A man wanted to get into his work building, but he had forgotten his code. However, he did remember five clues. These are what those clues were:
“The fifth number plus the third number equals fourteen.
The fourth number is one more than the second number.
The first number is one less than twice the second number.
The second number plus the third number equals ten.
The sum of all five numbers is 30. What were the five numbers and in what order?”
can you guess it?
You are given 3 jugs of water
X, an empty jug with a capacity of 19L
Y, a 13L jug filled with water
Z, a 7L jug filled with water.
Through pouring and without using any additional tools/containers you have to give me 2 jugs with 10L each. Can you help me?
To practice, there is a nice xls sheet with animation to give you company.
Solution:
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There are 2 boys, 2 girls, a mom, a dad, a convict and a Police officer on this side of the river.
Instructions:
To play the game go to the link and press the big blue button.
Clue:
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1. When mutinies against British rule broke out in northern India in 1857, the Bengal Army, composed of Indian soldiers under British command, had 139,000 soldiers. How many sided with Britain, and how many with the mutineers?
78,000 for Britain; 61,000 for the mutineers
7,800 for Britain; 131,200 for the mutineers
110,000 for Britain; 29,000 for the mutineers
23 for Britain; 138,977 for the mutineers
2. In 1901 India’s population was 300m. How many Britons lived in India and ruled over them?
1.2m
239,000
154,000
28,900
3. Mohandas Gandhi is more commonly known by the honorific “Mahatma”, which means what?
“National father”
“Spiritual leader”
“Great soul”
“Child of God”
4. What was Gandhi holding on March 12th 1930 when he announced to a crowd, “With this _____ I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire”?
A policeman’s collar
A document pronouncing India’s independence
A handful of salt
A length of spun cotton
5. What did Gandhi say “accentuate[s] the evil nature of man” and lets “bad men fulfil their designs with greater rapidity”?
Trains
Wristwatches
Assembly lines
Shoes
6. Which of these most accurately describes Mahatma Gandhi’s murderer?
He was a Muslim who believed he was waging a “holy war” against Hindu occupation
He was a spurned political rival
He was a Hindu enraged by the creation of Pakistan
He was a Sikh enraged that the partition of India created separate Hindu and Muslim countries, but denied self-rule to the Sikhs
7. About how many people were uprooted during the sectarian violence that broke out during the partition of British India into independent India and Pakistan in 1947?
500,000
2m
5m
12m
8. How did Kashmir, with its predominantly Muslim population, come to have a Hindu ruler at the time of partition?
The British hastily installed a puppet maharajah as they were leaving
The same family ruled Kashmir for a millennium; they resisted the spread of Islam and remained Hindu
The British had awarded the state to a Hindu soldier 50 years earlier
The British had sold the state to a Hindu maharajah 100 years earlier
9. Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, wrote that religion:
“Is, as a Russian said, the opiate of the masses”
“Waters the rich and loamy soil of our Mother India”
“Has not only broken our backs but stifled and almost killed all originality of thought or mind”
“Thrives in our beloved India as nowhere else on Earth, and without it we would be immeasurably poorer”
10. In a letter to his wife from a colonial jail, Nehru wrote that he saw himself as:
“A traveller, limping along in the dark night”
“A warrior of the spirit, bound to call our nation to greatness”
“An attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two”
“One fated to make a lasting mark”
11. What happened on April 7th 2005 for the first time since the partition of India and Pakistan?
Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged fire across the Siachen glacier in Kashmir
A passenger bus drove between the capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir and the capital of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir
A gate at the Kashmiri border was left open all night
England won a test match against India
12. Rahul Gandhi, a young MP, is sometimes rumoured to be a possible candidate for prime minister. Which of his blood relations did not hold that office?
His great-grandfather
His grandfather
His father
His grandmother
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Its hard to believe that an american periodical (with an predominantly american audience will publish this)
I got 8 correct what about u?
I saw this puzzle on economist and thought to ask it.
