Puzzle Test
Exam Duration: 45 Mins Total Questions : 30
Study the information given below and answer the questions that follow:
There are five persons P, Q, R, S and T. One is football player, one is chess player and one is hockey player. P and S are unmarried ladies and do not participate in any game. None of the ladies plays chess or football. There is a married couple in which T is the husband. Q is the brother of R and is neither a chess player nor a hockey player.
Who is the football player?
- (a)
P
- (b)
Q
- (c)
R
- (d)
S
- (e)
T
Read the following information to answer the given questions:
The Director of the Institute has announced that six guest lectures on different areas like Leadership, Decision Making, Quality Circle, Motivation, Assessment Center and Group Discussion are to be organised only one on each day from Monday to Sunday.
(i) Motivation should be organised immediately after Assessment Centre.
(ii) Quality Circle should be organised on Wednesday and should not be followed by group Discussion.
(iii) Decision making should be organised on Friday and there should be a gap of two days between Leadership and Group Discussion.
(iv) One day there will be no lecture (Saturday is not that day), organised ?just before that day Group Discussion will be organised.
Which day will the lecture on Leadership be organised?
- (a)
Tuesday
- (b)
Wednesday
- (c)
Friday
- (d)
Saturday
- (e)
None of these
Study the following information and answer the questions given below:
Seven specialists doctors P, Q, R, S, T, U and V visit a polyclinic on the four days -- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday --- in a week. At least one doctor but not more than two doctors visit the polyclinic on each of these days. Each of them is specialists of different fields - ENT, Orthopaedics, Paediatrics, Neurologist, Ophthalmologists, Radiologists and Oncologists. S visits on Friday with Radiologists, Paediatricians does not visit on Saturday nor with T and V. Oncologists U visits alone on Tuesday. Q visits on Wednesday and he is not Paediatricians. R visits on Wednesday. V is not Radiologists. Paediatrician visits with ENT specialists. Neurologists visits on Friday. P is neither Orthopaedics nor Radiologists.
What is the speciality of P?
- (a)
Paediatrics
- (b)
Ophthalmologist
- (c)
ENT
- (d)
Data inadequate
- (e)
None of these
(i) Eleven Students A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J and K are sitting the first row of the class facing the teacher.
(ii) D who is to the immediate left of F is second to the right of C.
(iii) A is second to the right of E, who is at one of the ends.
(iv) J is the immediate neighbour of A and B and third to the left of G.
(v) H is to the immediate left of D and third to the right of I.
If E and D, C and B, A and H, and K and F interchange their positions, which of the following pairs of students is sitting at the ends?
- (a)
D and E
- (b)
E and F
- (c)
D and K
- (d)
K and F
- (e)
None of these
Answer the questions based on the following information:
In a family of 6, there are 3 men X, Y and Z and 3 women A, B and C. The six are Architect, Lawyer, Chartered Accountant (CA), Professor, Doctor and Engineer by profession but not in the same order.
I. There are two married couples and 2 unmarried persons.
II. Z is not A's husband.
III. The doctor is married to the lawyer.
IV. A's father is a professor.
V. Y is not X's son, nor is he an architect or professor.
VI. The lawyer is C's daughter-in-law.
VII. X is married to the CA.
Which of the following is a married couple?
- (a)
X and B
- (b)
X and C
- (c)
Y and A
- (d)
Z and A
Study the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow:
A team of five is to be selected from amongst five boys A, B, C, D and E and four girls P, Q, R, and S. Some criteria for selection are:
A and S have to be together.
P cannot be put with R.
D and Q cannot go together.
C and E have to be together.
R cannot be put with B.
Unless otherwise stated, these criteria are applicable to all the questions below.
If including P at least three members are girls, the members of the team other than P are
- (a)
Q, S, A, B
- (b)
Q, S, B, D
- (c)
Q, S, C, E
- (d)
R, S, A, D
Read the following information carefully and answer the question given below it:
(i) A, B, C, D and E are five friends.
(ii) B is elder to E, but not as tall as C.
(iii) C is younger to A, and is taller to D and E.
(iV) A is taller to D, But younger than E.
(v) D is elder to A but is shortest in the group.
Which of the following statements is correct about B?
(i) B is not the tallest.
(ii) B is shorter to E.
(iii) When they bare asked to stand in ascending order with respect to their heights, B is in the middle.
- (a)
Only (i) is correct
- (b)
Only (i) and (ii) are correct
- (c)
All are correct
- (d)
All are incorrect
- (e)
None of these.
