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10 Travel Would You Rather Questions

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Would You Rather QuestionsEvery week, we’re publishing lists of Would You Rather questions with different themes – you can check out all the questions in the series here.

This week, all the questions relate to travel and the wider world. Beneath the list, we’ve also given some suggestions of some other youth group activities you can use that will tie in to this travel / global theme.

10 Travel Would You Rather Questions

Would you rather…

  1. have a two week vacation on a remote island or go on a cruise?
  2. climb Mt Everest or walk the entire length of the Great Wall Of China?
  3. eat a curry in India or pasta in Italy?
  4. take a train in India or a bus in South America?
  5. go on a safari in Africa or kayaking in Antarctica?
  6. travel by camel or elephant?
  7. see mountain gorillas in the wild in Rwanda or go scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia?
  8. go to Paris for Valentine’s Day or the North Pole for Christmas?
  9. visit Japan or Brazil?
  10. travel across the US from east to west by train or by car?

Discussions / Activities

501 Would You Rather Questions
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These questions are a great icebreaker to use when planning some youth group activities that encourage your young people to be globally minded (here’s why that’s important).

To help with your planning, here are some different resources, ideas, activities and games you can use when planning this type of youth work session:

If you liked these questions and ideas, check out all the other Would You Rather questions in this series.

Question: What other travel / global youth group activities would be good for using with these questions? And what other travel-themed questions can you think of? We’d love to hear your ideas in the comments below.

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10 Christian Would You Rather Questions – Part 2

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Christian Would You Rather Questions
A plague on both your houses!

Every Wednesday, we’re currently posting 10 Would You Rather questions on a particular theme. These can be great ‘getting to know you‘ activities for both you and your young people.

If you’re not sure how to play this game, it’s pretty simple – you ask your youth group if they’d rather do/have/be choice A or choice B and they have to decide which they’d prefer. For a more detailed explanation, check out our guide on how to play Would You Rather.

This week, we have another 10 Christian-themed questions. We published 10 of them a few weeks ago and we’ll publish more in the future, so we’ll update the links below as more are produced.

10 Christian Would You Rather Questions – Part 2

Would you rather…

  1. be a prostitute but have helped the spies escape Jericho or be a virgin that gives birth to Jesus and have your reputation ruined?
  2. be Gideon with an army of 300 against 135,000 or Joshua trusting that walking around and shouting would bring down the walls of Jericho?
  3. be David and have it recorded that you had an affair with a married woman and had her husband killed or be like Solomon and have an intimate account of your love affair in the Bible?
  4. have been John and foreseen all that happens in Revelation knowing there’s nothing you can do about it or have to live through it?
  5. have your diet be manna and quail or locusts and honey?
  6. have been Mary watching Jesus be crucified or been one of the thieves next to him?
  7. work 14 years for two wives or get your brother’s birthright by stealing it? (both refer to Jacob)
  8. have been baptized by John The Baptist or been in the upper room at Pentecost?
  9. have been destroyed by water in the flood or by sulfur in Sodom and Gomorrah?
  10. live through a plague of locusts or a plague of frogs?

Discussion / Activities

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Here are a few ideas of church youth group activities and discussions you could have surrounding the questions listed above:

  • That God can use anyone, no matter what they’ve done in the past (the prostitute / David)
  • That God can use anyone, even if they don’t believe they’re capable (Gideon)
  • The crucifixion
  • Perseverance and dedication (Jacob)
  • Holy Spirit

If you liked these question ideas, take a look at all our other Would You Rather questions – there are loads more on all kinds of different themes (not just Christian ones).

Question: What other Christian youth group activities could these particular questions be tied into? We’d love to hear your ideas in the comments below.

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10 Would You Rather Food Questions

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Food Would You Rather Questions
Which of these would you rather eat a teaspoon of?

Each week, we’re publishing lists of questions you can use when playing Would You Rather. See this post that explains how to play the game.

This week, we have 10 questions relating to food. These ideas aren’t particularly gross – we’ll be publishing some of those in the future!

