Stage 1

Rules: -Maximum Time: 45 minutes; Total No. of Q. = 20

- Multiple choice questions carry negative marks(-1). No negative marking for direct questions.
Q.1) Solve this mathematical equation.
Each letter stands for a unique digit. There are no leading zeros.
UK
USA
+ USSR
AGING

Q.2) There are 5 houses each with a different color. Their owners, each with a unique
heritage, drinks a certain type of beverage, smokes a certain brand of cigarette, and
keeps a certain variety of pet. None of the owners have the same variety of pet, smoke
the same brand of cigarette or drink the same beverage.
Clues:
The Brit lives in the red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
Looking from in front, the green house is just to the left of the white house.
The green house's owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Malls raises birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the center house drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the leftmost house.
The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps a horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Bluemasters also drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
Who owns the pet fish?
A) ) The Dane B) The Brit C) The Norwegian D The German E) The Swede
Q.3) A sweater normally has a label on the inside of the back of the collar. If you turn the
sweater inside out, and then put your right arm where the left arm usually goes and vice-
versa, where will the label be?

A) On the inside front B) inside back C) outside front D) outside back

Q.4) Every week you play the lottery and you always play the same number. To play you pick six
integers between 1 and 49, inclusive.
The numbers you pick have these properties:
The difference between any two of the six numbers is different from the difference between any
other pair.Due to a childhood trauma, you have a fear of prime numbers, consequently
None of the six numbers is prime.
None of the digits in the six numbers is prime.
None of the differences between any two of the six numbers is prime.
The number 1, of course, is not prime.
What six numbers do you play?

Q.5) There are six civil service job openings. Thirteen candidates passed the civil service exam with
equally high scores. So the administrators gave them all a second test. This one had only five
questions, each with a Yes/No answer.
The test results of the candidates had thirteen different answer sequences. The top six had the same
number of correct answers and were all hired.
Three of those who were not hired had these answer sequences:
No, No, Yes, No, No
Yes, No, No, Yes, Yes
Yes, Yes, Yes, No, Yes
What was the correct sequence of answers?
A) No, No, Yes, Yes, No.
B) No, Yes, No, Yes, No.
C) Yes, Yes, No, Yes, No.
D) No, Yes, No, Yes, No.

Q.6) A man is trapped in a room. The room has only two possible exits: two doors. Through the first
door there is a room constructed from magnifying glass. The blazing hot sun instantly fries anything or
anyone that enters. Through the second door there is a fire-breathing dragon. How does the man
escape?

Q.7) Handel has been killed and Beethoven is on the case. He has interviewed the four suspects and
their statements are shown below. Each suspect has said two sentences. One sentence of each
suspect is a lie and one sentence is the truth. Help Beethoven figure out who the killer is.
Joplin: I did not kill Handel. Either Grieg is the killer or none of us is.
Grieg: I did not kill Handel. Gershwin is the killer.
Strauss: I did not kill Handel. Grieg is lying when he says Gershwin is the killer.
Gershwin: I did not kill Handel. If Joplin did not kill him, then Grieg did.
A) Joplin B) Grieg C) Strauss D) Gershwin

Q.8) You are in a game of Russian Roulette with a revolver that has 3 bullets placed in three
consecutive chambers. The cylinder of the gun will be spun once at the beginning of the game. Then,
the gun will be passed between two players until it fires. Would you prefer to go first or second?

Q.9) Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife. Every wife in the village
instantly knows when a man other than her husband has cheated, but does not know when her own
husband has. The village has a law that does not allow for adultery. Any wife who can prove that her
husband is unfaithful must kill him that very day. The women of the village would never disobey this
law. One day, the queen of the village visits and announces that at least one husband has been
unfaithful. What happens?

