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20 Fun Valentine's Day Questions & Trivia

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20 Fun Valentine's Day Questions & Trivia

Whether you’re staying home or going out for a fun dinner, here are 20 fun questions and trivia to share with your Valentine on Valentine’s Day this year! Have fun with these!

After you finish all 20, continue the fun with our game 501 Questions: A Travel Game, 2nd Edition!


20 Fun Valentine's Day Questions & Trivia

Would You Rather:

  1. Have a fun new experience together or get a gift you’ve been wanting for awhile for Valentine’s Day?

  2. Get a box of chocolates or flowers on Valentine’s Day?

  3. Stay in or go out for Valentine’s Day?

  4. Me read a love letter I’ve written to you or have me do something for you that means I love you. If your answer is to do something, what would that something be?

  5. Plan your Valentine’s date together or get surprised with a whole date already planned?


If You Could:

  1. Relive one experience we’ve shared together, what would it be?

  2. Improve our relationship in one way, what would it be?

  3. Name three traits you love about me, what would they be?

  4. Say one new experience you want to share this year together, what would it be?

  5. Win the lottery today, what would you do with your winnings for Valentine’s Day?


20 Fun Valentines Day Questions Trivia Conversation Starters

Tell Me About:

  1. The moment you knew you loved/liked me.

  2. Your first impression of me.

  3. Your craziest Valentine’s Day memory.

  4. My best physical feature.

  5. Your favorite memory of us dating.

Valentine’s Day Trivia:

I found all of these fun trivia questions from Valentines Day Trivia Quiz. It was so fun to play, I wanted to share my favorites with you and see if you can guess the answers.
  1. “How many cards are sent on Valentine’s Day each year? Is it 500 million, 1 billion, 2 billion, or 10 billion cards?”

    Answer: “The Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentine cards are sent world-wide each year, making Valentine’s Day the second largest card sending holiday of the year behind Christmas.”

  2. “What percentage of flowers purchased on Valentine’s Day are red? Is the answer 69%, 76%, 83%, or 94%?”

    Answer: “According to the Ipsos-Insight for the American Floral Endowment’s Consumer Tracking Study (2004), of roses purchased on Valentine’s Day, 69% are red, 6% pink, 6% peach/salmon, 5% yellow, 4% white, 7% mixed, 4% other.”

  3. “Who created the first Valentine’s Day box? Is it Russell Stover, Louis IV, Richard Cadbury, or Milton Hershey?”

    Answer: “In 1822, John Cadbury opened a tea and coffee shop in Birmingham, England. He soon expanded chocolate manufacturing and in 1861 his son Richard greatly increased sales by packaging Cadbury chocolates in the world’s first heart shaped box for Valentines Day.”

  4. “What do the X’s and O’s in XOXO stand for?”

    Answer: “X=kisses, O=hugs”

  5. “What continent produces the most roses sold in the U.S. on Valentine’s Day?”

    Answer: “South America. Most roses sold on Valentines Day in the U.S. are imported from South America, but California grows 60% of the roses sold in the U.S.”

  6. “How many U.S. states have a city named Valentine? Is it 3, 4, 5, or 7?”

    Answer: “Four. Valentine, Arizona; Valentine, Nebraska; Valentine, Texas; Valentine, Virginia.” Which one will you visit first?:)


continue the fun!

Continue the fun, laughter, and good conversation with our game 501 Questions: A Travel Game, 2nd Edition! In this second edition, you’ll get over 750 more questions to use this Valentine’s Day and on future trips and adventures!

…highly recommend for your next trip (and all trips!). It’s a fantastic way to start conversations while you’re driving, out on a hike, or hanging around the campground!
— CAMPING WORLD

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— CAMPING WORLD

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20 Fun Christmas Questions & Trivia for You, Your Family, and Friends

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20 Fun Christmas Questions & Trivia for You, Your Family, and Friends

Whether you’re relaxing around the Christmas tree together, in the car on a long road trip over the holidays (get our 12 tips on how to pack just a carry on bag here), or on zoom with coworkers, classmates, or family and friends, here are 20 fun Christmas questions and trivia to spark fun new conversations over the holidays. Have fun with these inspired by our game 501 Questions: A Travel Game!


