Hypothetical Scenario Question

As an interviewer, I realize that the majority of the questions asked during an interview are pretty much standard questions.  Most of the responses to these standard questions, such as, "Tell me about yourself," "What are your strengths," and "What can you bring to this company," have been memorized by the interviewee and we often hear similar responses. 

Thus, the hypothetical scenario question.  In regular interviews, I am looking for creativity, character, imagination and the overall ability to respond quickly with a well-established response.  To be truthful, I usually don't really care about the response itself.  These sort of questions do not have a right or wrong answer.  Although, if the interviewee's response contains morbidity or violence, well, that may end the interview process for them.

What I am looking for is responses that show the candidate is results-driven, future-oriented, motivated, methodical and so on...  For example, if I ask what they would do with a million dollars, a well-defined response may be to invest, support family and/or pay off bills - some negative responses would be to go to Vegas and play high-stakes poker or buy that Ferrari I drempt about, not that there is anything wrong with that.

All in all, the interviewer (and the HR staff) are looking for individuals with a mixture of the following:  sensitivity, fairness, ethics, honesty, integrity, dependability, etc.

As for English ability interviews, I focus less on the answer, but I am human so if they give a impressive response they are likely to get a higher mark.  What I really focus is on organization, logical flow of the response,  fluency and the length of response.  Another thing I do note is that their level of vocabulary.  The vocabulary they use can give me an idea of the exposure to English they have had.