You didn't learn anything really interesting or unexpected about the other person, much less whether they'd actually make a good match for you. You and a potential romantic interest take turns asking the same old tired questions of "Where do you live?," "Where are you from?," and "What kind of work do you do?." After responding with the obligatory answers, followed by an uncomfortable silence, and then a few more meaningless questions that sound more like a script than an actual conversation, the date ends. Go on enough awkward first dates, and you can likely recite the routine getting-to-know-you Q & A from memory.