This is so bad. The premise is "Avoid cliche questions by asking these cliche questions". There's nothing here that forces real answers out of the manager.
Half of it is how they answer. If you say "tell me about someone you are proud of," you're looking for someone genuinely excited about someone they work with. I've had one-on-ones with managers where everything is fine, but I still say "do what you can to keep X because they're that good."