TECNOESIS’17

CRYPTOMAFIA 2.0 PRELIMS

Duration: 90 Minutes Marks: 40
Instructions:

 Googling not allowed

 Each question consist of 1 mark and there is no negative marking
 Answer all the questions serially (you can give blank space if you don’t know the answer)
 Write your team name, team members name, contact number, email address in answer sheet

1. The Cow walked 100 meters north, then walked 100 meters east, walked 100 meters south and
finally walked 100 meters west.
In which direction tail was pointing? 

2. Which building got the most stories?

3. Rachel asks Phoebe, 'It is 9 pm as per my watch right now. Do you know what will be the time 23,
999, 997 hours later?
Phoebe knows the answer. Do you?

4. count the number of minutes in Feb 2017?

Note: Shortest answer is the winner :-) 

5. For Charity, five teams were competing where they face each other exactly once. After the
tournament, the following is the point table. For each win team will allot 2points while in case of
draw both will get 1 points. Consider no match is cancelled.
Chelsea 6
Tottenham 5
ManCity 4
Arsenal 2
Liverpool?

6. Ross tells that Joey always lies.

Joey says that Chandler always lies.
Chandler says that Ross as well as Joey always lies.
Now we tell you that only one of them speaks the truth. Can you find out who is the one who
speaks it?

7. You've got 27 coins, each of them is 10g, except for 1. The 1 different coin is 9g or 11g (heavier, or
lighter by 1g). You should use balance scale that compares what's in the two pans. You can get the
answer by just comparing groups of coins. What is the minimum number of weighing's that can
always guarantee to determine the different coin.
8. Two soldiers were guarding the main gate of the Castle. 
Soldier-1 was looking towards the south to make sure no threat is coming from the road.
Soldier-2 was looking at the north to make sure no threat is coming from the top.
Suddenly Soldier-1 ask the soldier-2 why he is smiling?
How Soldier-1 knows that Soldier-2 is smiling?  

9. An old man was dying and so he called his three sons. He gave them equal money and ask them to
buy something that can fill their living room entirely. He told them that he will give all his money
and property to the son who is able to do this task as asked.
The first son buys sticks and tries to fill the room but he falls short of sticks. The second sun buys
straw but he also falls short of filling the room. The third son buys only two things and he is able to
fill the room completely and thus earns all the property and money.
What did he buy?

10. The below is a number puzzle. It should be read left to right, top to bottom. What is the next one
row of numbers?
1
11
21
1211
111221
??????

11. . An old man ankit lives alone in a flat. Because of his age, he is not able to move comfortably and
hence most of the things used to be delivered to his house.
On Friday while delivering the mail, postman feels something suspicious in the flat and try to look
inside through the key hole and he saw a blood filled body of the old man.
CID arrived the scene.
On the outside of flat, he found two bottles of warm milk, Tuesday newspaper, some unopened
mails, some gifts.
CID waste no time to find the murderer.
Who was the murderer?

12. Four people need to cross a dark river at night.

* They have only one torch and the river is too risky to cross without the torch.  
* If all people cross simultaneously then torch light won’t be sufficient.
* Speed of each person of crossing the river is different cross time for each person is 1 min, 2
minutes, 7 minutes and 10 minutes. 
What is the shortest time needed for all four of them to cross the river?

13. . How Joey can born on Christmas (25 December), still joey birthday is during the summer?

14. When I asked my chemistry teacher what's her favourite English movie, then she replied with the
strange name "Indium Cerium Platinum Iodine Oxygen Nitrogen"
Ten seconds later I realize her favourite movie. Do you? 
15. Captain Jack Sparrow is the captain of this famous ship.
The captain of this famous ship is Captain Jack Sparrow.
The Captain Jack Sparrow is best pirate captain known.
What is the name of the Captain Jack Sparrow ship.
Confused???
So what is the name of the ship? 

16. Assume it's a bowler friendly wicket and batsman is getting bowled out on every 1st ball he faced.
Assuming there are no extras in the inning, which batsman will remain not out at the end of the
inning?

17. . Manny pacquiao and Mike Tyson goes for charity matches.
They played exactly 5 matches but both able to win exactly same no of matches. Consider no match
is drawn.
How is this possible?

18. During your visit to the dark forest, you stumble upon a Tiger and a jaguar. You have got a gun
however there's just one bullet left.
What's your escape plan?

19. Alex Parrish was so frustrated to be the suspect of being a sleeper terrorist that in her bathroom
she shoot herself right between the eyes with a revolver. The revolver and the bullets were real.
Minutes later Alex Parrish walks out from the bathroom unharmed.
How can this be possible?

20. John Walters was found drowned dead yet not wet. How come?

21. A man 5'11" high is found dead in a closed room. 

This room is found empty with some puddle of water.
The man was died by hanging himself to a 12 feet high fan.
How did the man die? 

