英语面试：谷歌烧脑面试题，你敢挑战吗？

Going for a job interview is nerve-racking at the best of times, but tech giant Google has become notorious for asking fiendishly tough questions.
即便是是招聘高峰期，求职面试也会非常伤神费脑，然而科技巨头谷歌的面试题则因其奇葩刁钻而异常出名。

The company used to ask head-scratching questions such as 'How many piano tuners are there in the world?' and 'How many golf balls does it take to fill a school bus?'.
谷歌公司曾问过一些令人头痛不已的面试问题，例如，“世界上有多少位钢琴调音师？”以及“一辆校车里最多能塞多少颗高尔夫球？”。

But some of the riddles were so tough they have now been banned from the interview process.
但因有些谜题太过于荒谬古怪，谷歌公司现在已不再将其纳入面试流程中。

Recruiter Impact Interview have compiled a list of 140 questions candidates have reported being asked at interviews for various roles at Google, many of which have now been dropped from the process.
招聘面试小册子汇编140道题，依应聘人员所言，在谷歌面试中他们曾以各种角色回答过此类问题。目前其中的许多问题已从面试流程中剔除。

1.How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?
全世界有多少位钢琴调音师？

2.How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?
一辆校车里能够容纳多少颗高尔夫球？

3.You’re the captain of a pirate ship, and your crew gets to vote on how the gold is divided up.
假设你是一艘海盗船的船长，你的船员们就如何分配黄金的问题进行投票。

4.Another logic puzzled candidates were given to solve was: 'How many times a day do the hands of a clock overlap?'
“一天中，时钟的时针和分针会重合几次？”这是应聘者们被要求回答的又一个逻辑难题。

5.You are given 2 eggs. You have access to a 100-story building. Eggs can be very hard or very fragile means it may break if dropped from the first floor or may not even break if dropped from 100th floor. Both eggs are identical. You need to figure out the highest floor of a 100-story building an egg can be dropped without breaking. The question is how many drops you need to make. You are allowed to break 2 eggs in the process.
你拿着两个鸡蛋站在100层的大楼上。鸡蛋或许结实到从楼顶掉下也不会摔破，或许很易碎，在一楼摔下就破碎。最少试验多少次可以找出鸡蛋不会被摔碎的最高楼层？

6.Design an evacuation
为旧金山市设计一个紧急撤离方案。

7.Why are manhole covers round?
井盖为什么是圆的？

8.A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune. What happened?
一个人把他的车到酒店，失去了他的财富。发生了什么事？

9.Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew.
你要向你8岁的侄子解释什么是数据库，请用三句话完成。