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Starting this week, 11 Questions asks all of Tumblr one question, and posts the 11 best answers.

This week’s question is:

You can invite any three (3) people, living or dead, to a party. Magically, they’ll all be able to understand each other, whatever languages they speak. Whom do you invite, and what’s the party like?

Bonus questions:

  • What would you serve?
  • Where do you hold the party?
  • Is it a dinner party, or would you invite them to a kegger, a dance party, a cuddle party, etc.?
  • Is it a themed party? e.g. Hawaiian, Halloween, Hufflepuff
  • How long does the party last?
Example answers:
  • “I’ve always wanted to know what J.S. Bach was like, so I’d invite him and two of his sons.”
  • “I’d like to know what Muhammad Ali, Bertrand Russell and Saint Thomas Aquinas would talk about over lamb chops.”
  • “I’d invite Elvis, Errol Flynn and Socrates to a luau. What do you mean, ‘Why?’”

Photo from Roger Wilkerson.

There are four ways to enter:

  1. Submit your answer through 11 Questions’ ask box or submission form.
  2. Tag the post you want to submit (on Tumblr) with 1q11a.
  3. Tag your answer on Twitter with hashtag #1q11a. You can also send it to me @elevenquestions.
  4. Join our Facebook Fan Page and submit your answer, or a link to your answer, there.

Entries can be in a digital form, such as:

  1. A basic list of who you’d invite.
  2. A short story or essay describing the dinner party.
  3. An illustration, painting, or photo of the dinner party in action.
  4. A rhymed and/or metered poem, e.g. a sestina, a tanka, a sonnet, etc. No free verse!
  5. A video or animation.
  6. A photo set, animated or otherwise.
  7. Some combination of the above.
Deadline is Friday, August 10th, at midnight Pacific Time (UTC-8). Good luck!