> Answering that would prove... what? That you can multiply and make some wild guesses about a geographic detail you aren't familiar with?

Yeah, it was just weird. The interviews by the team in California were better, to be fair. (Though I still don't understand why they had to fly me there. The day after a 15 h flight across timezones, they spent 8 h giving me brain teaser questions. I was toast after that.)

> my willingness to eat every kind of fermented fish

That would have been my cup of tea!