Five ladies - Tanya, Sunita, Nidhi, Aparna and Preeti, and five men - Arvind, Kunal, Pawan, Sahil and Tanmay sat on the two long sides of a rectangular table. Ladies sat alternating with and opposite to the men.Sahil sat in a centre position.Aparna sat opposite Arvind. Sunita sat next to Sahil and three places from Arvind. Preeti sat four places to the left of Aparna. Nidhi sat two places from Sunita and Pawan sat opposite Sunita. Kunal sat three places from Preeti. Who sat opposite Tanya?
- (a)
Aravind
- (b)
Kunal
- (c)
Pawan
- (d)
Sahil
In a car exhibition, seven cars of seven different companies viz. Cadilac, Ambassador, Fiat, Maruti, Mercedes, Bedford and Fargo were displayed in a row, facing east such that;
(1)Cadilac car was to the immediate right of Fargo.
(2) Fargo was fourth to the right of Fiat.
(3) Maruti car was between Ambassador and Bedford.
(4) Fiat, which was third to the left of Ambassador car, was at one of the ends.
Which of the following was the correct position of the Mercedes?
- (a)
Immediate right of cardilac
- (b)
Immediate left of Bedford
- (c)
Between Bedford and Fargo
- (d)
Fourth to the right of Maruti
- (e)
None of these
Read the following information carefully and answer these questions:
(i) P, Q, R, S, T and U are six members of a group of which three are males and three are females
(ii) There are two engineers, two lawyers, one teacher and one doctor in the group
(iii) Q, T, P and R are two married couples and no two persons in this group have the same profession
(iv) T, a teacher with blue dress, married a male lawyer with brown dress
(v) colour of the dresses of both the husbands and that of both the wives is the same.
(vi) Two persons have blue dress, two have brown and the remaining one each has black and green.
(vii) P is a male engineer whose sister S is also an engineer
(viii) Q is a doctor
What is the colour of U's dress?
- (a)
Black
- (b)
Green
- (c)
Black or Green
- (d)
data inadequate
- (e)
none of these
Read the following information carefully and answer the given questions:
Of the six men of literature A, B, C, D, E and F being considered here, two belonged to the 17th century, three to the 19th and one to the 20th century. Four were recognised as great poets, three as great novelists and three as great dramatists.One contributed to bengali literature, to the Hindi, two to Marathi and one to Tamil.The 20th century writer wrote poetry only and contributed to Marathi literature and the other marathi writer contributed to poetry, novel and drama.One Hindi writer and the only Tamil writer belonged to the 19th century.The former contributed to poetry and novel while the latter to novel and drama.The Bengali writer belonged to the 17th century and contributed to poetry only.A belonged to the 20th century, B wrote drama only, C contributed to Marathi literature, D was a Hindi, poet and novelist and belonged to the 19th century.E also belonged to the 19th century, and F contributed to poetry only.
Among these, who was the Tamil writer?
- (a)
A
- (b)
B
- (c)
E
- (d)
F
Score Board
Pakistan: Saeed Answer c Fleming b Vaughan 1; Aamir Sohail st Germon b Patel 16; Shahid Afridi c Greatbatch b Larsen 21; Ijaz
Ahmed c Fleming b Astle 10; Salim Malik lbw Carins 40; Azam Khan Greatbatch b Harris 22; Moin Khan lbw Carins 32; Wasim Akram c
Vaughan b Patel 0; Saqlain Mushtaq lbw Harris 0;Waqar Younis run out 0;Mushatq Ahmed not out 4.
Extras:(lb-12,w-2);14
Total: (all out in 48.5 overs);160
Fall of wickets:1-4, 2-32, 3-51, 4-63, 5-116, 6-120, 7-120, 8-138, 9-145
Bowling: Vaughan 8-0-33-1; Larsen 9-1-22-1; Cairns 9.5-0-24-2; Astle 3-0-7-1; Harris 9-2-32-2; Patel 10-2-30-2
New Zealand:Bryan Young b Akram 5; Mark Greatbatch c Ijaz Mushtaq 52; Adam Parore lbw Saqlain 22;Nathan Astle c Mushtaq b
Saqlain 8; Stephen Fleming lbw Younis 4;Chris Carins lbw Akram 8; Chris Harris c Afridi b Mushtaq 2; Lee Germon lbw Akram 5;
Dipak Patel lbw Afridi 1; Justin Vaughan not out 1; Gavin Larsen b Afridi 0
Extras:(w-5,nb-6);11
Total:(all out in 36.5 overs);119
Fall of wickets:1-7,2-66,3-81,4-98,5-102,6-111,7-114,8-117,9-119.
