Bruce Banner was having a candle light dinner with his girlfriend. Suddenly a cold gush of wind entered through the open window and three of the ten candles were extinguished. Assuming that none of the other candles were extinguished.
How many candles are they left with in the end ?
Three.
The candles that were not extinguished will melt down completely eventually. Thus only three candles will remain in the end.
Adam was moving down in an elevator. The elevator stopped and the remorse on his face was clear.He knew Eve had died.
How did he know?
Eve was admitted in hospital was under life support system. Adam had just visited her and was moving down the elevator when it stopped suddenly. He knew it was the power cut and the backup generators were clearly not working or the elevator would have worked. Thus he assumed that even the life support system had stopped.
In the kingdom of skull, King Norse did not allow any citizen to visit the world outside. Also only a person with a proper paperwork was allowed to enter or he was sent back. A wooden bridge was what connected the kingdom to the world. The king had appointed a sharpshooter who would check every five minutes on the bridge to check. After checking, he would go back to his hut and return exactly after five minutes again. The bridge took 9 minutes to cross.
A merchant was able to escape the kingdom without harming the shooter.
How ?
The merchant walked across the bridge for almost five minutes when the shooter was inside the bridge. Then he turned and started walking back to the kingdom of skull. On approaching the kingdom, he was asked of papers which he never had. Thus he was sent back.
Sherlock breaks into a crime scene. The victim is the owner who is slumped dead on a chair and have a bullet hole in his head. A gun lies on the floor and a cassette recorder is found on the table. On pressing the play button, Sherlock hears the message 'I have committed sins in my life and now I offer my soul to the great Lord' and followed a gunshot Sherlock smiles and informed the police that's its a murder.
Why did he think so?
How can a dead person rewind back the tape himself?
How can you write nineteen in a manner that if we take out one, it becomes twenty?
XIX. On taking one i.e. I, we get XX i.e. 20
Solve the equation in the image by looking the pattern closely.
B
sideways clockwise 1/4 turn
A chess tournament is taking place on knock-out terms (the one who loses the match is out of the game).
(a) If 15 matches are played in total, how many players participated?
(b) If 50 players took part in the tournament, how many matches were played?
(a) If you look at the question closely, it is a knockout tournament and the winner will be just one. Thus no. of players is equal to 15+1=16.
(b) The number of matches will always be one less than the number of players (in knockout tournaments). Thus the answer is 49.
Sherlock Homes was challenge to make a pre-drawn line smaller without erasing it. He did it in fractions of seconds. How?
He drew a long line adjacent to the pre drawn line making the first line smaller.
An inspection by the superintendent of Delhi Public School was scheduled on the next day. The class teacher Shraddha Kapoor knew that he would be asking questions from her class and she would have to choose a pupil to answer. To offer a perfect impression over him, the teacher explained certain instructions to the students to maximize the chances of getting correct answer every time.
What did she say to the students?
Shraddha drilled the students to raise their hands with a condition. Those who knew the answer must raise their right hand and those who didn’t must raise their left hands. So she will know whom to choose from all.
A mathematician couple was having a Frappuccino in Starbucks sitting opposite to each other. Suddenly the guy noticed the text written on the paper in front of them and exclaimed that it was wrong. The girl denied and said it is appropriate. Both are correct. What is written on the paper ?
The text on the paper was X = XI + 1 which is inaccurate but when read from the girl’s side it becomes I + IX = X which is accurate.