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Q30. ** Fill in the blank:
Indra Gandhi is Jawaharlal Nehru's daughter's ___________

Q29. * In a race,

1. if you overtake a person who is running second, then you come ___________
2. if you overtake a person who is running last, then you come ______________

Q28. *** Each horizontal and vertical line contains the jumbled letters of a country. Find the 20 countries. Every letter is used, but only once each.

Q27. What letters complete these sequences?

1. * M, V, E, M, J, S, U, N, __
2. * C, D, I, L, M, V, __
3. ** P, W, E, L, G, A, __

Q26. * What is the next letter in this sequence?
O, T, F, S, N, E, T, F, S, N, T, T, ..

Q25. What vowels complete these sequences?

1. *** E, OAE, EO, EE, UE, IIO, __
2. ** UA, OA, UEA, EEA, UA, IA, __

Q24. * Should the letter K go above or below the line?

Q23. * Work out the missing numbers.

1. 4, 9, 25, 49, 121, 169, 289, 361, ___, ___, 961
2. 97376, 7938, 1512, __
3. 1, 4, 27, 256, ____

Q22. *** Consider the number 7731. Now continue the sequence -
153, 193, 197, 353, 413, 419, 793, 797, 813, 819, ___, ___

Q21. * What do these words have in common?
STUDIO, CALMNESS, FIRST, INOPERATIVE, DEFEND

Q20. *** Consider the following list of words:
CHART, CODE, GAIN, GRAPH, ON, RACK, RAGE, RING, ROW.
Now choose one of the following words to add to the list:
WOOD, STORM, TRACK, STAMP, MAID, WATER, SPOON, MILK

Q19. * Make the left arrangement look like the right by moving only three circles from the left arrangement.

Q18. * A typist types four envelopes and four letters. She places the letters in the envelopes at random. What are the chances that only three letters are in their correct envelopes?

Q17. * How many times in a day, does the two hands of the clock meet at right angles?

Q16. ** Where would you place 9 and 10 to keep the sequence going?

Q15. * What is the next logical number in this sequence?
3, 7, 10, 11, 12, __

Q14. * What is the biggest number that can be written with four 1s?

Q13. * Find the product of:
(x-a) (x-b) (x-c) .... .... .... (x-z)

Q12. ** Fill in the missing numbers:

Q11. *** What letter completes this sequence?
AEEOEEIEUE__

Q10. *** Can you find a reason for each of the words being the odd one out?
ABORT, ACT, AGT, ARC, OPT, APT

Q9. * A Ping Pong Club decided to conduct a tournament for its 150 members. Every time a member loses a game, he is out of the tournament. There are no ties. Can you tell how many games must be played in order to determine the champion?

Q8. ** Use the 26 letters of the alphabet once each to complete these words.

1. __ A __ E
2. L __ __ __ R I __ __
3. Z __ __ E
4. __ O U __ __
5. __ O Y
6. __ Y __ E
7. __ E __ R __
8. __ __ A __ I __ __
9. E __ I __ __

Q7. *** What is the next number in this sequence, and why?
1, 4, 7, 11, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, ___

Q6. * My seven cousins were all born on different days of the week. Ashiq was born on a Friday, Fazil was born on a Monday. Sadiq was born on a Tuesday and his two elder sisters, Hameeda and Kurshid, were born on a Saturday and Sunday respectively. Sadhuna and Suhaina were born on the two remaining days of the week; but which one was born on a Wednesday and which one was born on a Thursday?

Q5. ** Without changing the order of the digits form a calculation equal to 100. Only four plus and/or minus signs can be inserted between the digits.

Q4. * Find the missing square:

Choose from: (a) TE, (b) ZF, (c) XN, (d) OK, (e) PC, (f) KR, (g) SX, (h) MX

Q3. * It was New Year day, a day to exchange gifts. Two fathers gave their sons some money. One father gave his son $150 and the other $100. But when the two sons counted their money, they found that, they had become richer by only $150. How do you explain this?

Q2. * Using each of the digits between 0 and 9 exactly once fill in the blanks:

Q1. * In the 20th century there are only seven years whose numbers are a mathematical oddity because their numbers signify a prime number. The first one of its kind was the year 1951. Can you name the other six?

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