If you had to ask 1 question, what would it be?
Published 9:33 am Thursday, February 26, 2009
I always try to share the games with the readers of my column that we play either at home or on road trips.
One of the games that I have shared with you before is Barguments.
“If… (Questions for the Game of Life)” is a book by Evelyn McFarlane. It is another game that we play at the Schmeltzer household, along with other conversation-starting games, such as “Would You Rather …?” which asks you to choose between two odd items or dares. These games are a lot of fun and on road trips make the time fly by.
I am going to list a sample of some of the questions in “If…” and my answers. Feel free to test your own family, friends, or yourself with these thought-provoking questions?
1. If you could have dinner with any four people in history (alive or dead), who would they be?
Jesus Christ, my dad, Jackie Robinson, Teddy Roosevelt.
2. If you could go to one concert of any musician/band in history (alive or dead), who would that be?
Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison.
3. If you could live in any era, what era would you live?
The Civil Rights Movement/JFK/world-changing times of the 1950s and 1960s.
4. If you were stranded on a desert island, what one item would you like to have?
My iPod.
5. If you could see only one movie for the rest of your life, what movie would that be?
“To Kill a Mockingbird.”
6. If you were the president of the U.S., what is the first thing you would do?
Start making government smaller.
7. If you could be married to any person in history (alive/dead), who would that person be?
(It cannot be current husband/wife.)
Martina McBride.
8. If you could have invented anything in history, what would it be?
Printing press.
9. If you could name four books that influenced you the most, what would they be?
“Bible,” “The Alchemist,” “Freakonomics,” “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
10. If you could have any job in life and they all paid the same, what would you like to do?
Run a bookstore/coffee/dessert place with cool jazz/blues/folk playing at night and good ideas being exchanged during the day.
11. If you could kill any one person in history, who would that person be?
Adolph Hitler
12. If you could have one superpower, what would it be and why?
To fly, because it would be so cool and also I would save on gas.
13. If you could have another name, what would it be?
Bill Gates
Thanks for playing!
By the way, congratulation to the Albert Lea High School boys’ wrestling team and coaches as they are going to state again this year. Good luck and godspeed!
Tribune Publisher Scott Schmeltzer’s column appears every Thursday.