Brain Tease - Puzzles and Trivia
- 1. Carpe Diem ‘17 Smart Cracks Brain Tease NAME: ___________________________ CONTACT NO: _______________________ EMAILID: __________________________ INSTRUCTIONS: Starting question will lead you to one of the main questions. Each question will give you a numerical value in the range 1 – 31. Each question will have a letter in the parenthesis besides it, which will help you get the sentence in the space at the end of the questions. The Last question will have the same answer as the Question No. Itself. READY, SET, GO…. Starting Question: Two dices are tossed. The probability of the total score is a prime number is ‘n’ Then find 24n? – 10 Main Questions: 1. If a taxi charges $8.00 for the first mile, and $1.00 for each additional quarter mile, how much does the taxi charge for a 4.5 mile ride? –(a) 2. A restaurant menu has several options for tacos. There are 3 types of shells, 4 types of meat, 3 types of cheese, and 5 types of salsa. X is the number of distinct tacos that can be ordered assuming that any order contains exactly one of each of the above choices. X/6?-(e) 3. Narendra Modi is the nth PM of India? – (n) 4. An integer is randomly chosen from 2 to 20 inclusive. X is the probability that the number is prime. 19X/4?-(h)
- 2. 5. If it were two hours later, it would be half as long until midnight as it would be if it were an hour later. What time is it now?-(t) 6. A magic wish-granting rectangular belt always shrinks to 1/2 its length and 1/3 its width whenever its owner makes a wish. After three wishes, the surface area of the belt's front side was 4 cm2 . What was the original length, if the original width was 9 cm? Answer as the sum of digits. - (t) 7. Bob has a 24-sided die with an integer between 1 and 24 on each face. Every number is featured exactly once. When he rolls, the probability that the number showing is a factor of 24 is 1/X. What is X*X*X?-(r) 8. If seven people meet each other and each shakes hands only once with each of the others, how many handshakes will there have been?-(s) 9. A man has nine children, born at regular intervals. The sum of their squares of their ages is equal to the square of his own age. What is the age of the last child?-(o) 10.You have 14 brown socks, 14 blue socks and 14 black socks in your sock drawer. How many socks must you remove (without looking to be sure) to have a matched pair?-(T) 11.A certain number has three digits. The sum of the three digits equals 36 times this number. Seven times the left digit plus 9 is equal to 5 times the sum of the two other digits. 8 times the second digit minus 9 is equal to the sum of the first and third. What is the square root of that number? - (o) 12.There are 2 ducks in front of 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks behind 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks beside 2 other ducks. Let there be X ducks. Than 2X is?-(e) 13.In a pond there are some flowers with some bees hovering over them. How many flowers and bees are there if both the following statements are true: 1. If each bee lands on a flower, one bee doesn't get a flower. 2. If two bees share each flower, there is one flower left out. Sum of no. of flowers and bee is?-(r)
- 3. 14.The independence day of USA is X-Y-1776. What is 2(Y-X)? -(o) 15.Robert and David played several golf matches against each other in a week. They played for a pizza at each match, but no pizzas were purchased until the end of the week. If at any time Robert and David had the same number of wins, those pizzas were cancelled. Robert won four matches (but no pizzas), and David won three pizzas. How many rounds of golf were played?-(t) 16.When my father was 31 I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I?-(u) 17.If place 1 cake of soap on a pan of a scale and 3/4 cake of soap and a 3/4- pound weight on the other, the pans balance. How much does a cake of soap weigh?-(y) 18.Eight years ago, Bill was eight times the age of his son Bill Jr. Today, if you add their ages together, they add up to 52. Difference between the ages of Bill and his son is?-(m) 19.If a stopper and a bottle cost $2.10 and the bottle costs $2.00 more than the stopper. Square of stoppers Price in cents is?-(u) 20.A car's odometer shows 72927 miles, a palindromic number. If X is minimum miles you would need to travel to form another, then X/22 is?- (s) 21. A 300 ft. train is traveling 300 ft. per minute must travel through a 300 ft. long tunnel. Half of time taken by train to cross the tunnel is?-(t) 22.A bird has a head 9cm long. The tail is equal to the size of the head plus a half of the size of the body. The body is the size of the head plus the tail. One third of birds length is?-(r) 23.Edward is as old as Benjamin used to be when Edward was as old as Benjamin is now. Benjamin is 36. One fourth of Edward age is?-(r) 24.A box of hardware contains nuts and bolts. The bolts account for 25 percent of the number of items in the box. What percentage are the bolts of the entire box?-(t)
