Answers for Questions asked on Dec 29, 2011

26. Why is it better to have round manhole covers than square ones?


Answer : A square manhole cover can be turned and dropped down the diagonal of the manhole. A round manhole cannot be dropped down the manhole. So for safety and practicality, all manhole covers should be round.

Manholes (Dec 29, 2011)

26. Why is it better to have round manhole covers than square ones?

Answer for Question asked on Dec 29, 2011

25. A man and his son are in a car accident. The father dies on the scene, but the child is rushed to the hospital. When he arrives the surgeon says, "I can't operate on this boy, he is my son! " How can this be true?


Answer : The surgeon was his mother.

He's my son !! (Dec 29, 2011)

25. A man and his son are in a car accident. The father dies on the scene, but the child is rushed to the hospital. When he arrives the surgeon says, "I can't operate on this boy, he is my son! " How can this be true?

Answer for Question asked on Dec 28, 2011

24. There is a man who lives on the top floor of a very tall building. Everyday he gets the elevator down to the ground floor to leave the building to go to work. Upon returning from work though, he can only travel half way up in the lift and has to walk the rest of the way unless it's raining! Why?


Answer : The man is very, very short and can only reach halfway up the elevator buttons. However, if it is raining then he will have his umbrella with him and can press the higher buttons with it.

The Elevator guy (Dec 28, 2011)

24. There is a man who lives on the top floor of a very tall building. Everyday he gets the elevator down to the ground floor to leave the building to go to work. Upon returning from work though, he can only travel half way up in the lift and has to walk the rest of the way unless it's raining! Why?

Answer for Question asked on Dec 26, 2011

23. There are 5 jars containing 10 chocolates each. A chocolate weighs 10 grams except in one jar where the chocolates weigh only 9 grams. Given a measuring scale, what is the minimum number of measurement needed to find the jar containing chocolates weighing 9 grams?


Answer : only one is enough.

Chocolate Jars (Dec 26, 2011)

23. There are 5 jars containing 10 chocolates each. A chocolate weighs 10 grams except in one jar where the chocolates weigh only 9 grams. Given a measuring scale, what is the minimum number of measurement needed to find the jar containing chocolates weighing 9 grams?

Answer for Question asked on Dec 25, 2011

22. My grandson is about as many days as my son is weeks, and my grandson is as many months as I am in years. My grandson, my son and I together are 160 years. Can you tell me my age in years?


Answer : 96 yrs

Find My Age (Dec 25, 2011)

22. My grandson is about as many days as my son is weeks, and my grandson is as many months as I am in years. My grandson, my son and I together are 160 years. Can you tell me my age in years?

Answer for Question asked on Dec 24, 2011

21. The width of a river is 100 meters. Two friends wish to cross the river. But the steam boat available to them can carry only one at a time and has fuel to travel only 220 meters. But yet both the friends managed to cross the river. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE ?


Answer : The friends are on opposites sides of the river. So there's no problem in crossing the river.

Cross the River (Dec 24, 2011)

21.  The width of a river is 100 meters. Two friends wish to cross the river. But the steam boat available to them can carry only one at a time and has fuel to travel only 220 meters. But yet both the friends managed to cross the river. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE ?

Answer for Question asked on Dec 22, 2011

20. Each of these sets of arrows represents a word - what are the words?

Answers :


See, New, Sense, Sew, Ewe

Find the Words (Dec 22, 2011)

20. Each of these sets of arrows represents a word - what are the words?

Answer for Question asked on Dec 21, 2011

19. It was vacation time, and so I decided to visit my cousin's home. What a grand time we had! In the mornings, we both would go for a jog. The evenings were spent on the tennis court. Tiring as these activities were, we could manage only one per day, i.e., either we went for a jog or played tennis each day. There were days when we felt lazy and stayed home all day long.

Now, there were 11 mornings when we did nothing, 17 evenings when we stayed at home, and a total of 12 days when we jogged or played tennis. For how many days did I stay at my cousin's place?

