[wutbrodo]

I've been on both sides of the interview process at Google over the last half decade (I no longer work there) and I can tell you that asking people to recite random facts by rote was not part of their interview guidelines for as long as I was there. This includes a couple dozen interviews I conducted and the candidate notes of the other interviewers.

[ubernostrum]

I got hit with a barrage of random trivia during one of the phone screens I did last year.

Eventually got fed up with their process, told the interviewer what I thought of it and hung up.

(which, to point out at least one upside, is the only way I've ever discovered of getting a company I don't want to work for to stop bugging me with recruiter spam)