Bowling:Akram 8-1-20-3; Younis 8-0-22-1; Saqlain 8-0-32-2; Afridi 2.5-0-14-2; Mushtaq 10-0-31-2
If runs per wicket is the criterion for evaluating bowling performance, then which bowler had the best bowling performance in the match?
- (a)
Astle
- (b)
Younis
- (c)
Afridi
- (d)
Akram
Study the following information carefully to answer the questions given below:
In an examination, six subjects were available for a candidate of which only three had to be offered under the following conditions:
One who offered A had to offer B also and vice versa.
One who offered A could not offer E.
One who offered C or D could not offer F.
Thr distribution of the candidates over the subjects was as follows:
A - 70, B - 70; C - 90; D - 85; E - 70; F - 35
How many candidates combined C with D?
- (a)
15
- (b)
20
- (c)
35
- (d)
70
In the Olympic games, the flags of six nations were flown on the masts in the following way:
the flag of America was to the left of Indian tricolour and to the right of the flat of France. The flag of Australia was on the right of the Indian flag but was to the left of the flag of Japan, Which was to the left of the flag of China. Find the tow flags which are in the centre
- (a)
India and Australia
- (b)
America and India
- (c)
Japan and Australia
- (d)
America and Australia
Answer should be based on the information given below:
At the crowded annual sale of Indian Handloom Sarees, there were five ladies in the queue. Each of the lady customers bought something different. The first names of the customers were Asha, Kavitha, Usha, Sadhna and Latha. Their last names were Bhonsle, Sargam, Krishnamoorthy, Mangeshkar and Uthoop, but not necessarily in the same order. The available sarees were: Kanjeevaram Silk Saree, Paithani Silk saree, Sambalpuri Cotton Saree and Tangail Cotton Saree.
(i) Usha Krishnamurthy was served after the customer who requested the Tangail cotton Saree, but before Mrs. Uthoop.
(ii) The second customer was Sadhna.
(iii) The Gadwal silk saree was purchased by the customer directly after Kavita.
(iv) Latha was the women who bought the Sambalpuri Cotton Saree; she was Served later than Asha.
(v) The Kanjeevaram Silk saree was requested by Mrs. Mangeshkar.
(vi) Mrs. Sargam was the third in line.
(vii) The fourth customer in the line bought the Paithani Silk Saree.
What place was Latha in the Queue?
- (a)
First
- (b)
Third
- (c)
Fourth
- (d)
Fifth
(A) Six flats on a floor in two rows facing North and South are allotted to P, Q, R, S, T and U.
(B) Q gets a North facing flat and is not next to S.
(C) S and U get diagonally opposite flats.
(D) R, next to U, gets a South facing flat and T gets a North facing flat.
The flats of which of the other pairs than SU, are diagonally opposite to each other?
- (a)
QP
- (b)
PT
- (c)
QR
- (d)
TS
Read the following passage to answer the question:
Anita, Mahima, Rajan, Lata and Deepti are five cousins. Anita is twice as old as Mahima. Rajan is half the age of Mahima. Anita is half the age of Deepti and Rajan is twice the age of Lata.
If Mahima is 16 years old, then what is the age of Lata?
- (a)
4 years
- (b)
5 years
- (c)
7 years
- (d)
14 years
In a pile of 10 books, there are 3 of History, 3 of Hindi, 2 of Mathematics and 2 of English. Taking from above, there is an English book between a History and Mathematics book, a History book between a Mathematics and an English book, a Hindi book between an English and a Mathematics book, a Mathematics book between two Hindi books and two Hindi books between a Mathematics and a History book. Book of which subjects is at the sixth position from the top?
- (a)
English
- (b)
Hindi
- (c)
Mathematics
- (d)
History
A, B C and D are to be seated in a row. But C and D cannot be together. Also, B cannot be at the third place.
If A and B are together, then which of the following must be necessarily true?
- (a)
C is at the first place
- (b)
D is at the first place
- (c)
C is not at the first place
- (d)
A is at the third place
Study the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow:
A team of five is to be selected from amongst five boys A, B, C, D and E and four girls P, Q, R, and S. Some criteria for selection are:
A and S have to be together.
P cannot be put with R.
D and Q cannot go together.
C and E have to be together.
R cannot be put with B.