Answer : 20 Days

Training Camp (Dec 21, 2011)

19. It was vacation time, and so I decided to visit my cousin's home. What a grand time we had! In the mornings, we both would go for a jog. The evenings were spent on the tennis court. Tiring as these activities were, we could manage only one per day, i.e., either we went for a jog or played tennis each day. There were days when we felt lazy and stayed home all day long.

Now, there were 11 mornings when we did nothing, 17 evenings when we stayed at home, and a total of 12 days when we jogged or played tennis. For how many days did I stay at my cousin's place?

Answer for Question asked on Dec 19, 2011

18. Here each alphabet represents a number and no two alphabets represents the same number. Could you crack this and find which alphabet represents which number.

             B  H  I
      *      C A  F
_____________
         B  A  J  C
    D  D  E  E
J  G  H  D
_____________
J  A  B  G  G  C


Answer : 


A = 2     G = 0      
B = 5     H = 8

c = 7      I  = 3
D = 1     J = 4
E = 6
F = 9

Crack This (Dec 19, 2011)

18. Here each alphabet represents a number and no two alphabets represents the same number. Could you crack this and find which alphabet represents which number.

             B  H  I
      *      C A  F
_____________
         B  A  J  C
    D  D  E  E
J  G  H  D
_____________
J  A  B  G  G  C

   

Answer for Question asked on Dec 18, 2011

17. A rich merchant had collected many gold coins. He did not want anybody to know about them. One day, his wife asked, "How many gold coins do we have?"

After pausing a moment, he replied, "Well! If I divide the coins into two unequal numbers, then 65 times the difference between the two numbers equals the difference between the squares of the two numbers." The wife looked puzzled.

Can you help the merchant's wife by finding out how many gold coins they have?


Answer : 65 Coins

Gold Coins (Dec 18, 2011)

17. A rich merchant had collected many gold coins. He did not want anybody to know about them. One day, his wife asked, "How many gold coins do we have?"

After pausing a moment, he replied, "Well! If I divide the coins into two unequal numbers, then 65 times the difference between the two numbers equals the difference between the squares of the two numbers." The wife looked puzzled.

Can you help the merchant's wife by finding out how many gold coins they have?

Answer for Question asked on Dec 17, 2011

16. My cousin came to my place for vacation this year. We played a game of Carrom each day till the day he left. The bet was the loser must owe the winner a candy. On the day he left, we counted our loss and wins. I won the count, he handed me 15 candies though he was winner in 5 games.

How many days my cousin stayed at my place?


Answer: 25 Days

Candy for a game of Carrom (Dec 17, 2011)

16. My cousin came to my place for vacation this year. We played a game of Carrom each day till the day he left. The bet was the loser must owe the winner a candy. On the day he left, we counted our loss and wins. I won the count, he handed me 15 candies though he was winner in 5 games.

How many days my cousin stayed at my place?

Answer for Question asked on Dec 16, 2011

15. It was Debbie's first day at school. The teacher suggested that it would be a good idea for each child to meet every other child in the class. The teacher said, "When you meet, please shake hands and introduce yourself by name."

If there were 11 children in the class, how many total handshakes were there?


Answer : 55 Handshakes

Handshakes (Dec 16, 2011)

15. It was Debbie's first day at school. The teacher suggested that it would be a good idea for each child to meet every other child in the class. The teacher said, "When you meet, please shake hands and introduce yourself by name."

If there were 11 children in the class, how many total handshakes were there?

Answer for Question asked on Dec 15, 2011

14. Me and my friend went to have a drink in a shop. There was an offer that a bottle of drink would be given free of cost in exchange of three bottle caps. I ordered 5 bottles and my friend ordered 4 bottles. We had all the bottles that came along with the offer as well.  How many bottles you think we drank that day?


Answer : 13 bottles

How many Bottles? (Dec 15, 2011)

14. Me and my friend went to have a drink in a shop. There was an offer that a bottle of drink would be given free of cost in exchange of three bottle caps. I ordered 5 bottles and my friend ordered 4 bottles. We had all the bottles that came along with the offer as well.  How many bottles you think we drank that day?

