You're throwing a dinner party and can have ANY 10 guests, any mixture, from any time span or culture. (You do NOT need even numbers of males and females, for you etiquette purists.) You don't have to worry about language barriers, and no one's going to be armed or ready to do violence over the fish course. You're just going to have a nice, lively, entertaining meal and talk through the evening.
What famous people would you invite, and why?
Your focus should be on having an interesting and enjoyable time for everyone---it can be controversial (yes, they can discuss sex, religion, and politics---those are 3 dinner-table topics no one ever gets tired of hearing!), but it's NOT supposed to end in a brawl or murder.
A lot of work for 2-12 points, so I'm expecting most people giving answers will be taking part in this mostly for the fun of sharing ideas and thoughts. Mix it up, and come play with me on this
2006-10-04 12:37:25 · 10 answers · asked by samiracat 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
OK samiracat - remember, you asked :-)
I enjoy history a lot and strongly believe that those who do not know history are doomed to relive the mistakes of the past. I would probably try to have a different dinner every month of the year to learn all that I could about what has really happened from a first eye account and then correlate that to anything that we have in writing today: There are probably two different dinner parties that I would like to start with:
First Party:
Jesus Christ, Peter, Paul, Noah, Moses, Elijah, Solomon, Mary, Adam and Eve: with this group, I would be looking to learn the truths of how the earth really started and how the earth evolved in the early years. To see the relationship for the first 2000 years and how things changed during the second 2000 years leading the Christ’s coming. How Mary felt through the joys of raising the Son of God and how after the death of Jesus the two apostles delivered the message of faith to both the Jews and the Gentiles of the day. I would let them give their version of what they lived through and saw and then contrast that with the various religious books being used today. With all of this occurring during the meal, I would encourage Jesus to speak during our desert and expound on the plan of God and how living today, we should relate to the various peoples of the world.
Hey, the people of today could finally have the “proof” that I see that so many people as questions about here in Yahoo Answers J
For a Second Party:
I would like to have: Thomas Edison, W. Edwards Deming, Joseph M Juran, Peter Drucker, Philip Crosby, Karou Ishikawa, Walter Shewhart, Sir Ronald Fisher, Henry Ford and Frank Gryna (I purposefully left Einstein out of this group to save him for the great thinkers). With this group, I would be looking to learn how to understand the modern management systems and design/development/implementation processes of our modern manufacturing society to better prepare for the information technology society that we are quickly developing in the 21st Century. All of these people (and many more) had major parts to play during the development of our modern society.
From there, I would pick other themes for each month, which could include (not in any given order):
·Great successful war leaders to talk about their strategies (although this party might take a month to talk about all of the possibilities),
·Leaders of great building cultures (Egypt, Greek, Roman, etc.),
·The great developers of entertainment systems (Walt Disney and the like),
·Current world leaders, outstanding leaders of the ages,
·Top 10 presidents of the USA, top world religious leaders of today (maybe show them some family films of the first dinner party),
·Great inventors of the ages,
·Great thinkers of the ages,
·Great Saints from the ages,
·The recorded angles from the Bible, and
·Business tycoons of the last 200 years or so.
I hope that I have not steel too much of the thunder of others here, but I an interested in it all and would want to meet as many of these people as I possible could.
2006-10-04 13:33:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abraham Lincoln Mark Twain Katherine Hephburn Mickey Mantle Thomas Jefferson Chief Sitting Bull Vincent van Gogh Spencer Tracy Thomas Edison Michaelangelo
2006-10-04 22:16:14 · answer #2 · answered by Kevin O 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
John Lennon
Johhny Depp
Carl Sagan
Alexander the Great
Robert E. Lee
Samuel Clemens
Will Rogers
and then a game of chess or poker with Einstein, Stephen Hawking & Doc Holliday
2006-10-05 13:51:52 · answer #3 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My guest list:
Socrates
Aristotle
Alexander the Great
Genghis Khan
Leonardo da Vinci
Georges Sand
Tolstoy
Einstein
Robert Mapplethorpe
Mother Teresa
Why these ten? Just because I think it would make for one hell of an interesting evening. And I'd make sure there were no place cards. Half the fun would be seeing who rubbed elbows with whom.
2006-10-04 20:44:29 · answer #4 · answered by Seeker 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Queen Elizabeth the First
Steven Hawking
Jesus
Martha Washington
Bill Gates
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Susan B. Anthony
Martin Luther King JR.
History is about change, and about discussing the possibilities and problems in life. These people would have the most to say about life, the impetus for change, how to affect change equitably, and one of them has the modern resources to do it.... too bad this can't happen!
2006-10-05 16:56:20 · answer #5 · answered by Ambre 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my guest list would be:
tina turner
melba Moore
gladys knight
stephanie mills
robert cray
tommy castro
bill cosby
bb king
santanna
chuck berry
our table chat would be ,
funny things happening while on tour
jam sessions that everyone have had
what one does while taking break from touring
i would cook for all my guests, then i would start playing some good piano and invite them all to sit in and jam what a party that would be
2006-10-04 19:51:01 · answer #6 · answered by churchonthewayseniors 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Adam
Joan of Arc
Dr King
Gandhi
Malcolm X
Da Vinci
Jesus
Mother Theresa
Socrates
Mandela
Franklin
Confucius
Oprah
2006-10-05 21:37:47 · answer #7 · answered by smitty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Napoleon, Robin Willams just to see how they would interact.
2006-10-04 19:42:07 · answer #8 · answered by noice 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Me,Mom,Dad,0lder Brother,Younger Brother,Older Sister,My Best Friend,and my older brother's Best friend,older sister's best friend, and younger brother's best friend.
2006-10-04 19:58:00 · answer #9 · answered by crsport24 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
general vonkliest,alexander the great,queen cleopatra,queen nefertiti,ramesses the great,moses.abraham of ur,mohammad,bo derek,sophia loren!!!!
2006-10-05 22:37:03 · answer #10 · answered by eldoradoreefgold 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