PUZZLE TEST

I.
Read the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow:
i)Five friends P,Q,R,S and T travelled to five different cities of Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore and
Hyderabad by different modes of transport of Bus, Train,Aeroplane, Car and Boat from Mumbai.
ii) The person who travelled to Delhi did not travel by boat.
iii) R went to Bangalore by car and Q went to Kolkata by aeroplane.
iv) S travelled by boat where as T travelled by train.
v) Mumbai is not connected by bus too Delhi and Chennai.
1.

Which of the following combinations of person and mode is not correct?

a) P Bus

2.

b) Q-Aero plane

d) S-Boat

c) Chennai-Boat

d)Chennai-Boat

The person travelling to Delhi went by which of the following modes?

a) Bus

5.

d) Data inadequate

Which of the following combinations of place and mode is not correct?

a) Delhi-Bus b) Kolkata-Aero plane c) Bangalore-Car

4.

e) T-Aero plane

Which of the following combination is true for S?

a) Delhi-Bus b) Chennai-Bus

3.

c) R- Car

b) Train

c) Aero plane

d) Car

e) Boat

Who among the following travelled to Delhi?

a) R

b) S

c) T

d) Data inadequate

II.
Raghu and Gyan are good at cricket and hockey. Sohan and Gyan are good at hockey and chess. Raghu
and Govind are good at swimming and cricket.
1. Who is good at cricket, hockey and chess?
a)Raghu

b) Gyan

c) Sohan

d) Govind

e) None of these

2. Who is good at cricket and swimming?

a)Gyan

b) Govind

c) Sohan

d) All of them e)cant be Determined

3. Who is good at hockey, chess and swimming?

a)Raghu

b) Govind

c) sohan

d) All of the three

e) None of the above

4. Who is good at swimming, hockey and cricket?

a)Raghu

b) Sohan

c) Govind

d) Gyan

e) None of the above

d)no one

e) All the three

5. Who is good at hockey but not so in swimming?

a)Govind

b) Raghu

c) Sohan

III.
Five shirts are placed on a shelf in a heap. Red shirt is above the blue shirt and green shirt is below the
orange shirt. Blue shirt is above the orange shirt and white is below the green shirt.
1. The colour of the shirt between Red and Orange shirt is:
a)White
2.

b) Green

c) Blue

d) Data insufficient

e) None of these

d) Cannot be said

e) None of these

Which colour shirt is at the bottom?

a)Red

b) White

c) Orange

IV.
Rajat, Sushil and Nagesh play football, hockey and cricket. Rajat, Ramu and Nagesh play hockey,
cricket and basketball. Rajat, sushil, Mayank and Nagesh play football and cricket.
1. Which game is played by all the boys?
a)Hockey

b) Basketball c) Football

d) cricket

e) None of these

d) Ramu

e) None of these

2. Who does not play football?

a)Rajat

b) Nagesh

c) Sushil

3. Which of the following two boys play all the games?

a)Nagesh, Rajat

b) Mayank, Ramu

c) Ramu, Nagesh

d) Sushil, Mayank

V.
There are seven books one each on Psychology, Hindi, English, Sociology, Economics, Education and
Acoountancy, Lying on a table one above the other.
ii) Sociology is on the top of all the books.
iii) Accountancy is immediately below Education which is immediately below sociology.
iv) Economics is immediately above psychology but not in the middle.
v) Hindi is immediately below psychology.

1. Which three books are between Accountancy and Hindi?

a) Economics, Psychology and Hindi
b) Economics, Psychology and Education
c) English, Economics and Psychology
d) Cannot be determined
e) None of these
2. Economics is between which of the following books?
a) Accountancy and Education
b) Psychology and Hindi
c) English and Psychology
d) Cannot be determined
e) None of these
3. If Sociology and English, Accountancy and Hindi & Education and Psychology interchange their
positions, Which book will be between psychology and Sociology?
a) Hindi
b) Accountancy
c) Psychology
d) Economics
e) None of these
VI
i) P, Q, R, S, T and U are six members of a group of which are three are males and three are
females.
ii) There are two engineers, two lawyers, one teacher and one doctor in the group.
iii) Q,T,P and R are two married couples and no person in this group has the same profession.
iv) T, a teacher with blue dress married a male lawyer with brown dress.
v) Colour of the dresses of both the husbands and that of both wives is same.
vi) Two persons have blue dress, two have brown and the remaining one each has black green.
vii) P is a male engineer and whose sister S is also an engineer.
viii) Q is a doctor.

