If you could meet anyone, alive or dead, who would it be? Consider scientists, entertainers, world leaders, artists, writers, people in your family, and so on. Make a list of questions you’d like to ask this person.
Since I have a degree in English, and I’m an English teacher, and I have levels of nerdoriety that we have not even TALKED about yet, I choose William Shakespeare.
You guys, I LOVE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE SO MUCH. He is like … well, if he weren’t married, and probably sexist, and potentially racist, and completely indifferent to proper hygiene, and you know: DEAD, he would totally be my boyfriend.
THAT IS SO WEIRD. Yeah, I know. I own it.
Questions I would ask William Shakespeare:
1. Sooo … you wanna get a drink or something?
1. Some people say you’re one of the greatest writers who ever lived. How do you feel about that?
2. How did you know that you wanted to be a writer?
3. You invented a lot of new words and phrases. How did you come up with those?
4. People all over the world know your plays. Did you ever think, when you were writing them, that they would still be read four hundred years later?
5. What do you think you would write about if you were alive in the 21st century?
6. How long did it take you to write a play?
7. Were you ever disappointed when you saw your plays onstage? Did you think the action matched up to what you’d imagined when you were writing?
8. You were the main playwright for your theater, but you were also an actor. Did you ever write any parts specifically for yourself and, if so, what were they?
9. Did you ever change your plays based on an audience’s reaction? For example, did you add more fight scenes if they crowd got bored or change an ending that an audience didn’t like?
10. There’s a lot we don’t know about you. I’m not saying you have to divulge any deep, dark secrets, but what would you like modern audiences to know about you?
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January 10th, 2008 at 5:40 am
If i could meet anybody dead or alive it would be Tupac because he is a deep an inteligent person
1. How many times did get shot?
2. What is your middle name?
3. Is livin in new york better than living california?
January 10th, 2008 at 5:40 am
if i could meet anybody in the world it would be jackie robinson. jackie change the baseball league. if i ever had met him i would askhim why did he just let them spit on him. why did he stay in the league,and how did him and babe buth become best friends
Ms. Vincent says:
Madison, remember to use proper writing techniques. Capital letters are important!
January 10th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Iwould want to meet James Stewart. 1.He is best rider to me.2.He won the supercross race.3.Iwould want to have one of his dirtbike.
Ms. Vincent says:
Tevin, you need to write a list of questions you would ask James Stewart if you met him.
January 10th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
If I could meet anyone, dead or alive, it would have to be Robin Williams. He is really funny! I think I have watched most of the movies he has played in. If I could ask him anything, it would have to be:
1. What is your favorite movie? And the ones that you have acted in?
2. If you weren’t an actor, what do you think you would be?
3. In Mrs. Doubtfire, did you enjoy being dressed up as a woman everyday?
4. Did you ever have to work to be funny or did it just come naturally?
Those are the questions I would ask him, that is if I was thinking straight and I had not fainted.
January 10th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
I would like to meet Thomas Jefferson. Not only is the original author of the Declaration of Independence, but a very intelligent person. Much knowledge runs through his mind, even when he was our age. My questions are as follows:
1.How did you mean for Separation of Church and State?
2.How would you have had the government operate instead of in today’s society?
3.Did you have any doubts of the Union succeding from England?
4.Was George Washington all he has been portrayed to be?
5.Why did you choose Louis and Clark for the Louisiana Purchase exploration?
6.Could you please, while your here, explain to the government the actual meaning of the contents of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence?
January 10th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
If Icould meet anyone, alive or dead, I would like to meet Andrew Carnegie. He was a great man who made millions of dollars in manufacturing steel. He was a great business man who actually made a monopoly in the steel business. He believed that rich men should give back to their community and that is what he did. He donated around $350,000,000 and this was during the begining of the 1900s. There would be many questions to ask this great man, I would ask this:
1.What was life like when you were growing up?
2.What inspired you to become a business man?
3.What do you think of the business world today?
4. What kind of business would you start up if you were still alive?
5.How did you become such a great business man?
6.Who did you look up to when you were growing up?
These are just a few questions that I would ask him if I could meet him.
Ms. Vincent says:
What an interesting choice. I like him because he funded public libraries.
