How do you get the word 'cold' from the word 'warm'
in four steps by changing only one letter at a time?
Answer
Warm → Ward → Word → Cord → Cold
If Amit is standing
at the 11th position from both ends of a row, then how many
people are standing in the row?
Answer
Since Amit’s
position is 11 from either ends of the row, there are 10 people before him and
10 people after him.
Thus, there are 10 + 10 + 1 = 21 people in the row.
Arpit’s nose always
twitches before it rains. His nose is twitching now. Is it going to rain?
Answer
Not necessarily. It
is not given that whenever Arpit’s nose twitches, it rains. It is important to
understand the “cause” and “effect” in this relationship.
Find the missing
number
12 20
35 __ 94 142
Answer
The difference
between each number goes as n2-1, where n = 3,4,5...
So, for first
one, 20 - 12 = 8 = (3)2 - 1
and for last,
142 - 94 = 48 = (7)2 - 1
thus, the number
after 35 is
35 + (5)2 -
1 = 35 + 24 = 59
so,
the
missing number is 59
If
in a sprint race, the man who came two places in front of the last man finished
one ahead of the man who came fifth, how many contestants were there in the
race?
Answer
6
Explanation:
Since the man finished one ahead of
the man who came fifth.
So, this man came fourth in the race.
Also this fourth man came two places
in front of the last man.
Thus, the total number of
participants were 6.
What can be heard
and trapped but never seen?
Answer
Wind
or Sound
Which
number must be multiplied with itself to get the product as 12345678987654321?
Answer
11 × 11 = 121
111 × 111 = 12321
1111 × 1111 = 1234321
.
.
.
111111111 × 111111111 = 12345678987654321
You enter a room
with a matchbox in your hand and see a lantern, a stove and a candle. What
would you light first?
Answer
A match!
Six men each take
one of the six eggs lying in a basket. How is it possible that one egg still
remains in the basket?
Answer
The last person
took the basket with the last egg in it.
In the following
line, if we cross out nine letters the remaining letters spell a very well
known herbivore.
QWZRARGEHBFFRTAGD
Find the animal.
Answer
The required word is ZEBRA.
Who is your
mother’s brother’s brother-in-law?
Answer
Either your father
or your uncle (husband of your mother’s sister)
What
should be the next letter in the sequence O, T, T, F, F, S, S, E, ?
Answer
N
Explanation:
The
given sequence is obtained by taking the first letter from the words used for
numbers starting from 1.
O
– One, T – Two, T – Three, F – Four, F – Five, S – Six, S – Seven , E – Eight
So,
the next letter in the sequence will be the first letter of Nine i.e., N.
Find the next two
terms of the sequence: 12, 11, 23, 24, 34, 37, …
Answer
Here, the odd terms
increase by 11 each time and the even terms increase by 13 each time.
Hence, the required terms are 45 and 50.
Four of the following are related in a certain way
and belong to a group. Which one of the following does not belong the group?
A. China B. Singapore C. Japan D. England E. India
Answer
England
China, Singapore, Japan, India are
the part of Asia.
Name a word that
does not change even when seen upside down or backwards.
Answer
SWIMS
I
am a five letter word and people enjoy eating me. I turn into a notorious
animal if my first two letters are removed. I become a serious criminal offence
if my first letter is removed. I can make you groove by becoming melodious
music if my first and last letters are removed. Which word am I?
Answer
Grape
The prisoner...
A person commited a
crime one day and was eventually caught two days later. While in custody, the
chief inspetor said to him
"If you tell a
lie then we will electrocute you and if you tell the truth we will hang
you."
What can he say to
the the inspector to save himself from certain death?
Answer
To escape from
death the man should say "Sir, you will electrocute me"
By doing
this, he has actually saved his life as the inspector cannot eletrocute him, as
he's lying, while they won't be able to hang him as well.
Can you figure out the
logic for the order of the words listed below?
Dead, Ball, Fear, Shop
Answer
Words are arranged
in the increasing order of the sums of their numerical alphabetical position
values as shown below:
Dead = 4 + 5 + 1 + 4 = 14
Ball = 2 + 1 + 12 + 12 = 27
Fear = 6 +5 + 1 + 18 = 30
Shop = 19 + 8 + 15 + 16 = 58
Clearly, 14 < 27 < 30 < 58.
Himmat Singh
was murdered on 26-1-1972 at his house in Lodhi Road (Delhi) in the afternoon.
The police recorded the statements of the suspects:
Happy: I went to my village on that day.
Lucky: I went to deposit my house tax in the
municipality office at that time.
Sunny: I went to a friend’s place to have lunch at
that time.
Who could be the murderer?
Answer
Lucky
Which of the
following is an anagram for the name of a bird?
a) GELLECO
b) ILFOGMAN
c) SEATERS
d) LIDEROCCO
Answer
The correct answer
is option (b)
FLAMINGO
Can you build a
house such that its four walls face North?
Answer
Yes! If the house
is built at the South Pole.
Can you throw a cricket ball in such a way that it
comes back to you without hitting any surface?
Answer
Throw
the ball upward in the air.
A person was 21
year old in 1979 and 19 year old in 1981. How is this possible?
Answer
The man was
born in 2000 B.C.
Which word in the
English language begins and ends with "und"?
Answer
Underground
A prisoner was
sentenced to death by a judge. However, the judge allowed the prisoner to make
a final statement with the condition that if the statement was true, then he
would be shot; and if the statement was false, then he would be hanged. The
prisoner made his statement and to the utter surprise of people, he was
released! What did the prisoner say?
Answer
The prisoner said
“I will be hanged”.
Had this statement been true, the
prisoner would have been shot and not hanged.
If however, it had
been false, then also he could not be hanged.
Four friends met up
at a local auto club and started talking about their cars.
In total there were eight cars, two of each colour, red, silver, blue and
black. Each friend owned two cars such that no one had two of the same
colour.
It was such that...
Arvind didn't own a
black car. Sandeep didn't own a red car, but did have a silver one. One of the
friends had a black car and a blue car and another friend had a silver car and
a blue car. Deepak had a black car. Chetan had a blue car, but didn't have a
green one.
Can you figure out which friend had which coloured cars?
Answer
Arvind had a red
car and a silver car.
Sandeep had a
silver car and a blue car.
Deepak had a black
car and a red car.
Chetan had a blue
car and a black car.
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