How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?
Why would you want to put Golf Balls into a school bus? Surely the primary purpose of a school bus is to transport children to school, not golf balls. Unless it's golf ball school, then you would have to adjust the size of the bus so that each individual golf ball has its own seat to prevent overcrowding. Could be dangerous if the bus hit a bump in the road, golf balls bumping into one another could cause them to get damaged. And if these golf balls are entitled to an education, they should be liable to sue you as well.
How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?
Window washing isn't the area of work I want to go into. This question is completely irrelevant to me.
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?
I'm not sure about this one, but I'm assuming this might mean a lot of lonely girls </3
How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?
Not enough, I could do with one to tune my piano downstairs, it hasn't been tuned in forever.
Why are manhole covers round?
It's like sorting shapes, but with fat people. Will the fat person fit through the square man hole? Noooooo, will the fat person fit through the circle manhole? Yesssss!
Design an evacuation plan for San Francisco.
Shit bricks.
How many times a day does a clock’s hands overlap?
Technically all the time. The clocks hands overlap at the centre of the clock.
Explain the significance of "dead beef"
When you have 'beef' with someone, you tend to have something against them. 'Dead beef' is where you put that grudge aside and make good friends with the person who you had the beef with.
A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune. What happened?
He had a drunken wager with one of his friends that he couldn't push his car all the way to the hotel, and bet his whole fortune. His friend twisted the man's words around when they made the wager, so the man believe that he would lose his fortune if he didn't push his car all the way to the hotel. In a drunken stupor, he began the arduous journey towards the hotel, car in front of him. Many turned out to see this feat of drunken strength, and he soon had a cult following cheering him on. Invigorated but near collapse, he carried on until he got to the hotel parking lot. His friend drove up to him, made him sign over his fortune, and he was left penniless asides from his car. To add insult to injury, in a rage he pushed the car into the hotel, and was fined for vandalism.
You need to check that your friend, Bob, has your correct phone number, but you cannot ask him directly. You must write the question on a card which and give it to Eve who will take the card to Bob and return the answer to you. What must you write on the card, besides the question, to ensure Bob can encode the message so that Eve cannot read your phone number?
'Facebook?', or seeing as this is for a Google interview, 'Google+'. Who uses phones now anyways?
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?
Women were said to be bad luck on pirate ships, I wouldn't have this issue as they wouldn't let me on board, never mind become the captain.
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?
You wouldn't need the balance, simply picking them up two at a time should give you enough indication of which one is the heavier one, even if there is a slight difference. It's kind of like an eye test, in an eye test there is some inkling which lense is clearer, even if there is only a slight difference.
You are given 2 eggs. You have access to a 100-story building. Eggs can be very hard or very fragile means it may break if dropped from the first floor or may not even break if dropped from 100th floor. Both eggs are identical. You need to figure out the highest floor of a 100-story building an egg can be dropped without breaking. The question is how many drops you need to make. You are allowed to break 2 eggs in the process.
I would refuse to participate in this experiment, as even though these two eggs are identical in fragility, other eggs can be harder or more fragile, therefore rendering this experiment useless as it doesn't apply to all eggs. Not only that, but there would almost certainly be people walking around underneath your 100 story building, and I wouldn't want to risk egging someone and having to pay them to have their suits dry cleaned or whatever.
Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew.
Google it. Seriously kid. Google it.
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?
Marvel at the fact that I've been made smaller than I am already. The sheer wonder at this magnificent feat would distract me from the blender blades, thus making my death relatively painless as I wouldn't see it coming, and I wouldn't be tensed up in fear.
I expect the job offers from Google to come flooding in.
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