Q.10) A hotel has two wings, the east wing and the west wing. Some east wing rooms but not all have
an ocean view. All west wing rooms have a harbor view. The charge for all rooms is identical, except
as follows:
• Extra charge for all harbor view rooms on or above the 3rd floor
• Extra charge for all ocean view rooms except those without balcony
• Extra charge for some harbor rooms on the first two floor & some east wing rooms without ocean
view but having kitchen facilities.

Which of the following cannot be determined on the basis of the information given?
I. Whether there are any rooms without a balcony for which an extra charge is imposed.
II. Whether any room without a kitchen or a view involves an extra charge.
III. Whether two extra charges are imposed for any room.
(A) I only (B) II only
(C) III only (D) II and III only (E) I, II and III
Q.11) A contractor had employed 100 labourers for a flyover construction task. He did not allow any
woman to work without her husband. Also, at least half the men working came with their wives. He
paid five rupees per day to each man, four rupees to each woman and one rupee to each child. He
gave out 200 rupees every evening. How many men, women and children were working with the
constructor?

Q.12) Ankit and Tejas divided a bag of Apples between them.

Tejas said, "It's not fair! You have 3 times as many Apples I have." Ankit said, "OK, I will give you one
Apple for each year of your age." Tejas replied, "Still not fair. Now, you have twice as many Apples as I
have." "Dear, that's fair enough as I am twice older than you.", said Ankit.
Ankit went to Kitchen to drink water. While Ankit was in Kitchen, Tejas took apples from Ankit's pile
equal to Ankit's age. Who have more apples now?
A) Ankit B) Tejas C) Both have same no.

Q.13) If today is Sunday, then what was the day 52 days before this day?
Q.14) While visiting a small town in the United States, lost my overcoat in a bus. When I reported the
matter to the bus company I was asked the number of the bus Though I did not remember the exact
number I did remember that the bus number had a certain peculiarity about it. The number plate
showed the bus number was a perfect square and also if the plate was turned upside down, the
number would still be a perfect square of course it was not? I came to know from the bus company
they had only five hundred buses numbered from I to 500 From this I was able to deduce the bus
number Can you tell what was the number?

A) 9 B) 16 C) 81 D) 100 E) 169 F) 196

Q.15) A man in a restaurant ordered gulab jamuns in a weird pattern every day for five days. After
eating a certain amount of gulab jamuns on the first day, he ate five more gulab jamuns than the
previous day every successive day. How many gulab jamuns had he eaten on the fourth day, if
he had consumed 80 gulab jamuns during the five days?
A) 12 B) 15 C) 21 D) 25

Q.16) I am a 9 letter word.

7-8-9 is an insect.
3-4-5 make a policeman.
5-7-8-9 is what you do after running.
3-2-1-9 refer to a vesicle or sac.
6-4-5 is the partner of hip.
Intact, people tell me I'm like a parasite.
What am I?

Q.17) What is the maximum number of slices can you obtain by cutting a cake with only 4
cuts?
A) 12 B) 16 C) 18 D) 20

Q.18) Conversation between two employees is as follows:-

EMPLOYEE-1: Hello! Now your experience is twice the my experience.
EMPLOYEE-2: Exactly two times.
EMPLOYEE-1: But at the last meet, you said that your experience is thrice of my
experience.
EMPLOYEE-2: That is when we met at 2 years
back, your experience is thrice that of yours.
What is the experience (no of year) of two
employees with the company?

Q.19) Draw a rectangular with 3 lines.

Q.20) Arrow Sudoku-

In this Sudoku variation, each circled number is the
sum of the numbers along the corresponding arrow
path.

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Participant 1 Participant 2

Name:_____________________________________ Name:______________________________________

Semester___________________________________ Semester____________________________________

Contact No_________________________________ Contact No__________________________________

1.

2.__________ 3.__________4.__________5.__________

6.___________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

7.______________ 8.______________

9.__________________________________________________________________________________

10._____________11 men______ women _________ children________

12.____________13.___________________14.______________________

15.____________16.___________________17.______________________

18.___________________19.

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