updated: august 23
Hello dear postcrossers,
This is probably the only page of my blog that is in english!
What is it ?
A list of questions.
You can pick some of them (please write the number on the postcard) and choose to answer them in your message on the postcard.
You can also ask me questions (just put the numbers on the postcard and I'll reply in the thank you message).
Of course, this is totally optional, you are absolutely free to decide what to write :)
I suggest :
- no more than 3 questions on both sides.
I would like to thank the postcrosser who gave me this idea, I can't remember who was this person unfortunately, it was some years ago, this was a person from Germany I think.
Here are 201 questions, you can choose to answer 3 of them and ask me 3 of them too.
This game is only open to persons who are about to send me a postcard through official postcrossing (picking questions, asking me questions). Please note that I answer to questions once I've received your postcard. Thank you.
This game is only open to persons who are about to send me a postcard through official postcrossing (picking questions, asking me questions). Please note that I answer to questions once I've received your postcard. Thank you.
And of course, your answers and mine are strictly private.
If there is enough answers, I will do a little stat about the most frequently chosen questions, but no answer will be disclosed here.
New! Want to add a bit of surprise? Then go on random.org and let the hazard choosing 3 questions between 1 and 201 to whom you are going to answer.
Ok, let's start.
Please always add the number of the question(s) you are answering or asking, thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen (and everybody in between), the list :
1 - Do you take note of your dreams? [the dreams you have while you're sleeping] [4]
2- In how many countries have you lived in? [12]
3 - Do you have or did you have an unusual pet? Which one? (this count for one question!) [9]
4 - Title of the book(s) you're reading now? [12]
5 - A french writer you like? [11]
6 - Your prefered writer from your country? [6]
7 - Your prefered singer/band from your country? [6]
8 - Name one of your hobbies (apart from postcrossing) [11]
9 - What are you good at? [2]
10 - Name 3 recipes you like and cook often [6]
11 - Name a place I should not see in your country, and why? [4]
12 - I'm on travel, I'm in the capital of your country. I'm very hungry. Where exactly should I go? [6]
13 - I'm on travel in your country. I want to see something unique in a remote area. Where exactly should I go, and why? [3]
14 - Name something I should avoid to do in your country, something that strangers often do and shouldn't for example. You know, that thing that gets on your nerves about tourists ;) [4]
15 - Have you ever been to my country? What did you like? [14]
16 - Have you ever been to my country? What did you dislike? [4]
17 - Can you draw a horse? [4]
18 - Bike or car? [6]
19 - Plane or train? [5]
20 - By foot or by public transportation? [3]
21 - Name of your first pet? [6]
22 - At what age did you start learning english (or another language, for anglophones esp.)? For how many years? [5]
23 - How many languages can you talk? [8]
24 -Do you have a garden? [5]
25 - Do you grow vegetables? [6]
26 - Name a mountain you have climbed till the top? [2]
27 - Name something you have learned today (or recently) [1]
28 - Name something you have learned today or recently through postcrossing [4
29 - In a paper, what is your favourite section? And why?
