[jiggy2011]

I think these could be weeder questions for people you know little about.

If you have an applicant who has a github full of great code or experience working for a good software company you can probably skip this.

However if you get a candidate without much on paper but who insists they are a Java expert but doesn't know what the extends keyword does then there is something wrong somewhere.

The problem with asking for definitions for words though is that I personally often forget exactly what these are if I ever learned the correct term in the first place.

For example I knew how to override methods and the differences between the type system in PHP and the one in Java long before I knew what polymorphism or "dynamic typing" meant.