Did you have a teen idol? If so, who was it and how did they spark your interest?
If you went to college, where did you go? Why did you choose that school? How much was tuition? Was it difficult to afford? Did you receive financial assistance or a scholarship? A loan? Was your school large or small? What was it known for?
What are your most memorable college moments?
Who was your most memorable roommate?
Why did you decide to attend college?
What subject(s) did you study and why?
Did you get a degree? In what?
If you could do it again, would you take a different academic path, or are you satisfied with the route you followed?
What on-campus activities did you participate in?
What did you learn in school that you still use to this day?
Did you like physical education / gym class? Did you feel you were good at sports? Were you picked first or last for the teams?
What was your first grade teacher's name? Were you in awe of her? How about your second grade teacher or third grade teacher...or others?
Do you remember any field trips your class took? If you lived in the city, did you go to a farm, factory, big museum?
Do you remember the names of any school books? Do you remember the illustrations in them?
Were you in a scout troop or any other organization? Do you remember the leader? Any projects? Any impressions?
Who was the principal at your elementary school? Were you ever called to the principal's office? If so, why?
What was your attitude about school? Were you excited about it, bored or just tolerated it?
Do you remember kindergarten? What do you remember?
Did you have any friends who went with you all the way from elementary school through high school? Are they still your friends?
Did you have a favorite teacher?
Do you ever remember your mother coming to your school for any reason? What was the usual punishment at your school for wrongdoing?
Do you remember having to stand up in front of the class to read a paper or a story?
Can you remember a historic event that happened when you were in school?
Where did you go to high school? What was your mascot? What were your school colors? Do you remember any of the cheers? What was your favorite song during high school? What type of music was popular?
Who were your friends? What did you like about them?
What kind of extra-curricular activities did you do in high school? Were you on the school paper? A sports team? Were you a class officer? A cheerleader? A nerd? Were your friends involved in the same activities as you were?
Do you remember any students you felt sorry for because other students made fun of them or took advantage of them?
Were you a beatnik, hippie or rebel?
Did you have hobbies, read a lot, enjoy political debates, bands, or just hanging out with your friends? Did you have a part time job? Did you babysit? Did you do volunteer your time?
Where did your crowd hang out? Did you go to a diner, drugstore, library, friends' houses, etc.?
What were the clothing trends when you were in high school? Did you follow the trends?
Did you ever skip school? Where did you usually go after school? Did you do homework after school? Did you work in high school? Did you ever get disciplined in high school?
How did you usually spend your weekends? Did you do chores around the house? Did you spend more time at one friend's house than anybody else's? At whose house did people gather? How did their parents like having all the kids around?
Were you philosophical - a deep thinker?
Have you ever attended a high school reunion? What truths did you learn about your classmates, if you attended? What truths about your community that you might not have thought about before?
How important were your high school years in your life? Do you ever dream about those years? If you could have one conversation now with yourself when you were a high school student, what would you say?
Is there anything you would like to add about your high school years? Perhaps the best day of your high school years?
What was your living situation? Did you live in a dorm or a room off campus? Who was your roommate? Did you get along? How did you decorate your place? Were you comfortable there?
What was your major? Why did you pick it? Were you ever able to use anything you learned in college in real life? Did you change colleges or majors partway through? Why?
When you first got to college, were you thrilled to be away from home? If you were homesick, what did you do about it? Write letters? Cry? Confide in someone? Or try to hide your feelings? If you were thrilled to be at college, were you quick at making friends? Who was your first friend there? Did you remain close through the years?
Were you on any sports teams? If not, did you follow them? Were any of your teams champions or near-champs?
Did you remain friendly with anyone you met at college? Did you visit each other over the years? Did you keep in touch by letter before affordable long distance and e-mail?
Did you have a number of casual love interests or one special person throughout college? How did this experience change you?
Were you involved in campus politics? What issues "impassioned" you? Did you protest? How did you feel about politics during your college years?
Did you have a part-time job while you were in school? If yes, what did you do? If no, why not?
Did your friends back home who didn't go to college treat you differently when you came home for holidays or the summer? How did it make you feel?
Is there anything else you would like to add about your college years? Any advice you would like to give to someone just starting out?
3. Career
What is, or was, your occupation?
What was your first real job? Did you start out in an after-school job that had any relation to what you ended up doing?
In addition to being paid money, how else has your career created value in your life?
Who was the biggest influence in your career?
What would be your ideal job?
Did you get along with your co-workers and bosses? Did you sense anger and frustration at your work place? Was there a feeling of teamwork?
Were you ever the boss? Would you have wanted to be? Did you ever run your own business? How did it start?
What was a "power lunch" in your day? What kind of meal was it - three martinis or the blue-plate special?
Did you have a secretary? Were you very dependent on the secretary or administrative assistant?
What was your boss like? Was he or she a frightening person or a benevolent person?
How did you feel on Mondays? How did you feel on Fridays? Were you dead tired at the end of the day? Mentally or physically? Or spiritually? Or did you often not want the day to end?
How did you feel on Mondays? How did you feel on Fridays? Were you dead tired at the end of the day? Mentally or physically? Or spiritually? Or did you often not want the day to end?
Did you look forward to retirement? Did they throw a party for you at work? Did they give you a gift? What was it? Is there anyone still there whom you miss?