- 4. 25.You have accidently left out the plug and are attempting to fill the bath with both taps full on. The hot tap takes 6 minutes to fill the bath. The cold tap takes 2 minutes and the water empties through the plug hole in 4 minutes. If the bath is filled in X seconds than X/9 is?-(t) 26.A merchant can place 8 large boxes or 10 small boxes into a carton for shipping. In one shipment, he sent a total of 96 boxes. If there are more large boxes than small boxes, he shipped X boxes than 20+X is? - (d) 27.Give me an x, I'll stand to face you. Give me a cross, I'll turn my back on you. What am I multiplied by 3?-(o) 28.Sally is 54 years old and her mother is 80, how many years ago was Sally’s mother three times her age Answer is sally’s age.-(o) 29. Telangana is nth state of India?-(w) 30. Time leap shown in the final instalment of famous Harry Potter movies in terms of years?-(f) 31. Atomic number of chlorine – (a) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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- 6. Starting Question: Two dices are tossed. The probability of the total score is a prime number is ‘n’ Then find 24n? – 10 Main Questions: 1. If a taxi charges $8.00 for the first mile, and $1.00 for each additional quarter mile, how much does the taxi charge for a 4.5 mile ride? –(a) 22 2. A restaurant menu has several options for tacos. There are 3 types of shells, 4 types of meat, 3 types of cheese, and 5 types of salsa. X is the number of distinct tacos that can be ordered assuming that any order contains exactly one of each of the above choices. X/6?-(e) 30 3. Narendra Modi is the nth PM of India ? – (n) 14 4. An integer is randomly chosen from 2 to 20 inclusive. X is the probability that the number is prime. 19X/4?-(h) - 2 5. If it were two hours later, it would be half as long until midnight as it would be if it were an hour later. What time is it now?-(t) 9 6. A magic wish-granting rectangular belt always shrinks to 1/2 its length and 1/3 its width whenever its owner makes a wish. After three wishes, the surface area of the belt's front side was 4 cm2 . What was the original length, if the original width was 9 cm? Answer as the sum of digits. - (t) 15 7. Bob has a 24-sided die with an integer between 1 and 24 on each face. Every number is featured exactly once. When he rolls, the probability that the number showing is a factor of 24 is 1/X. What is X*X*X ?-(r) 27 8. If seven people meet each other and each shakes hands only once with each of the others, how many handshakes will there have been?-(s) 21 9. A man has nine children, born at regular intervals. The sum of their squares of their ages is equal to the square of his own age. What is the age of the last child?-(o) 26
- 7. 10.You have 14 brown socks, 14 blue socks and 14 black socks in your sock drawer. How many socks must you remove (without looking to be sure) to have a matched pair?-(T) 4 11.A certain number has three digits. The sum of the three digits equals 36 times this number. Seven times the left digit plus 9 is equal to 5 times the sum of the two other digits. 8 times the second digit minus 9 is equal to the sum of the first and third. What is the square root of that number? - (o) 18 12.There are 2 ducks in front of 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks behind 2 other ducks. There are 2 ducks beside 2 other ducks. Let there be X ducks. Than 2X is?-(e) 8 13.In a pond there are some flowers with some bees hovering over them. How many flowers and bees are there if both the following statements are true: 1. If each bee lands on a flower, one bee doesn't get a flower. 2. If two bees share each flower, there is one flower left out. Sum of no. of flowers and bee is?-(r) 7 14.The independence day of USA is X-Y-1776. What is 2(Y-X)? -(o) 6 15.Robert and David played several golf matches against each other in a week. They played for a pizza at each match, but no pizzas were purchased until the end of the week. If at any time Robert and David had the same number of wins, those pizzas were cancelled. Robert won four matches (but no pizzas), and David won three pizzas. How many rounds of golf were played?-(t) 11 16.When my father was 31 I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I?-(u) 23 17.If place 1 cake of soap on a pan of a scale and 3/4 cake of soap and a 3/4- pound weight on the other, the pans balance. How much does a cake of soap weigh?-(y) 3 18.Eight years ago, Bill was eight times the age of his son Bill Jr. Today, if you add their ages together, they add up to 52. Difference between the ages of Bill and his son is?-(m) 28 19.If a stopper and a bottle cost $2.10 and the bottle costs $2.00 more than the stopper. Square of stoppers Price in cents is?-(u) 25
- 8. 20.A car's odometer shows 72927 miles, a palindromic number. If X is minimum miles you would need to travel to form another, then X/22 is?- (s) 5 21. A 300 ft. train is traveling 300 ft. per minute must travel through a 300 ft. long tunnel. Half of time taken by train to cross the tunnel is?-(t) 1 22.A bird has a head 9cm long. The tail is equal to the size of the head plus a half of the size of the body. The body is the size of the head plus the tail. One third of birds length is?-(r) 24 23.Edward is as old as Benjamin used to be when Edward was as old as Benjamin is now. Benjamin is 36. One fourth of Edward age is?-(r) 12 24.A box of hardware contains nuts and bolts. The bolts account for 25 percent of the number of items in the box. What percentage are the bolts of the entire box?-(t) 20 25.You have accidently left out the plug and are attempting to fill the bath with both taps full on. The hot tap takes 6 minutes to fill the bath. The cold tap takes 2 minutes and the water empties through the plug hole in 4 minutes. If the bath is filled in X seconds than X/9 is?-(t) 16 26.A merchant can place 8 large boxes or 10 small boxes into a carton for shipping. In one shipment, he sent a total of 96 boxes. If there are more large boxes than small boxes, he shipped X boxes than 20+X is? - (d) 31 27.Give me an x, I'll stand to face you. Give me a cross, I'll turn my back on you. What am I multiplied by 3?-(o) 29 28.Sally is 54 years old and her mother is 80, how many years ago was Sally’s mother three times her age Answer is sally’s age.-(o) 13 29. Telangana is nth state of India?-(w) ---- LAST 30. Time leap shown in the final instalment of famous Harry Potter movies in terms of years?-(f) 19 31. Atomic number of chlorine – (a) 17 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ THE FUTURE STARTS TODAY NOT TOMORROW