ARRANGEMENTS CLASS-6

ADVANCED PUZZLES
 PUZZLE -1
Nixon, Clinton, Reagan, Carter, Bush and Obama were six presidents of a
country in six conecutive tenures (not necessarily in the same order). The
tenures are four year periods starting from years 1989 i.e., 1989 to 1993,
1993 to 1997 and so on up to 2009-2013 During these six tenures the
foreign ministers were Kerry, Albright, McNamara, Schultz, Baker and
Kissinger(not necessarily in the same order). Following additional
information is known:
(i) Clinton was the third president after Schultz ended his term as foreign
minister.
(ii) Reagan was second president before Baker started his term as foreign
minister.
(iii) Schultz was not the foreign minister in the same tenure when Bush
was president.
(iv) Nixon was president in the same tenure as Albright was foreign
minister.
(v) Neither Albright nor Kissinger was the last among the six foreign
ministers.
(vi) Kerry was third of the foreign minister and Carter was the fifth of the
presidents.

Q1. Who was the foreign minister from the year 2001 to 2005?
1) Baker 2) Kissinger 3) McNamara 4) Albright

Q2. Which of these is definitely a correct combination of year and the

President/Foreign Minister?
1) 1998 – Nixon 2) 2008 – Kissinger 3) 1995 – Albright 4) 1994 – Obama

Q3. Which two of these two share a common tenure?

1) Obama and Schultz 2) Clinton and Kerry 3) Carter and Kissinger 4) Nixon
and McNamara
 PUZZLE -2
Anderson, Christopher, Dennis, George, Harry and Kenneth are six persons who won
Nobel prizes in years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 (not necessarily in that
order) in six different fields viz., Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Economics, Peace
and Medical Science (again not necessarily in that order). These six people are from six
different Universities – MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Cornell, Stanford and Columbia. Two
of the six persons are from USA, two are from Sweden, one is from Germany and one is
from France. Following additional information is known:
(i)Person from Columbia University won the prize two years after the person who won
the prize in Physics.
(ii)Person from Harvard University won the Nobel prize in chemistry in a year before
Christopher won the prize who in turn won the Nobel prize in a year before George
won the prize.
(iii) Kenneth, who is not from USA, won the prize in either Physics or Peace, two years
after one of the persons from USA won the prize.
(iv) No two persons from the same country won the prize in two consecutive years.
(v) Person from Germany won the prize in Mathematics four years before the person
from Cornell University.
(vi) Person from Stanford University won the prize in Economics.
(vii) George won the prize three years before the person from France won the prize.
(viii) Both Dennis and the person from University of Berkeley are from the same
country.

Q1. Which of the six persons was from MIT?

1) George 2) Christopher 3) Either Anderson or Harry 4) Kenneth
Q2. In which year did Dennis win the prize?
1) 2006 2) 2010 3) 2011 4) Cannot be determined
Q3. Which of the below combinations is definitely false?
1) George – University of Berkeley 2) Dennis – Sweden
3) Anderson – Chemistry 4) Christopher – Economics
 PUZZLE -3
There are five sections of 80 students each— Section A, Section B, Section C, Section D and Section E in
National Institute of Management Ahmedabad (NIMA). In a day, classes on five subjects, namely Finance,
HR, Marketing, Strategy and Systems are taught by five professors in five different slots—Slot 1, Slot 2,
Slot 3, Slot 4 and Slot 5. Each subject is taught in each slot and in each section exactly once. Sections
that appear consecutive in alphabetical order are called ‘consecutive sections’. For example sections C
and D, Sections A and B etc are called ‘consecutive sections’. Further it is known that:
1. Except for slot 4, in other slots, Marketing and Systems are offered in consecutive sections.
2. Except for slots 3 and 4, in other slots, Finance and Strategy are offered in consecutive sections.
3. Except for slots 3 and 5, in other slots, HR and Marketing are offered in consecutive sections.
4. Except for section A, in other sections, Marketing and Strategy are offered in consecutive slots.
5. Finance is not the first or the last subject to be taught in Section E.
6. Except for sections C and E, in other sections, Finance and HR are offered in consecutive slots.
7. Finance is offered in the three sections in the following order—Section C, Section B and Section D.

Q1. Which of the following is the order of courses for Section B (starting from Slot 1 to Slot 5 in that
order)?
1) HR, Marketing, Systems, Finance, Strategy 2) Strategy, Marketing, HR, Finance, Systems
3) Systems, Marketing, Finance, Strategy, HR 4) Finance, Marketing, Strategy, Systems, HR
Q2. Which of the following is the order of courses for slot 1 (starting from Section A to Section E in that
order)?
1) Finance, Strategy, HR, Marketing, Systems 2) Systems, Finance, Marketing, HR, Strategy
3) Strategy, HR, Finance, Systems, Marketing 4) Marketing, Strategy, Systems, HR, Finance
Q3. In how many sections, Systems is taught in a slot immediately following the slot in which Finance is
taught?
1) One 2) Two 3) Three 4) Cannot be determined