January 10th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
If I could talk to someone dead or alive and ask them questions, it would be my grandmother ( or mamaw as we called her ). She died January 4, 2003. I didn’t get around to knowing her before she passed. I was too young to really hang out with the elders. So, my questions are as follows:
1. What was it like raising my mother?
2. How did you feel when grandpa got sick?
3. How were you always so strong emotionally?
4. Did you ever get tired of playing cards with Angela?
5. What was it like for you when grandpa was on the USS Boxer?
6. How did you sit back and let everyone learn from their mistakes? It is really hard to do
Those are some of the questions I would ask her
January 10th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
If I could meet anyone alive or dead i would like to meet Jimi Hendrix because he is practically a guitar god and his music ROCKS!!!
Questions I would ask him:
1. Many people say that you are the greatest and most innovative guitarist in the world. what do you think about that?
2. What do you think inspired you to write so many wonderful songs like “Purple Haze,” “The Wind Cries Mary,” and so much more?
3. What is it like being on-stage in front of thousands of people cheering simply because they admire your work so much?
4. Can you sign my guitar please?
January 10th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Well, I’d like to meet Kurt Cobain. The cause of his death is uncertain and I really have been wondering how he really died. Also, I love his singing.
Some things I would ask him:
1. How did you really die?
2. What was it like becoming famous?
3. Did you truely love Courtney Love?
4. What was your favorite band when you were famous?
5. Did you really like your own music?
6. How did you come up with the songs that you made?
January 11th, 2008 at 6:12 am
If I could meet anyone I wanted to I would want to meet my aunt. I know it sounds kind of silly, but a long time ago my grandamother had three children and put them up for adoption without telling anyone until last year. Two of them are twin brothers named John Doe and and my aunt, I believe is walking the face of this Earth believing she is an orphan and unwanted and not cared about. But there is a chance she is dead. I probably won’t find out anything ever about her. Or mabye I passed her on the street and didn’t know.
I would be dying to ask her:
1.) So what exactly are you doing as for a career?
2.) Did you ever wonder if your biological family ever thought about you?
3.) Are you married?
4.) With children?
5.) Where have you been?
6.) Do you think you can forgive Grandma D?
7.) Did you think we were dead?
8.) Where we were you raised?
9.) Have you ever tried to find us?
10.) Do you regret meeting me?
Ms. Vincent says:
Holy cow! That is a story right out of a soap opera! You should totally write a book about that.
January 11th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
If I could meet anyone, dead or alive, it would have to be America’s Doctor, Dr. Oz. I have been dying to meet him ever since I discovered the field of Cardiothoracic’s. If I could ask him anything, it would have to be:
1.)What did your first open heart surgery feel like?
2.)What made you decide to incorporate Alternative medicine into your practice?
3.)What made you choose the field of Cardiothoracic’s?
4.)How does it feel to be America’s Doctor?
5.)What’s your biggest fear as a surgeon?
Ms. Vincent says:
Dr. Oz is funny, but I hate it when he shows guts on Oprah.
January 11th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
If I could meet anyone, it would be Merlin. First off he is NOT a mythalogical hero there has been evidence of camelot found. Merlin was a great magician and loyal advisor to King Arthur. He is said to have psychic abilities and to have magical powers. Also another interesting theory is his father’s name was “Corwin”. If I could ask him anything it would have to be:
1.) What is your father’s name?
2.) Are you a Psychic or do you have any Psychic abilities?
3.) How was your childhood?
4.) How did you obtain your “powers”?
5.) How was the Stonehenge built and for what purpose?
6.) How was it being Arthur’s advisor?
7.) Was Excalliber really pulled out of a lake?
8.) Did you really create the sword and the stone?
9.) Did you really find 2 dragons locking in combat?
Ms. Vincent says:
I didn’t know Merlin was real, but I knew that Arthur was. That’s pretty interesting.
January 13th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
I would meet George Harrison. Because he is to me the most amazing Beatle ever. I would probably marry him. Why? I have my own reasons. He is very intelligent and very spiritual and I aspire to be like that. These are the questions I would ask him:
1. How are you?
2. Why are you so drawn to India?
3. Will you divorce your wife?
4. Will you show me how to play the Sitar?
5. Do you like oranges?
6. What is your favorite kind of pie?
Ms. Vincent says:
Isn’t he dead? So the divorce would be unnecessary, right?
January 13th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
If I could meet anyone person it would be Sandra Brown a well known writer. I want to meet her because she gives me so much pleasure through her writing. These are the questions I would ask her:
1. when did you start writing.
2. Why did you start writing.
3. what made you decided to write for a career.
4. What was the first story you wrote.
5. Where do you get your ideas,for your stories, from.