268 TableTopics For Toastmasters & Public Speakers

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268 TableTopics For Toastmasters &

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WHAT ARE TABLE TOPICS

Table topics are topics on various subjects that are discussed by a group of people around a table. As practiced
by Toastmasters International, the topics to be discussed are written on pieces of paper which are placed in a
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the paper. Speeches given by the persons are extemporaneous or ad-lib. The purpose is to develop the
speaking skills and thinking processes of a person.
Many personalities or public speaking clubs like the ‘Toastmasters’ have a separate session in their meetings
known as a table topic session.
Time allotted to a person is two minutes. There will be a table topic master for each meeting, who will prepare
questions beforehand and ask the participants questions one by one for which they are called upon to answer.
Some chapters of Toastmasters also host Table Topics contests.
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268 TableTopics For Toastmasters & Public Speakers

1. Are you a risk taker or someone who’s more risk averse?
2. Are you afraid of heights? Or what are you afraid of?
3. Are you confrontational?
4. Are you more into looks or brains?
5. Are you more into your zodiac sign or your MBTI?
6. Are you religious or spiritual?
7. Are you still learning who you are?
8. Are you wearing socks right now?
9. Best compliment you have received?
10. Camp in an RV or stay in a tent?
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11. Can I get you another drink?
12. Choose a free trip or money? This may tell you whether the person values experiences over dollars
13. Crash with friends or stay in a hotel?
14. Crowds, small groups, or “Go away, I’m a loner”?
15. Describe something that happened to you for which had no explanation.
16. Did you ever write a journal?
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17. Did you feel closer to your mom or dad growing up?
18. Do you believe honesty is the best policy?
19. Do you believe in fate?
20. Do you believe in ghosts?
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21. Do you believe in second chances?
22. Do you believe in the concept of “the one”?
23. Do you consider yourself a mentor to anyone right now?
24. Do you consider yourself an introvert or an extrovert?
25. Do you feel that children should be sheltered from unhappiness?
26. Do you get along with your family? Why or why not?
27. Do you have a favorite book or read much? Why or why not?
28. Do you have a sweet tooth or a savory tooth?
29. Do you have any irrational fears and if so, what are they?
30. Do you have any secret untapped passions?
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31. Do you have anyone you go to for advice? In person or online?
32. Do you judge a book by its cover?
33. Do you know any big gossips?
34. Do you know your heritage?
35. Do you like guacamole? Have you ever been in a food ght?
36. Do you prefer group dinners or one-on-ones with friends?
37. Do you trust anyone with your life?
38. Do you usually stay friends with your exes?
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39. Drink a glass of Guinness or Fat Tire?