1. Which of the following is a group of female members?

a)QSU

b) QSR

c) QST

d) QTU

e) None of these

b) T

c) S

d) Q

e) None of these

2. Who is the wife of P?

a)R

3. What is the color of Us dress?

a)Black

b) Green

c) Black or Green

d) data inadequate

e) None

4. Which of the following is a pair of married ladies?

a)QT

b) PR

c) TS

d) Data inadequate

c) Engineer

d) Doctor

e) None of these

5. What is profession of R?
a)Teacher

b) Lawyer

e) cannot be determined

VII:
i) P,Q,R,S,T and U are six members in family in which there are two married couples.
ii) T, a teacher, is married to the doctor who is the mother of Rand U.
iii) Q, the lawyer, is married to P.
iv) P has one son and one grandson.
v) Of the two married ladies one is a housewife.
vi) There is also one student and one male Engineer in the family.
1) How is P related to R?
a)Grandfather

b) Mother

c) Sister

d) Grandmother

e) None of these

d) T

e) None of these

2) Who among the following is the housewife?

a)P

b) Q

c) S

3) How is R related to U?
a)Brother

b) Sister

c) Brother or Sister

d) None of these

4) Which of the following represents the group of females in the family?

a)PSR

b) PSU

c) QTR

d) Data inadequate

5) Which of the is true about the granddaughter in the family?

a)She is lawyer
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b) She is student

c) She is an engineer d) None of these

I) A,B,C,D,E and F are six members of a family.

ii) There are two married couples among them.
iii) C is the mother of A and F.
iv) E is the father D.
v) A is the grandson of B.
vi) The total number of female members in the family is three.
1. Who is the wife of E?
a)B

b) C

c) F

d) Data inadequate

e) None of these

2. Which of the following pairs is one of the married couples?

a)EF

b) BD

c) EB

d) AF

e) None of these

3. Which of the following is a group of female members?

a)BDE

b) AFBc) DCF

d) BCF

e) None of these

4. How is F related to A?
a)Brother

b) Daughter

c) Son

d) Mother

e) None of these

5. How is B related to F?
a)Sister

b) Grandmother

c) wife

d) Data inadequate

IX:
i) A,B,C,D,E,F and G are sitting on a wall and all of them are facing east.
ii) C is on the immediate right of D.
iii) B is at an extreme end has E as his neighbor.
iv) G is between E and F.
v) D is sitting third from the south end.
1)

Who is sitting to the right of E?

a) A

2)

c) D

d) F

e) None of these

Which of the following pairs of people are sitting at the extreme ends?
a) AB

3)

b) C
b) AE

c) CB

d) FB

e) cannot be determined

Name the person who should who should change place with C such that he gets the third place
from the north end.

a) E
4)

b) F

d) D

e) None of these

Immediately between which of the following pairs of people is D sitting?

a) AC

5)

c) G

b) AF

c) CE

d) CF

e) None of these

Which of the conditions(i) to (v) given above is not required to find out the place in which A
sitting?
a) (i)

b) (ii)

c) (iii)

d) All are required

e) None of these

IX:
i) Six flats on a floor in two rows facing North and South are allotted to P,Q,R,S,T and U.
ii) Q gets a north facing flat and is not next to S.
iii) S and U get diagonally opposite flats.
iv) R, next to U, gets a South facing flat and T gets a North facing flat.
1) The flats of which of the other pairs than SU, are diagonally opposite to each other?
a) QP

b) PT

c) QR

d) Ts

2) Which of the following combinations gets South facing flats?

a) UPT

b) URP

c) QTS

d) Data inadequate

X:
i) A,B,C,D and E are five friends
ii) B is elder to E, but not as tall as C.
iii) C is younger to A, and is taller to D and E.
IV) A is taller to D, but younger to E.
v) D is elder to A but is shortest in the group..
1) If the F, another friend is taller than C, How many of them will be between F and E according to their
height?
a) 4

b) 1

c) Two

d) Three

e) None of these

2) If selection is to be made among them who would be relatively older and also taller, who among them
should be chosen?
a) A

b) E

c) D

3) Who among the following is the eldest?

d) C

e) None of these

a) C

b) B

c) D

d) A

e) None of these

4) Which of the following pairs of students is elder to D?

