Nah I haven't heard differently, and I agree that I think a few of the Design Patterns in GOF are almost overlapping, or duplicating some of the other patterns, and a couple of them are so out there, that they aren't used that much. But things like Factory, Proxy, Facade, Singleton, Builder, Chain of Responsibilty, Adapter, Composite, Decorator, Iterator, Mediator, and Observer are the most used patterns. and a few are already in
Java itself, meaning the Iterator, Observer patterns are in Java directly with the Iterator class and the Observable interface. Mediator is a controller in MVC.
So I think they would probably gear their questions to these patterns. I mean when was the last time you implemented a FlyWeight?
Mark