Unless otherwise stated, these criteria are applicable to all the questions below.
If R be one of the members, the order members of the team are
- (a)
P, S, A, D
- (b)
Q, S, A, D
- (c)
Q, S, C, E
- (d)
S, A, C, E
Read the following information carefully and answer the question given below it:
(i) A, B, C, D and E are five friends.
(ii) B is elder to E, but not as tall as C.
(iii) C is younger to A, and is taller to D and E.
(iV) A is taller to D, But younger than E.
(v) D is elder to A but is shortest in the group.
Which of the following pairs of statements is elder to D?
- (a)
BA
- (b)
BC
- (c)
BE
- (d)
EA
- (e)
None os these
These questions are based on the following information:
From time to time, the Managing Director of a company appoints Planning Committees, each consisting of exactly three members. Eligible for appointment are three executives from finance - B, C and D - and three executives from Operations - E, F, and M. Any given committee is subject to the following restrictions on appointments:
(i) At least one member must be from finance, and at least one member must be from Operations.
(ii) If B is appointed, C cannot be appointed.
(iii) Neither D are F can be appointed unless the other is also appointed.
(iv) If E is appointed, M must be appointed.
If appointees from Finance ar in majority on a committee, that committee must include
- (a)
B
- (b)
C
- (c)
F
- (d)
M
Study the given information carefully and answer the questions that follow:
(i) Six friends P, Q, R, S, T and U are members of a club and play a different game of football cricket, Tennis, Basketball, Badminton and Volleyball.
(ii) T, who is taller than P and S, plays Tennis.
(iii) The tallest among them plays Basketball.
(iv) The shortest among them plays volleyball.
(v) Q and S neither play Volleyball nor Basketball.
(vi) R plays Volleyball.
(vii) T is between Q who plays Football and P in order of height.
Which of the following statements is not true?
- (a)
P is shorter than R.
- (b)
Q is taller than S.
- (c)
S is taller than R.
- (d)
T is taller than R
- (e)
U is taller than Q.
Study the given information carefully and answer the questions that follow:
(i) Six friends P, Q, R, S, T and U are members of a club and play a different game of football cricket, Tennis, Basketball, Badminton and Volleyball.
(ii) T, who is taller than P and S, plays Tennis.
(iii) The tallest among them plays Basketball.
(iv) The shortest among them plays volleyball.
(v) Q and S neither play Volleyball nor Basketball.
(vi) R plays Volleyball.
(vii) T is between Q who plays Football and P in order of height.
What does S play?
- (a)
Circket
- (b)
Badminton
- (c)
Football
- (d)
Either Circket or Badminton
- (e)
None of these
Mr. A, Miss B, Mr. C and Miss D are sitting around a table and discussing their trades.
(1) Mr. A sits opposite to cook.
(2) Miss B sits right to the barber.
(3) The washerman is on the left of the tailor.
(4) Miss D sits opposite Mr.C.
What are the trades of A and B ?
- (a)
Tailor and barber
- (b)
Tailor and Cook
- (c)
Barber and Cook
- (d)
Washerman and Cook
Read the information given below and answer the questions that follow:
A ★ B means A and B are of the same age;
A - B means B is younger than A ;
A + B means A is younger than B.
Deven - Shashi ★ Hemant is opposite to
(i) Hemant + shashi + Deven (ii) Hemant - Shashi + Deven
(iii) shashi ★ Hemant + Devan
- (a)
(i) only
- (b)
(i) and (ii) only
- (c)
(ii) and (iii) only
- (d)
None of these.
Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below it:
Of the five boys A, B, C, D and E, two are good, one is poor and two are average in studies.Two of them study in post-graduate classes and three in undergraduate classes.One comes from a rich family, two from middle-class families and two from poor families.One of them is interested in music, two in acting and one in sports.Of those studying in undergraduate classes, two are average and one is poor in studies of the two boys interested in acting, one is a post-graduate student.The one interested in music comes from a middle-class family.both the boys interested in acting are not industrious.The two boys coming from a middle-class family are average in studies and one of them is interested in acting.The boy interested in sports comes from a poor family, while the one interested in music is industrious.E is industrious, good in studies, comes from a poor family and is not interested in acting, music or sports.C is poor in studies in spite of being industrious.A comes from a rich family and is not industrious but good in studies.B is industrious and comes from a middle-class family
Name the boy interested in sports?