40. Enjoy a houseboat or speed boat?
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41. Ever been in love with
42. Ever had any relatives in jail?
43. Ever sold/donated your blood? If you haven’t do you want to?
44. Gin, vodka, or tequila?
45. Glass half full or half empty? Or is the glass just malformed?
46. Go canoeing or waterskiing?
47. Go climbing or zip lining?
48. Go skiing or snowshoeing?
49. Go to a comedy club or dance club?
50. Go to a play or musical?
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51. Go to the theater or a movie?
52. Have a Margarita or Pina Colada?
53. Have a night out or evening in?
54. Have you been pulled over by a cop?
55. Have you been to the movies in the last
56. Have you ever been caught lying?
57. Have you ever been in a car accident?
58. Have you ever been stung by a bee?
59. Have you ever danced in the rain?
60. Have you ever eating a crayon, or glue? Or what strange thing have you eaten?
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61. Have you ever had a mentor?
62. Have you ever had your fortune told by a psychic or a Tarot card reader and if so, what did you learn?
63. Have you ever left someone you still loved?
64. Have you ever lost someone close to you?
65. Have you ever taken dance lessons? Who would you want to dance with?
66. Have you ever tipped a cow?
67. Hike or bike?
68. How did you meet your best friend?
69. How do you feel about sharing your password with your partner?
70. How do you really feel about your boss?
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71. How do you start a conversation?
72. How would your friends describe you?
73. If a genie granted you – what would you ask for?
74. If money was no object, what would you do all day?
75. If reincarnation was de nitely a thing, what form would you want to take on in your next life?
76. If you are in a bad mood, do you prefer to be left alone or have someone to cheer you up?
77. If you could be any age for a week, what age would that be?
78. If you could bring any person back to life, who would it be?
79. If you could change one thing about your past, what would it be?
80. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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81. If you could choose your method of dying or where, what would they be?
82. If you could do anything you wanted right now, what would it be?
83. If you could go back in time, what year would you travel to?
84. If you could have anyone locked in a room so that you could torment them for a day, whom would you
choose ad how would you torment them?
85. If you could have personally witnessed anything, what would you want to have seen?
86. If you could only have one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?
87. If you could retire tomorrow, what would you do?
88. If you could spend the day with any celebrity, who would it be?
89. If you could switch careers without any concern for money, what would you do?
90. If you could trade lives with one person for an entire day who would it be and why?
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91. If you could wake up tomorrow in the body of someone else, who would you pick and what would you do?
92. If you had a brainwashing machine, who would you use it on?
93. If you had to be named after a city, state, or country (etc
94. If you had to be trapped in a tv show for a month, which would you choose?
95. If you had to pick a “spirit animal,” what would it be?
96. If you join the circus, what would you perform?
97. If you were going to go to the movies alone, what would be the perfect lm for you to watch by yourself?
98. If you were granted 3 wishes right now, what would you wish for?
99. If you were to create a piece of art, what would the subject be?
100. If your job isn’t your passion, what is?
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101. Imagine someone is stalking you. How would you handle it?
102. In your opinion, what is the best Disney movie to come out since Disney’s Golden Age?
103. Is there a documentary or book that really changed the way you thought about something?
104. Is there a talent or skill you’ve always secretly wanted?
105. Is there anything I should know?
106. Is there anything purple within
107. Is there something you constantly lose at your hours or anywhere?
108. Is what you’re doing now what you always wanted to do growing up?
109. List someone you know, and describe them in
110. Mountains or the beach? View, or the tv?
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111. Name the most terrifying moment of your life so far. Have you recovered from it?
112. Plain, train, or car? Boat, subway, or teleportation device?
113. Play dodgeball or kickball?
114. Read on a Kindle or paperback book? This question is a starter for many possible conversations on
reading, favorite books, technology, libraries, bookstores, and more
115. Shark diving, bungee jumping, or sky diving?
116. Swim in a pool or the ocean? Salt water and waves crashing on the beach or temperature controlled, lovely
water all year round
117. Tell me about the best vacation you’ve ever taken
118. Travel by plane, train, or automobile?
119. Travel by sailboat or cruise ship?
120. Ugly and live forever, or attractive and die in a year?
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121. Under what circumstances do you tend to feel shy?

122. University or life experience, which do you feel best prepares you for life?
123. Use Facebook or Twitter?
124. Vacation in Hawaii or Alaska, and why?
125. Visit Europe or Mexico?
126. Watch sports or play sports?
127. Watch TV or read a book?
128. Watch, Star Wars, or Star Trek? Use whichever moves you nd most relevant
129. Wear jeans or chinos?
130. What about your teenage self embarrasses you most?
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131. What accomplishments are you most proud of?
132. What age do you hope to live to?
133. What are three albums (soundtracks or compilations don’t count) that really de ne you or have shaped you
as a person?
134. What are you most thankful for?
135. What are your thoughts on online dating or tinder?
136. What cheers you up?
137. What dead person would you least want to be haunted by?
138. What did you do for your latest birthday?
139. What did you love most about the place you grew up? What about it did you love the least?
140. What did your past relationship teach you?
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141. What do you constantly think about that, either makes you sad or just anything?
142. What do you order or not order at a restaurant you have been to or never been to? 
143. What do you think about when you’re by yourself?