30 - Name a paper you read quite often (it can be a daily paper, or a monthly revue, etc.) [1]
31 - Prefered stamp issued in your country this year so far? [2]
32 - Prefered historic period in your country? [1]
33 - If you eat animals, which one do you prefer? [4]
34 - Have you ever done a dna test (to learn more about your ancestors, your ethnicity)? [2]
35 - Do you still have a toy that belonged to you when you were a kid? Or do you remember the name of a toy that belonged to you? (name of a doll, ...) [5]
36 - At what did you played when you were a kid? Prefered game or hobby? [3]
37 - In an egg, you prefer the white or the yolk? (not only because of the taste, but also because of the possibilities it gives to cook). [3]
38 - Have you stopped eating something? [2]
39 - What was the last charity you gave to? [5]
40 - Where do you usually buy your postcards? [5]
41 - Do you know your postman? Or at least, know her/his face? [6]
42 - Are you happy with the post of your country? [2]
43 - Do you prefer to send or to receive a postcard? [3]
44 - How far is the nearest post office from your home? [4]
45 - What is the nearest shop from your home? [2]
46 - What is the last exhibition you have visited? Or the last museum? [4]
47- What is the last concert you have seen? [5]
48 - What is the last thing you have bought? [2]
49 - What is the last thing someone has offered you ?[1]
50 - What is the last thing you have offered to someone? [1]
51 - Do you prefer to give or to receive? [1]
52 - If you're not a teacher : would you like teaching? For example teaching something you're good at? (occasionnaly) [1]
53 - Ask me a question,
54 - Ask me to ask you a question,
55 - Describe a perfect day [1]
56 - Name a magic creature from your country and tell me a bit about it. [1]
57 - What is your prefered fictional character and why? [2]
58 - What is your prefered season? [7]
59 - What is the invention that impacted your daily life the most? [1]
60 - What is your favourite material? [1]
61 - At school, what is/was your favourite subject? And your least favourite? [1]
62 - Do you have plants at home? [2]
63 - Do you keep everything or you throw away a lot of things? [1]
64 - Do you write your postcards outside your home sometimes? In a park, a cafe, at work, in a bus, a train, a library, ...? [5]
65 - How many blank postcards (ready to use) do you have in stock? [9]
66 - Do you remember a postcard you sent to someone when you were a kid (text or picture)?
67 - Have you ever seen an old postcard sent years and years ago in your family? Maybe before your own birth? [1]
68 - Do you collect something, and what? [3]
69 - Do you feel like an onion, with several layers? (like me!) [1]
70 -Who is the person who influenced you the most (around you, or a well-known person, ...)? [2]
71 - What is you favourite dessert? [2]
72 - What is your favourite cake? [4]
73 - What is your favourite dessert after a big meal? [1]
74 - What do you take for breakfast? [3]
75 - What is your favourite drink? [2]
76 - Do you like to wake up early or are you a night owl? [2]
77- Do you write with your right hand or your left hand (or both)? [3]
78 - Do you find it hard to find the perfect postcard for everybody or it's a game you like to play? [1]
79 - Have you already invited friends to join Postcrossing? [1]
80 - Does your post office released a postcrossing stamp? [2]
81 - Coffee or tea? Or chocolate, or...? [6]
82 - Beer or wine? or water? [5]
83 - Apple or pear? or mangoe, or ? [1]
84 - Have you ever done bread at home? [1]
85 - Prefered website?
86 - If you had to choose a cause to support (or if you have already chosen it), what is it? [3]
87 - Is there a system in your country where you can sort and throw apart paper, clothes, bottles, electronic items, dangerous products, etc.... so that it can be used again or recycled, or deleted in a safe way ? [2]
88 - Do you easily give (or sell) what you don't need anymore ? (books, clothes, objects, ...) [4]
89 - Do you think it's important to possess a lot of things, or it's better to use them for a while and to share it with others (renting, giving, exchanging, ...)?
90 - Describe your country in 3 words [1]
91 - In your country, is it frequent that people live in large families (with grand-parents, or even aunts and uncles, ...) or it's small families (parents and kids)? [2]
92 - Do you know how many kids there is in each family in your country (average)? [1]
93 - What are the national emblems of your country (motto, plant, animal, ...) [1]
94 - Could you write a line or two about the national hymn in your country (in your language)? [3]
95 - What is the motto of your city? [4]
96 -Name an important person from your city (or town, or village), past or present, and tell me a bit about him/her? [1]
97 - Is there a Post museum in your country? And where is it? [3]
98 - Is there a museum dedicated to postcards in your country? And where is it?
99 - What is your prefered comic character? [1]
100 - Is there a wild animal you are interested in and which you know quite well (having read about it, seen documentaries, and so on)? [3]
101 - Are you a person with multiple centers of interest or a more focused person?
102 - What is your zodiac sign? And your ascendant? Do you believe in this, or you think it's superstition ? Or maybe just funny to look at, even if you don't really believe in it? [3]
103 - Is there another system of zodiac in your country? What is it? [1]
104 - What is your prefered social network, if any?
