My Interview Questions

Tell us about the best thing you have ever done

What is the average depth of the ocean

Name the most important thing you would change if you could

Given the chance, what would you do differently with your life

Share a question that you have pondered time and time again

What magazines do you make sure to always read

Where and what were you before your earliest memories

What mechanical tool do you find you use the most

Explain an intricacy of your favorite plot

Describe in some detail the one person you knew and most despised

Explain one concept you accept as an article of faith

Why do humans always find it necessary to go to war

In how many languages do you have some fluency

How many languages should be official in one country

Should police use personal judgment or treat every case the same

Between electricity and running water which would you do without

Why or why not is human life more sacred than that of the animals

Explain the principle behind the internal combustion engine

Talk a little about the book that you are currently reading

Give the scientific names of the four days when the seasons change

How do you tell if you are doing something nearly at your potential

What sports do you participate in and how do you train

What ways have you found that you can express yourself

How would a greenhouse gas bring about global warming

If you have a car, what kind and how old is it

What is different about the nut securing a chop saw blade

Who do you think was the greatest American

Why are Asian immigrants more successful than Hispanics

Name your favorite mathematician, alive or not

If a man lived right but had no Savior, could he go to heaven

According to science, what is the age of the earth and the universe

If you watch television, name three shows that you like

Where do you go to find out about current news and events

What species is the largest vertebrate ever to live

What clubs or societies are you a member of

Approximately what percent of humans now live in poverty

How important is the abortion issue in relation to other problems we face

How wide and how thick is a wooden 2x4

What is the relationship of Intelligent Design to the Theory of Evolution

What’s on the menu for your favorite breakfast

What are the three planets closest to our sun

Everyone wants to hear of your most embarrassing moment

What is the approximate current human population of the earth

What do you fear more than anything else

Name the second highest peak in the Himalayas

Talk frankly about the biggest lie you have ever told

What Internet site do you spend the most time at

What was the most important event of the 20^th Century

Ask a question that most people will not know and give the answer

Which continent is the largest of all

What determines the size of waves hitting a beach

What distinguishes man from other animals

Name one work of the very late J.S. Bach

How might your goals change if you knew you would live forever

If you had five minutes to live, right her and now, what would you do

How many prime numbers are there

Name three Canadian provinces and one Mexican state

What is di-hydrogen oxide good for

Would you call the conquest of the New World a great genocide

What is the longest time you ever went without speaking

What is the chief cause of animal extinction

What is a musical chord

How long will it be until your influence becomes background noise

What is the purpose of the ATP molecule

What civilization do you admire the most

Why should people be required a license to drive but not to have kids

Tell us something your father used to say

Why would humans be basically without hair

Who taught you the best and how were they so effective

When did the last ice age end

Who is your favorite painter and name your favorite work

How long ago was writing invented

What is your favorite tree

How are the animals used to make hamburgers killed

Do you have any pets, why or why not

What is escape velocity

What year was your mother born

What is the distinguishing characteristic of the earth from space

Who do you admire the most, either living or dead

Describe a problem in your field that you would like to solve

Would you take responsibility for control software on a manned spacecraft

Is mathematics an art, a craft, a science or something else

What is your own normal heartbeat

Tell us about your ancestry

What is the main difference between the sharks and the fishes

Talk about any project you are currently working on outside of work

What do you usually do on Saturday nights

How did the English language originate

How much money does the US spend on defense per year

Why or why not do you practice recycling

Where does your community obtain its water supply

What supplements or medications do you take

How far away is the moon

Why does the sound of a jet seem to come from behind it

What language has the most speakers today

What would you like to do on your ideal 3 week vacation

How old do you expect to be when you die

What would you do tomorrow if you could stop working today

Subliminal Logic

I went searching for algebra and found shiny wrestlers in makeup on steroids

You needed to form complete sentences but you wound up simply texting

On the trail of Latin etymologies there were several signs for real estate

Hoping for the Sports Section, protease inhibitors brought me disappointment

With the Physics Lust upon me, I wound up running fantasy computer Hos

