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If you had your choice, who would you meet?

Name-Dropper's Time Travel: Answers

Charles Gray as Julius Caesar in 1979.

Don't you love name-droppers? They have such cool stories to tell. It's fun to collect anecdotes about people you've heard of, but never met.

The object of this quiz was to help you be a time-travelling name-dropper, too. All you needed to do was figure out the time and place where you could best meet these historic individuals. Easy, right?

The final task was up to you: figure out something clever to say to these notables. After all, 'Can I have your autograph?' isn't much of a conversation opener.

Match the Famous Person, the date, and the place where you should go. (Space/time, remember?)

Famous PersonTimePlaceWhat you would say
  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Julius Caesar
  4. Michelangelo
  5. Frank Borman
  6. Mata Hari
  7. Elizabeth I
  8. Sacagawea
  9. Ada Lovelace
  10. Marie Antoinette
  • 1685
  • 1751
  • 10 January 49 BCE
  • 1512
  • Christmas Eve 1968
  • 13 March 1915
  • July-September 1588
  • 4 November 1804
  • October 1842
  • September 1792
  • Cambridge apple orchard
  • Philadelphia field
  • Rubicon River, Italy
  • Rome
  • Lunar orbit
  • Paris nightclub
  • Various royal palaces, England
  • Near Ft Mandan, North Dakota
  • Porlock
  • Tuilleries, Paris
  • Duck!
  • Ben, come in out of the rain.
  • Alea iacta est? Maybe, but I'd watch the croupier.
  • Nice picture.
  • If you read that on TV, the atheists will sue you.
  • Great final performance!
  • Don't worry, the Spanish are lousy sailors.
  • White men can't find their behinds with both hands and a road map.
  • Hey, cool geek chick. Wanna play 'Dungeons and Dragons'?
  • Pass the brioche.

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