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Continue the fun with our game 501 Questions: A Travel Game! Unplug and get to know your people better with these 750 entertaining questions and trivia for fun, laughter, and good conversation whether you’re on zoom or in-person for the holidays!

“…highly recommend for your next trip (and all trips!). It’s a fantastic way to start conversations while you’re driving, out on a hike, or hanging around the campground!” -CAMPING WORLD


20 Fun Christmas Questions & Trivia

Would You Rather:

1. Have a white Christmas or a warm Christmas?

2. Receive a gift or share an experience?

3. Receive eggnog or fruit cake as a gift?

4. Play outside, build a snowman, and sled or stay inside drinking hot chocolate and reading a good book when it snows?

5. Shop in New York City for gifts or shop online in your pajamas?

 

If You Could:

1.     Have Christmas at home or in a new destination, what would you choose?

2.     Only have one Christmas song available to hear over the Christmas season, which one would you choose?

3.     Start a new tradition, what would it be?

4.     Spend Christmas at the beach or in the mountains, what would you choose?

5.     Plan your Christmas Eve and Christmas Day meals, what would you plan to have?

Fun Christmas Questions and Trivia for Family and Road Trips

 

Tell Me About:

1. Your favorite Christmas tradition.

2. Your favorite memory playing in the snow.

3. Your craziest or most memorable Christmas experience.

4. The best gift you’ve ever received.

5. Your favorite Christmas ornament.

 

Christmas Trivia:

1. What country is known to have started the Christmas tree tradition?

Answer: Germany.

2.  What Christmas song was the first to be broadcast from space in 1965?

Answer: Jingle Bells. Cool!

3. What Christmas decoration was originally made from tin?

Answer: Tinsel. When we lived in Vermont for a summer, we met David Claggett from Artistry in Tin who still makes traditional tin tinsel!

4.  What traditional Christmas decoration is actually a parasitic plant?

Mistletoe.

5. What state is home to a town named Christmas?

Florida. I found other Christmas towns from this article. There’s also: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Santa Claus, Indiana and Santa Claus, Georgia ; North Pole, Alaska; Snowflake, Arizona; Noel, Missouri; Rudolph, Wisconsin; Evergreen, Alabama; Joy, Illinois; Christmas Valley, Oregon


Continue the Fun!

Continue the fun with our game 501 Questions: A Travel Game! Unplug and get to know your people better with these 750 entertaining questions and trivia for fun, laughter, and good conversation whether you’re on zoom or in person!

“…highly recommend for your next trip (and all trips!). It’s a fantastic way to start conversations while you’re driving, out on a hike, or hanging around the campground!” -CAMPING WORLD


Save these for Later!

1. Pin this post to use later here.

2. And, download these conversation starters so you can easily pull them up later!

20 Fun Christmas Questions & Trivia

Continue the Fun!

Continue the fun with our game 501 Questions: A Travel Game! Get 750 entertaining questions and trivia for fun, laughter, and good conversation whether you’re on zoom or in person!

“…highly recommend for your next trip (and all trips!). It’s a fantastic way to start conversations while you’re driving, out on a hike, or hanging around the campground!” -CAMPING WORLD


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20 Conversation Starters for Thanksgiving

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20 Conversation Starters for Thanksgiving

Need conversation starters for Thanksgiving? We got you!

20 Conversation Starters for Thanksgiving, NuventureTravels.com

Thanksgiving can bring on a whole range of emotions: excitement to get everyone together, dread of pending political conversations, anxiety as to what to talk about with family you only see every five years, or boredom hearing the same old stories over and over from Grandpa.

