Some of those questions are plain stupid, like the one with the coin and the blender. I mean, if you were in a world where you could transform into a coin, then why not transform the blender blades into soft padding? Wait a second...I answered the question.
I try to answer these questions, coz i find it somewhat appealing to me lol. 1. How many golf balls can fit in a school bus? School bus is nothing but a form of cuboid, meaning it has a length, breadth and height. What we need to find here is the amount of golf balls required to fill the VOLUME of the school bus. Since we are not given any specific volume, nor the height, length or the breadth of the school bus, I WILL take the take the initiative of guessing the length, breadth, and height of the school bus on my own I assume a normal school bus to be in the ratio of 1:1:2 = width:height:length Also assuming a school bus has a width of 50 inches. we have this ratio of the school bus, height:width:length = 50:50:100 (inches) So the volume of the school bus V = 50 X 50 X 100 = 250000 sq.inches Assuming a normal golfball is around 2 inches(approx) no. of golf balls = 2,50,000/2 = 1,25,000 So, by this equation I can say, we can easily fit around 1,25,000 golf balls in a normal school bus. 2. You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do? I really love this type of questions So iam actually reduced to the size of a nickel.. NOT to nickel metal? lol.. This question is actually very unclear, coz a there are two types of blenders. case 1: a blender which has its blades stretched the whole blender... case 2: a blender which has blades near the middle of the blender and not actually streched the whole width of the blender.. If it is the second case: I may well just stand at the edge of the blender. coz i cant get killed because width of blades being too short. I will just stand there adjacent to the side of the blender, until my mom comes and sees me and takes me out of the fucking blender. If it case no. 1: 1) I will call 911 and tell them to shut down power supply in my block/area.... haha. answer which iam not gonna tell in the interview but would like to share only here : I will call my dog and make it shit in the blender, i will take advantage of my dog's shit and come out of the blender...... LOL 3. How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle? I dont see this question is tough/crazy/etc., its really simple to answer this question. Lets assume there are 1 million residents in seattle.. Assuming all of them stay in a house and each house consists of 4 members (mother, father, 2 children) and having atleast 4 windows. So there are 2,50,000 houses which has 1 million windows lol. But thats not all. Lets say each 2 out of 4 person works/ owns some kind of office, then 500,000 person have 2 million windows. So that a total of 3 million windows... now assuming i take 50 cents to wash a window, so i have to charge a total of 1.5 million dollars. But hey did you forget to put sales tax of 10% idiot? (LOL) So 10% sales tax on 1.5 million $ = 150,000 $ Total cost to wash all windows in seattle = 1.65 million dollars$ 4. How would you find out if a machine’s stack grows up or down in memory? Machine? like sewing machine lol. Well i assume its a computer. In a computer if the memory is allocated by stack.. then its probably LIFO manner. So the machines stack grows up when a fucntion is executed and grows down when the function exits.. I learned abt LIFO, FIFO, round robin in 5sem engineering, and its pretty basic to me. 5. Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew. collection of gummy bears ( ROFL) 6. How many times a day does a clock’s hands overlap? I use digital clock widget on my igoogle home page. So i cant really answer ur question right now. 7. You have to get from point A to point B. You don’t know if you can get there. What would you do? Doesnt matter to me if i can reach B or not.. i will go to "B" anyways. 8. Imagine you have a closet full of shirts. It’s very hard to find a shirt. So what can you do to organize your shirts for easy retrieval? I will write the infamous parrot algorithm to keep the shirt i wear the most on the front of the closet, and i assign each of my shirt a specific rank depending on the comments from people i get when i wear them. If there is a shirt which i wear frequently and hear very good comments from people.. i may give it a authority status and hang it on my closet door. LOL. 9. Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife. Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her husband has cheated, but does not know when her own husband has. The village has a law that does not allow for adultery. Any wife who can prove that her husband is unfaithful must kill him that very day. The women of the village would never disobey this law. One day, the queen of the village visits and announces that at least one husband has been unfaithful. What happens? I never in my history book find a queen of only ONE village lol.. Well the answer to this questions is "they have to elect a new king".. coz why would the queen of a village want to see what the husbands of the village's women are upto, right? doesnt she have more IMportant things to do other than spying on husbands of village women lol? A queen may only spy on a king and he is gonna get killed, coz probably the queen has seen him being unfaithful to her. 10. In a country in which people only want boys, every family continues to have children until they have a boy. if they have a girl, they have another child. if they have a boy, they stop. what is the proportion of boys to girls in the country? question should be more specific. I think if it is supposed to be calculated by todays statistics, the proportion will be boys:girls = 1:0 there would be no girls. 11. If the probability of observing a car in 30 minutes on a highway is 0.95, what is the probability of observing a car in 10 minutes (assuming constant default probability)? .3 (approx) 12. If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15, what is the angle between the hour and the minute hands? (The answer to this is not zero!) Depends from where we are measuring the angle. But i say its 180 degrees. reason: Say the angle between minute and hours hand is zero degrees when the time is 2:45. then the angle between the hours and minutes hand is 90 degrees. So it has 180 degree angle when its on 3:15 (I may be wrong) 13. Four people need to cross a rickety rope bridge to get back to their camp at night. Unfortunately, they only have one flashlight and it only has enough light left for seventeen minutes. The bridge is too dangerous to cross without a flashlight, and it’s only strong enough to support two people at any given time. Each of the campers walks at a different speed. One can cross the bridge in 1 minute, another in 2 minutes, the third in 5 minutes, and the slow poke takes 10 minutes to cross. How do the campers make it across in 17 minutes? meh.. this is one of those only ONE boat and four people to cross river questions.. i read this somewhere.. i dont want to go search now... i hope you do so before attending interview. 14. You are at a party with a friend and 10 people are present including you and the friend. your friend makes you a wager that for every person you find that has the same birthday as you, you get $1; for every person he finds that does not have the same birthday as you, he gets $2. would you accept the wager? Yes, i accept. reason: according to the question, there are 10 people in party, including me and my friend. So there are 8 people with whom i have to match my birth date.. taking into consideration that 9 out of 10 people are liars in this world.. there are would be only 1 person out of 8 persons who doesnt agree to say his birth date is not same as mine when i try to offer them a cheap 50 cent bribe. 15. How many piano tuners are there in the entire world? I would say some random number.. like 50926453 16. You have eight balls all of the same size. 7 of them weigh the same, and one of them weighs slightly more. How can you find the ball that is heavier by using a balance and only two weighings? At this point of time, i simply refuse to any more questions.. and would offer him a chance to have a beer with me. LOL. 17. You have five pirates, ranked from 5 to 1 in descending order. The top pirate has the right to propose how 100 gold coins should be divided among them. But the others get to vote on his plan, and if fewer than half agree with him, he gets killed. How should he allocate the gold in order to maximize his share but live to enjoy it? (Hint: One pirate ends up with 98 percent of the gold.) iam fucked up right now.. iam chilling out with my beer. thanks for going through my shit answers! HEY BTW google.. if you are reading my answers and want to offer me a job.. drop me @
after writing this long answers,and its not worth it, now i guess i want my hour backkkkkkkkkkkkkk or at least 10$.
