Shooting Competition

In a shooting competition , a person is allowed to shoot at four targets successively, followed by the next shooter. When all the shooters have finished one such round, the process is repeated. If a target is hit, the shooters gets 2 points and if he misses the target, the other shooters are awarded one point each. The first shooters get 60 points win the shooting competition. In a contest among three persons - A, B and C, their score at the end is as follows:

A=60, B=53 and C = 43

Out of a total 78 shots being fired, only 43 hit the target.

Q1. Who was the first to shoot?

a) A

b) B

c) C

d) Can't say

Q2. Who was the second to shoot?

a) A

b) B

c) C

d) None of these

Q3. Who was the third to shoot?

a) A

b) B

c) C

d) Can't say

Answer

Q1. c

Q2. a

Q3. b

A 3 Generation Family

In a family of 14 members, there are 5 married couples and 3 generation. No one from the third generation is  married.

1. Akanksha is Sunil’s only sister. Sunil is Sumit’s brother in law.

2. Deshna is Nandita’s only daughter in law.

3. Karan is Prakash’s grandfather and is married to Kanchan who has a granddaughter.

4. Sunil has only one son named Vikas.

5. Mohan’s wife id Nandita and they have a son and a daughter.

6. Akash who is a bachelor is Priyanka’s paternal uncle and Dinesh’s only sibling.

Q1. Who is Densha’s husband?

1) Sunil

2) Mohan

3) Akash

4) None of these

Q2. How karan is related to Nandita?

1) Brother

2) Brother in law

3) Can’t say

4) None of these

Q3. How is Akash related to Prakash?

1) Brother

2) Uncle

3) Grandfather

4) Cousin

Q4. How many people are there in the second generation?

1) 4

2) 5

3) 6

4) 7

Q5. Who is Priyanka’s mother?

1) Densha

2) Akansha

3) Nandita

4) None of these

Answer Sheet

1. 1

2. 3

3. 2

4. 4

5. 4

A Movie Show

Four boys Abhay, Sunil, Ashok and Hiralal and three girls Julie, Smitha and Deepa go for a scary movie. Two girls and one boy get scared watching the movie. No two people who get scared sit next to each other.

Smita and Sunil are scared of watching a scary movie.

People who get scared do not sit in the corner.

No girls sit next to each other.

Q1. Which of the following pairs cannot be sitting in the corners?

1) Abhay and Julie

2) Deepa and Ashok

3) Abhay and Ashok

4) None of these

Q2. Which of the following can be the two people sitting on either side of Sunil?

1) Abhay and Julie

2) Julie and Deepa

3) Abhay and Ashok

4) Smitha and Ashok

Q3. If Abhay is sitting in one of the corners, who is sitting next to him?

1) Smita

2) Julie

3) Deepa none of these

Q4. If Deepa and Ashok are the people sitting in two corners, which of the following can not be the two people sitting on either side of Abhay?

1) Sunil and Smita

2) Smita and Julie

3) Julie and Sunil

4) Deepa and Julie

Answer sheet

1 2 3 4

3 1 4 4

Where to sit?

Ten seats in a row are numbered 1 to 10 from left to right. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J are sitting on the seats not necessarily in order.

1. A sits on number 5.

2. The two persons sitting at the left and right corners are arranged consecutively in the alphabetical order. None of them is I or H or E.

3. D sits to the right of A but not adjacent to him.

4. B sits to the immediate left of D and to the immediate right of A.

5. I and J are equidistance from A.

6. H is sitting one place to the left of G.

Q1. Who sits on seat number 8?

1. I

2. J

3. H

4. 1 or 2

Q2. Seat number 10 occupied by:

1. F

2. G

3. B

4. C

Q3. ------------------sits between E and J.

1. A

2. B

3. D

4. None f these

Couples and Children

Five men Vijay, Ankit, Rahul, Raj, Vinay are from five different college. JD, KV, RKT, JCT and BVJ, not necessarily in the same order. Five women Padma, Reena and Sonali are the best friends and wives of the men. Only one man has married the same women who is his best friend. Each of them married couples has one child from among Anju, Pankaj, Sharmila, Suraj and Veena and all these five also go to one of the college said above. None of the children go to the same college as their father. The ladies are from the same college as their male friends. Every man has only one best friend and only one wife.

1. The only person who married his friend from RKT college has a daughter who goes to KV college.

2. Padma is Anju’s mother and her husband from JD college.

3. Vinay’s best friend is married to suraj’s father who is from JCT college.

4. Ankit’s son Pankaj goes to JCT college.

5. Sangeeta’s daughter is Sharmila. Suraj’s mother had been to BVP college.

6. Anju’s father’s best friend had been to the same college as Veena.

Q1. Who is Veena’s father’s best friend’s son?

