Question of the Day - Thursday, June 19th, 2025

[Gill-b]

None, because I know I will make a hash of the meeting by doing something inappropriate like tripping over something or by spilling tea in their lap... or by asking a question which will earn me the is-this-person-right-in-the-head look from them. I will probably land up in prison or an asylum or be beheaded or be burnt at the stake. Or get The Cut Direct. A hopeless situation I would rather avoid.

 

[tripletfeb]

As clichè as it is, I would want to meet Jesus, see how the people in his time were with him. But I do like some other answers of Washington, Laura Ingalls, Nikola Tesla, Lincoln

 

[Sally PB]

Some of these would require an interpreter.

In no particular order:

Beethoven
Socrates
Cato (and I'd record him, so we'd know how Latin was actually pronounced )
Dan Fogelberg
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Shakespeare
Lincoln

 

[C Siena]

As @tripletfeb wrote, Jesus and the apostles or maybe some of the early Church Fathers, Many of the saints. Some of what the others have written.
For modern times, William F Buckley Jr, a master of English vocabulary.

 

[Evadig]

I'd like to meet all prominent people in history, but especially all US Presidents, George III, Napoleon, John Barry, Grant, Lee, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Nimitz and Halsey. Also Bach, Beethoven, and Handel. And all Popes.

 

[SkyAJK]

Marie Antoinette

Same, and I will ask her why did she say "give them cake" when the whole country was starving? She'd probably say... uh..I did not say it.

 

[SkyAJK]

Marie Antoinette

I would ask Marie Antoinette why she has such a extravagant spending habits? She will most likely reply.....because it is Black Friday sales

 

[CombNWattles]

G. K. Chesterton!

 

[sourland]

Abraham Lincoln to warn him about the assassination.