Looking for a fast-food drive-through you stumbled on a partial integration

Imagining the count of stars in a galaxy, I saw infinite litter on the ground

After taking the shrooms, nanoscale quantum effects brought on tears of joy

Understanding the earth’s precession earned rewards of caffeine and sugar

Groping the remote yielded only a cross-section of a stupid shield volcano

Elliptical symmetry brought me in contact with the Tibetan Buddhist monks

Suddenly big screen Dolby StarWars became a black and white chemistry text

IPod shuffling along I reckoned which way the earth rotated under my feet

Bored with the Federalist Papers, you summoned PuffDaddy for a real lesson

Trying to win your heart, I brought you a copy of Newton’s Principia

She found the remains of a failed numerical integration in her makeup kit

The herd chewed their cuds patiently awaiting some singularity or another

The immigrant gave up on English and began speaking only computer codes

Struggling to find the exit they were surrounded by closely packed isobars

Seeing a Big Bang simulation he tried to remember what movie it was from

Following ignorant intuition I managed to re-invent cold fusion in a jar

Asphyxiating the zebra, the lion was unaware of the passing equinox

Gazing in the microscope she was appalled at what crawled in her mouth

Frightened by the frank uncertainty of the scientists they clung uneasily to their Bibles

Stumbling with tensors I found great relief in merely sweeping floors

Hungry for meat, salt and fat they found photosynthesis less than a miracle

Peering inside the simulation, I saw that it squirmed with differential equations

Magnetic Resonance Imagery clearly showed the unborn Crack baby’s grasping hand

I stumbled over the dog in the dark despite his obvious infrared signature

Hurrying to Wal*Mart, the family struck and killed a wandering singular matrix

Tired of my long confusion, I sought a chaos theory based solution

Reaching for a beer the trucker was struck by the fractal beauty of the highway

jogging through the park I caught just a glimpse of a tiny prancing Eocene horse

Looking for a parking spot he ran straight over evidence of plate tectonics

I saw blazing porch lights obscure photons billions of years old streaking from the sky

Amidst broken bottles and discarded needles, you found an irregular German infinitive

Stalled in traffic, I became a placid notochord in a vast and warm inland sea

Rising too quickly she hyperventilated images of complexity and uncertainty

Struggling up the Waterfall Model, I felt my colors fade like some tired salmon

The thick layer of ash, several million years old, did not effect her sales pitch, one iota

I used a laser to burn microscopic pits into a plastic DVD to backup my confessions

Distracted by her cellphone, she continued in motion relative to her car and the tree

I had had nothing to eat that day outside of an arbitrary constant of integration

He flipped channels idly searching for curvaceous Jungian archetypes

In the eyes of a boy with Down’s Syndrome I saw a single gene expressed

Facing the geological history in the Grand Canyon, he invoked a Biblical flood

Entering the abandoned cave I realized how much man needed dogs and fire

The fortune teller was nonplussed by her client’s vision of that Schrodinger’s cat

I contrasted the infinite with the uncountable pushing my cart down aisle 5

After the party, he dreamed of sensing a neutrino in an underground aquifer

Walking on the beach, I pondered those fossil human footprints from Africa

They found the Aurora Borealis far less spectacular than Disney’s wondrous fireworks

As we held each other tightly, the purpose of galactic clusters eluded me

The candidate dared not flipflop though the earth’s magnetic pole had reversed many times

Stumbling over quantum uncertainty, I whacked into one of Plato’s Ideals

He did not question where in Maslow’s Hierarchy his loud new pickup muffler fit

The sound of her medieval surname recalled in me Tolkein’s love of ancient Norse

Recoiling from the so-called fossils, she thanked Jesus for bilateral symmetry

Hearing their rancorous debate, I puzzled over the study of Creation Myths

They sought relief inhaling petroleum distillates from sealed plastic bags

Crawling on my hands and knees while scrubbing, I thought of approaching c

Bathing naked in ultraviolet rays, I mused upon their birth in far-off nuclear fission

Thinking of my trillion living cells, I felt my sense of self begin slowly to dissolve

Chronic inhalation of the particulates around her crib curbed her growth

I just made it better than it had to be and ensured that it was easy to repair

I hoped with our passing that this wonderful awareness did not simply disappear

I was struck by the unnecessary beauty of leaves without their chlorophyll

I observed orderly crystallization of atmospheric moisture into myriad snowflakes

Casually responding, a million reactions occurred simultaneously in my brain

I pondered whether the Golden Mean was truth revealed or facts discovered

At the turnstile, I had a vision of a supercomputer jet wing vortex simulation

She accepted perspective drawing without thinking, based upon so many examples

My attempts to decipher whale songs lead not to English but tended more towards Bach

His team raced to catalogue new life forms barely ahead of their extinction

I had trouble convincing myself that this hummingbird was not actually a miracle

Unconsciously I continued integrating discrete instants into a continuous past