22. Four kids having five rocks each were playing a game in which they need to throw the rock at solid
area in the water.
Kid1: Succeeded in throwing three rocks at solid area but one of the rock sunk.
Kid3: His aim was so bad that all rocks got sunk.
Kid4: He was awesome and none of the rocks got sunk.
Kid2 was the winner but was struck by a rock in the head and died.
Who killed Kid2?

23. I live in a one story house made up of red brick. My house is the location near the equator. My
house is in England. 
What is the colour of my stairs?

24. A person named mike want to go to a “sixty-six” named bar. The entry is guarded by a bouncer and
he allow only those who knows the passing logic. So, mike waited outside the bar to listen to the
 conversation between the bouncer and the coming customers. The first person came and the
bouncer said “twelve” and the customer replied “six”, he was allowed in. then the second customer
was told “six” and he replied “three”. Mike thought that was enough and went to the bouncer. The
bouncer gave him “Ten” as the number and he replied “five“. He was kicked out. If u too were there
that time and u were asked “nine”. What would be your answer so that you could get in?

25. Tyrion Lannister (a midget) and John Snow were walking across the mysterious land of Westeros.
Because of their height difference Tyrion's three steps are equal to Snow's two steps. Both of them
start out with their left foot. What is the minimum number of steps both must take to make sure
they take the right steps together?

26. . A ship is named as after the legendary ship Titanic. The ship hits strong tides at 8 pm. A rope
ladder is hanging on one side of the ship. It has the rungs 321 mm apart. The tide is rising one
meter every 3 hours. Can you calculate how many rungs will go underwater till 8 am?

27. When deepak was six years old he hammered a nail into his favourite tree to mark his height.  
Five years later at age eleven, deepak returned to see how much higher the nail was.  
If the tree grew by ten inches each year, how much higher would the nail be?

28. There are seven guests in a cocktail party. Each guest shakes hand with one another but they do
not repeat again.
find how many handshakes occurred in the party?

29. A game of cards was being played. In the game, George chose Mary as his partner. Now, Ted had to
choose a partner as well.
Whom will he choose from the following people?
Ann
Edna
Joan
Angela

30. 1 3 5
24?
Do you know what will come in place of?
We must tell you that it’s not 6.

31. There is a 30km long bridge. The bridge can only support up to a weight of 2000 kg. A car that
weighs 2000 kg needs to cross that bridge. When the car has reached midway of the bridge, a bird
comes and sits on top of the car. The bird weighs 300 grams.

Now, does the bridge breaks down at this point of time or not? Mileage of car is 15km/L.

32. You had an infinite supply of water and a 5 ml and 3 ml gallons.

How would you measure exactly 4 ml in least number of steps?

33. Six people go into a shopping mall through the lift from the underground parking. The shopping
mall has 6 floors and each one of them has to go to a different floor which is why the lift stops at all
 the floors with someone getting out. 
Lee rides for the longest among the six. Mia gets off the lift before David but after Mistie. Paul gets
out before everyone. Christy gets off before Mistie who gets off at the third floor.

find out who gets off at which floor?

34. . In a general aptitude test, you come across the following question:
How will you build a house which has all its walls facing the north direction?
It's a crucial question that you must answer to get through. Can you?

35. Which three dimensional consists of just two surfaces?

36. Polar Bear are very good hunters, but they never hunt penguins.  
Why not?

37. There is a crime for which you can only be arrested while attempting it but not after you have
committed it. 
Which crime is that?

38. A women was telling the heroic tale of her late husband to her grandchildren.

'When the First World War was about to end, your grandpa was awarded for his extreme bravery
and heroism. While on the war, an enemy threw a grenade at their troupe. But before it could
explode, your grandpa picked it up and threw it back on the enemy battalion. For this, he was
awarded a sword with the engraving - 'Awarded for portrayal of extreme bravery and valour in the
World War I'.'

Upon hearing this, one of the grand child stood up and said, 'You are fooling us with false story.'
The story was indeed fake. But how did he come to know that it was not true?

39. A brother wants to use his brother's desktop computer. When he opens it, he finds out that it is
password protected. Now, he clicks on the hint and the following appears in front of him:
1 Jug 2 Birthdays 3 Fights 4 Cars 2 Laptops 1 Watch
He is left confused entirely. He has no clue. Can you help him with the password?

40. Hercule Poirot Detective reviewed the information they had on the case so far. 
A lady named 'monica' was found shot and Hercule already had a list of suspects: rooney, torres,
dabid, messi, ronaldo
Killer is a fan of Hercule and challenge him by leaving notes at various places.
# The first was found in a drawing room. 
# The second was found in an art room. 
# The third was in a bed room. 
# The fourth in an ice-cream room.
# The fifth at the desk room
All of the notes read the same thing, 'The clues are where you find the notes.' Still, nothing was
found anywhere.
Hercule Poirot pause for a moment and den arrested the killer. Who was the killer?