Answers for Questions asked on Dec 14, 2011

12. Last weekend, I went to play in the nearby park. It was real fun! I rode my new bicycle that Mom had gifted me on my birthday.

On reaching the park, I saw that there were a total of 18 bicycles and tricycles. If the total number of wheels was 45, how many tricycles were there?


Answer :  9 Tricycles


13. A snail creeps 6 ft up a wall during the daytime. After all the labor it does throughout the day, it stops to rest a while... but falls asleep!! The next morning it wakes up and discovers that it has slipped down 2 ft while sleeping.

If this happens every day, how many days will the snail take to reach the top of a wall 82 ft in height?


Answer : 20 days

Snail and the Wall (Dec 14, 2011)

13. A snail creeps 6 ft up a wall during the daytime. After all the labor it does throughout the day, it stops to rest a while... but falls asleep!! The next morning it wakes up and discovers that it has slipped down 2 ft while sleeping.

If this happens every day, how many days will the snail take to reach the top of a wall 82 ft in height?

Bicycles and Tricycles (Dec 14, 2011)

12. Last weekend, I went to play in the nearby park. It was real fun! I rode my new bicycle that Mom had gifted me on my birthday.

On reaching the park, I saw that there were a total of 18 bicycles and tricycles. If the total number of wheels was 45, how many tricycles were there?

Answers for Questions asked on Dec 13, 2011

11. Answer the following set of questions by keeping your head cool.

i) How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
ii) How many bricks it would take to complete a wall of height 10 m and width 50m?
iii) If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand,what would you have?
iv) How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
v) How can a man go eight days without sleep?
vi) If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
vii) What looks like a half apple ?
viii) What can you never eat for breakfast ?
ix) The invention of wheel caused a ____ .
x) Bay of Bengal is in which state?


Answers : 


i) Concrete floors are hard to crack
ii) One 
iii) Large hands
iv) No problem as you won't find an elephant with one hand
v) He sleeps at night
vi) It sinks
vii) Another half or The same half in a mirror
viii) Lunch or dinner
ix) Revolution
x) Liquid state

Think Different ! (Dec 13, 2011)

11. Answer the following set of questions by keeping your head cool.

i) How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
ii) How many bricks it would take to complete a wall of height 10 m and width 50m?
iii) If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand,what would you have?
iv) How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
v) How can a man go eight days without sleep?
vi) If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
vii) What looks like a half apple ?
viii) What can you never eat for breakfast ?
ix) The invention of wheel caused a ____ .
x) Bay of Bengal is in which state?

Answers for Questions asked on Dec 12, 2011

9. If 5 monkeys take 5 minutes to eat 5 bananas

i) How many minutes would it take for 4 monkeys to eat 4 bananas?
ii) How many monkeys would it take to eat 25 bananas in 25 minutes?


Answer : i) 5 minutes ii) 5 monkeys


10. A 31" x 31" square metal plate needs to be fixed by a carpenter on to a wooden board. The carpenter uses nails all along the edges of the square such that there are 32 nails on each side of the square. Each nail is at the same distance from the neighboring nails.

How many nails does the carpenter use?


Answer : 124 nails

The Carpenter and his nails (Dec 12, 2011)

10. A 31" x 31" square metal plate needs to be fixed by a carpenter on to a wooden board. The carpenter uses nails all along the edges of the square such that there are 32 nails on each side of the square. Each nail is at the same distance from the neighboring nails.

How many nails does the carpenter use?

Monkeys with Bananas (Dec 12, 2011)

9. If 5 monkeys take 5 minutes to eat 5 bananas

i) How many minutes would it take for 4 monkeys to eat 4 bananas?
ii) How many monkeys would it take to eat 25 bananas in 25 minutes?

Answers for Questions asked on Dec 11, 2011

8. Dad gives you money every day to put in your new piggy bank. Every day he gives double the amount of money he gave the last day.

If you already have 1 cent in the piggy bank and Dad gives you 1 cent the first day, 2 cents the second day, 4 cents the third day and so on, then your piggy bank gets full on the 10th day.

