Friday Interviewing Fun
By Michelle Malay Carter on March 13, 2008
Here are some questions you might want to mix in during your next interview just to keep the candidate on his toes.
- If you ate a clown, would he taste funny?
- When companies ship Styrofoam, what do they pack it in?
- If a mute swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?
- When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their signs?
- When you open a bag of cotton balls, is the top one meant to be thrown away?
- Where do forest rangers go to “get away from it all”?
- Why isn’t there mouse-flavored cat food?
- Is it possible to be totally partial?
- Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?
- If the funeral procession is at night, do folks drive with their headlights off?
- If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound?
- When it rains, why don’t sheep shrink?
- What’s another word for “thesaurus”?
- How can you tell when you run out of invisible ink?
- If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?
- Why is that when you transport something by car, it’s called shipment but when you transport something by ship it’s called cargo?
- If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
- If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
- If it’s 0 degrees today, and?it will?be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold will it be?
- What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
- If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too?
- If Ignorance is bliss, why aren’t more people happy?
And last but not least – If I’m OK and you’re OK, why don’t they just fix the system?
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2 Responses to “Friday Interviewing Fun”
Very funny list. I don’t think they’ll make it into my interviews next week but it does make me want to ask some bizarre questions that don’t really have answers… Its fun to see how people respond. I like to push people out of their comfort zone, it tells a lot about a person for in a workplace…
Hi Mike,
Thanks for stopping by. Yes, I daresay, that no one will have a scripted answer for any of these questions.
Michelle