105 -What is your favourite style of music ? (name 3 artists or bands in this style if you want) [1]
106 - What is your favourite style for painting? (name 3 artists in this style if you want)
107 - Name 3 places I should see in your country. [5]
108 - On a desert island, name 3 objects you would bring with you (no electricity, but fresh water and food available)? [1]
109 - If you had to stay 7 days in your home, without going out (even in the garden), but in good health, what would you do during those 7 days? [1]
110 - Have you ever wrote a book? A short story? [4]
111 - Do you have a blog? [1]
112 - When you buy something new, do you begin to read the manual (instructions for use) or you try by yourself to use it immediately?
113 - Can you change the
114 - Have you ever swim in a river? [3]
115 - Have you ever been fishing? [2]
116 - Have you ever killed an animal yourself to eat it? [1]
117 - What is your opinion about false flowers? (please, allow me some silly questions) [4]
118 - What is your opinion about fashion?
119 - What is your opinion about plastic surgery? [1]
120 - Name a tradition from your country.
121 - Give me a recipe of something you like [1]
122 - Name your prefered perfume (if any). Or one of them. [2]
123 - What is your dream job? [2]
124 - If you were about to open a shop, what sort of shop would it be? (including bars, restaurants, cafes) [5]
125 - In which country would you like to live, except yours? (Think about living there for a long time, not only for holidays). [1]
126 - If you decided to write a book, which sort of book would it be?
127 - How many seasons are there in your country? [1]
128 - What did you learn from your grannie? [1]
129 - What did you learn from your father?
130 - What makes you proud about your country? [2]
131 - What makes you angry about your country? [1]
132 - Can you learn me 3 words in your language ?
133 - How long are the holidays for pupils in your country (all holidays)? [1]
134 - And for working people? [1]
135 - What do most people value in your country? [1]
136 - How far is the sea from your home? [4]
137 - How far is the nearest river from your home? [4]
138 - How far is the nearest mountain from your home?
139 - If you find a little snail in your vegetables (not vegetables from your garden but the ones you have bought and brought back home) what will you do with it ? [1]
140 - What most people in your country would not eat, but that is eaten in other countries or continents?
141 - When you go shopping, do you decide by advance what you are going to buy? And if so, do you come back home with what you have decided to buy most of the time, or something totally different?
142 - Have you ever learned with a MOOC? (massive open online course) [1]
143 - Choose any question in the Proust questionnaire
february 2020 new questions added:
144 - What is your best - or one of your best - experience with postcrossing?
145 - And your worst (if any)? [1]
146 - Give me the name of an ingredient that is often used in the cuisine of your country
147 - If you had to choose to visit 5 countries, which ones would it be? [3]
148 - Which area in your country is your favourite, and why? [2]
149 - What would you change on postcrossing, if you had the choice?
150 - Can you learn me a typical expression in your language (+ literal translation in english + meaning if possible)? [2]
151 -What was the first concert you saw?
152 - Is there a mythical animal known in your country and that appears in legends, etc? [3]
153 - What is the biggest native wild animal from your country? (terrestrial)
154 - And have you seen it for real?
155 - Name a fictional character from your country (legends, literature, cinema, etc.) [1]
156 - Name a poet from your country [1]
157 - Name a scientist from your country [1]
158 - When did women had the right to vote in your country?
159 - Lost on a desert island, you have the choice to eat: a raw worm, a raw mammal (unknown or any specie) or a raw bIrd, which one would you choose?
160 - Name a traditional dance from your country
161 - How long have you lived in the place you were born?
162 - Do you know who choose your name? [1]
163 -What can you create with your own hands? [1]
164 - Name some of the differences that exist between the south and the north of your country
165 - Same for the east and the west
166 - what is the foreign country that most people in your country feel close to (because of history, or language, or any other reason)? [2]
167 - How did you discovered Postcrossing?
168 - Do you have a special organisation to do postcrossing: for example a special notebook, or a spreadsheet on your computer, etc.?
169 - Does mailboxes in your country have a special - and mandatory - size ? (mailbox to receive your mail, at home)
170 - Name a cake from your country and what it's made of [1]
july 2021 : some more questions added
171 - prefered museum from your country (and of course, always tell me why) [1]
172 - prefered film from your country [1]
173 - name of an aromatic herb often used in your country for cooking [1]
174 - when you were a kid, how did you went to school (bus, bike, foot, car, flying carpet, ...)?
