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Rudder's advice, via The Guardian.
People tend to run wild with those match questions, marking all kinds of stuff as "mandatory," in essence putting a checklist to the world: I'm looking for a dog-loving, agnostic, nonsmoking liberal who's never had kids - and who's good in bed, of course. But very workaday questions like: "Do you like scary movies?" and: "Have you ever traveled alone to another country?" have amazing predictive power. If you're ever stumped on what to ask someone on a first date, try those. In about three-quarters of the long-term couples OkCupid has brought together, both people have answered them the same way, either both "yes" or both "no."