Questions


i) On which day will your piggy bank be half-full?

ii) In addition to Dad's contributions, if Mom also gave you 1 cent the first day, 2 cents the second day, 4 cents the third day and so on, then on which day would your piggy bank be about half-full?

Answers

i) 9th Day
ii) 8th day

Piggy Bank (Dec 11, 2011)

 8. Dad gives you money every day to put in your new piggy bank. Every day he gives double the amount of money he gave the last day.

If you already have 1 cent in the piggy bank and Dad gives you 1 cent the first day, 2 cents the second day, 4 cents the third day and so on, then your piggy bank gets full on the 10th day.

Questions


i) On which day will your piggy bank be half-full?

ii) In addition to Dad's contributions, if Mom also gave you 1 cent the first day, 2 cents the second day, 4 cents the third day and so on, then on which day would your piggy bank be about half-full?

Answers for Questions asked on Dec 10, 2011

6. What's next in the series

11321
21131211
122113111221
11222113312211
?

Hint : Don't think too hard ..keep your head cool and answer..


Answer : 21322123112221


7. Mr. White has 12 black gloves and 8 brown gloves in his closet. He blindly picks up some gloves from the closet. What is the minimum number of gloves Mr. White will have to pick to be certain to find a pair of gloves of the same color?


Answer : 3

How Many? (Dec 10, 2011)

7. Mr. White has 12 black gloves and 8 brown gloves in his closet. He blindly picks up some gloves from the closet. What is the minimum number of gloves Mr. White will have to pick to be certain to find a pair of gloves of the same color?

What's Next? (Dec 10, 2011)

6. What's next in the series

11321
21131211
122113111221
11222113312211
?

Hint : Don't think too hard ..keep your head cool and answer..

Answers for Questions asked on Dec 9, 2011

3. You need to answer quickly for the following questions .. Don't take your time, then it won't be FUN !

Imagine that you're participating in a race.
i) If you overtake the person running second, then what will be your position?

ii) If you overtake the last person, then you're in which position?


Answer : i) 2nd position ii) You can't overtake the last person


4. Follow the instructions and add the numbers without using any pen, pencil or calculator. You got to be quick and do the math in your mind...Ready GO!!

Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10. What is the total?


Answer : 4100..and not 5000.


5. Mary's father has five daughters : Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono .What could be the name of the fifth daughter?


Answer : Mary is the fifth daughter.

Fifth Daughter (Dec 9, 2011)

5. Mary's father has five daughters : Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono .What could be the name of the fifth daughter?

Add This (Dec 9, 2011)

4. Follow the instructions and add the numbers without using any pen, pencil or calculator. You got to be quick and do the math in your mind...Ready GO!!

Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10. What is the total?

The Race (Dec 9, 2011)

3. You need to answer quickly for the following questions .. Don't take your time, then it won't be FUN !

Imagine that you're participating in a race.
i) If you overtake the person running second, then what will be your position?

ii) If you overtake the last person, then you're in which position?

Answers for Questions asked on Dec 8, 2011

1. A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met this guy whom she did not know. She thought this guy was amazing, so much her dream guy she believed him to be just that! She fell in love with him right there, but never asked for his number and could not find him. A few days later she killed her sister.

Question: What is the motive for killing her sister?

Answer : She thought that he might show up on her sister's funeral.....

2. A mute person wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing his teeth he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is done. 


Now if there is a blind man who wishes to buy a pair of sunglasses, how should he express himself?

Answer : The blind man simply opens his mouth and ask...

Blind Man (Dec 8, 2011)

2. A mute person wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing his teeth he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is done. 


Now if there is a blind man who wishes to buy a pair of sunglasses, how should he express himself?

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Killer Brain Squeezer (Dec 8, 2011)

1. A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met this guy whom she did not know. She thought this guy was amazing, so much her dream guy she believed him to be just that! She fell in love with him right there, but never asked for his number and could not find him. A few days later she killed her sister.

Question: What is the motive for killing her sister?

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