Before anything else, why ask questions on Instagram?

Asking questions on Instagram is an excellent way to interact with your audience and a great way to convert them into your followers – organic ones and potential clients. Regardless of your niche on Instagram, asking questions can help you learn more about your audience and open up an organic conversation that isn’t focused on sales. After all, the whole purpose of engagement is to create those genuine connections. 

If you’re having trouble coming up with an interesting topic to ask or if you want to switch up your routine inquiries, have a look at this list and see which questions work for you. Let’s start!

Questions to Ask On Instagram

1. What is one thing you cannot live without? 
2. What is your favorite way to relax after a long day?
3. What are you excited about this weekend?
4. What book are you reading right now?
5. What is your favorite video on Instagram?
6. What feature would you like to see implemented next?
7. What is your favorite childhood treat?
8. What are your top three most-used apps?
9. What are you thankful for today?
10. What song should I listen to?
11. Are you a cat or dog lover?
12. Long hair or short hair?
13. Indoor or Outdoor?
14. Pop or Rock?
15. Speakers or Headphones?
16. Scary films or Happy endings?
17. Roadtrip or Cruise?
18. Jogging or Aerobic Exercise?
19. Chocolate Bars or Ice cream?
20. Twitter or Instagram?:
21. What’s your favorite movie?
22. On a scale of 1-10, how excited are you about life right now?
23. What is your least favorite food?
24. What’s the most challenging part about being a student?
25. Do you prefer posting or watching stories? Why?
26. If you had a tattoo, where would it be?
27. What is the best gift you’ve ever received?
28. What country do you wish to visit?
29. What country is instagrammable?
30. Do you prefer a movie date or a Dinner Date?
31. If you are a food, what are you?
32. What is your favorite emoji?
33. What are the things that help you get rid of stress?
34. If you could master one instrument, what would it be? 
35. What would be the title of your autobiography?
36. Favorite Basketball player?
37. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone?
38. What is your most minor favorite thing about yourself?
39. Favorite NBA Basketball Team?
40. If you could sing a duet with anyone, Who would it be?
41. What’s the worst job you’ve ever had, and what did you learn from it?
42. What’s the funniest book you’ve ever read and the most comic movie you’ve ever seen?
43. What would it be if you could have one song play every time you entered a room?
44. What is the most beautiful thing you have ever seen in nature?
45. Your house, containing everything you own, catches fire. After saving your loved ones and pets, you have time to make a final dash to save any one item safely. What would it be? And why?
46. How do you see the future individually and collectively as a couple?
47. Where is one place you’d love to travel to again?
48. What is the top holiday on your bucket list?
49. What is something you have accomplished as an adult that your younger self would be proud of?
50. What would your parents have named you if you were the opposite gender?
51. What would you say if you could go back ten years and tell yourself something?
52. What would it be if you could take a week off from your regular life to immerse yourself in learning something new?
53. What’s your favorite meal your parents and grandparents make?
54. Are you more of a work-to-live or live-to-work kind of person? How so?
55. How would you spend your time if you had all the money?
56. What was a significant turning point in your life that got you here? 
57. Which of the two smells better, fresh-cut grass or bread baking in the oven?
58. Who is your all-time favorite Disney character?
59. What are the songs that make you sing along whenever you hear them?
60. What cuisine would you serve your customers if you owned a five-star restaurant?
61. What would it be if you could only teach three things to your future child?
62. If you had 24 hours to do whatever you wanted in this country, what would you like to do?
63. How could you politely end a conversation with someone so annoying?
64. If dark chocolate is the only available food on this planet, would you eat it?
65. Which part of the roller coaster do you usually ride: the front, middle, or back?
66. Which store would you like if you could shop at one for the rest of your life?
67. Where would you rather be: a place with no food or food but no water?
68. When the doctor says, “You have 24 hours to live,” what will you do with the time you have left?
69. Where would you go if you could teleport yourself from one place to another?
70. Would you choose to live for another 100 years or start over from the beginning?
71. Would you visit your ancestors in the past or meet your descendants in the future?
72. What three things would you want with you if you were stranded on a desert island?
73. What’s the most challenging decision you made this year? 
74.  If 100 people in your age group were selected randomly, how many do you think they’d find leading a happier life than you?
75.  What time of the day do you feel the most energetic, and what do you usually do in those moments? 
76. What would you do with the second wish if you were granted three wishes?
77. Who has been the biggest influence on you in your relationship with money?
78. What do you want people you meet for the first time to think about you? 
79. Out of 100 random people, where would you rank yourself in terms of your intelligence?
80. What’s one thing you wake up worrying about in the middle of the night?
81. What would it be if you could get rid of one of your responsibilities today? 
82. What’s your unanswerable question–the question you seem to always be asking yourself? 
83. What’s the moment you left childhood behind? 
84. What weapon would you carry during the Zombie Apocalypse? 
85. What activity do you do that makes you feel most like yourself? 
86. Do you wake up by yourself, to an alarm or music, or have someone else wake you up?
87. Do you prefer to receive money or an actual gift?
88. What technology or business do you think will be obsolete within 10 years?
89. If you had to give up one of your five senses, which one would it be and why?
90. What would you do if you couldn’t use the internet or watch TV for a month?
91. After a long day, do you prefer to hang out with friends or spend time alone?
92. When going on a vacation, would you prefer to join a tour or plan out everything by yourself?
93. What is the first thing you notice about someone of the opposite gender?
94. Do you believe in luck, or do you think people make their own luck?
95. Do you prefer to wear fashionable clothes or comfortable clothes?
96. Do you prefer to relax in your free time or do something active?
97. What would it be if you could eliminate one thing you did every day?
98. What is the last thing you think of before you sleep?
99. What are three smartphone apps that you can’t live without?
100. What is something you’ve tried but would never do again?
101. How have your goals changed as you’ve gotten older?
102. What is your favorite brand?
103. Do you prefer to eat at home or eat out?

Always Ask Questions!

When asking questions, be sure to choose ones that are relevant to your brand and that will resonate with your audience. You can also use questions as a way to get to know your followers better. For example, you could ask about their favorite products, their biggest concerns, or their most memorable moments.

​​Engagement on Instagram isn’t always easy to come by, but it’s worth putting in the effort to maintain a strong relationship with your followers. If you’re looking for some inspiration, give these 103 questions a try. They’ll help you learn more about your audience while also keeping them entertained. And who knows? You might just make some new friends along the way.