What is the oddball-est job interview question?

• How many people are using Facebook in San Francisco at 2:30pm on a Friday?

• Just entertain me for five minutes, I’m not going to talk.

• If Germans were the tallest people in the world, how would you prove it?

• What do you think of garden gnomes?

• Is your college GPA reflective of your potential?

• Would Mahatma Gandhi have made a good software engineer?

• If you could be #1 employee but have all your coworkers dislike you or you could be #15 employee and have all your coworkers like you, which would you choose?

• How would you cure world hunger?

• Room, desk and car – which do you clean first?

• Does life fascinate you?

• Given 20 ‘destructible’ light bulbs (which breaks at certain height), and a building with 100 floors, how do you determine the height that the light bulb breaks?

• Please spell ‘diverticulitis’.

• Name 5 uses of a stapler without staple pins.

• How much money did residents of Dallas/Ft. Worth spend on gasoline in 2008?

• How would you get an elephant into a refrigerator?

• You have a bouquet of flowers. All but two are roses, all but two are daisies, and all but two are tulips. How many flowers do you have?

• How many planes are currently flying over Kansas?

• How many different ways can you get water from a lake at the foot of a mountain, up to the top of the mountain?

• What is 37 times 37?

• If you could be a superhero, what power would you possess?

• If you were a Microsoft Office program, which one would you be?

• Pepsi or Coke?

• Are you exhaling warm air?

• You’re in a row boat, which is in a large tank filled with water. You have an anchor on board, which you throw overboard (the chain is long enough so the anchor rests completely on the bottom of the

• How do you feel about those jokers at Congress?