I. Suraj

II. Pankaj

III. Nobody

IV. Can’t say

Q2. How many children go to their mother’s best friend’s college?

I. 1

II. 2

III. 3

IV. 4 

Who is vegetarian?

Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H belong to different profession come to a restaurant for dinner. Some of them are vegetarian and the rest are non vegetarian. Some points are given below.

1) Four of them are vegetarian.

2) Three among them are women

3) The HR expert and the executive manager have opposite food habit.

4) The bank manager and psychologist have same food habit.

5) The counselor and the entrepreneur are vegetarian.

6) The social worker and E have same food habit.

7) The entrepreneur is a woman and just food habit like B.

8) B is the HR expert.

Now answer the questions.

Q1. Who is definitely vegetarian?

I) Teacher

II) Executive manager

III) Bank manager

IV) Social worker

Q2. Who is definitely non-vegetarian?

I) A

II) H

III) G

IV) E

Who build which house?

Five friends Atal, Laloo, Maya, Jaya and Lal go to a beach. They build sand structure, one each, I a row. They also build there forts and two houses. The two houses are not built next to each other. The ladies Maya and Jaya always build next to each other. Lal copies Atal and builds the same structure as that of Atal’s. Lal makes a house at the center of the row. Maya builds at the end of the row. The start of the row is the first position.

Q1. What is the position of Atal’s structure?

A. First

B. Fifth

C. Fourth

D. A or B

Q2. What has Jaya built and what is the position of her structure?

A. House, Second

B. Fort, Forth 

C. Fort, can’t say

D. None of these

Play the Game

Rakesh is playing a game on his PS2 (Playstation) where numbers have to be placed in the empty cells. Place numbers in all empty cells according to the following rules.

1. Put numbers into empty cells so the puzzle grid becomes divided into Blocks of cells with the number of cells indicated by the number in the cells.

2. A Block must contain the number of cells indicated by the number in any cells of the Block.

3. A Block cannot touch a similarly sized Block, horizontally or vertically.

4. Cells without numbers may form Blocks necessary to complete the puzzle.

For example:

If we are considering a block of three, then it can be of the forms as shown in the figure:

Q1. What is the sum of the 1st row?

(1) 25

(2) 26

(3) 27

(4) 28

(5) 24

Q2. What is sum of the cells (4, 1) and (4, 7)?

(1) 3

(2) 4

(3) 5

(4) 6

(5) 7

Q3. What is the maximum number of 1's that can be used?

(1) 3

(2) 4

(3) 5

(4) 6

(5) 1

Q4. Which number is in (5, 6)?

(1) 5

(2) 3

(3) 4

(4) 1

(5) 2

Q5. After the table is filled according to the rules, what is the sum of all the entries?

(1) 163

(2) 165

(3) 161

(4) 167

(5) 169

A Sales Representative

A sales representative plans to visit each of six companies—M, N, P, Q, R, and S—exactly once during the course of one day. He is setting up his schedule for the day according to the following conditions: 

1) He must visit M before N and before R.

2) He must visit N before Q.

3) The third company he visits must be P.

Q1. Which of the following could be the order if the sales representative visits the six companies?

(a) M, R, N, Q, P, S

(b) M, S, P, N, R, Q

(c) P, R, M, N, Q, S

(d) P, S, M, R, Q, N

Q2. Which of the following must be true of the sales representative’s schedule for the day?

(a) He visits M before Q

(b) He visits N before R

(c) He visits P before M

(d) He visits P before S

Q3. If the sales representative visits S first, which company must he visit second?

(a) M 

(b) N

(c) P 

(d) Q

Q4. Which of the following could be true of the sales representative’s schedule?

(a) he visits M third

(b) he visits N sixth

(c) he visits R sixth

(d) he visits Q second

Q5. The sales representative could visit any of the following companies immediately after P except:

(a) M 

(b) N

(c) Q 

(d) R

Which Sportsman?

12 athletes Ajay, Vijay, Anil, Sunil, Amit, Akash, Prakash, Neeraj, Dheeraj, Sandeep, Ajit and Pradeep from 4 different state Maharasthra, Bihar, Haryana, and Kerala take part in a certain sports meet for 3 events i.e. long jump, high jump and 100-m sprint. There is only one representative from each state for each event. There were no ties and the points awarded for coming 1st , 2nd, 3rd, and 4th are 3, 2, 1 and 0 respectively.