Did you ever ride through rocky times at your workplace? Was your company sold or taken over?
Did you feel that you had a career, or just a job?
What is your greatest accomplishment at work?
Did you ride mass transit to work? Did you see the same people every day?
Was there a place you went to lunch a lot at work? Was it close by? Was there one person you went to lunch with more than others? Did you often go alone?
Did you ever socialize with your boss? Did he take you out for lunch or drinks?
Do you think you were paid fairly at jobs throughout your life?
Were you ever fired or laid off? How did you cope with that?
Were you promoted? Did it come unexpectedly, or did you let it be known you wanted the job? Who told you? How did you feel and react when you heard the news?
Were you ever passed over for a position you thought you deserved? Why?
Did you ever have to deal with a strike at your place of business? Did you walk the picket line? Did you have to cross it? How did that affect things about the job?
Did you define yourself by your job? Were you proud when people asked you what you did, or would you rather have been able to say something else?
Is there a business person you particularly admire? Why?
4. Family/Personal/Romance
Do you live in the suburbs, a city, a town, or in a rural area? What is the population? Do you live in an apartment, a house, a condominium, or a retirement home?
How would you describe yourself?
What is your goal as a parent?
What does the word “family” mean to you?
Do you speak any foreign languages?
Any Famous quotes you live by?
What types of food were generally considered for dinner time? Have you raised your family with the same types of foods?
Is there anything else that you would like to share about your family?
Do you remember your first kiss?
What kind of dating did you do in high school? What is your favorite kind of date - even now?
Were you always attracted to the same type of person? Did you like the strong, silent type, the bouncy blonde?
Who was your first love? Did you think it was going to last? Who broke whose heart?
Do you believe you can be in love more than once?
What song do you consider the most romantic?
Did you date much before your chose a partner?
What was your last relationship like? Were you unhappy when it ended?What did you learn in that relationship?
Everybody has bad habits -- what drives you craziest about your mate?
Did you ever have an unrequited love?
Have you gone ahead and chosen a mate just because they loved you first?
Is there a fragrance/perfume/cologne that always brings to mind someone special (or not so special) when you smell it?
When you are not in a relationship, are you happy to be alone?
Did you have an engagement ring? What does/did your wedding ring look like? Would you trade it for a bigger, shinier one? Do you wear both rings? Are they inscribed inside?
5. Business Background
Why did you start the business and what motivated you?
What / who motivated you to start the business? Who gave you the ideas?
Did you face any challenges in mobilizing your capital? what were the financial requirements and how did you mobilize funds?
Was there any problems in getting employees to work with you? Their skills and qualifications?
Did you have any business background before starting up?
What were the major challenges that you faced in the process of starting up your business?
Characteristic of an Entrepreneur
Marital status? (Married/single)
Are you a member of any entrepreneurs/SME union or any other networking organization for business people?
What characteristics you possess that you consider to have contributed to your business success?
Which products and services do you offer?
Who are you major customers and competitors?
How is the industry today and its market trends?
Challenges And Future Plans
Which business challenges are you facing and which business problems solving strategies have/are putting in place?
What are you’re future plans in relation to this business?
How can you rate your business in terms of quantity of products sold and quality of services offered/quality of employees?
What are you major financial resources for business?
Who comprises the management board of your business and which practices does the board put in place to ensure success of business?
What do you consider to the strengths of your business in terms of fairing in the market? (do you have any other competitive advantages
6. Age Specific Questions
Where were you and how did you react to…
The first black president?
7. Military / National Service
Name, rank, and serial number?
How quickly did you move up through the ranks? Who was the first officer you admired?
What was the name of your company? Did it have a nickname? Where were you stationed? Describe what it was like.
What entertainers did you see perform? Which of your buddies did you sit with when you saw the program? What songs do you remember hearing during the war? Which song most says "war years" to you?
What did your uniform look like? Did wearing it change your attitude?
Where did you go through basic training? Were you with any of your hometown buddies? How tough was it? Which part did you excel in, in which part did you lag behind? Who was the officer in charge?
Describe your barracks - from basic training on up. Who were your bunkmates? Were you close with any of them?
Was Military / National Service food as bad as it's rumored to be, or was it okay? What were some of your typical meals?
Who were your best buddies? Are you still in touch with any of them?
Who took you to the train when you were to report for duty? Was it a teary farewell? What was the date of your swearing in? What was the date of your discharge?
When you get together with buddies to tell war stories, what stories do you tell?
What was the biggest act of courage you saw? By an ally? By an enemy? What did it add to your life?
When you think of your years in the service, what landscape describes it? Mountains? Sand? Jungle?
What route did you take in your homecoming? Who was waiting to meet you?
Can you remember what your parents first said to you?
Did you believe in what you were fighting for? When you look back on your own years in the service, are your personal memories predominantly good or bad ones?
What did you think about people who protested against the war?
How difficult was the transition from the military back to civilian life?
Are you a member of a veterans' organization? Are you active in it? What does it add to your life?
Is there anything else you would like to add about your military career? Any advice you would like to give to someone considering a career in the military?
8. General
Are you allergic to anything? What is your blood type?
What is your most memorable travel experience?
What accomplishment are you most proud of?
How do you think people will remember you?
If you could possess one super-human power, what would it be?
What is your greatest fear?
What is your favourite destination?
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