Reasoning Quiz: Puzzle for Upcoming IBPS PO Mains 2017

Twelve friends are sitting in a restaurant on a table in two parallel rows containing six people each, with equal distance between everyone. Row 1 consists of Vijay, Mihir, Mika, Rajesh, Shalu, Ranjana and all of them are facing south. Row 2 consists of Archana, Bindu, Ashish, Anjali, Ajay and Vidya and all of them are facing north. Each of them likes a different country viz. US, India, UK, France, China, Japan, Germany, Australia, Canada, Russia, Italy, Spain. Each of them likes a different country viz. Pepsi, Pepper, Coca-Cola, Fanta, Thumbsup, 7up, Mirinda, Sprite, Crush, Orangina, Appy and Red-bull. Each of them likes a different Chocolate namely Dairy-Milk, 5star, Kit-kat, Barone, Munch, Perk, Bournville, Snickers, Melto, Krust, Kismi, and Mars; but not necessarily in the same order.

Ajay whose favourite soft drink is Pepper sits second to the extreme end of row 2. There are three people sitting between Ajay and the person who likes Mars. In the first row there are four persons sitting between the persons who like India and the one who likes Italy. Ajay faces the person who sits immediate next to Mika. Mika who likes Bournville and Canada sis second to the right of the person who likes Italy. There is only one person between Vijay, who is not in front of Anjali and Ranjana who likes dairy milk. Ranjana sits on an extreme end of the row and faces Vidya who likes Pepsi. Shalu sits on the immediate right of the person who likes UK. The one who likes Orangina faces the person who likes China who sits immediate left of the person who likes mirinda. Shalu faces the person who likes 5 star. The person who likes Appy and Red Bull are immediate neighbours of the person who likes Krust. Both the persons who like Japan and Russia do not sit in second row and Mihir doesn’t like Japan. Vijay faces the person who likes Munch and Coca cola. Ashish who likes Thumbsup faces the person who likes Red-bull. Bindu is sitting between the persons who like US and Germany. Archana likes US and faces the person who likes Perk. Bindu faces the person who sits between the persons who like Crush and Appy. The one who likes Sprte sits on the extreme end of the row. The one who likes 7up sits between the persons who like Pepsi and Coca cola. The one who likes Munch sits immediate left of the persons who like Melto. The one who likes Krust faces the person who sits second to the right of the person who likes Munch. Mihir faces the person who sits immediate right of Anjali. The one who likes France sits fourth to the left of the person who likes Australia. The one who likes Kismi sits between the persons who like Melto and Kit-kat. The one who likes Snickers face the person who likes Kit-kat.

Q1. Who would like to go to Spain?

(a) Ranjana

(b) Shalu

(c) Bindu

(d) Ashish

(e) Ajay

Q2. Which of the following pairs are correct?

(a) China-coca cola

(b) Mika-UK

(c) Archana-Mars

(d) Ranjana-Orangina

(e) None of these

Q3. Which of the following is a country to which none of the members of first row would like to visit.

(a) France

(b) India

(c) UK

(d) Russia

(e) Italy

Q4. Which of the following pairs is not facing each other?

(a) Archana Shalu

(b) Anjali Vijay

(c) Vidya Ranjana

(d) Ajay Mihir

(e) None of these

Q5. Who likes Fanta among the following?

(a) Mihir

(b) Vijay

(c) Archana

(d) Bindu

(e) Vidya

Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting in a row, not necessarily in the same order. They like different colours i.e. Green, Yellow, Red, White and Black. Some of them are facing in the north direction and some of them are facing south. Not more than two people like the same colour but at least one person likes the given colour. These are the further information-

The person to the immediate right of one of the persons, who likes Red, likes Black and also faces south. A, who doesn’t like Red, is second to the right of the one who likes White. A and B have two persons in between and A and B don’t sit on any of the ends. H sits third to the E and they don’t sit with F. F is third to the left of D. The persons sitting at the ends face in opposite directions. Neither D nor the persons sitting with D likes Black. One of the persons, who likes Black is an immediate neighbour of the people who like Green. D faces north direction and doesn’t sit at any extreme end of the row. The only one who likes Yellow sits to the immediate right of the only one who likes White and one of them sits at one of the ends and they both face in opposite directions. C, who faces in the same direction as that of F, sits second to the right of E. People who like same colour face in the opposite directions to each other and they don’t sit together except people who like Red.

Q.6 who among the following like Green colour?

(a) F, G

(b) G, B

(c) B, D

(d) F, B

(e) None of these.                          

Q.7 who sits second to the left of B?

(a) F

(b) E

(c) G

(d) Cannot be determined

(e) None of these.                          

Q.8 who among the following sit at the extreme ends of the row?

(a) G, H

(b) B, C

(c) H, F

(d) F, E

(e) None of these.                          

Q.9 who among the following face in the south direction?

(a) HAD

(b) GBD

(c) BEA

(d) HBA

(e) None of these.          

Q.10 who among the following like Red colour?

(a) B and D

(b) E and A

(c) A and E

(d) G and C

(e) None of these.                           

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