Here’s 20 questions to spark fun and new conversations with your family and friends during your Thanksgiving get togethers and on your fall adventures.

We’ve used these with our families and it’s amazing the new stories you hear, the new things you learn about your family, and new perspectives that come through new conversation. Enjoy!


Continue the fun with our game 501 Questions: A Travel Game! Get 750 entertaining questions and trivia for fun, laughter, and good conversation whether you’re on zoom or in person!


 

20 Questions & Trivia for Thanksgiving

Would You Rather:

1. Meet one of your ancestors from the past or a descendant in the future?

2. Have your Thanksgiving meal on the beach hearing the waves lapping or cozy inside while it’s snowing outside?

3. Have turkey or ham for Thanksgiving and why?

4. Have canned or fresh cranberry sauce and why?

5. Be a Balloon Pilot for the Macy’s Day Parade (they walk backward the whole parade and guide the balloon handlers) or be a Float Builder for the Rose Bowl Parade?

If You Could:

6. Only have two side dishes for Thanksgiving, which ones would you choose?

7. Invite three people to your party and know they would come, who would you invite?

8. Create a new Thanksgiving tradition, what would it be?

9. Relive a season of your life, what season would it be?

10. Accomplish one thing before New Year’s Day what would it be?

Tell Me About:

11. Your favorite Thanksgiving tradition and why it’s so special to you.

12. Your favorite Thanksgiving memory.

13. Two things you’re thankful for this year.

14. Your favorite way to eat Thanksgiving leftovers.

15. How you would spend each day of your “perfect” Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

Travel Trivia:

16. What is the dangly piece of flesh called hanging over a turkey’s beak? Dangles, snoods, or gobblers?

Answer: Snoods. All turkeys have snoods, however, males have longer snoods (around five inches long) and it’s used to attract mates. When a male turkey wants to attract a female, the snood turns bright red and gets even longer. It’s believed longer snoods show females which male has more superior genes.

17. How long in days was the first Thanksgiving celebration?

Answer: The first Thanksgiving celebration lasted three days. It was to celebrate the Pilgrims’ first successful corn harvest.

18. True or False: Only female turkeys go “gobble, gobble.”

Answer: False. Only male turkeys gobble and females cackle. The male turkey is called a tom or gobbler. The female is called a hen and…

19. What are baby turkeys called?

Answer: A poult or chick. A young male is called a jake and a young female is called a jenny. Now we have the whole family: tom, hen, jake, and jenny:)

20. Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November?

Answer: On December 26, 1941 Congress passed a law making the fourth Thursday of November the official Thanksgiving holiday. How the holiday’s date got to Congress is a long story: The tradition started in 1789 when President George Washington planned Thursday, November 26 as the "Day of Publick Thanksgivin." Every year after that, the holiday was decided by the president and it was on different days and months. Then, after Lincoln gave his national address in 1863 the last week of November became the practiced holiday. Then, in the 1930’s there was a big debate of when to celebrate Thanksgiving. In 1933, there was a November with five weeks and retailers asked President Roosevelt if the holiday could be moved up a week so there was more time to shop for Christmas. There was a public outrage and the President said no. Then, there was another five week November in 1939. Retailers asked the President again to move the holiday and this time he did. Many states followed the President’s change of holiday to the fourth Thursday, but other states kept the holiday to the last Thursday. This happened two years in a row. To unite the country, on December 26, 1941 Congress passed a law making Thanksgiving the last Thursday of November. Crazy! You can read the story here.


Continue the Fun!

Continue the fun with our game 501 Questions: A Travel Game! Get 750 entertaining questions and trivia for fun, laughter, and good conversation whether you’re on zoom or in person!

“…highly recommend for your next trip (and all trips!). It’s a fantastic way to start conversations while you’re driving, out on a hike, or hanging around the campground!” -CAMPING WORLD


Make It Easy to Find These Later!

1. Pin this post to use later here.

2. And, download these conversation starters so you can easily pull them up later!

20 Conversation Starters for Thanksgiving, NuvetureTravels.com

Continue the Fun!

