Crazy Interview Tests

[threaded]

It's because that's the shape of the manhole, surely.

A correct answer.

[threaded]

You can't drop a round manhole cover down the hole.

Wrong. Only people who have never actually lifted and replaced such things would think so. Actually it is possible to drop a round manhole cover down the hole. The lip it rests on doesn't generally go all the way around, if it did you'd get problems with lifting the cover due to vacuum, so it you get it just right you can drop it down the hole. Incidentally in the UK they discovered this many many years ago and is why they used to be triangular, and is actually harder to drop down t'ole.

HTH

[swamp]

It's worse getting in to Oxbridge

Q What percentage of the world’s water is contained in a cow? (veterinary medicine, Cambridge)

Q Explain how a perm works (biochemistry, molecular and cellular, Oxford)

Q Here’s a piece of bark, please talk about it (biological sciences, Oxford)

Q Why do so few Americans believe in evolution? (human sciences, Oxford)

Q Are you cool? (philosophy, politics and economics, Oxford)

Q Why don’t we just have one ear in the middle of our face? (medicine, Cambridge)

Q Put a monetary value on this teapot (PPE, Oxford)

Q If there were three beautiful, naked women standing in front of you, which one would you pick? Does this have any relevance to economics? (PPE, Oxford)

Q Of all 19th-century politicians, which one was most like Tony Blair? (PPE, Oxford)

Q Why can’t you light a candle in a spaceship? (physics, Oxford)

[threaded]

Erm, you can light a candle in a spaceship. They've obviously not tried.

[Paddy]

Erm, you can light a candle in a spaceship. They've obviously not tried.

If you did the flame would be spherical and heat would be dispersed equally in all directions.

[thunderlizard]

It's easy enough if you leave the spaceship on earth while you do it.

[TheMonkey]

Didn't one of the Apollo ships get burned out on the pad and kill the astronauts. Bloody candles!!

[threaded]

If you did the flame would be spherical and heat would be dispersed equally in all directions.

Ah ha, that is the answer to a different question: "why can't you light a candle during free-fall", but it is Oxford after all, so one has to make allowances.

[sparklelard]

Erm, you can light a candle in a spaceship. They've obviously not tried.

It'll probably go bang due to the high oxygen levels in manned spacecraft.

[Sockpuppet]

Where do I start....

* Went for a job at ASDA as Santa Claus...was asked to draw what Santa Claus looked like on some scrap paper. (didnt get the gig....f*ckers)

* Went for an interview at the "Big W" and I was asked to do a dance for the line manager. I wasnt reserved or professional in telling him that I wasnt interested.

* Went for another interview and they asked me to build a foam bridge and crawl through it. I also injured someone with a foam brick.

* Capital One gave me a personality questionaire, work experiance questionaire and maths test. Pished over the maths but they said I failed the work experiance as I didnt have enough (well why did you invite me to the interviews morons...you read my CV the same as everyone else)....and that I didnt fit the psych profile of the company (even though the test said there are no right or wrong answers). Maybe it was the question "other peoples problems bother me" to which I responded "no". If they were my problems they would bother me and these by definition are other peoples problems so by definition they dont bother me.

* National Stagecoach got some actress to scream at me to see how I would react. I was tempted to scream back....louder.

Thats about it.