Q 1. Finished Files are the result of years of scientific study combined with the experience of years. How many 'F' are present in the sentence ?
A. There are six 'F' in this sentence. Are you astonished? Read the sentence again and this time, count them on your fingers carefully.
Q 2. In a hotel, a man was sleeping when he heard a knock on the door. He shifted the blanket and stepped down from the bed. He waked to the door and opened it to find a stranger standing outside. Upon opening the gate, that stranger said, "Pardon me, I must have made a mistake. I thought this was my room." The stranger then walked the corridor and climbed down the stairs. The man closed the door and immediately called the security. He asked them to arrest that stranger immediately. Why did he asked them to arrest that stranger? What made him suspicious?
A. The stranger said that he thought the room was his. If so, he must have had the keys to the room and thus he must not have knocked.
Q 3. Two world's famous prisoners 'Colditz' and 'Pascal' are locked in a cell. They plan to escape from the cell. They noticed there is an open window at 40 feet above the ground level. Both of them tried very hard but are never able to reach there. Then both of them decided to plan to escape by a tunnel and they start digging out. After digging for just 5 days, Colditz and Pascal comes out with the much more easier plan than tunneling and they escaped. what was the plan ?
A. They use the bricks and dirt from the tunnel to stand on it.
Q 4. Using eight eights and addition only, can you make 1000 ?
A. 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000.
Q 5. Removing one from eleven makes it ten and removing one from nine makes it ten. Is it even possible?
A. Yes it is possible in Roman Numerals. In Roman Numerals,
9 = IX
10 = X
11 = XI
Thus by removing one from 9, you are getting 10 and by removing one from 11, you are getting 10 again.
9 = IX
10 = X
11 = XI
Thus by removing one from 9, you are getting 10 and by removing one from 11, you are getting 10 again.
Q 6. Find smallest number that you can write using all the vowels(A,E,O,I,U) exactly once ?
A. fIvE thOUsAnd (5000)
Q 7. Stephen died of heart attack. His soul was received in heaven. He was astonished to find himself as young as he had been in his young adult age. He looked around and there were thousands of young and naked people. His eyes searched to find someone familiar and suddenly he noticed Adam and Eve. How did Stephen recognize them?
A: Adam and Eve were the only people without navel. As they were not born out of a mother, they never had umbilical cords and thus never had navels.
Q 8. A newspaper is supposed to have 60 pages.Pages 14 and 21 are missing from the newspaper. Can you tell me , Which other pages won't be there as well ?
A: Pages 19, 20, 23, 37, 38, & 42 will also be missing.
Q 9. A petri dish kept in a lab has a colony of healthy bacteria. Every bacterium divides itself into two in exactly two minutes. Now the colony started with a single cell at 2 pm. If the petri dish was exactly half full of bacteria at 3 pm, when will the dish become full of bacteria?
A: Since every bacterium divides into two in two minutes and we know the fact that the dish was half filled with bacteria at 3 pm, after exactly 2 minutes, all will divide into two and will fill the petri dish. Thus, the petri dish will become full at 3:02 pm.
Q 10. A terrorist hijacks a plane with 10 passengers and there is lots of gold in the plane. After talking the gold , he asked the government officials for 11 parachutes. He killed all the passenger so that no one can identify him , take one parachute and jumps off. Was he stupid to ask for 11 parachutes if he need only one ?
A. He was genius. Officials must have thought he was jumping with a hostage, they would never risk giving him a faulty parachute.
Q 11. Two companions Terry and Garry were talking about their families. Terry told some great stories about his courageous grandfather who fought for Britain in "World War I". Terry told that his grandfather is so brave that he was awarded a bravery honour medal with words "For our Courageous Soldiers In World War I" embedded into it. Garry Knows that his friend is lying ? How ?
A. "World War I" was named so after "World War II"
Q 12. You have to place all the digits from 1 to 9 without repeating any number in a tic tac toe board. The condition is that the numbers should add up to 15 whether you add the numbers in each row, column or diagonally. Can you do it?
A. 4 | 3 | 8
9 | 5 | 1
2 | 7 | 6
9 | 5 | 1
2 | 7 | 6
Q 13. An old priest fell on a bottom of the well of a church.
The well is 20 inches deep. At day time, the old priest climbs 5-inches but when at dark he slip back 4 inches. In how many days priest will come out of the well ?
A. 16-days. In 15-days, he will climb 15-inch and when he climbs 5 inch more, he will be out of the well.
Q 14. You are given four different jars of 2 liters, 4 liters, 6 liters and 8 liters respectively with an unlimited water supply. Then you are asked to measure exactly 5 liters of water using them. How will you do it?
A. If we have to measure precisely, it is impossible. Because we are asked
to measure odd number of liters whereas all the jars we have can contain
only even liters of water.
Q 15. Aliya Bhatt socks rack has 11 pink socks, 12 red socks , 13 orange socks, and 14 white socks,15 brown socks. How many socks would she have to pull out in the dark to be sure she got a matching pair ?
A. Six. There are only five colors, so six socks guarantee that two will be the same color.
Q 16. Who am I?
A. A Question
Q 17.Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli were batting on 94. Seven runs were required to win by the team and only three balls were left. At the end, both of them secured a century without being out. How can this be feasible?
A: Shikhar hit a sixer and then got retired hurt.
New batsman came but he got run out after he and Kohli had crossed halfway.
On the next ball, Kohli scored a six and was not out at 100.
New batsman came but he got run out after he and Kohli had crossed halfway.
On the next ball, Kohli scored a six and was not out at 100.