Fancy there being a picture for that.. Ofcourse, if you wanted to get into google, just say, as each answer to the question "I'd google it and find the answer" .
You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do? Here's the blender:
sounds like a university interview. Have to think quick and done a lot of trick quiz's to think 'out the box'. A couple i had a bit of trouble with, like 'How would you find out if a machine’s stack grows up or down in memory?' good post brian
is that some kind of IQ test questions? man i cant answer most of them. anyway i knew that google always treat their employees good. it's very good that your friend can get a job there.
I am going to answer these questions to just for fun 1. How many golf balls can fit in a school bus? 10000001 2. You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do? Pray that the owner of the blender cuts his finger and runs to the faucet to clean his cut while I figure a way to get out.... 3. How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle? Depends on how many windows there are! 4. How would you find out if a machine’s stack grows up or down in memory? Look it up on line! 5. Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew. A database holds information that a script or my favorite .php file creates. It inputs the data via a user submission. This data is then read by other .php files to display it in the browser. 6. How many times a day does a clock’s hands overlap? 2 7. You have to get from point A to point B. You don’t know if you can get there. What would you do? Call my Mom, She Knows Everything! 8. Imagine you have a closet full of shirts. It’s very hard to find a shirt. So what can you do to organize your shirts for easy retrieval? Organize them by color, hanger color or by Tshirt style. 9. Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife. Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her husband has cheated, but does not know when her own husband has. The village has a law that does not allow for adultery. Any wife who can prove that her husband is unfaithful must kill him that very day. The women of the village would never disobey this law. One day, the queen of the village visits and announces that at least one husband has been unfaithful. What happens? The wife steps forward and says ( It was my husband, but do I have to kill him?) 10. In a country in which people only want boys, every family continues to have children until they have a boy. if they have a girl, they have another child. if they have a boy, they stop. what is the proportion of boys to girls in the country? 3 to 1 11. If the probability of observing a car in 30 minutes on a highway is 0.95, what is the probability of observing a car in 10 minutes (assuming constant default probability)? I don't know.... Can I Google it? 12. If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15, what is the angle between the hour and the minute hands? (The answer to this is not zero!) Diagonal 13. Four people need to cross a rickety rope bridge to get back to their camp at night. Unfortunately, they only have one flashlight and it only has enough light left for seventeen minutes. The bridge is too dangerous to cross without a flashlight, and it’s only strong enough to support two people at any given time. Each of the campers walks at a different speed. One can cross the bridge in 1 minute, another in 2 minutes, the third in 5 minutes, and the slow poke takes 10 minutes to cross. How do the campers make it across in 17 minutes? Have them go in a line by how fast they are. Have # 2 climb on #1 back to go across. That eliminates the one extra minute. Then have the two slower folks cross at there speed to get in at exactly 17 minutes. 14. You are at a party with a friend and 10 people are present including you and the friend. your friend makes you a wager that for every person you find that has the same birthday as you, you get $1; for every person he finds that does not have the same birthday as you, he gets $2. would you accept the wager? No, the odds are terrible... 15. How many piano tuners are there in the entire world? I would guess Half a Million, but can I Google that fact? 16. You have eight balls all of the same size. 7 of them weigh the same, and one of them weighs slightly more. How can you find the ball that is heavier by using a balance and only two weighings? Hold one ball in your left hand the whole time while holding the other 7 balls one at a time in your right hand. When you sense one is a tad heavier weigh it and see 17. You have five pirates, ranked from 5 to 1 in descending order. The top pirate has the right to propose how 100 gold coins should be divided among them. But the others get to vote on his plan, and if fewer than half agree with him, he gets killed. How should he allocate the gold in order to maximize his share but live to enjoy it? (Hint: One pirate ends up with 98 percent of the gold.) The pirate is no captain for being dumb, the crew does not know how to count, so he counts out the crews amount leaving himself a whole 98 gold coins because they don't know what the difference is.