ajaynehra
August 4th, 2003, 10:56 PM
BlankQuestions asked by P&G while recruiting at IIM-B.
(Scroll down for answers...)
1. There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced
incorrectly. What is it?
2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents.
What time is it?
3. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot
apart. The bottom rung is one foot from he water. The tide rises at 12
inches every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is
at it's highest, how many rungs are under water?
4. There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces south. There is a
window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What color is
the bear?
5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?
6. There is a room.! The shutters are blowing in. There is broken
glass on the floor. There is water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead
on the floor. Who is Sloppy? How did Sloppy die?
7. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide that
has been dug with a square edged shovel?
8. If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a
bucket of water which is 45! degrees F, and dropped another ball of
the same weight, mass, and size in a bucket at 30
degrees F, both of them at the same time, which ball
would hit the bottom of the bucket first? Same question,
but the location is in Canada?
9. What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978,
thirty-four minutes past noon! on May 6th.
10. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4
haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he
combined them all in the center field?
11. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not
move?
Scroll down for answers............
1. The word "incorrectly."
2. 1:45. The man gave away a total of 25 cents. He divided
it between two people. Therefore, he gave a quarter to two.
3. None, the boat rises with the tide. Googly ;-)
4. White. If all the walls face south, the house is at the North pole,
and the bear, therefore, is a polar bear.
5. Three. Well, it seems that it could almost be either,
but if you follow the mathematical orders of operation, division is
performed before addition. So... half of two is one. Then add two, and
the answer is three.
6. Sloppy is a (gold)fish. The wind blew the shutters in, which
knocked his goldfish-bowl off the table, and it broke, killing him.
7. None. No matter how big a hole is, it's still a hole:
the absence of dirt.
8. Both questions, same answer: the ball in the bucket of
45 degree F water hits the bottom of the bucket last. Did
you think that the water in the 30 degree F bucket is
frozen? Think again. The question said nothing about that
bucket having anything in it. Therefore, there is no water (or ice) to
slow the ball down...
9. The time and month/date/year American style calendar are 12:34,
5/6/78.
10. One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all
become one big stack.
11. The temperature.
Now tell me your score honestly..... no cheating
Nehra Ajay
(Scroll down for answers...)
1. There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced
incorrectly. What is it?
2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents.
What time is it?
3. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot
apart. The bottom rung is one foot from he water. The tide rises at 12
inches every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is
at it's highest, how many rungs are under water?
4. There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces south. There is a
window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What color is
the bear?
5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?
6. There is a room.! The shutters are blowing in. There is broken
glass on the floor. There is water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead
on the floor. Who is Sloppy? How did Sloppy die?
7. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide that
has been dug with a square edged shovel?
8. If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a
bucket of water which is 45! degrees F, and dropped another ball of
the same weight, mass, and size in a bucket at 30
degrees F, both of them at the same time, which ball
would hit the bottom of the bucket first? Same question,
but the location is in Canada?
9. What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978,
thirty-four minutes past noon! on May 6th.
10. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4
haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he
combined them all in the center field?
11. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not
move?
Scroll down for answers............
1. The word "incorrectly."
2. 1:45. The man gave away a total of 25 cents. He divided
it between two people. Therefore, he gave a quarter to two.
3. None, the boat rises with the tide. Googly ;-)
4. White. If all the walls face south, the house is at the North pole,
and the bear, therefore, is a polar bear.
5. Three. Well, it seems that it could almost be either,
but if you follow the mathematical orders of operation, division is
performed before addition. So... half of two is one. Then add two, and
the answer is three.
6. Sloppy is a (gold)fish. The wind blew the shutters in, which
knocked his goldfish-bowl off the table, and it broke, killing him.
7. None. No matter how big a hole is, it's still a hole:
the absence of dirt.
8. Both questions, same answer: the ball in the bucket of
45 degree F water hits the bottom of the bucket last. Did
you think that the water in the 30 degree F bucket is
frozen? Think again. The question said nothing about that
bucket having anything in it. Therefore, there is no water (or ice) to
slow the ball down...
9. The time and month/date/year American style calendar are 12:34,
5/6/78.
10. One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all
become one big stack.
11. The temperature.
Now tell me your score honestly..... no cheating
Nehra Ajay