1. Ajay and Prakash are from Maharasthra and both have scored points.

2. Sunil, Akash and Amit could not score any points and none of them is from Kerala,

3. The overall points earned by the team are in A.P.

4. Akash is the only persons from Bihar who could not come 1st, and he participates in the high jump event.

5. Dheeraj and Pradeep came third in the 100-m sprint and high jump respectively.

6. Vijay and Neeraj both came in their respective events.

7. Bihar got the maximum points, while Haryana earned 4 points.

8. Sandeep and Ajit from the same team have scored, while Amit from their team could not score in 100-m sprint.

9. Ajit, Neeraj, Anil took part in long jump.

Q1. Who came second in high jump?

A. Sandeep

B. Pradeep

C. Ajit

D. Prakash

Q2. Which team got the least over all points?

A. Kerala

B. Haryana

C. Maharasthra

D. None of these

Q3. In which Vijay take part?

A. Long jump

B. 100-m sprint

C. High jump

D. None of these

Q4. Amit was from which team?

A. Bihar

B. Kerala

C. Maharasthra

D. Haryana

Find the Criminals

Eight criminal C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, C7 and C8 are staying in a hotel with their code name E, A, P, N, I, Z, S and W but not in order. They take one floor where have four rooms on each side of a  passage and which face each other.

1) I and A are in the room facing each other.

2) C3’s code name is S and stay between C4 and C7 whose code name are N and Z respectively.

3) C8’c code name is P stays next to C6.

4) C1 and W stay I a corner.

Reasoning : Choose Maximum

Five boxes contain varsities colour of balls red, green, yellow, blue, pink, violet. Colour contain of each box is given below.

A -> red, green, blue

B -> red, green, yellow

C -> red, pink, violet

D -> pink, blue, violet

E -> pink, green, blue

You are asked to choose some of boxes but not all so that you get maximum number of all balls, which boxes would you choose?

i) A,B, C

ii) B, C, E

iii) B, D

iv) C, F

Reasoning on Instruction Sets

There are three bottles of water A, B, C whose capacities are 5 liters, 3 liters and 2 liters respectively. For transferring water from one bottle to another and to drain out the bottle, there exists a piping system. The flow thorough these pipes is computer controlled. The computer that controls the flow through these pipes can be fed with three types of instructions, as explained below

Instruction type	Explanation of the instruction
FILL (X, Y)	Fill bottles labeled X from the water in bottle labeled Y, where the remaining capacity of X is less than or equal to amount of water in Y.
EMPTY (X,Y)	Empty out the water in bottle labeled X into bottle labeled Y, where the amount of water in X is less than or equal to remaining capacity of Y.
DRAIN (X)	Drain out all the water contained in bottle labeled X.

Initially A is full with water and B and C are empty.

Q1. After executing a sequence of three instruction bottle A contains one liter of water. The first and the third of these instructions is given below

First instruction FILL (C, A)

Third instruction FILL (C,A)

Which of the following statesman about the instruction is true?

i) The second instruction is FILL (B,A)

ii) The second instruction is Empty (C,B)

iii) The second instruction transfer water from B to C

iv) The second instruction involves using the water in bottle A.

Q2. Consider the same sequence of three instructions and the same initial state mentioned above. Three more instructions are added at the end of the above sequence to have A contain 4 liters of water. In this total sequence of six instructions, the fourth one is DRAIN (A). this is the only DRAIN instruction in the entire sequence. At the end of the execution of the above sequence, how much water is contained in C?

i) 1

ii) 2

iii) 0

iv) None of these

Audition for a Reality Show

A TV channel arranged an audition for their upcoming reality show “Superstar of India”. After preliminary they call 9 candidates of different categories (e.g Singer, Dancer.. )for final audition from different states in India. Each competitors are marked with unique character and code where the character carries their state’s name and the code their number which is unique. Some other information is given bellow.

1) Ragini is a singer from West Bengal with code no. 13.

2) Among the code no. only 5 and 9 are single digit.

3) Audition started at 1 p.m and every competitors will get 30 minutes to perform

4) Candidates for Haryana give audition at 3:30 p.m.

5) Janaki is from Arunachal Pradesh.

6) 43 no candidate is from Andhra Pradesh.

7) 32 no. candidate is a dancer.

8) Vinit gives audition after Janaki but not last.

9) Candidate code 43 and 14 both are from same state.

10) Maneka’s code is 32.

11) Robin’s code is 45 and Hamida’s code is 14.

12) Vinit is a magician and form Tripura.