10 Would You Rather Food Questions

Would you rather…

  1. have to kill an animal any time you want to eat meat or never eat meat again?
  2. only eat fruit or vegetables for one year?
  3. eat for free for the rest of your life but have it be food you don’t like, or only eat food you love but have to pay five times the normal amount for it?
  4. only be allowed to eat your meals with chopsticks or with your fingers?
  5. eat at McDonalds or KFC?
  6. eat a banana peel or an orange peel?
  7. eat a teaspoon of black pepper or a teaspoon of salt?
  8. never eat pizza or burgers again?
  9. only eat ice cream or pizza for the rest of your life?
  10. only eat food that’s so spicy it burns your mouth or food that’s so bland it has no flavor?

Discussions / Activities

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These food questions could be used to help lead into any kind of youth group activities that involve food. Here are some example:

If you liked these ideas, we have loads more Would You Rather questions you can use.

Question: What other food-themed questions can you think of? Let us know in the comments below.

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10 School Would You Rather Questions

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School Would You Rather QuestionsEvery week, we’re publishing 10 Would You Rather questions based on different themes. This week, the questions are all relating to school and education.

In case you’re not sure how this activity works, you can find our guide of how to play it here.

10 School Would You Rather Questions

Would you rather…

  1. go to school every day for rest of your life or never have had an opportunity to learn anything
  2. have one teacher for all your classes who’s average or different teachers for each subject, half of whom are great and the other half being awful
  3. be a teacher or a principal
  4. learn Spanish or French
  5. have three months off for summer or one month off three times throughout the year
  6. go to school from 8am to 3pm or 11am to 6pm
  7. have one piece of homework that takes five hours to complete or five pieces of homework that each take one hour to complete
  8. be in a class with 30 people or by yourself getting one-to-one tutoring
  9. go to school for 5 days a week for 13 years or for 2.5 days a week for 26 years
  10. have to wear a school uniform or have your parents pick out what you have to wear each day

Discussion / Activities

501 Would You Rather Questions
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These questions can be a good way to open up a conversation about how your youth are finding school and identifying if any of them are struggling in some way.

If you find out that your young people are having a hard time at school, this can provide an opportunity to explore whether there are any other programs you can provide to help them.

For example, if they’re struggling academically, are you able to start up a homework club or connect them with people who can help give them some one-to-one tutoring?

If they’re being bullied, is there some way you can help intervene or support the teen in telling their parents and / or teachers about what’s happening? Can you or someone else mentor them?

You can find all our other Would You Rather questions here.

Question: What other Would You Rather questions with a school theme can you think of? Let us know in the comments below.

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10 Christian Would You Rather Questions – Part 1

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Christian Would You Rather Questions
Would you rather see this happening or the Red Sea being parted?

This week we’re continuing our series of Would You Rather questions with ones you can use with a Christian youth group.

When coming up with these ideas, we ended up writing far more than just 10 Christian and Bible-related questions, so we’ll be publishing more questions with this theme over the coming weeks.

In case you don’t know how to play this game, check out our guide on how to play it – it’s a fantastic game for getting to know your young people better.

10 Christian Would You Rather Questions – Part 1

Would you rather…

  1. have seen the Red Sea being parted or Jesus walking on water?
  2. know what type of fruit Adam & Eve ate or know what Jesus wrote in the sand when people wanted to stone the lady who’d committed adultery?
  3. have dinner with Moses or Paul?
  4. be able to feed 5,000 people with five loaves and two fish or heal someone’s blindness?
  5. spend one hour in heaven or one week with Jesus on Earth?
  6. have a plague of boils or a plague of water that turned into blood?
  7. be thrown into a furnace or a lion’s den?
  8. eat like Daniel (vegetables only) or Elijah and the widow (bread only)?
  9. live as long as Methuselah (969) or Jesus (33)?
  10. have the strength of Samson or the wisdom of Solomon?

Discussion / Activities

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These questions could be used to lead on to discussions and activities where you explore things like:

  • Miracles
  • The nature of faith
  • Heaven
  • Gifts and talents
  • What can be achieved within a lifetime

Check out all our other Would You Rather questions for even more ideas of things to ask your young people.

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