Puzzles Questions and Answers
Which letter is exactly midway between H and S in the given alphabet?
Answer is None
Six persons A, B, C, D, E and Fare sitting in a circle. B is between F and C; A is between E and D; F is to the left of D. Who is between A and F?
Answer is D
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
What day comes three days after the day which comes two days after the day which comes immediately after the day which comes two days after Monday?
The answer is Tuesday
You have 59 cubic blocks. What is the minimum number that needs to be taken away in order to construct a solid cube with none left over?
The next cube number below 64(4 ×4 ×4) is 27(3 ×3 ×3).
In order to construct a solid cube, therefore, with none left over,
59 – 27 = 32 blocks need to be taken away.
In a party of 35 people there are twice as many women as children and twice as many children as men. How many of each are there?
IF x = the number of men,
then x + 2x + 4x = 35.
Therefore 7x = 35.
So X = 5.
A blind man had only black or white socks. In his drawer he had 4 socks. He went to the drawer and took out 2 socks. The chances that he had a pair of white socks was 1/2. What were the chances that he had drawn out a pair of black socks?
Answer is 0
A photograph measuring 8.5 by 7.5 cm is to be enlarged. If the enlargement of the longer side is 13.6 cm, what is the length of the smaller side?
= (13.6 ÷ 8.5) × 7.5
= 12 cm.
A driving school claims an average test pass rate of 76.8 percent. What is the least number of pupils required to achieve this result?
96 passes out of 125 give an average of 76.8%.
A farmer told his labourer to pick 896,809 apples and pack them into as few boxes as possible, each having the same number of apples. How many boxes did he use?
= 947 × 947 apples.
= 896,809.
In a school, there were five teachers.
A and B were teaching Hindi and English.
C and D were teaching English and Geography.
D and A were teaching Mathematics and Hindi
E and B were teaching History and French.
More than two teachers were teaching which subject ?
Answer: Option 2
Explanation:
Above information can be analysed as below:
| English | Hindi | Mathmatics | Geography | History | French |
| A | X | X | X | |||
| B | X | X | X | X | X | |
| C | X | X | ||||
| D | X | X | ||||
| E | X | X |
Hence, Three teachers were teaching Hindi -- A, B and C.
