"If you could eat dinner with three people, dead or alive, excluding Jesus Christ and family members, who would you pick?"
That was the question my dad, a University alumnus, posed to every single Houston-area Jefferson Scholar nominee that he interviewed at our house for as far back as I can remember.
It's been a while, but I think I can still give you a rough sketch of the answers I heard most: Thomas Jefferson (the suck-ups who said that one never made it to the second round), Winston Churchill, Aristotle, Michael Jordan, Christopher Columbus, "the first man" (how are you going to talk to that guy?), etc.
If you don't know any Jeff Scholars, trust me on this: They are legit. In 10 years of watching the best and the brightest file through my living room, I probably met three kids who had found a cure for a terminal disease, two who had started Fortune 500 companies before the age of 10 and one who took the SAT three times
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