Bad Job Interview Responses
Yes, They Will
"Sin"onyms
What Degree Are You Getting?
Economics
200
"Special skills?" I can drink 5 Doubleshot energy coffee drinks from this chain in 1 minute & you can never even tell
starbucks
200
This royal's will provided for her sons William & Harry & 50,000 pounds for former servant Paul Burrell
Princess Diana
200
Synonym for unattached
single
200
Not baddest but this word is the proper superlative degree of "bad"
worst
200
In early 2013 there were about 900,000 discouraged workers among us, those who've stopped doing this
looking for work
400
"Would you relocate?" Only to this Vermont capital, as I'm uncomfortable in any capital city over 8,000 people
Montpelier
400
In his 1788 will this Philadelphian called himself a printer & president of the state of Pennsylvania
Ben Franklin
400
Synonym for heartfelt
sincere
400
If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, point one arm at the North Star & the other at the horizon--the angle between the two will give you roughly where you are on the earth in degrees of this
latitude (3x stumper)
400
In fiscal 2011 Uncle Sam paid $230 billion in this, quite a bit of it on loans from Asia
interest
600
"Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" Replacing Kirk Hammett as lead guitarist of this "Unforgiven" band
Metallica (3x stumper)
600
This actress who died in 1962 left her personal effects to her mentor Lee Strasberg
Marilyn Monroe
600
Synonym for scorch
singe
600
Under California law, killing someone while you're carjacking him is this crime
first degree murder (3x stumper)
600
Moral hazard refers to people taking risks with their health because they know they have this
insurance
800
"Any questions?" What's your sick leave policy? I'm prone to this most common but least deadly type of plague
bubonic
800
His 1821 will, written on St. Helena, stipulated that his ashes be scattered "on the banks of the Seine"
Napolean
800
Synonym for menacing
sinister
800
212 degrees Fahrenheit equals this many degrees Celsius
100
800
Oddly, "The Economist" defines this, MFN for short, as at least equal treatment in trade
most favoured nation treatment (3x stumper)
1000
"What do you bring to the company?" My pet, a naked this... I have him with me today
mole rat
1000
This 19th c. British novelist asked to be buried on Mount Vaea in Samoa "under the wide and starry sky"
Robert Louis Stevenson (3x stumper)
1000
Synonym for Sri Lankan
Sinhalese (3x stumper)
1000
With shared great-grandparents, the children of Caroline Kennedy & RFK Jr. are this degree of cousin
second cousins
1000
George Akerlof won a Nobel for his theory of this "lopsided" type of info, meaning one party knows more than the other
asymmetrical information (3x stumper)