This sounds great. I've been to entirely too many interviews where their questions are completely unrelated to the act of software development. I'm sure they were all put off by my low performance on contrived questions, as well.

My favorite is that, "I would probably Google it," usually means instant disqualification when discussing any problem solving. This, of course, is ridiculous, since the very first thing I'll do is heavily research a subject before implementing it. I want to stand on the shoulders of giants, not sit around building sand castles.