Why hasn’t the lemons problem killed adultery? To be more specific, why would any women want to steal a man who lies to, cheats on, and then dumps his wife? This is particularly clear in Woody Allen’s Match Point – the mistress angrily insists that her boyfriend leave his wife, even though he’s shown her in a hundred ways that he’s a lying, cheating parasite.
In the actual market for used cars, of course, the markets has largely solved the lemons problems using reputation, inspection, and warrantees. You don’t want to sell low-quality products if it will ruin your firm’s reputation, if they have to pass inspection first, or if a dissatisfied customer can return the product and get his money back. But it’s hard to see that mistresses can rely on any of these mechanisms. Few adulterers build up a reputation for standing by their mistresses. Most adulterers wouldn’t pass inspection. And I’ve never heard of an adulterer giving a credible money-back guarantee (”If I don’t leave my wife within a year, you get a full year of your life back!”). So what’s the point of stealing another woman’s man, if you can only steal the bad ones?
Guess Who Am I
Some folks have it, some don’t. Those who have it would be devastated if it were ever cut off. They think that those who don’t have it are somehow inferior. They think it gives them power. They are wrong.
Those who don’t have it may agree that it’s an nifty toy, but think it’s not worth the fuss that those who do have it make about it. Still, many of those who don’t have it would like to try it.
It can be up or down. It’s more fun when it’s up, but it makes it hard to get any real work done.
In the long-distant past, its only purpose was to transmit information considered vital to the survival of the species. Some people still think that’s the only thing it should be used for, but most folks today use it for fun most of the time.
Once you’ve started playing with it, it’s hard to stop. Some people would just play with it all day if they didn’t have work to do.
It provides a way to interact with other people. Some people take this interaction very seriously, others treat it as a lark. Sometimes it’s hard to tell what kind of person you’re dealing with until it’s too late.
If you don’t apply the appropriate protective measures, it can spread viruses.
It has no brain of its own. Instead, it uses yours. If you use it too much, you’ll find it becomes more and more difficult to think coherently.
We attach an importance to it that is far greater than its actual size and influence warrant.
If you’re not careful what you do with it, it can get you in big trouble.
It has its own agenda. Somehow, no matter how good your intentions, it will warp you behavior. Later you may ask yourself “why on earth did I do that?”
It has no conscience and no memory. Left to its own devices, it will do the same damn dumb things it did before.
What am I talking about?
of course it is Internet…. but what were u thinking?
This useful tool, commonly found in the range of 6 to 8 inches long. The functioning of which is enjoyed by members of both sexes. Is usually found hung, dangling loosely, ready for instant action. It boasts of a clump of little hairy things at one end and a small hole at the other. In use, it is inserted, almost always willingly, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, into a warm, fleshy, moist opening where it is thrust in and drawn out again and again many times in succession, often quickly and accompanied by squirming bodily movements. Anyone found listening in will most surely recognise the rhythmic, pulsing sound, resulting from the well lubricated movements. When finally withdrawn, it leaves behind a juicy, frothy, sticky white substance, some of which will need cleaning from the outer surfaces of the opening and some from its long glistening shaft. After everything is ceased emanating, it is returned to its freely hanging state of rest, ready for yet another bit of action, hopefully reaching its bristling climax twice or three times a day, but often much less. What am I?
As you may have already guessed, the answer to the riddle is none other than your very own……
TOOTHBRUSH!
I read this in a a childhood folk tale:
A prince announces that he will marry a lady who can meet the following 4 conditions:
1) travel in a vehicle, yet walk down to his court.
2) Have an escort, yet be alone.
3) wear a dress, yet be nude
4) and present him a gift, yet be empty handed.
Can you guess what the winner of the contest did?
A friend of mine gave me a link of some good puzzles. Most of them were common sense based challenging your power of estimation, visualization and creativity. But I found this interesting one.
Puzzle: Count from 1-10 in base negative 2
solution
Puzzle2: You have three baskets filled with fruit. One has apples, one has oranges, one has a mixture of both. You cannot see inside the baskets. Each basket is clearly labeled, and each is labeled incorrectly. How can you determine what’s in each basket by choosing only one fruit from one basket?
Ankur Aggarwal
sree
Sandip Chaudhuri
vbr
skabeesh