a) BA

b) BC

d) EA

d) BE

e) None of these

5) Which of the following statements is correct about B?

i) B is not the tallest
ii) B is shorter to E.
iii) When they are asked to stand in ascending order with respect their heights, B is in the middle.
a) Only (i) is correct
b) Only(i) and (ii) is correct
c) All are correct
d) All are incorrect
e) None of these
XI:
Six lectures A,B,C,D,E and F are to be organized in a span of seven days- from Sunday to Saturday, only
one lecture on each day in accordance with the following:
i)

A should not be organized on Thursday.

ii)

C should be organized immediately after F.

iii)

There should be a gap of two days between E and D.

iv)

One day there will be no lecture( Friday is not that day) , just before that D will be organized.

v)

B should be organized on Tuesday and should not be followed by D.

1) On which day there is no lecture?
a) Monday

b) Friday

c) Sunday

d) None of these

2) How many lectures are organized between C and D ?

a) None

b) one

c) Two

d) Three

3) Which day will the lecture F be organized?

a) Thursday

b) Friday

c) Saturday

d) Sunday

4) Which of the following is the last lecture in the series?

a) A

b) B

c) C

d) None of these

5) Which of the following information is not required in finding the complete sequence of organization of
lectures?

a) (i) only

b) (ii) only

c) (i) and (ii) only

d) (v) only

e) All are required.

XII:
Ramesh, Kamal, Ahmed and Johan are students of a school. Three of them stay far from the school and
one near it. Two study in IV, one in class Vi. They study Hindi, Mathematics, Social science and
Science. One is good at all the four subjects while another is weak in all of these. Ramesh stays far from
the school and is good at Mathematics only while Kamal is weak in Mathematics only and stays close to
the school. Neither of these two nor Ahmed studies in class VI. One who is good at all the subjects
studies in class V.
1. Name the boy who is good at all the subjects?
a) Ramesh

b) Kamal

c) Ahmed

d) John

e) None of these

2. Other than Ramesh and the boy good at all the subjects, who else stays far from the school?
a) Ramesh

b) Kamal

c) Ahmed

d) cant be determined

e) None of these

3. Which two boys are good at Mathematics?

a) Ramesh and Ahmed b) Kamal and Ahmed c) John and Ahmed

d) Ramesh and John

4. Name the boy who is weak in all the subjects?

a) Ramesh

b) Kamal

c) John

d) All the above

5. Which two boys are good at Hindi?

a) Ramesh and kamal

b) Kamal and Ahmed c) Ahmed and john

d) John and Ramesh

XIII:
i)

P,Q,R,S,T and U are travelling in a bus.

ii)

There are two reporters, two technicians, one photographer and one writer in the group.

iii)

The photographer P is married to S who is a reporter.

iv)

The writer is married to Q who is of the same profession as that of U.

v)

P,R,Q,S are two married couples and nobody in the group has same profession.

vi)

U is brother of R
1.

How is R related to U?
a) Brother

b) Sister

c) Mother

d) Uncle

e) Can't be definitely said

2.

Which of the following is a pair of reporters?

a) ST

b) PQ

c) RT

d) SU

e) Can't be definitely said

XIV:
i)

Six friends are playing a card game facing at the centre.

ii)

Subodh is to the right of Prabodh.

iii)

There is one person between Uma and Sudha.

iv)

Prabir is between Subodh and Uma and second to the left of Aloke.

1.

Who is to the right of Sudha?

a) Prabodh

2.

b) Uma

c) Aloke

d) Prabir

e) Data inadequate

If Aloke and Subodh interchange their positions, who will be second to the right of Prabir?
a) Prabodh

b) Subodh

c) Uma

d) Sudha

e) None of these

3. To answer the above two questions, which of the following statements can be dispensed with?
a) C only

b) D only

c) C or D only d) None

e) B only

XV:
i)

Eleven students A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J and K are sitting in the first row of the class facing the teacher.

ii)

D who is to the immediate left of F is second to the right of C,

iii)

A is second to the right of E, who is at one of the ends.

iv)

iv)

J is the immediate neighbor of A and B and third to the left of G

H is to the immediate left of D and third to the right of I.

1.

