Dinner Guest

Have you ever been asked who you would like to have dinner with either living or dead?
For some reason, people ask me that a great deal of the time.
I assume it is because it is very telling. Or maybe not. 
I don't know why people always ask me that question.
To me what guest you would invite would tell me a bit of you. 
Is that the only reason it's asked? Or am I missing something?

The other day I was listening to an interview on Sirius while working on the dreaded spreadsheet. I felt I learned more about the interviewer by the questions posed and comments made than I learned about the interviewee. Ever hear that type of interview?
Oh, not the Diane Sawyer or Barbara Walters where it is all just titillation and nothing is learned or said, I mean a real interview.
For example, the question was asked would this celebrity type person ever consider dating or marrying a woman who was as successful or more successful than them? Then added, "Wouldn't that bother you?"
So to me that interviewer was saying it would bother him, so he asked this person if it would bother them. Hmm...more telling of the interviewer than the person being interviewed to me.

Yesterday evening I was asked the dreaded who would you like to have dinner with yet again.
I said, "You" because that is who I was having dinner with. But they wouldn't let me off the hook until I turned it on them. And then we discussed their choices. It is interesting, but I find it curious why I am always asked this question.  I know Rick isn't asked this all the time. I am asked a great deal of the time. Which got us talking about this later in the evening when alone.

So I am asking this to you all, my lovely blog readers, have you been asked this question more than once? If so why do people ask this do you think?
Who would you wish to have dinner with alive or dead? Yes, I'm asking because I will learn about you. C'mon now, type away.