"Personally I would have walked out if I got a negative vibe from the interviewer during this. Questions like this are deliberately obnoxious bullcrap pulled by

"Personally I would have walked out if I got a negative vibe from the interviewer during this. Questions like this are deliberately obnoxious bullcrap pulled by recruiters and interviewers who don't understand what they're actually after in a candidate." Especially if it's for a candidate for a tech writer position. In that case, I'd say that the interviewer was the idiot here.