13) Candidate from West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh have single digit code.

14) Candidates from same state give audition one after another.

Now answer the questions.

1) Whose code is 14?

A. Ragini

B. Vinit

C. Hamida

D. None of these

2. Who give audition at 4 p.m?

A. Vinit

B. Maneka

C. Ragini

D. None of these

3. Who is another candidate for West Bengal except Ragini?

A. Maneka

B. Hamida

C. None of these

D. Can’t say

Offer of a Computer Store

A computer company selling two branded laptop LP1 and LP2 of different companies. Some LP1 products are without operating system but not all and all LP2 products are with operating system. The price of both products are same except the following conditions:

I) Extra charge have to pay for LP2 with “duel core” processor but not for 1.6 Ghz processor.

II) Extra charge have to pay for LP1 with operating system “Windows 2007”

III) Extra charge have to pay for LP1 with “antivirus” and for LP2 with “core2duo i3 processor”.

Now answer the questions:

1. Which of the following is true?

A. Extra charge have to pay for all products with operating system.

B. Extra charge is not required with “anti virus” but without “operating system”.

C. Extra charge not required with 1.6 Ghz processor with “anti virus”.

D. None of these

2. Which of the following condition is cheep for buying?

A. LP1 without operating system.

B. LP2 without i3 processor.

C. LP1 with linux.

D. None of these

Security posting of a building

In a 7 storied building seven security officers A, B, C, D, E, F, G start there duty from 9 A.M to 3 P.M. Every floor of the building is not secured every time. Each floor is secured only for 1 hour between that time. Each security officer comes according to there schedule time and take charge of different floor. The floor are named L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6, L7 as per there security level.

F takes charge before the time of L1 in charge and after 2 hours of C.

B takes charge before A but after the office in charge L1.

G take charge 2 hours before D.

Officers of L3, L7 and L5 take charge just one after one in an hour interval.

D takes charge at 10 a.m .

Now answer the questions.

1. Who joins at 3 P.M?

I) A

II) B

III) C

IV) D

2. In which time Officer of L3 takes charge?

I) 9 a.m

II) 10 a.m

III) 2 p.m

IV) None of these

3. Who joined L7 floor and when?

I) A / 9 a.m

II) B / 3 p.m

III) D / 1 p.m

IV) None of these

Invitation to my Friend's House

Once my friend invited me to their family get together party. All of his family members were present there. He introduced me with everyone.

I saw in his family there are 14 members and among them 5 are female members. But after coming my home I do not remember all of there name except some relations with them. I narrate these relation below.

I) A is the mother of N and grandmother of C and E.

II) J is a doctor and X is an engineer.

III) C and D are students and children of M.

IV) E is the daughter of P and a reporter.

V) X is an architect.

VI) F and D is niece of X.

VII) Y is daughter-in-law of I.

VIII) Only one female member of the family is teacher.

IX) N do not have any children.

X) Q have a family relation but do not have any blood relation with the family.

Now answer the questions

Q1. Who is a teacher?

A. A

B. D

C. F

D. None of these

Q2. A is grandmother of ……………………………

A. C

B. J

C. M

D. P

Q3. J is father of ………………………

A. P

B. A

C. E

D. F

Q4. X is the son of ………………….

A. I

B. E

C. F

D. C

Class Schedule of a School

In a school there are 5 groups of subject combinations for the students of new admission of Arts and Humanities department.

Subject Groups are

A -> Sociology, History, Anthropology, Political Science

B - > History, Geography, Sociology, Political Science

C - > Geography, Economics, Eco-Geography, Political Science

D - > Geography, Mathematics, Economics, Statistics

E - > Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer

There are one teacher in each subjects. Class duration is four hours from 8 a.m to 12 a.m and each class is one hour. There are no gap between two periods.

A clerk of that school schedule a class routine. But history teacher said “I shall take first period but not last period”. Geography teacher said “ I will not take last period”. Sociology teacher said “ I will come to school at 10 a.m.

Not the clerk have to reschedule the routine and you have to answer the following questions::

Q1. Which subject will be taught in the first period?

A. Sociology

B. History / Mathematics

C. Geography / History

D. None of these

Q2. Which subject will be taught in the second period?

A. History

B. Economics

C. Geography

D. None of these

Seven Friends in a row

Seven friends A, B, C, D, E, F and G are standing in a row such that

i) A is immediate right to G

ii) G is fourth to the right of C

iii) D was between B and F

iv) C which was third to the left of B, is at one of the end

Which is the right position of E?

A . Left of A

B. Left of F

C. Between F and G

D. None of these