144. What do you think of best friends of the opposite sex?
145. What do you think Victoria’s secret is?
146. What does your ideal idyll afternoon look like?
147. What does your life say about you?
148. What does your perfect day look like?
149. What drives you to do what you do? What motivates you?
150. What famous person do people tell you that you most resemble?
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151. What has been your biggest challenge?
152. What have you always wanted? Did you ever get it?
153. What holidays do you celebrate? Are you a religious person or not?
154. What impacts your moods more than anything else?
155. What is a relationship deal breaker for you?
156. What is one of the weirdest things you used to do as a teenager?
157. What is something you’ve always wanted to try but have been too scared to?
158. What is the craziest thing you’ve ever done and would you do it again?
159. What is the habit you are proudest of breaking or want to break?
160. What is the longest you have gone without sleep?
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161. What is the most memorable class you have ever taken?
162. What is the most random thing you’ve ever watched all the way through on Net ix?
163. What is the one thing that should be taught in school that isn’t already?
164. What is the strangest name someone has introduced themselves as to you? What is their real name?
165. What is the strangest thing you have ever eaten? 
166. What is the weirdest scar you have and how did you get it?
167. What is the weirdest thing about you? Are you proud of it?
168. What is your biggest success up until now?
169. What is your blood type?
170. What is your favorite book?
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171. What is your favorite breakfast food?
172. What is your favorite commercial?
173. What is your favorite memory?
174. What is your favorite physical attribute about yourself?
175. What is your favorite thing to spend money on?
176. What is your favorite Wikipedia article? (Shuddup
177. What is your favorite word? Least favorite?
178. What is your greatest strength or weakness?
179. What is your idea of a perfect vacation?
180. What is your most bizarre talent?
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181. What is your perfect pizza?
182. What keys on a keyboard do you not use?
183. What kind of parent do you think you will be?
184. What kind of phone was your rst cell phone?
185. What kind of sickness have you lied about so you wouldn’t go to work?
186. What made you decide to study [insert college major]?
187. What makes you feel accomplished?
188. What makes you smile without fail? 
189. What one thing would you change if you had to do it over?
190. What question do you hate to answer?
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191. What trajectory are you hoping to push yourself onto? Where do you want to head?
192. What type of music do you listen to? (Genre, artists, songs?
193. What was the best phase in your life?
194. What was the last book you read without skipping through anything?
195. What was the last lie you told?
196. What was the last picture you took with your phone?
197. What was the weirdest prank call that you have made?
198. What was the worst phase in your life?
199. What was your favorite activity in gym class? Personally I think the parachutes were a lot of fun
200. What was your rst thought when you woke up this morning
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201. What was your weirdest interest or hobby as a kid?
202. What would you do if your parents didn’t like your partner?
203. What’s an ideal weekend for you?
204. What’s on your bucket list this year?
205. What’s the creepiest dream you’ve ever had?
206. What’s the funniest or most traumatic thing that’s ever happened to you on a date?
207. What’s the last white lie you told and got away with?
208. What’s the most bizarre situation you’ve ever walked into?
209. What’s the most disturbing thought you’ve ever had?
210. What’s the most memorable thing that’s ever happened to you (up until you met me, of course)?
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211. What’s the most rebellious thing you did growing up?
212. What’s the one thing that people always misunderstand about you?
213. What’s the one thing you would like to change about yourself?
214. What’s the sickest you have ever been?
215. What’s your biggest regret in life?
216. What’s your earliest childhood memory?
217. What’s your family’s weirdest tradition?
218. What’s your favorite book/movie of all time and why did it speak to you so much?
219. What’s your favorite cheesy pick-up line? Have you ever used it for real?
220. What’s your favorite knock-knock joke?
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221. What’s your favorite thing to do when you’re totally alone?
222. What’s your greatest talent?
223. What’s your philosophy in life?
224. When do you think a person is ready for marriage?
225. When have you felt your biggest adrenaline rush?
226. When was the last time you bought something? What was it?
227. When was the last time you broke someone’s heart?
228. When was the last time you ran/went for a jog?
229. When’s the last time you failed spectacularly at something?
230. When’s the last time you felt seriously disappointed?
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231. When’s the last time you really indulged, and for what occasion?
232. When’s the last time you stayed up all night?
233. Where do you go to get on a computer?
234. Where do you most want to travel, but have never been?
235. Where is your favorite place to go on a weekday afternoon when you have no plans or obligations?
236. Where were you
237. Where would you live if you had no ties to any speci c place?
238. Which cartoon character do you resemble the most?
239. Which do you use more often, the dictionary or the thesaurus?
240. Which famous person, dead or alive, would you most like to know?
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241. Which good cause is closest to your heart?
242. Which of the four seasons do you most love? Or Hate?
243. Which of the places you’ve traveled to inspired you the most, and why?
244. Which of your family members do you admire most, and why?
245. Which parent are you closer to and why?
246. Which would be harder for you to give up: coffee or alcohol?
247. Who do you trust more than anyone else?
248. Who inspires you? Who do you aspire to be like?
249. Who is a character from a TV show or a book that you’ve always resonated with?
250. Who is that one person you can talk to about just anything?
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251. Who is your favorite author?

252. Who is your hero?
253. Who was someone you really looked up to when you were little — someone you considered to be a
mentor?
254. Who would you least like to be …?
255. Who would you most like to be stuck in an elevator with?
256. Who would you want with you if you were stranded on a deserted island?
257. Win the lottery or nd your perfect job?
258. Worst injury you have had?
259. Would you be willing to eat a bowl of crickets for $
260. Would you be willing to lie to a court for a close friend if it meant saving your friend from going to jail for
life?
261. Would you ever take back someone who cheated?
262. Would you rather go a week without bathing, but be able to change your clothes? Or a week without
changing your clothes but be able to bathe.
263. Would you rather…do this or that?
264. Would you relocate for love?
265. You are walking home in the dark, you see something move. What/Who is it
266. You can select one person from history and have them truthfully answer one question, who would you
select and what is the question?
267. You discover that your wonderful one year old child is because of a mix up at the hospital and & not yours.
Would you want to exchange the child to correct the mistake?
268. Your dream vacation? Worst vacation? Best vacation?
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