Continue the fun with our game 501 Questions: A Travel Game! Get 750 entertaining questions and trivia for fun, laughter, and good conversation whether you’re on zoom or in person!

“…highly recommend for your next trip (and all trips!). It’s a fantastic way to start conversations while you’re driving, out on a hike, or hanging around the campground!” -CAMPING WORLD




 
 

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10 Fun & Free Travel Games

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10 Fun & Free Travel Games

Let's be real, long journeys can get a bit dull, like five hours in on your cross country road trip. Instead of scrolling our phones for the millionth time, let's make fun new memories together with some good ol' games! Here's a few we like to play on our trips!

10 Fun & Free Travel Game Ideas for Your Next Trip!

1. Hot Seat

10 Fun & Free Travel Games for a Road Trip

This is my all time favorite game- well, right after our game 501 Questions: A Travel Game!

Hot Seat is asking one person in a group, rapid-fire questions for a specific duration of time. So, to play, choose one person to be in the hot seat. Then, choose how much time someone's in the hot seat.  It can be one, two, or three minutes. Then, set a timer for that amount of time. Once the timer starts, everyone asks the person in the hot seat questions until the timer buzzes. You can ask any question that comes to mind. Once the first person’s turn is over, then you pick the next person to be in the hot seat, set the timer, and everyone asks the next person questions until the timer buzzes. You repeat this until everyone in your group has had their turn in the hot seat. Then, you can start the next round by upping the time that each person is in the hot seat to five, ten, or even fifteen minutes. Longer times are fun for storytelling!

In college, a group of friends and I played this for hours on a road trip to Florida til we were at 20 minutes per person! This game tightened our friendships immensely!

 

2. Two Truths and a Lie

Ooo! I love this game, too! So, to play Two Truths and a Lie, one person shares three things about themselves; two things being true and one being a lie. Everyone has to guess which statement is the lie. If you guess the lie right, you get a point. The person with the most points at the end of the game wins. I love this game, because you learn surprising new things about everyone!

For example: Mine could be 1. I've scuba dived. 2. I've been to New Zealand. 3. I've eaten a cockroach. Which one's my lie?

 

3. 20 Questions 

20 Questions is tons of fun! So, one player picks a person, place, or thing and keeps it a secret. Then, everyone takes turns asking yes or no questions to try to guess what they're thinking of. The goal is to figure out what it is in 20 questions. 


Have Fun, Laughter, and Good Conversation on Your Next Trip!

Unplug and get to know your travel pals better with our new game 501 Questions: A Travel Game! It’s perfect for long road trips and around the campfire with 750 entertaining questions and trivia for fun, laughter, and good conversation on your next trip! The game’s available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle versions here.

“…highly recommend for your next trip (and all trips!). It’s a fantastic way to start conversations while you’re driving, out on a hike, or hanging around the campground!”

-CAMPING WORLD


 

4. Group Storytelling

This is a fun one and you never know which way the story will turn! The way it starts is one person in the group starts out with the first line of the story. Then, each person takes turns sharing the next sentence of the story. If you want to make it more interesting, you can create a rule that each sentence has to rhyme with the one said before it. Bring on the drama and mystery!

 

5. The Grocery Store Game or National Park Game

This one’s tradition!  My parents and I played this on our long trips for the holidays. The game is a memory game working with the alphabet. So, someone starts out, "I went to the grocery story and bought Apples. Then the next person repeats, “I went to the grocery store and bought Apples,” then adds, “and Bananas.” Then the next person repeats, “I went to the grocery story and bought Apples, Bananas…” then adds, “and Celery.” Each person keeps adding an item at the grocery store that starts with the next letter of the alphabet til you end at Z. It’s fun when everyone gets creative with the items and it’s hard to remember!

