'Out of the box' questions asked in IAS interviews

[Himanshi Agarwal]

A male and a female person are sitting on the bench.
"I'm a male," says the person with brown hair.
"I'm a female," says the person with black hair.
If at least one of them is lying, who is male and who is female?

 

[poornima lagadapati]

Both of them may be lying or telling truth. Because if one of them is lying we will have either both male or both female where already we have mentioned that one is male and the other is female

 

[poornima lagadapati]

Lets try something general
How many soccer players should each team have on the field at the start of each match?

11 players are required

 

[poornima lagadapati]

While we are at it,lets try something logical too


Which alphabet will be 14th to the left of 8th alphabet from the right in the following series of letters?
A O B P C Q D R E S F T G U H V I W J X K Y L Z M N.

C is crt answer

 

[poornima lagadapati]

This one's easy


Lali and Anju are a married couple. Tunu and Munu are brothers. Tunu is the brother of Lali. How is Munu related to Anju?

Brother-in-law for anju

 

[poornima lagadapati]

Pointing towards a lady, Neeraj said. “ She is the daughter of the only child of my grandmother.”
How is the lady related to Neeraj ?

Sister... Grandmother's daughters daughter

 

[poornima lagadapati]

Let's confuse you a bit


If "basketball" is "football”,"football" is "korfball”, "korfball" is "tennis”, "tennis" is "kabaddi" and "kabaddi" is "basketball", then to which game Wimbeldon is associated?

Kabbadi as he is tennis player

 

[poornima lagadapati]

Imagine that you need to put a ball into an empty container and then insert a cork into the neck. Is there a way to remove the ball without taking out the cork or breaking the container?

By pushing the cork into the bottle and making it upside down

 

[poornima lagadapati]

S

Asha is older than Swati
Mohtarma is older than Asha but younger than Kashish.
Kashish is older than Swati.
Swati is younger than Mohtarma.
Gauri is the oldest.
Who is youngest?
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Swathi is youngest

 

[poornima lagadapati]

B> D

A+B>C+D and B+C> A+D then it is definite that
1. D>B
2. C>D
3. A>D
4. B>D

Think and answer

Is the answer

 

[poornima lagadapati]

B> D

Is the answer

B>D

 

[poornima lagadapati]

Fire

This too:

If I drink, I die. If I eat, I’m fine. What am I?

F

 

[Himanshi Agarwal]

What is the one thing that all wise men, regardless of their religion or politics, agree is between heaven and earth? What is it?

 

[Himanshi Agarwal]

What letter comes next: O T T F F S S ?

 

[Himanshi Agarwal]

What common English verb becomes its own past tence by rearranging its letters?

 

[Himanshi Agarwal]

If you have a cube, each edge two inches long, how many total square inches are there among all eight sides?

 

[Himanshi Agarwal]

Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

 

[Himanshi Agarwal]

It occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in an hour.

 

[Himanshi Agarwal]

Is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sister?

 

[Himanshi Agarwal]

If a rooster lays an egg on the exact peak of a barn, which side does it fall?