How many of these questions can you answer?

[Woolys]

I was bored so I was looking for something fun to do. I found out that google gives really odd interview questions.
How many of them can you answer?


How many golf balls can fit in the school bus?
- I was able to answer this one, but I really don't feel like writing out all the mouth all over again. It WILL require estimating though, so it isn't exact. The official answer even says so. There is no correct way of answering this since there a different school bus sizes. So in relativity I got that the answer right, well, in terms of methods for solving it. I used the same formulas, etc. as the official answers.

How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?
- Only a severely handicapped person cannot answer this.

How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?
- This one is a bit harder than the one above but still easy :3

Why are manhole covers round?
- Multiple answers for this one but I still got it right :D! This is also easy

Design an evacuation plan for San Francisco
- I can't say anything about this without giving you the partial answer

How many times a day does a clock’s hands overlap?
- I needed help with this one. ;c

Explain the significance of "dead beef"
- I answered "Beef in the form of food is already dead so there is no significance", which is wrong.

A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune. What happened?
- Uh

You need to check that your friend, Bob, has your correct phone number. Ask him in a way that no one will find out YOUR phone number if they were listening to you conversation.
- I got this right

You're the captain of a pirate ship…and your crew gets to vote on how the gold is divided up. If fewer than half of the pirates agree with you, you die. How do you recommend apportioning the gold in such a way that you get a good share of the booty, but still survive?

- I got this one right, but I refined my answer after looking at the official answer

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?

- Third easiest one for me

Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew.

- Easy

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?

- Kind of easy


I'll give you the answers if more people post because I don't have enough time to write them out right now.

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[Dnitro]

wait nvm

[carolcat]

I know the manhole cover one for sure :D

[Port]

Are these scientifically logical questions or trick questions/riddles?

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?

Jump.
"your mass is proportionally reduced" => proportionally less gravity

[Kochieboy]

How many times a day does a clock’s hands overlap?
- I needed help with this one. ;c

Easy, 24 times...

[Port]

Easy, 24 times...

12 times..?
Wait, for half-hours too.
Hold on, this is a bit odd. Let me think about this for a bit.
Wait, 24 times.

[Kochieboy]

12 times..?
Wait, for half-hours too.
Hold on, this is a bit odd. Let me think about this for a bit.

Wait, 24 times. 

:yaoming:

[SpreadsPlague]

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?

binary searching

 

[Daedalus]

Post or PM them! Do want :D

[dkamm65]

Jump.
"your mass is proportionally reduced" => proportionally less gravity

That's not how physics works.

[Kochieboy]

That's not how physics works.

It's true, you still get the same amount of gravitational pull no matter the mass.

[dkamm65]

It's true, you still get the same amount of gravitational pull no matter the mass.

Yeah so you would only jump like 1cm high.

[Port]

It's true, you still get the same amount of gravitational pull no matter the mass.

Gravitation, or gravity, is a natural phenomenon by which physical bodies attract with a force proportional to their mass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity

How could I confuse the mass of the attractor with the attracted? :/

[-Pablo-]

I know the manhole cover one for sure :D

Only shape that wouldn't fall in it's hole

[CopBlock]

I was bored so I was looking for something fun to do. I found out that google gives really odd interview questions.
How many of them can you answer?


How many golf balls can fit in the school bus?
- I was able to answer this one, but I really don't feel like writing out all the mouth all over again. It WILL require estimating though, so it isn't exact. The official answer even says so. There is no correct way of answering this since there a different school bus sizes. So in relativity I got that the answer right, well, in terms of methods for solving it. I used the same formulas, etc. as the official answers.

How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?
- Only a severely handicapped person cannot answer this.

How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?
- This one is a bit harder than the one above but still easy :3

Why are manhole covers round?
- Multiple answers for this one but I still got it right :D! This is also easy

Design an evacuation plan for San Francisco
- I can't say anything about this without giving you the partial answer

How many times a day does a clock’s hands overlap?
- I needed help with this one. ;c

Explain the significance of "dead beef"
- I answered "Beef in the form of food is already dead so there is no significance", which is wrong.

A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune. What happened?
- Uh

You need to check that your friend, Bob, has your correct phone number. Ask him in a way that no one will find out YOUR phone number if they were listening to you conversation.
- I got this right

You're the captain of a pirate ship…and your crew gets to vote on how the gold is divided up. If fewer than half of the pirates agree with you, you die. How do you recommend apportioning the gold in such a way that you get a good share of the booty, but still survive?

- I got this one right, but I refined my answer after looking at the official answer

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?

- Third easiest one for me

Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew.

- Easy

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?

- Kind of easy


I'll give you the answers if more people post because I don't have enough time to write them out right now.

give the answers