HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR PARTNER?

Take our quiz to see how well you and your partner really know one another.

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Do this with your partner. Get a sheet of blank paper each. Read our questions and write down two sets of answers to each one – your own answer and what you think your partner will answer (don’t look at what your partner is writing!). When you’re both done, compare notes to see how well you scored.

1. Favourite singer/musician/band?
2. Dream job?
3. If the house was on fire, what’s the first thing (apart from each other, of course,) that you’d save?
4. Describe your dream date evening.
5. Do you prefer dogs or cats?

6. Favourite movie?
7. Favourite female and male movie stars?
8. The most important thing children should be taught?
9. Your greatest fear?
10. You find a wallet with 10 000.00 in it. What do you do?
11. You know a friend is cheating? What do you do?
12. Favourite meal?
13. What do you do if someone pushes in front of you in a queue?
14. If you won a million, what’s the first thing you would do?
15. What food will you absolutely not eat?
16. You walk out of a shop and realise that the cashier didn’t ring up one of your purchases that cost 1000.00. What do you do?
17. If you could meet anybody in history, who would it be?
18. If you could have any car, what would it be?
19. Favourite possession?
20. Favourite social media platform?
21. Favourite local TV show?
22. Favourite time of year/season?
23. If you had to, which would you rather do without – your mobile phone or the TV?
24. Favourite colour?
25. Favourite sport/team/player?
26. Would you rather be fashionable or comfortable?
27. Did you have a nickname as a child? What was it?
28. What disappointment or rejection from your past still stings?
29. Would you rather go on a spaceship to Mars, around-the-world boat cruise, a three-month safari through Africa, or to the Cricket World Cup?

30. Favourite item of clothing?
31. Which of your achievements are you most proud of?
32. If you were an animal, what would you be?
33. Outside of work, what's something you consider yourself naturally talented at?
34. Have you ever told your partner a secret that you/ve told nobody else?
35. If you could make one rule that everyone on earth had to obey, what would it be?

CHECKMATE
What you both scored in this quiz is not the most important thing, having a laugh at your answers or learning things about your partner are, but here's a potential scoring guide:

16+ points:
You know your partner incredibly well. If you scored more than 16, and you've been with your partner for less than six months, you're probably a bit intense in your relationship style but it’s great to see how genuinely interested you are in knowing everything about your partner.

10 to 15 points:
You know your partner pretty well. Why not chat about the things you know less well? Maybe the two of you haven't talked much about your childhood, or you've neglected to share the negative experiences you’ve had in your life. Here's a chance to share.

5-9 points:
Perhaps you’ve only been together for a few months, or maybe you work in the same field and talk mostly about work or maybe you just don’t talk very much. Studies show that successful couples are intimately familiar with each other’s worlds. To keep the connection between you and your partner alive, you should make discovering more about your partner a priority.

0-4 points:
The positive news is there's lots of room for improvement here.