In the above sitting arrangement which of the following statements is superfluous?

a) (i)

2.

d) (iv)

e)None is superfluous

b) ICHDF

c) CHDF

d) CHDE

e) None of these

Who is sitting in the middle of the row?

a) C

4.

c) (iii)

Which of the following groups of friends is sitting to the right of G?

a) IBJA

3.

b) (ii)

b) I

c) B

d)G

e) None of these

Which of the following statements is TRUE in the context of the above sitting arrangements?
a) There are three students sitting between D and G

b) G and C are neighbors sitting to the immediate right of H

c) B is sitting between J and I
d) K is between A and J
e) None of these
5.

If E and D,C and B,A and H and k and F interchange their positions, which of the following pairs
of students is sitting at the ends?
a) D and E

b) E and F

c) D and K

d) K and F

e) None of these

XVI:
i)

A,B,C,D and E reside in a five-storey building.

ii)

B and E do not reside on the ground floor.

iii)

D resides one storey above A and one storey below C.

iv)

E does not reside on the top floor.

1.

On which floor does D reside?

a. Fourth

2.

b. Second

c. Data inadequate

d. Fifth

e. First

How many of them do reside above C?

a. 1

b. 3

c. 2

d. Data inadequate

e. 4

XVII:
i)

A, B, C, D, E, F, AND G are fitting around a circle and are facing the centre

ii)

G is second to the left of C, who is to the immediate left of F

iii)

A is third to the left of E

iv)

B is between D and E
1.

Which of the following is false?

a) A is fourth to the eight of E
c) none of these

b) G is to the immediate right of D

d) B is to the immediate left of D

e) F is third to the right of D

2.

Which of the following is true?

a) C is fourth to the left of B

b) None of these

c) A is to the immediate right of G

d) D is second of the left of E

3.

Which of the following has the middle person sitting between the remaining two?
a) DEB

4.

b) GDA

c) FCE

d) EFB

e) None of these

Which of the following is the position of F?

a) To the immediate right of A

b) None of these

c) To the immediate left of C

d) Between A and E

e) Fourth to the right of D

5. Who is sitting to the right of E ?
a) None of these

b) C

c) F

d) D

e) A

XVIII:
i)

A,B,C,D,E and F are six members in a family in which there are two married couples.

ii)

D is brother of F. Both D and F are lighter than B.

iii)

B is mother of D and lighter than E.

iv)

C, a lady, is neither heaviest nor the lightest in the family.

v)

E is lighter than C.

vi)

The grandfather in the family is the heaviest.

1.

How is E related to F?
a) Grandmother

2.

b) Grandmother

c) Mother

d) Cousin

e)None of these

b) 2

c) 4

d) 3

e) None of these

Which of the following is a pair of married couples?

a) AD

5.

d) Data inadequate e)None of these

How many male members are there in the family?

a) Data inadequate

4.

c) Father

How is C related to D?
a) Sister

3.

b) Brother

b) BC

c) AB

d) BE

e) None of these

Who among the following will be in the second place if all the members in the family are
arranged in the descending order of their weight?
a) D

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b) A

c) C

d. Data inadequate e. None of these

i)

Five friends A,B,C,D and E wore shirts of green, yellow, pink, red and blue colours and shorts of black,
white, grey, blue and green colours.

ii)

Nobody wore shirt and short of same colour.

iii)

D wore blue shirt and C wore green short.

iv)

The one, who wore green shirt, wore black short and the one who wore blue short, wore red shirt.

v)

A wore white short and pink shirt.

vi)

E did not wear red shirt.

1.

What was the colour combination of D's shirt and short?

a) Green and black

b) Red and Blue

d) Blue and white

2.

c) B

b) Data inadequate c) B

d) D

e) A

d) A

e) None of these

Which colour shirt did C wear?

a) Yellow

5.

b) E

Who wore white short?

a) E

4.

e) Green and black

Who wore black short?

a) C

3.

c) Blue and grey

b) Blue

c) Green

d) Pink

e) Data inadequate

d) Black

e) Green

Which colour short did B wear?

a) Grey

b) Blue

c) white

XX:
i)

P,Q,R,S,T and U are travelling in a bus.

ii)

There are two reporters, two technicians ,one photographer and one writer in the group.

iii)

The photographer P is married to S who is a reporter.

iv)

The writer is married to Q who is of the same profession as that of U.

v)

P,R,Q,S are two married couples and nobody in the group has same profession.

vi)

U is brother of R
1.

How is R related to U?
a)

2.

Brother

b)Sister

c) Mother

d)Uncle

e) Brother

Which of the following is a pair of reporters?

a) ST

b)

PQ

c) RT

d)

SU

e) Can't be definitely said

3.

