My strangest question ever was "If you're in a rowboat over the deepest part of the ocean, and you dropped a bowling ball over the side of the boat, how long would it take for the bowling ball to hit the floor of the ocean?"
There are three responses to this question.
"I don't know" - Wrong
"Um, 4 hours?" - Wrong
Making a few assumptions, and using those assumptions to come up with an answer, however wrong that answer might be. - Right
My answer was, "Can I have a piece of paper, calculator and a pen? Now, assuming the deepest portion of the ocean is as deep as the tallest mountain is tall (about 8700m?), and the ball drops at a constant acceleration of half of gravity (since bouyancy would slow the acceleration down), I would assume the ball would hit the ocean floor in ... 1 minute. Wow, that doesn't seem right at all."
I got the job.
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