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| There is a family party consisting of two fathers, two
mothers, two sons, one father-in-law, one mother-in-law, one
daughter-in-law, one grandfather, one grandmother and one
grandson.
What is the minimum number of persons required so that this
is possible? | | 1 |
| A man is stranded on a desert island. All he has to drink is
a 20oz bottle of sprite.
To conserve his drink he decides that on the first day he
will drink one oz and the refill the bottle back up with
water. On the 2nd day he will drink 2oz and refill the
bottle. On the 3rd day he will drink 3oz and so on...
By the time all the sprite is gone, how much water has he drunk? | | 1 |
| Substitute digits for the letters to make the following
addition problem true.
W H O S E
T E E T H
A R E
+ A S
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S W O R D S
Note that the leftmost letter can't be zero in any word.
Also, there must be a one-to-one mapping between digits and
letters. e.g. if you substitute 3 for the letter H, no other
letter can be 3 and all other H in the puzzle must be 3. | | 1 |
| A boy found that he had a 48 inch strip of paper. He could
cut an inch off every second.
How long would it take for him to cut 48 pieces? He can not
fold the strip and also, can not stack two or more strips
and cut them together. | | 1 |
| Given the following facts:
1. Dinesh is younger than Farukh and older than Gurmit.
2. Jatin is younger than Chandu and older than Eshrat.
3. Amit is younger than Irfan and older than Chandu.
4. Farukh is younger than Bhavin and older than Hemant.
5. Irfan is younger than Gurmit and older than Jatin.
6. Hemant is older than Gurmit.
Who is the Youngest? | | 1 |
| 1/3 rd of the contents of a container evaporated on the 1st
day. 3/4th of the remaining contents of the container
evaporated on the second day.
What part of the contents of the container is left at the
end of the second day? | | 1 |
| One sales man sold one box out of them and then he says, "I
have the same number of red balls left
out as that of blue."
Which box is the one he solds out? | | 1 |
| Shahrukh speaks truth only in the morning and lies in the
afternoon, whereas Salman speaks truth only in the afternoon
and lies in the morning.
A says that B is Shahrukh.
Is it morning or afternoon and who is A - Shahrukh or Salman?
It is Afternoon and A can be Salman or Shahrukh. If A is
Salman, he is speaking truth. If A is Shahrukh, he is lying.
Want to confirm it? Consider following 4 possible answers
and check for its truthness individually. | Google | 2 |
| Raj has a jewel chest containing Rings, Pins and Ear-rings.
The chest contains 26 pieces. Raj has 2 1/2 times as many
rings as pins, and the number of pairs of earrings is 4
less than the number of rings.
How many earrings does Raj have?
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| Major Jasbir is forming five-person Special Task Group. The
group must contain one leader, two bomb-experts and two
soldiers.
P, Q and R are possible bomb-experts. R, S and T are
possible leaders. U, V and W are possible soldiers. Also, P
and R prefers to work with each other in the same team. T
prefers to work only if V works.
How many different possible Groups, Major Jasbir can make? | | 1 |
| A rich man died. In his will, he has divided his gold coins
among his 5 sons, 5 daughters and a manager.
According to his will: First give one coin to manager. 1/5th
of the remaining to the elder son. Now give one coin to the
manager and 1/5th of the remaining to second son and so
on..... After giving coins to 5th son, divided the remaining
coins among five daughters equally.
All should get full coins. Find the minimum number of coins
he has? | | 4 |
| There are 3 ants at 3 corners of a triangle, they randomly
start moving towards another corner.
What is the probability that they don't collide?
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| In the town called Alibaug, the following facts are true:
? No two inhabitants have exactly the same number of hairs.
? No inhabitants has exactly 2025 hairs.
? There are more inhabitants than there are hairs on the
head of any one inhabitants.
What is the largest possible number of the inhabitants of
Alibaug? | | 1 |
| A person wanted to withdraw X rupees and Y paise from the
bank. But cashier made a mistake and gave him Y rupees and
X paise. Neither the person nor the cashier noticed that.
After spending 20 paise, the person counts the money. And
to his surprise, he has double the amount he wanted to
withdraw. Find X and Y. | Bajaj | 3 |
| Because cigars cannot be entirely smoked, a Bobo who
collects cigar butts can make a cigar to smoke out of every
3 butts that he finds.
Today, he has collected 27 cigar butts. How many cigars will
he be able to smoke? | | 2 |
| At what time after 4.00 p.m. is the minutes hand of a clock
exactly aligned with the hour hand? | HP | 6 |
| Love love it.. friends need it.. relationing start with
it.. life ends with it.. | | 6 |
| In a sports contest there were m medals awarded on n
successive days (n > 1).
1. On the first day 1 medal and 1/7 of the remaining m - 1
medals were awarded.
2. On the second day 2 medals and 1/7 of the now remaining
medals was awarded; and so on.
3. On the nth and last day, the remaining n medals were awarded.
How many days did the contest last, and how many medals were
awarded altogether? | | 2 |
| At a recent painting competition,Jonny's rendition of a
constable was not last.priya only just managed to avoid last
place and came third.the lady who paintd a monkey was very
successfull and took first place>Mary beat the lady who
painted the lady the temple and the lady who painted the
flower beat saching.can you determine who painted what and
who won | QA | 2 |
| On evey Sunday Amar, Akbar and Anthony lunch together at
Preetam-Da-Dhaba where they order lassi based on following
facts.
1. Unless neither Amar nor Akbar have lassi, Anthony must
have it.
2. If Amar does not have lassi, either Akbar or Anthony or
both have it.
3. Anthony has lassi only if either Amar or Akbar or both
have it.
4. Akbar and Anthony never have lassi together.
Who order(s) lassi? | | 3 |
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