QUESTION PAPER

Question:-1 At a conference, 12 members shook hands with each other before & after the meeting. How
many total number of hand shakes occurred?
100
132
145
144
121

Question:-2 The day after the day after tomorrow is four days before Monday. What day is it today?
A. Monday
B. Tuesday
C. Wednesday
D. Thursday
E. Friday
Question:-3 A fisherman has 5 fishes (namely A, B, C,D, E) each having a different weight.
(i) A weighs twice as much as B.
(ii) B weighs four and a half times as much as C.
(iii)C weighs half as much as D.
(iv) D weighs half as much as E.
(v) E weighs less than A but more than C.
Question:-4 Which of the following is the lightest?
(i) A
(ii) B
(iii)C
(iv) D
(v) E
Question:-5 In the above problem,
E is lighter in weight than which of the following pairs?
(i) B,D
(ii)D,C
(iii)A,D
(iv)B,C
(v)A,B
Question:-6 6121135 is to flame as 21215120 is to ?
A. voice
B. bald
C. bloat
D. castle
Question:-7 Forest is to tree as tree is to ?
A. plant
B. leaf
C. branch
D. mangrove
Question 8:- Fill in the blanks in the following sentence with an anagram:
Almost a _________ started between two brothers to decide who will use their father's _________.



Question 9:-Fill in the sequence
ND, JF, MA, ?, ?, SO



Question 10:-Replace one letter in each step to change the word COLD to its opposite. Each step has to
be a legitimate word.
COLD?


Question 11:-Paris, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Libya, England, ?
Complete the sequence by choosing the correct one amongst the following: Mexico, Singapore and
Netherland.



Question 12:-Fill in the blanks in the following sentence with an anagram:
Almost a ______ started between two brothers to decide who will use their father's ______.



Question 13:-Fill in the sequence:
prl, my, jn, jly, gst ?



Question 14:-One day on reaching school I found there were a total of 16 bicycles and tricycles parked in
the school compound. I counted the total number of wheels to be 38. Find out the number of bicycles.


Question 15:-Fill in the blanks with a word which makes two different words if you read from both sides:
Tim's father has kept his ______ in the ______ for scoring good marks in math.


Question 16:-By changing the position of only one arrow, correct the below equation:






Question 17:- There are 17 pigeons sitting in a row on a wall. A boy shoots the fifth pigeon. How many
pigeons remain?



Question 18:- Mr. & Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. Mrs. Smith has 5 sons and each son has a sister who
has 5 daughters each of whom have 1 brother each. How many of them went for the picnic?


Question:-19 Fill in the empty space:




Question 20:- Fill in the sequence:
DFH, KMO, RTV, YAC, ?


Question 21:-In a cave there is a treasure within a big metal box with a lock on it. There is also a monster
in the cave that has two keys with him; one gold and the other silver. The monster will give you only one
chance to open the lock using one of the keys. If the box doesn't open, the monster will kill you. Since
the monster is a bit helpful it would give you a clue in finding out the correct key. Can you choose the
correct key by deciphering the below clue?
A GKOY OEPD LYEO DCNO EAAR NNN


Question22:- Complete the sequence:
4, 7, 15, 29, 59, 117 ?


Question23:- A tunnel is 650m long. How far can a horse run into the tunnel if the horse is running at a
speed of 10km/hr?



Question24:- Little John has a habit of throwing things whenever he gets angry. One day he throws a toy
of his and it again comes back to him without bouncing off anything. How did this happen?



Question25:- If NUMERAL is written as UEALRMN then how would you write ALGEBRA?

Question26:- How can you fit five roses in 9 boxes? No box can remain empty.

Question 27:- Find the odd one out:
level, civic, madam, eye, mouth

Question 28:- The vowels from the following words have been removed. Put the vowels and name the
animals.
pnd
lprd
td
lphnt
trts
chmln

Question 29:- Find the missing number:
6 13 25 51 101 ?

Question 30:- Fill in the sequence:
1 5 9 15 ?

Question 31:- Fill in the sequence:
1 2 3 2 1 2 3 4 2 ?

Question 32:- Place a word with 4 letters in between the two words so that it can be used as a prefix and
suffix to make two new words.
SPOILS_______ION


Question 33:- How can you write 23 using the number 2 only 4 times? You can use addition, subtraction,
division, multiplication.


Question 34:- Two lawyers were fighting against each other in a case in a courtroom. One of them is the
father of the other's son. How are they related?

Question 35:- Tim came second in Math. When his mother asked him how much he had scored, he
answered that he got the sum of the first 9 even numbers. His mother immediately worked out the
answer. How much had he scored in Math?


Question 36:- Use the word "dormitory" to make two words which will complete the below sentence.
Daniel stays in a _______ _______.


Question 37:- If 0=4, 1=3, 2=3, 3=5, 4=4, 5=4, 6=3, 7=5, 8=5 and 9=4, find the value of 10, 11 and 12.


Question 38:- Name four days of the week starting with the alphabet "T".

Question 39:- Complete the sequence:
B E J Q ?

Question 40:- Fill in the sequence:
10 10 22 9 24 8 26 ?

Question 41:- Which number can you put to fill in the sequence?
23 1 3 25 16 20 6 9 20 ?


Question 42:- C D F H I L L ?

Question 43:- What is your relationship with your father's sister's mother's only daughter-in-law?

Question 44:- Fill in the blank:
_ T T F F
S S E N T
E T T F F
S S E N T


Question 45:- John paid a sum of money for purchasing 20 pens, which he recovered in full when he sold
15 of them. What was his percentage of profit or loss per pen?


Question 46:-A lady introduces a man by saying that her mother-in-law was the only daughter of
the man's mother-in-law. How are the lady and man related?



Question 47:- Fill in the sequence:
aceg jlnp suwy ? kmoq


Question 48:- Decode the following message:
AENDFNDFNNIRDERDESIIEIIEAEND


Question 49:-If WINTER is written as 231017241024 and SUMMER is written as 192216171024, then
write AUTUMN.


Question 50:- In a certain code if CAB is written as XZY and TRAIN is written as GIZRM, then
decode EVSRXOV.