Multiple Choice

Which entry won most "best attempt to bring cartoon violence into confrontation with our quotidian existence" award?

Which of these would be a worthy addition to the game of Cluedo?

Which answer correctly identifies the most popular killing spree of the specified year?

Recently, I was asked a very bad question in an interview: would you say cohesion in teamwork is a Good Thing? (And yes, the capitalisation was clear from their tone.) Now, unless the interviewer was very generously giving me the opportunity to mention that day’s “magic word” (cohesion), to be rewarded with a place on an agency waiting list and the possibility of cake, this question serves no purpose except to weed out morons*. The interview panel then proceeded to ask me several questions designed to see what I thought of “diversity”. Running through my mind like tickertape was the answer “whatever diversity is, it can’t achieved by a tickbox exercise blu-tacked on to the end of your recruitment procedures” but it failed to find my mouth. Well, at least it wasn’t multiple choice.

Runners up in the worst question asked at interview include "tell us a joke" and "what's your favourite album?". Both jobs were, at best, tangentially connected to comedy and music.

Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie (from Candy Man Blues: the Complete 1928 Sessions
or Anthology of American Folk Music (edited by Harry Smith) depending on the size of your purse or wallet.)

* or maybe those with a lacklustre English vocabulary, such as foreigners.