175 - nowadays, do you take sometimes a bike to go to the market, or to see a friend, or for an appointment, or to go to work ? [1]
176 - prefered comic from your country?
177 - name a song from your country [3]
178 - if there is a legend involving a snail in your country, could you please tell it to me.
179 - do you have a favourite musical instrument ? [2]
180 - have you ever tried calligraphy as a hobby? [1]
181 - would you prefer a garden with flowers, a garden with trees and shrubs or a garden with vegetables (one choice)? [2]
182 - 3 words in your language with an A, an M and a B, with a translation in english
183 - which big city have you visited the most during your life ?[1]
184 - and which part of your country have you visited the most for holidays? [1]
185 - have you ever lived on an island? [2]
186 - if you could built a house to live in (or have it builted) without any restrictions of all sorts, how would it look like?
187 - same for a garden
188 - what would you not regret in your current life if this disappeared?
189 - if you had the possibility to live elsewhere in your own country, which place would you choose?
190 - which vegetable have you ever successfully planted or seeded?
191 - do you read more books from your own country or from foreign countries, or from a specific country? (and, as always, why?)
192 - if you are invited to a dinner at friend's home, what do you generally bring them as a gift, or to contribute to the meal?
193 - can you remember a book from your childhood that was important to you? [4]
194 - do you remember the first record you bought? [1]
195 - do you have or did you have penfriends from abroad?
196 - do you remember your first travel outside your own country? [2]
197 - do you remember a TV show you used to like as a kid or as a teenager?
198 - what was the first film you ever saw in a cinema? [1]
199 - have you ever adopted a pet in a shelter? [1]
200 - is there something positive from this corona crisis (a new habit, something you have let down on the contrary, anything...) that you will try to keep when all this is over?
201 - create your own question, and answer it! Don't forget to add "201" in the answer [1]
The list started on 11/11/2018 and has been last updated in july 2021 with new questions,
the amount of answers and questions that were asked is regularly updated [ ]
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From there, it's only blah blah :)
July 2021 : I've added some more questions, n°171 to 201.
I've
also updated the number of times the question was answered or asked,
but the number is not always writen so it can be difficult to find the
question. Please don't forget to add the number of the question you are
answering or asking ;)
July 2020 : experimentation (let's add a bit of fun)
I
will also send official postcards with an answer to a question that is
on this list, chosen by hazard with random.org. The postcard you'll
receive from me will begin with : Hello! (or sometimes: bonjour, or:
coucou)... "answer to the question (number)"
If the choice done by random.org is really really bad, I will draw another question, just one time.
The list of questions is just there, see below :
The list of questions is just there, see below :
03/08/20 Finally I added after each question how many times it was asked and I will update it regularly.
It is about questions answered and questions asked to me, but I should say most of the time people don't ask questions (they should!).Thanks everybody who has answered those little questions, thank you for the encouragements too, and sometimes enthusiastic reactions, it makes me happy and gives a lot of interest in writing a postcard, on both sides I believe, the person who writes and the person reading.
On a short conversation that is the "rule" on official postcrossing, we can talk about subjects we wouldn't otherwise and that's what makes it positive.
Finally, more recently, I have decided to use this list of questions, for a while at least, to draw a question when I send myself a postcard to someone on postcrossing. So that is not only about received postcards, I'm doing my part too :) I always use random.org, it's not me choosing the question, and sometimes that's quite challenging :)
It's also challenging in the sense that the person who receives a postcard with an answer to a question has no idea of the game until the postcard is registered. Sometimes I receive a second message, once they have read my page and understood what's happening. This is a breach in the routine, isn't it?
No big misunderstanding, it's just a game and a way to add some hazard and fun in all this. Let's keep it fresh :)
23/03/19 Just a feedback after a few weeks
So this is a feedback from the very beginning.
I'm surprised to see that a good amount of people play the game, answer questions and ask questions, some seem to find the idea is interesting, and I really enjoy this exchange. People choose very different questions, some decide to answer to 10 or more, that's funny :)
Thank you everybody, this makes me really happy and increases my interest in postcrossing, I like it when I receive very different messages and when people talk about subjects they would have not talked about in a postcard, and also ask me questions they would have not asked.
Keep the good job :)
