1. A hotel has 10 storeys.Which floor is above the floor below the floor, below the floor above the floor, below the floor above the fifth.

Answer :   The sixth floor

2. 500 men are arranged in an array of 10 rows and 50 columns according to their heights. Tallest among each row of all are asked to fall out.And the shortest among them is A.Similarly after resuming that to their original podsitions that the shortest among each column are asked to fall out. And the tallest among them is B . Now who is taller among A and B ?

Answer :  A

3. Next number in the series is 1 , 2 , 4 , 13 , 31 , 112 , ____

Answer :   224

4. From a vessel, 1/3rd of the liquid evaporates on the first day. On the second day 3/4th of the remaining liquid evaporates.What fraction of the volume is present at the end of the second day.

Answer :   50%

5. Find the values of each of the alphabets.

N O O N

S O O N

+ M O O N

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J U N E

Answer :   9326

6. At 6'o a clock ticks 6 times. The time between first and last ticks is 30 seconds. How long does it tick at 12'o clock.

Answer :   66 sec

7. If a clock takes 7seconds to strike 7, how long will the same clock take to strike 10?

Answer : The clock strikes for the first time at the start and takes 7 seconds for 6 intervals-thus for one interval time taken=7/6. Therefore, for 10 seconds there are 9 intervals and time taken is 9*7/6=10 and 1/2 seconds.

8. Seven members sat around a table for three days for a conference. The member's names were Abhishek, Amol, Ankur, Anurag,Bhuwan ,Vasu and Vikram. The meetings were chaired by Vikram. On the first evening members sat around the table alphabetically. On the following two nights, Vikram arranged the seatings so that he could have Abhishek as near to him as possible and abesent minded Vasu as far away as he could. On no evening did any person have sitting next to him a person who had previously been his neighbour.How did Vikram manage to seat everybody to the best advantage on the second and third evenings?

Answer :  

Second evening : Vikram,Ankur,Abhishek,Amol,Vasu,Anurag and Bhuwan

Third evening : Vikram,Anurag,Abhishek,Vasu,Bhuwan,Ankur,Amol

9. There are six boxes containing 5 , 7 , 14 , 16 , 18 , 29 balls of either red or blue in colour. Some boxes contain only red balls and others contain only blue.One sales man sold one box out of them and then he says " I have the same number of red balls left out as that of blue ".Which box is the one he solds out ?

Answer :   Total no of balls = 89 and (89-29 /2) = 60/2 = 30 and also 14 + 16 = 5 + 7 + 18 = 30

10. Ann, Boobie, Cathy and Dave are at their monthly business meeting. Their occupations are author, biologist, chemist and doctor, but not necessarily in that order.Dave just told the biologist that Cathy was on her way with doughnuts. Ann is sitting across from the doctor and next to the chemist.The doctor was thinking that Boobie was a goofy name for parent's to choose,but didn't say anything.What is each person's occupation?

Answer :   Since Dave spoke to the biologist and Ann sat next to the chemist and across the doctor, Cathy must be the author and Ann the biologist.

The doctor didn't speak, but David did, so Bobbie is the doctor and Dave the chemist.