I work for a German company for my main job. During an interview I overheard someone request of the the interviewee: “Name one German Baroque period composer.”
Seriously. That really happened.
I hope the candidate had a Handel on it, but since it was a phone interview I couldn’t hear what the candidate said Bach. Probably didn’t, but I just can’t be Schürmann.
I would have asked (sincerely) if there was an entity that could be called “Germany” during the baroque period….
Heh, good point. I think the question was an attempt to assay how well the intereviewee responded to bizarre requests since we get a lot of those in my field (IT).