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Isn't this sort of list of trivia the sort of thing the "interviewing is broken" meme refers to?
Leaving aside the question of whether such questions have a value for interviews in the first place, I want to talk about how awesome they are.

I scrolled down to a language I know and picked a random link: http://www.careerride.com/C++-Interview-questions-Answer.asp...

Those are inane multiple-choice questions written in broken English, the included answers explain neither why a choice is correct nor why the others are incorrect. The difficulty level is very low. There are few interesting open-ended questions, like "How should errors be handled in C++ ?" but the suggested answers are below anything a competent interviewee would say. I can see no reason why this specific link should be included in a "curated list of awesome".

MaximAbramchuck slapped the "Awesome" badge on that list. He even linked to the Awesome manifesto. Does MaximAbramchuck personally recommend the above link as an awesome list of C++ questions? Really?

And why? The Awesome manifesto requires curators to provide an explanation, to argue in favor of each item's inclusion. MaximAbramchuck, if you're reading this, why do you think this link is awesome?