- (a)
A
- (b)
B
- (c)
C
- (d)
D
Score Board
Pakistan: Saeed Answer c Fleming b Vaughan 1; Aamir Sohail st Germon b Patel 16; Shahid Afridi c Greatbatch b Larsen 21; Ijaz
Ahmed c Fleming b Astle 10; Salim Malik lbw Carins 40; Azam Khan Greatbatch b Harris 22; Moin Khan lbw Carins 32; Wasim Akram c
Vaughan b Patel 0; Saqlain Mushtaq lbw Harris 0;Waqar Younis run out 0;Mushatq Ahmed not out 4.
Extras:(lb-12,w-2);14
Total: (all out in 48.5 overs);160
Fall of wickets:1-4, 2-32, 3-51, 4-63, 5-116, 6-120, 7-120, 8-138, 9-145
Bowling: Vaughan 8-0-33-1; Larsen 9-1-22-1; Cairns 9.5-0-24-2; Astle 3-0-7-1; Harris 9-2-32-2; Patel 10-2-30-2
New Zealand:Bryan Young b Akram 5; Mark Greatbatch c Ijaz Mushtaq 52; Adam Parore lbw Saqlain 22;Nathan Astle c Mushtaq b
Saqlain 8; Stephen Fleming lbw Younis 4;Chris Carins lbw Akram 8; Chris Harris c Afridi b Mushtaq 2; Lee Germon lbw Akram 5;
Dipak Patel lbw Afridi 1; Justin Vaughan not out 1; Gavin Larsen b Afridi 0
Extras:(w-5,nb-6);11
Total:(all out in 36.5 overs);119
Fall of wickets:1-7,2-66,3-81,4-98,5-102,6-111,7-114,8-117,9-119.
Bowling:Akram 8-1-20-3; Younis 8-0-22-1; Saqlain 8-0-32-2; Afridi 2.5-0-14-2; Mushtaq 10-0-31-2
If number of balls per wicket is considered to evaluate bowling performance, then who was the best bowler of the match?
- (a)
Patel
- (b)
Larsen
- (c)
Afridi
- (d)
Akram
Score Board
Pakistan: Saeed Answer c Fleming b Vaughan 1; Aamir Sohail st Germon b Patel 16; Shahid Afridi c Greatbatch b Larsen 21; Ijaz
Ahmed c Fleming b Astle 10; Salim Malik lbw Carins 40; Azam Khan Greatbatch b Harris 22; Moin Khan lbw Carins 32; Wasim Akram c
Vaughan b Patel 0; Saqlain Mushtaq lbw Harris 0;Waqar Younis run out 0;Mushatq Ahmed not out 4.
Extras:(lb-12,w-2);14
Total: (all out in 48.5 overs);160
Fall of wickets:1-4, 2-32, 3-51, 4-63, 5-116, 6-120, 7-120, 8-138, 9-145
Bowling: Vaughan 8-0-33-1; Larsen 9-1-22-1; Cairns 9.5-0-24-2; Astle 3-0-7-1; Harris 9-2-32-2; Patel 10-2-30-2
New Zealand:Bryan Young b Akram 5; Mark Greatbatch c Ijaz Mushtaq 52; Adam Parore lbw Saqlain 22;Nathan Astle c Mushtaq b
Saqlain 8; Stephen Fleming lbw Younis 4;Chris Carins lbw Akram 8; Chris Harris c Afridi b Mushtaq 2; Lee Germon lbw Akram 5;
Dipak Patel lbw Afridi 1; Justin Vaughan not out 1; Gavin Larsen b Afridi 0
Extras:(w-5,nb-6);11
Total:(all out in 36.5 overs);119
Fall of wickets:1-7,2-66,3-81,4-98,5-102,6-111,7-114,8-117,9-119.
Bowling:Akram 8-1-20-3; Younis 8-0-22-1; Saqlain 8-0-32-2; Afridi 2.5-0-14-2; Mushtaq 10-0-31-2
Who was run out in the match?
- (a)
Waqar younis
- (b)
Justin Vaughan
- (c)
Azam Khan and Waqar Younis
- (d)
None of these
Study the following information carefully to answer the questions given below:
In an examination, six subjects were available for a candidate of which only three had to be offered under the following conditions:
One who offered A had to offer B also and vice versa.
One who offered A could not offer E.
One who offered C or D could not offer F.
Thr distribution of the candidates over the subjects was as follows:
A - 70, B - 70; C - 90; D - 85; E - 70; F - 35
How many candidates offered B with F?
- (a)
15
- (b)
20
- (c)
35
- (d)
70