Recently a company had participated in IIM's Placement Sessions. They asked some interesting questions to students during recruitment.
Here are some of them:-
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1. There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced
incorrectly. What is it?
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1. The word "incorrectly"
2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents.
What time is it?
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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. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot
apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water.
The tide rises at 12 inches every 15minutes. High tide peaks in one
hour. When the tide is at it's highest, how many rungs are under
water?
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3. None, the boat rises with the tide. Googly ;-)
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?
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4. White. If all the walls face south, the house is at the North pole,
and the bear, therefore, is a polar bear.
5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?
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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. 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?
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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. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide that
has been dug with a square edged shovel?
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7. None. No matter how big a hole is, it's still a hole: the absence of
dirt.
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 ?
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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. What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978,
thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th.
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9. The time and month/date/year American style calendar are 12:34, 5/6/78.
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?
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10. One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big stack.
11. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?
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11. The temperature.
