You're Not Interviewing for the Job. You're Auditioning for the Job Title

I have interviewed many people. I have never once been impressed by someone figuring out a convoluted way to force a round peg into a square hole. The people I recommend are the ones who question why I would want to do something. If need be, I can always follow up with "but what if you had to do it this way." But for a question meant to evaluate technical ability, I am going to ask you how to do something which is a best practice. If I'm asking you how you would solve an absurd problem, the purpose of the question is to evaluate how you approach problems, and I will let you know that's the purpose of the inquiry.