Be Prepared for Strange Questions

There are certain things that you can expect to be asked during an interview. You will most likely be asked about your strengths, weaknesses, successes, failures, work experience, working other people, skills, etc. You can practice and prepare for these kinds of questions.

However, the interviewer will almost certainly ask you a question or two that are impossible to prepare for. Interviewers like to ask these questions to see how you react to being put in a stressful or tough situation. They also want to see how you go about solving or answering the question. When this happens, just remember to stay calm. Try to answer in a logical way and explain your thought process.

Here are some tips for answering these kinds of strange questions.

• Take some time to think about your answer.
• Use logic and reason to answer the questions.
• Do not be afraid to ask for more information or ask for clarification.
• Answer confidently – Do not get flustered.
• Do not say, “I don’t know.”
• Do not overthink it.

Remember that there is no way to predict what question you will be asked, but you can practice answering strange questions so you feel more comfortable answering these kinds of questions.

Practice answering these questions without thinking about them too long. You can write these questions on notecards, turn them over so you cannot see the question, and then select a question randomly and try to answer it immediately.

Below we have listed some weird and crazy questions that people have been asked during an interview.

• How many square feet of pizza are eaten in the U.S. each year?
• How many windows do you think are in New York City?
• How lucky are you and why?
• If you were a pizza delivery man, how would you benefit from scissors?
• Are you more of a hunter or a gatherer?
• If you were on an island and could only bring three things, what would you bring?
• Do you believe in aliens?
• Why is a tennis ball fuzzy?
• What is your least favorite thing about humanity?
• If you were 80 years old, what would you tell your children?
• How does the internet work?
• How many snow shovels sold in the U.S. last year?
• If you could only choose one song to play every time you walked into a room for the rest of your life, what would it be?
• How many Big Macs does McDonald's sell each year in the U.S.?
• Choose a city and estimate how many piano tuners operate a business there.
• How much do you charge to wash every window in Seattle?
• How many children are born every day?
• If I was talking to your best friend, what is one thing they would say you need to work on?
• Design a spice rack for the blind.
• If you had a choice between two superpowers--being invisible or flying--which would you choose?
• Why are manholes round?