Historical rescue choices test adaptation as well as achievement

If each panel member could save one person from history and bring them to the present, whom would they choose?

The answers include Ragnar Lothbrok, Reginald Henderson or Nelson, a lost parent, and no one because sudden displacement into the present could be cruel.

The choices range from the partly legendary Ragnar Lothbrok and Admirals Reginald Henderson or Horatio Nelson to bringing back a lost mother. Henderson is considered at the moment when modern medicine might save him immediately after his promotion to admiral. Because his commission began in the 1890s, the panel jokes that he would become the modern Royal Navy's most senior officer, while seriously emphasizing his procurement knowledge and political skill. Another answer declines to choose a famous figure because abrupt removal into the present could burden rather than reward them, turning the counterfactual into a question about adaptation as well as admiration.