1. Given that April 1 is tuesday. A, B, C are 3 persons told that their farewell party was on

A - May 8, thursday

B - May 10,tuesday

C - June 5, friday

Out of A, B, C only one made a completetly true statement concerning date,day and month. The other told two one told the day right and the other the date right.. What is correct date, month, day.

Answer :   B - (May 10) SUNDAY                                       C - June 6 (Friday)

2. Mr.Mathurs jewels have been stolen from his bank locker .The bank has lockers of 12 people which are arranged in an array of 3 rows and 4 columns like:

1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12

The locker belonging to JONES was to the right of BLACK'S locker and directly above MILLAR'S.

BOOTH'S locker was directly above MILLAR'S.

SMITH'S locker was also above GRAY's (though not directly).

GREEN'S locker was directly below SMITH'S.

WILSON'S locker was between that of DAVIS and BOOTH.

MILLAR'S locker was on the bottom row directly to the right of HERD'S.

WHITE'S locker was on the bottom right hand corner in the same column as BOOTH'S.

Which box belonged to Mr.Mathurs?

Answer :   Box number 9 belongs to Mr.Mathurs.

3. A man collects cigarette stubs and makes one full cigarette with every 8 stubs.If he gets 64 stubs how many full cigarettes can he smoke.

Answer :   8+1=9

4. There are 6 volumes of books on a rack kept in order ( ie vol.1, vol. 2 and so on ).

Give the position after the following changes were noticed.

All books have been changed

Vol.5 was directly to the right of Vol.2

Vol.4 has Vol.6 to its left and both weren't at Vol.3's place

Vol.1 has Vol.3 on right and Vol.5 on left

An even numbered volume is at Vol.5's place

Find the order in which the books are kept now.

Answer :   2 , 5 , 1 , 3 , 6 , 4

5. Sam and Mala have a conversation. Sam says I am certainly not over 40.Mala says I am 38 and you are atleast 5 years older than me.Now Sam says you are atleast 39. All the statements by the two are false. How old are they really?

Answer :   Mala = 38 yrs                   Sam = 41 yrs.

6. How can 1000000000 be written as a product of two factors neither of them containing zeros

Answer :   2 power 9 x 5 power 9

7. I bought a car with a peculiar 5 digit numbered licence plate which on reversing could still be read. On reversing value is increased by 78633.Whats the original number if all digits were different?

Answer :   Only 0 1 6 8 and 9 can be readupside down.So on rearranging these digits we get the Answer : er as 10968

8. Sometime after 10:00 PM a murder took place. A witness claimed that the clock must have stopped at the time of the shooting. It was later found that the postion of both the hands were the same but their positions had interchanged. Tell the time of the shooting (both actual and claimed).

Answer :   Time of shooting = 11:54 PM

Claimed Time = 10:59 PM

9. Conversation between two mathematic answer : 

First : I have three childern. The product of their ages is 36. If you sum their ages, it is exactly same as my neighbour's door number on my left.The second mathematician verfies the door number and says that it is not sufficient.Then the first says " Ok one more clue is that my youngest is really the youngest". Immmediately the second mathematician Answers. Can you Answer the question asked by the first mathematician? What are the childeren ages?

Answer :   1,6 and 6

10. The shape in the sketch below is that of a square attached to half of a similar square. Divide it into four equal pieces

Answer :   Hint : the figure can be divided into 12 equal triangles