You walk into a room where there are three primates held in their respective cages:
1) A lion who is eating the flesh of a goat.
2) An orangutan who is playing with blocks.
3) A donkey who is sitting idle.
Who is the most intelligent primate in the room ?
You are also a primate and you are human thus you are the most intelligent.
During an experiment, a guy throws a bouncy ball from a 90 feet tall building. The ball has a specific characteristic. Every time it hits the ground, it bounces up half way.
How many bounces do you think the ball will make before it comes to a stop ?
Clearly as per the data given in the question, the ball will always keep on bouncing half way up and thus it will take infinite bounces before the gravity forces it to stop.
A simple logical interview question was asked to Rahul by the interviewee:
There is exactly one week between Christmas and New Year. Thus a New Year that occurs right after the Christmas, happens to occur on the same day as Christmas. But in 2030, Christmas will occur on Wednesday and New Year will occur on Tuesday.
How is that possible?
Rahul was able to answer the question. Can you?
In 2030, New Year will occur on 1 Jan 2013 and Christmas will occur on 25 Dec 2030. There is not one week but 51+ week’s difference between them. Read the question carefully again.
I start and end with 500 and carry a 5 in my heart. But I require the first letter and the first number to be complete. I am the name of a King.
Who am I ?
DAVID
Talking in roman numerals,
D = 500
At the center is 5 = V
The first number is I
The first letter of the alphabet is A
Thus they combine to form DAVID.
Shyla was sleeping in her apartment when suddenly a robber broke into her house. He asked her to stay quiet and started looting the cash and jewelry. Suddenly the landline phone started ringing. The robber pointed gun at Shyla and asked her to pick up and talk without giving away the situation.
She picked up the phone and it happened to be her husband. She spoke, “Is it an emergency darling? Do give me a call when your flight lands, I will prepare your favorite food that will help you relieve the stress.†Then she hanged up.
10 minutes after, the police arrives at the scene and catches the robber. How did the police know about the robbery ?
While talking with her husband on phone, Shyla played with the mute button. She pressed mute on specific parts of her conversation in a manner that only the words emergency, call and help were heard by her husband. So her husband heard, “Emergency…. Call…. Help†and immediately called the police.
Sahir enters the bank he aim to rob and finds Jai standing inside armless. He aims a gun at him and asks him the code for the safe. Jai says, 'The code is different every day but if you hurt me, you will never get to know the code'.
Sahir pins him down and ties him with a rope. He then insert the code of the safe and easily takes all the money with him.
How did he know the code ?
Jai told him that the code is DIFFERENT every day. Different is the code to the safe.
Sai caught 10 fishes without an I,
9 were deprived of tail
6 were headless
And half of 8
He weighed on a trusted scale
Can you find out if he asks you?
How many fishes were there in his basket?
Zero
He catches 10 fishes without an I or 1 according to Roman numeral. Taking off 1 from 10 makes it 0. Cutting the tail of 9 makes it zero. Removing the head of 6 makes it zero. Slicing 8 in half makes it zero as well. Thus in total, he caught zero fishes.
You are frying fishes on a pan which can accommodate only 2 fishes at one time. It takes 5 minutes to fry one side of the fish.
What is the shortest time in which you can fry 3 fishes in the same pan ?
15 minutes.
Put 2 fishes in the pan. Fry for 5 minutes and then take out one and turn the other one. Also put in the third fish. Now fry for 5 minutes. The fish that you turned must be ready now so take it off while turning the other one. Also put in the fish which was fried from one side only in the pan. Fry them for 5 minutes and all the three fishes are fried now.
Dr. Doom invited a group of puzzle fanatics in a party which was oriented for having puzzle oriented games. At night, he introduced the guests with a 'unique riddle'. A prize was offered for the one who solved it first.
The guests included six people named Tom Paul, Fox Obama, Jeremy Reener, Alex Murphy, Prim Pastor, and Ellen Page. The winner for the 'unique riddle' contest was to be announce after the dinner. So Dr. Doom stood up and started the announcement:
'Okay now everybody!'
'The winner of…'
'The Hardest Riddle Ever Event'
But before he could complete, the light went out and his voice was not heard without the mic by anyone. But they already knew who the winner was. Can you deduce the name of the winner?
The winner is Fox Obama.
Just analyze the first three statements of Dr. Doom and see the first alphabets of each word in each line.
O N E
T W O
T H R E E
Thus, the next statement must be the one whose initials are F and O to form FOUR.
Thus it is Fox Obama.
The last sentence must be:
'Fox Obama: Ultimate Riddler!'
An innocent person is accused of a murder in a village. The head of the village knows that the man is innocent but he also knows that the truth may be uncovered one day that his own son is the murderer. Just to hinder the attention of people, he offers a chance to the man. In a jar, he places two chits of paper – one reads innocent and the other reads guilty. Among all the other villagers, he asks the accused person to pick up a chit. He says that their almighty god is watching them and the person will meet his fate truthfully with the chit.
Of course, the village head is cheating. He has put both chits with Guilty written on them. The accused person somehow suspects the same. But no one will believe him if he tries to expose the head. Also, he knows no one will look at the other chit once his fate is decided by his selected chit.
What should he do to prove that he is innocent?
When asked to draw a chit, the person will pick any and then without looking at it, he will swallow the chit. In this manner, to decide his fate, they will have to look at the other chit which reads Guilty. Thus people will understand that the chit which he ate had innocent written over it.