"I think your question contained a premise that was so much funnier and better than any answer a person can come up with. Then as the interviewee you just try to go along with it but also feel a grudging respect for the question. But also I have to say a little anger, 'cause you feel cornered — that question was so much funnier and more interesting than any answer I can invent."

Fri., Jan. 9, Whimsical Victorian dinner, 7 p.m., $200-$500; Disco Inferno, 9 p.m., $85-$100; Mütter Museum, 19 S. 22nd St., 215-563-3737, collphyphil.org

Wed., Jan. 7, 6 p.m., $5 (free for museum members), University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 3260 South St., 215-898-4000, museum.upenn.edu