Following On From Spoonboy's....

[Slapshot]

....In History Who Would You Most Like To Meet..... you are allowed to invite seven people FROM HISTORY (ie they must be dead) to accompany you to dinner....who would you invite and why???

Albert Einstein - The greatest physicist of them all, what was his motivation
Charles Darwin - I want to know where his first ideas on evolution came from
Marshal Michel Ney - Was Napoleon really that great or was it small man syndrome
Joan of Arc - Someone who gave everything for a belief what was her motivation.
Robert Burns - every table needs more than one Ayrshireman and he could provide the entertainment as well.
Admiral Lord Nelson - Id want the answer to that question Kiss me or Kismet??
Cleopatra - every table needs a bit of glamour and I'd want to know what really happened between her Caeser and mark Anthony

[stewey]

Its interesting that after Joan of Arc you mention the word Burns.

[Canary42]

My dad - he went off to war when I was 5 weeks old and was killed in Italy some three years later without the opportunity ever for home leave.


William Shakespeare - I'd want an answer to that question "What were you doing in your early life ?"


Charles Dickens - I'd like an answer to the question "Who did murder Edwin Drood ?"

George Eliot - early feminine writer who felt compelled to write under a masculine name to get published.

Richard III - I want to know whether he really did murder the princes in the tower

Leonardo da Vinci - so he could produce one of his wonderful drawings for me.

Isabella Mary Beaton - so I wouldn't have to cook the meal :)

[jim360]

It was Kiss me. "Kismet" is a Victorian prudery invention.

Einstein would grace any dinner table, I'd probably have him too. And also at least one of his "opponents" over quantum theory. Neils Bohr, perhaps -- just to hear the two of them discussing it and hopefully even chipping in myself.

Also perhaps some Greek Philosophers. Their conversations must have been interesting. So Epicurus, Aristotle, Plato and Socrates; and Archimedes thrown in for good measure. I want to know how he did his work before Calculus.

[The Builder]

Oscar Wilde ...... I've read the biographies many times. So many questions.

JMW Turner ..... Devon boy, well, a Londoner, but his family was from South Molton. I'd ask him to do a sketch of me.

Duke of Wellington ..... born in Ireland, but refused to be called Irish. Favourite quote - " A man can be born in a stable, but that doesn't make him a horse"

Edward Hopper ... favourite painter ... 'nuff said.

Gore Vidal .... only recently died ... I'd just sit and listen.

Mozart ... just to see if he could knock out an aria or two over coffee.

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire ...... just so I could get her phone number........ er ... or was that Keira Knightley?

[DTCwordfan]

Marco Polo - oh to be an explorer/venturer/entrepreneur back then
Clive of India and Lord Mountbatten - so they could have a good battle
over the history and legacy of India
George Romney - got to have one artist and he's from my town of birth
Andrew Carnegie - he could pay - and to understand a little more of this complex man and the reasons behind his philanthropism
Elizabeth 1 and Mary Queen of Scots - see if we could find some resolution

[atalanta]

All the "The Greats"
Alexander the Great
Peter the Great
Catherine the Great
Alfred the Great
Charlemagne
Cyrus the Great
Gregory the Great. Why ? To find out how they earned "the great". But I expect we'd have to speak Latin.

[Spoonboy]

Seven people at dinner would be my father who was drowned when I was six, if to think what he thinks of me now. I would have Julius Caesar, and Alexander of course in order that Julius Caesar and he could compare notes, as it were. I woulkd also share the table with Plato, Aristotle, Hadrian and Praxiteles.