1. What job, which you know you will never have, would you like to experience for a week? President of Russia so I can overthrow the regime
2. How many languages can you speak? One and a half. I took four years of French but forgot virtually all of it
3. Blinds, curtains (drapes, for you Americans), shutters, other? Blinds
4. Do you think life would, in general, be better or worse if somehow the internet had never been invented? A little bit of both I think
5. Do you believe, if we go out into space, we should concentrate on new worlds to colonise or strip-mining those we find in order to keep Earth going? It depends on whether other life forms are involved, we shouldn't upset another planet's ecosystem.
6. Who’s your favourite film composer?
Leonard Bernstein, always liked the West Side Story soundtrack.