first pass; aged 38

• your most marked characteristic?
  • I'm predictably unable to cope with even the most basic actions required to live in the 21st century.
• the quality you like most in a man?
  • relateability
• the quality you like most in a woman?
  • relateability
• what do you most value in your friends?
  • relateability; appreciation of my introvertedness
• what is your principle defect?
  • See question 1. My tendency to run away every time I get close to a way of helping what's wrong with me.
• what is your favourite occupation?
  • daydreaming.
• what is your dream of happiness?
  • To be left alone, to pursue whatever activities I wish to.
• what to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
  • to lose my greatest ally
• what would you like to be?
  • when I grow up? haha The serious answer: calm.
• in what country would you like to live?
  • A country where the skyscrapers of the city are right next door to the forest. Failing that, Northern Europe probably.
• what is your favourite colour?
  • all of them.
• what is your favourite flower?
  • It used to be the snowdrop, but seeing as there are none in my garden, I will now say the fuchsia.
• what is your favourite bird?
  • the kakapo.
• who are your favourite poets?
  • Basho; Issa
• who is your favourite hero of fiction?
  • Neville Longbottom; Bilbo Baggins; Hercule Poirot; The Sandman; Orlando
• who is your favourite heroine of fiction?
  • Luna Lovegood; Amélie Poulain; Lucy Pevensey; Hermione Granger; Sunny Beaudelaire
• Who are your favourite composers?
  • hm, unfortunately we don't really have composers in the 21st century.
• who are your favourite painters?
  • Frida Kahlo; Albrecht Durer; Piero di Cosimo
• who are your heroes in real life?
  • Those who struggle with the same darknesses I do, and manage to live, love and create more freely.
• who are your favourite heroines of history?
  • Queen Elizabeth I of England; Boudica; I'm highly embarrassed there aren't more.
• what are your favourite names?
  • Names for what? Names for people, names for things? I find this question embarrassingly confusing.
• what is it you most dislike?
  • Having overcome the temptation to put 'myself' and thinking about it a little more, I would say racism & bigotry.
• what historical figures do you most despise?
  • Hitler, Stalin, all the usuals.
• what event in military history do you most admire?
  • When Hannibal got up and just about made it.
• what reform do you most admire?
  • Reform was such a 19th-century concept. I suppose: any reform which has helped me live my life in the way that I enjoy it today.
• what natural gift would you most like to possess?
  • that of ease. (elegance; doing things effortlessly; not tripping over all the time, getting tongue-tied or feeling like a complete idiot after every conversation I have)
• how would you like to die?
  • I'd like to know ahead of time, so that I can contemplate it. Though not so far ahead that I have an a frustratingly impossible need to do everything before I go.
• what is your present state of mind?
  • A little restless and frustrated.
• what is your motto?
  • "Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may catch some disgusting skin disease." (i.e.: I don't have a serious motto!)

not sure where this edit of the questions comes from ; the Wikipedia page