No, they sound an awful lot like old Microsoft interview questions -- in particular, ones collected in a book called How Would You Move Mount Fuji? I wrote an article about the book for Wired News back in 2003...:
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2003/06/59366
By the way, MS improved their interview process and are not asking these stupid questions anymore... well, not putting a lot of focus on them anyway. These types of interviews have been a mixed bag for them.