Which of the following is a pair of husband?

a) PR

4.

QS

c)

PQ

d)

QR

e)

PR

Which of the following is a pair of technicians?

a) PT

5.

b)

b) QU

c) SU

d) RS

e) PR

Which of the following pairs is a couple?

a) QS

b)

PT

c)

QR

d) PQ

e) ST

XXI:
Raju has two sons 'X' and 'Y' and a daughter 'Z'. Biju has two sons 'A' and 'B' and daughter 'C'. 'A' and
'Z' are married and have two sons 'J' and 'K'. Laloo has a son 'P' and a daughter 'Q'. 'Q' is married to 'Y'
and they have two daughters 'F' and 'G' and a son 'H'.
1.

How is Raju related to 'Q'?

a) Uncle

2.

b) Father-in-law
b) Sister

Son

b)

c) Sister-in-law d) Daughter-in-law e) None

Aunt

c)

Brother-in-law d)

Sister

e)None of these

How is 'G' related to Laloo?

a) Granddaughter

5.

e) None of these

How is 'Y' related to 'P'?

a)

4.

d) Son

How is 'Z' related to Biju?

a) Daughter

3.

c) Brother

b) Father c)

Son

d) Mother

e) None of these

How is 'J' related to 'C'?

a) Nephew

b) Brother c) Uncle

d) Grandfather

e) None of these

XXII:
There are four girls-Eena, Mira, Meena and Moe. One of them lives at Chennai and her hobbies
are clay modeling and reading. Mira lives at Mumbai. Eena also lives at Mumbai and her hobby
is dancing. Both girls staying at Mumbai are fond of gardening. Moe lives at Delhi and her
hobbies are painting and photography. One girl staying at Mumbai enjoys travelling. If all the
girl have two hobbies.
1.

Who enjoys travelling?

a) Eena

b) Mira

c)Meena

d) Moe

e) None of the above

2.

Who is the girl with the hobbies dancing and gardening?

a) Eena

3.

b) Moe

e) None

b) Eena

c) Both

d) None of the above e)cant be determined

Who among the following is fond of gardening?

a) Meena

5.

d) Meena

Who is staying at Chennai?

a) Meena

4.

c) Mira

b) Mira

c) Both

d) None

e) Cannot be determined

What are Meena's hobbies?

a) Reading, dancing

b) Gardening, painting

d) Clay modeling, reading

c)Travelling, dancing

e) None of the above

XXIII:
i)

There are eight faculty members A,B,C,D,E,F,G and H in the institute, each teaching different
subject.

ii)

There are three lady members and of the eight, four are holding Ph.D.Degree.

iii)

E teaches Psychology and is Ph.D. A teaches Chemistry.

iv)

The one who teaches Economics is not Ph.D. No lady member teaches either Commerce or Law.
Law faculty does not award Ph.D.

V)

D and G do not teach either Commerce or Physics.

vi)

H and C are lady members and are not Ph.D. F who is Ph.D. teaches Zoology.

vii)

B and G are Ph.Ds and G is a lady member.

1.

Which of the following lady members is/are Ph.D?

a)G

2.

b) C and D

c)G and H

d)Can't be determined

e)None of these

Which of the following combinations is NOT correct?

a) Chemistry - Male - Not Ph.D
c)Physics - Lady - Ph.D

b) Zoology - Male - Ph.D

d)Economics - Lady - Not-Ph.D

e)Commerce - Male - Ph.D

3.

Who teaches Physics?

a)C

b) H

c) Either H or C

d)Either C or G

e)None of these

4.

Which of the following statements is true?

a) Three male members are Ph.D

b)Two lady members are Ph.D

c) The person who teaches Economics is Ph.D

d)The person who teaches Zoology is not Ph.D
5.

e)None of these

What is the subject taught by G?

a) Zoology

b) Either Physics or Economics

d) Cannot be determined

c) Either Physics or Zoology

e) None of these

XXIV:
A is the father of C. But C is not his son.
E is the daughter of C.F is the spouse of A.
B is the brother of C.D is the son of B.
G is the spouse of B.H is the father of G.
1.

Who is the son-in-law of H?

a)C

2.

c)D

d) B

e) None of these

d)E

e)None of these

Who is the grand-daughter of A?

a) H

3.

b)A
b) D

c) B

Who is the common grandchild of both F and H?

a)D

b)E

c)C

d)B

e)None of these