Puzzles:

1.Mr.John walked 10 yards down X street then he turned left and walked 10 yards down
Y street.he again turned left and walked 10 yards down in Z street then he turned left and
walked 15 yards along another street then he turned left and walked 10 yards down that
street again he turned left and walked 5 yards which street was he in ?

Ans. Y street (sure)

2.Uncle reuben and aunt cynthia came to town to shop reuban bought a suit and hat for
$15 cynthia paid as much as for her hat as reuben did for his suit then she spent the rest of
their money for a new dress on the way home cynthia called reubens attention to the fact
that his hat cost $1 more than her dress then she added if we had divided our hat money
differently so that we bought different hats mine costing 1 and 1/2 time cost if yours then
we each would have spent the same amount of money in that case said uncle reuben "how
much would my hat have cost"

Ans. Uncles hat costs $6.2 (total money was $29)(not sure)
This question is repeated from 18 jan 2004 infy test.

3.Ricky Gooch and his friends decided to get together to celebrate his birthday.there were
11 people at the party they clinked glasses with each other every person with evry person
just once how many times did the glasses clink?

Ans. 55 times(sure)
This is similar to Handshaken problem from shakunthala devi

4.A spider spins its web in a window frame each day it spins an area equal to that of the
amount already completed it takes 30 days to cover the entire window frame how long
would two spinders take?(in case of two spiders each of them spins an amount qual to the
area of the existing part of the web made by that particular spider)

Ans. 29 days(not sure)

5.Mr.A lies on Mondays Tuesdays and Wednesdays Mr.B lies on Thursdays Fridays and
Saturdays MrA said "Yestarday was one of my lying days" MrB said "Yestarday was one
of my lying days too "What day of the week was it?

Ans. Thursday(sure)

6.The captain of the pirates comes home after 6 years of prison and says i was 5 times
older than my son when i started my prison term but now i am only 3 times as old as he is
when my son gets twice as old as he is now I will be twice as old as him how old ws the
captain when his son was born?

Ans. 24 years (sure)

7. Dori Juanita and Leona each had a test today One test was in MusicOne test was in
Reading One test was in Spelling the test grades were A B and C
* Dori's grade was lower than both Juanitas grade and the reading test grade
* The spelling test grade was higher than the reading test grade
What test did each person take and what was the grade on the test?

Ans. Juanita Spelling A (not sure)

Leona Reading B
Dori Music C

8. At last weeks girl guides picnic four girls were tucking into their packed lunches jane
had muffins but Denise didnt have orange juice the girl who had blackcurrant juice also
had scones and Jessica had blueberry juice The girl who had cake also had strawberry
juice whereas Alice didnt have the strawberry juice nor toast Can U work out who had
which drink and which dessert?

Ans. Alice Blackcurrant Juice Scones (not sure)

Janes Orange Juice Muffins
Denise Strawberry Juice Cake
Jessica Blueberry Juice Toast

9.Alma Bess Cleo and Dina visited Edna on Saturday The time of each visiit as follows
Alma at 8 o'clock
Bess at 9 o'clock
Cleo at 10 o'clock
Dina at 11 o'clock
At least one woman visited Edna between Alma and Bess Alma did not visit Edna before
both Cleo and Dina. Cleo did not visit Edna between Bess and Dina Who visited Edna
Last?

Ans. Alma(sure)

10.Jeanine is bored playing with blocks while babysitting her baby brother To keep
herself amused she decides to stack up all the blocks so that each row has one less block
than the row below There are a total of 55 blocks and Jeannine wants end up with just 1
block at top.how many should she put in the bottom row?

Ans. 10 Blocks(sure)
This question is repeated from 6 jul 2003 infy test.
English:

English was Easy...........

Exercise 1: A passage was given and questions based on passage (5 Q)
Exercise 2: Each question had 4 sentences to spot the incorrect sentence (5 Q)
Exercise 3:to fill in the blanks in the dialog or sentences with appropriate tense of the
verb. (MCQ)
Exercise 4: Each question a sentence with 2 blanks .To finds out the most appropriate
word pair that fits in the sentence. (5 Q)
Exercise 5: Each question had two sentences .2 differed in any 1 word. The words may be
homophones/misspell one. (5 Q)
Exercise 6: Given a sentence with some phrase in it /directly a phrase .we have got to
choose the meaning of the Phrase from choices (5 Q)