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Recently, a company participated in IIM's Placement Sessions where they asked some interesting questions to students during recruitment. Here are some of them:
1. There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?
2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?
3. A boat has a ladder with six rungs, each rung one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water. The tide rises 12 inches every 15 minutes, peaking at high tide in one hour. When the tide is at its highest, how many rungs are underwater?
4. There is a house with four walls, each facing south with a window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What color is the bear?
5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?
6. There is a room with blowing shutters, broken glass, and water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead on the floor. Who is Sloppy? How did Sloppy die?
7. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide dug with a square-edged shovel?
8. If a bowling ball is dropped in a bucket of water at 45 degrees F in Hawaii and another in Canada at 30 degrees F simultaneously, which ball would hit the bottom first?
9. What is the significance of "The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th"?
10. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 in another, how many haystacks would he have if combined in the center field?
11. What goes up and down but does not move?
Answers:
1. The word "incorrectly."
2. 1:45. The man gave away a total of 25 cents, a quarter to each son.
3. None, the boat rises with the tide.
4. White, as it is at the North pole.
5. Three, following mathematical order of operations.
6. Sloppy is a goldfish. The wind knocked over the goldfish-bowl, killing him.
7. None, a hole is the absence of dirt.
8. In both cases, the ball in 45 degrees F water hits last.
9. The time and date are 12:34, 5/6/78.
10. One large haystack.
11. The temperature.
Bhawana
From India, Delhi
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4Recently, a company participated in IIM's Placement Sessions where they asked some interesting questions to students during recruitment. Here are some of them:
1. There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?
2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?
3. A boat has a ladder with six rungs, each rung one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water. The tide rises 12 inches every 15 minutes, peaking at high tide in one hour. When the tide is at its highest, how many rungs are underwater?
4. There is a house with four walls, each facing south with a window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What color is the bear?
5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?
6. There is a room with blowing shutters, broken glass, and water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead on the floor. Who is Sloppy? How did Sloppy die?
7. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide dug with a square-edged shovel?
8. If a bowling ball is dropped in a bucket of water at 45 degrees F in Hawaii and another in Canada at 30 degrees F simultaneously, which ball would hit the bottom first?
9. What is the significance of "The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th"?
10. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 in another, how many haystacks would he have if combined in the center field?
11. What goes up and down but does not move?
Answers:
1. The word "incorrectly."
2. 1:45. The man gave away a total of 25 cents, a quarter to each son.
3. None, the boat rises with the tide.
4. White, as it is at the North pole.
5. Three, following mathematical order of operations.
6. Sloppy is a goldfish. The wind knocked over the goldfish-bowl, killing him.
7. None, a hole is the absence of dirt.
8. In both cases, the ball in 45 degrees F water hits last.
9. The time and date are 12:34, 5/6/78.
10. One large haystack.
11. The temperature.
Bhawana
From India, Delhi
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