You can also do other fun concepts, “I went to the National Park and saw a …” or “I went on a picnic and brought a…”

 

6. The License Plate Competition

This is a fun game for some good competition in the car. See who can find license plates from the most states from cars driving by. Each state is one point. If you see plates from other countries, they count for two points! The person who gets the most points wins and gets to pick the dinner spot or pays for ice cream or any other creative ideas you have.

 

7. Rapid Fire Word Association

This one is easy to keep progressing, is hilarious, and can get competitive! So, someone says a word, and then the next person says a word associated to it, and so on until someone is stumped or takes too long to think of a word. The person who ended the round is out, and everyone competes until there's a winner. I just played this on a girl's road trip and this game had us rolling! It's fun to see where everyone's minds go associating words! For example: National Park, Arches, Desert, Cactus, Green, Grass, Spring, Easter Bunny, Marshmallows, Chubby Bunny

 

 8. Rumor Has It

This one can get funny! Everyone in your car chooses another car. Then everyone in your car looks at everyone in the other car closely. Now, don't get too creepy! Then, your car all comes up with a background story of the people, their lives, and relationships. Bring on the drama!

 

9. License Plate Funny Phrases

This one stretches your mind and takes some creativity! Someone picks out a license plate they see and creates a funny phrase with the letters in the order they see them. For example, if you see AJK 295, you could say Apple Jack’s King!

 

10. Fortunately/Unfortunately

This game goes back and forth between people sharing a “fortunate” statement, then an “unfortunate” statement. And, it can get pretty funny! For example:

  • “Fortunately, we’re going to get to our hotel early!”

  • “Unfortunately, our room isn’t clean.”

  • “Fortunately, then we can go to the beach right away.”

  • “Unfortunately, we don’t have a room to change into our bathing suits.”

  • “Fortunately, we don’t need bathing suits for the beach!”:)


BONUS: 3 MORE FUN GAMES!

Here’s three of our favorite travel games (that aren’t free), but are a blast and fun to play on the road!

11. 501 Questions: A Travel Game

If you haven’t gotten it yet, this is our absolute favorite game to play on our travels (and we created it)! We created it to stop scrolling, and connect with each other. It's loaded with 501 awesome conversation starters for ages 4-104!

Ask questions like:

  • Would You Rather: Find yourself standing in a flock of butterflies or swimming in a bioluminescent bay?

  • If You Could: Take a round-the-world trip, what would be the first country you'd visit on each continent?

  • Tell Me About: One thing you're itching to do, you haven't done yet?

  • Travel Trivia: What country is The Land of Smiles?

When conversation dwindles and you have the urge to pick up your phone, grab this book instead. Turn the dull moments of your travels into fun new memories! 


12. Punderdome: A Card Game for Pun Lovers

If you love puns, this is your game! You pick two cards from the deck that have different statements and you have to make a pun merging the two ideas.

For example, one time we pulled the cards “Seeing Your Ex” and “Wild Animals.” Adam’s brother is brilliant at puns and said, “She’s always been straight lion.” He’s so good!

 


13. Convers_(ate)

If you love intentional conversations Convers_(ate) is your game! Our friends Mollie and Taylor created this game to take a group through an intentional conversation with open ended questions. The topics are awesome like Community, Wealth, Food, Holidays, Generosity, etc.

Each topic card has an ice breaker question so on some trips, my family’s just played with the ice breaker questions. You go deep and learn a lot about family and friends with these!


MAKE REMEMBERING THESE GAMES EASIER!

10 Fun & Free Travel Games for Road Trips

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2. And, download this game list to pull up on your trip.


Have Fun, Laughter, and Good Conversation for Your Next Trip!

Unplug and connect on long road trips and around the campfire with fun conversation starters! With our new game 501 Questions: A Travel Game you get 750 entertaining questions and trivia to have fun, laughter, good conversation, and make the time fly!

“…highly recommend for your next trip (and all trips!). It’s a fantastic way to start conversations while you’re driving, out on a hike, or hanging around the campground!” -CAMPING WORLD


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