Top 15 odd interview questions by tech cos in 2010

Bangalore: What is the philosophy of Martial Arts? or If you could be any superhero, who would it be? - Don't be surprised, these are some of the odd interview questions shared on the IT careers portal Glassdoor.com. Hiring as been on high in again especially in IT after the global economic downturn and top technology companies like Apple, Facebook, Google have surprised many job applicants with such odd questions which are very tricky but has no definitive answer at all. Here are the top 15 odd questions companies asked in 2010. 1.
How many basketballs can you fit in this room. This was a question asked by Google to one of the job seekers who felt it's odd enough and an answer seems downright impossible. 2.
The global investment banking and securities firm Goldman Sachs asked a job aspirant for the post of an analyst - If you were shrunk to the size of a pencil and put in a blender, how would you get out? The analyst had no idea as to how to analyze this question to give a satisfactory answer. 3.
The smart and the world's biggest social networking site Facebook had a very smart but an off-the-wall question to a candidate applied for a software engineer post - Given the numbers 1 to 1000, what is the minimum numbers guesses needed to find a specific number if you are given the hint "higher" or "lower" for each guess you make - which left him with no guesses.