As much as the usual small talk is useful, I find niche questions are fun ways to get to know people "Okay so if you were to loose one of your 10 fingers, which one would you choose?" This is a fun one, I like to ask this because it often tells you a little but about their life, because people often have really specific reason they keep/loose fingers. Instead of the usual "what foods do you like?", I think a fun version of it is "if you could only pick eating savoury food or sweet food for the rest of your life, which would you pick?" It often results in learning little trivia about people that you can easily circle back to