[craig1f]

This is a good answer. I was talking to someone at a company that actually used questions like this.

He asked me a question like "You're shrunk down to a couple inches in height and put inside a blender. How do you escape?"

My response was "Is there anything else in the blender? Can I see anything nearby?"

He told me that I "already passed", but if it was an interview, we'd probably have a 1 or 2 minute conversation about it and then move on. The fact that I didn't start rattling off ideas, but instead asked smart questions, was what he was looking for.

It's easier to take a measure of someone if they can't figure out what they're being judged on. If they know how they're being judged, they optimize for just that one thing.