The surprising part was that a bunch of people answered them in replies and comments to the post.
So McCrabby decided, he should take a shot at his own answers. Here are the twenty stupid interview questions, and the answers McCrabby would recommend (please add a few of your own, if you are so inclined):
Q) Why was your GPA not a 4.0?
A) Because I never cheat.
Q) There 1,000 buckets, one of them contains poison, the rest of them are filled with water. They all look the same. If a pig drinks that poison, it will die within 30 minutes. What is the minimum number of pigs to you need to figure out which bucket contains the poison within one hour?
A) I'll just have a diet Pepsi, please.
Q) How many piano tuners are there in Massachusetts?
A) Probably more than there are in Alaska.
Q) Name three things that, if you were told were part of the job, would cause you to not take the position.
A) Commission-only, working for you, being asked a question like this
Q) A 22-year-old girl, who is getting a bachelor’s degree, is taking her 100-year-old grandmother for her driving test. What can you say about this family?
A) Nice kid, but she should just drive Grandma where she wants to go - Note to Grandma.. QUIT DRIVING - TAKE A BREAK!!!
Q) If for some reason you came in late to work (weather, woke up late, etc), how would you compensate our company for the time?
A) I guess I'd ask them to look at all the extra hours I've already put in, such as the eight hours of interviews I've been put through.
Q) Do you mind not seeing your family, wife, or children for weeks at a time?
A) Yes
Q) How much is one over two times the square root of pi?
A) It equals one-half the square root of pi (was that a trick question?)
Q) Why should we hire you? You don’t seem like our type.
A) You know what? I don't think you're my type either. Your secretary is cute, though.
Q) There are 25 horses and 5 race tracks. How many races need to be run to select the top 5 horses?
A) One - run em all at once on one track.
Q) Sing a few lines of your favorite song.
A) "Take this job and shove it - I aint workin' here no more.... My woman done left and took all the reasons - I was working for "
Q) Have you ever stolen pens from work?
A) No, but I have a nice calculator and a leather chair from my last job; wanna see em?
Q) If you had to get rid of one of the 50 United States, which one would it be and why?
A) Where do you live?
Q) Having an infinite supply of water and two containers, one for 3 liters and one for 5 liters, how would you measure 4 liters?
A) I remember Bruce Willis did that in Diehard III.. Jeremy Irons was the bad guy (you should watch it sometime). Anyway, Fill the 5 liter container and than pour it into the 3 liter container. That leaves 2 liters in the 5 liter container. Now, empty the 3 liter container, and then pour the 2 liters from the 5 liter container into the 3 liter container. Fill the 5 liter container. Pour the remainder of the 3 liter container from the 5 liter container. Since the 3 liter container already had 2 liters in it, one liter from the 5 liter container will fill it leaving 4 liters in the 5 liter container. I think Samuel L. Jackson helped Bruce Willis figure that out, and they saved New York City.
Q) We see you have cooking as a hobby on your C.V. Are you pragmatic or academic when it comes to cooking?
Q) You are on a game show. There are three doors. Behind one of them is a prize; the other two have coal. The host knows which door holds the prize. You choose door #1. Before it is opened, the host opens door #3 and reveals a lump of coal. You have the choice to stick with the door you chose or #2; what do you do?
A) I can't get the coal? This planet is running out of fossil fuels.
Q) How many people can you fit into Texas?
A) How many people want to go? It's hot there.
Q) How many scale measurements does it take to know which of eight balls weighs the most? How many would 28 balls take?
A) You have a lot of balls, asking that question
Q) Can a stack of quarters the height of the Empire State Building fit into a normal-sized room?
Q) Tell me a joke.
A) Henry Kissinger, Ghandi and a hiring manager are on a plane that 's getting ready to crash. Kissinger and Ghandi take the parachutes and jump to safety. The hiring manager asks one more stupid question.
Q) Estimate the revenue of M&M’s in the US.
A) Probably about the same as me; they don't have a job either.
Q) If I were to tell you that you aren’t ambitious, how would you refute me?
A) How did you know that?
Q) Why are manholes round?
A) Aw, come on; are you really going to ask that old question? Round makes them impossible to fall into the hole.
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