Classification Puzzle

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A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight employees of an organization working in three departments, viz. Personnel, Administration and Marketing with not more than three of them in any one department. Each of them has a different choice of sports: football, cricket, volleyball, badminton, lawn tennis, basketball, hockey and table tennis, but not necessarily in the same order.
D works in Administration and does not like both football and cricket. F works in Personnel with only A, who likes table tennis. E and H do not work in the same department as D. C likes hockey and does not work in marketing. G does not work in administration and does not like either cricket or badminton. One of those who work in Administration likes football. The one who likes volleyball works in personnel. None of those who work in Administration like badminton or lawn tennis. H does not like cricket.

Which of the following combination of employee, department and favourite sport is correct?

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Seven friends namely Anand, Deepak, Varun, Ujjawal, Pritan, Kadir and Jasmeet live in three different buildings namely Ashiana, Top-Hill and Ridge. Each person is flying a kite of his choice with a different colour like red, green, blue, white, back, yellow, and pink, not necessarily in that order.
1. Kadir is flying a pink kete and lives in the some building where jasmeet stay i.e,'Ashiana'.
2. Varun is flying a back kite and does not live in Ridge building.
3. Ujjawal does not live in the same building where Anand or Pritam are living and is flying a yellow coloured kite.
4. Deepak lives in Ridge building with one more person and is flying a green kite.
5. None living in Top-Hill building flies a white kite.
6. Only two persons are staying in Ridge building while three of them are staying in Top-Hill building.
7. Pritam does not fly a blue kite and stays in Top-Hill.

Who are living in Ridge building?

Farmer Batuk Singh has a larger square field divided into nine smaller squares, all equal, arranged in three rows of three fields each. One side of the field runs exactly east-west. The middle square must be planted with rice because it is wet. The wheat and barley should be continuous so that they can be harvested all at once by the mechanical harvester. Two of the fields should be planted with soyabeans. The north-westernmost field should be planted with peanuts and the southern third of the field is suitable only for vegetables.

If Batuk Singh decides to plant the wheat next to the peanuts, in which square will the barley be?

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Farmer Batuk Singh has a larger square field divided into nine smaller squares, all equal, arranged in three rows of three fields each. One side of the field runs exactly east-west. The middle square must be planted with rice because it is wet. The barley and wheat should be continuous so that they can be harvested all at once by the mechanical harvester. Two of the fields should be planted with soya beans. The southern third of the field is suitable only for vegetables and the north-western most field should be planted with peanuts.
Refer to the following squares :
($1$) The square immediately north of the rice.
($2$) The square immediately east of the rice.
($3$) The square immediately west of the rice.
($4$) The square immediately north-east of the rice.

Which of the following square cannot be planted with soya beans ?

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On a shelf six volumes are placed by side labelled A, B, C, D, E and F. Three volumes B, C and E have green covers while the other volumes have yellow covers. A, C and B are law reports while the rest are gazetteers. A, D and B are new volumes while the rest are old ones.

Which of the following volumes is green covered, old and law report ?

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Seven friends namely Anand, Deepak, Varun, Ujjawal, Pritan, Kadir and Jasmeet live in three different buildings namely Ashiana, Top-Hill and Ridge. Each person is flying a kite of his choice with a different colour like red, green, blue, white, black, yellow, and pink, not necessarily in that order.
Kadir is flying a pink kite and lives in the same building where jasmeet stay i.e,'Ashiana'. Varun is flying a back kite and does not live in Ridge building. Ujjawal does not live in the same building where Anand or Pritam are living and is flying a yellow coloured kite. Deepak lives in Ridge building with one more person and is flying a green kite. None living in Top-Hill building flies a white kite. Only two persons are staying in Ridge building while three of them are staying in Top-Hill building. Pritam does not fly a blue kite and stays in Top-Hill.

Who are staying in Top-Hill building?

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Five persons Amrinder, Bishamber, Chidambaram, Digamber, and Inder of a family eat grapes, apples, cherries, mangoes, and pineapples not in the order as member eats any fruit on Sunday and Monday. The same fruit on the same day is cannot eat by the two members. Each member eats only one fruit on one day and during the same week does not repeat it.
Inder does not eat cherries or grapes on Wednesday. Amrinder eats cherries on Tuesday. Digamber eats apples on Tuesday. Inder does not take pineapples on Tuesday but takes apples on Thursday. Bishamber eats pineapples on Friday. Chidambaram eats grapes on Saturday, Cherries on Wednesday and mangoes on Thursday. Digamber eats pineapple on Wednesday.

At $45$ minute past $5$, what is the angle between the hour hand and minute hand?

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Six exams Maths, Science, History, Economics, English, and Hindi are to be scheduled starting on 2nd March and ending on 8th March with Sunday being an off day, but not necessarily in the same order. Each of the exams has a different time duration: 40 minutes, 50 minutes, 60 minutes, 75 minutes, 90 minutes, and 100 minutes, again not necessarily in the same order. The 8th March is not Sunday and an exam of 40 minutes is scheduled for that day. The Maths exam is for less than 60 minutes and is scheduled immediately before the English exam. There are two exams scheduled between the Hindi exam which is for 100 minutes, and the History exam which is for 60 minutes. The English exam is before Sunday and there are two days between Sunday and the Maths exam. The economics exam which is for 75 minutes, is not scheduled for 2nd March. The exam scheduled on Saturday is for 100 minutes.

How many exams are scheduled before Sunday?

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Seven specialist doctors P, Q, R, S, T, U and V visit a polyclinic four days a week: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. On each of these days, at least one doctor but not more than two visit the polyclinic. They are all specialists in their respective fields: ENT, Orthopaedics, Pediatrics, Neurologist, Ophthalmologist, Radiologist, and Oncologist. S visits on Friday with the Radiologist. The Pediatrician does not visit on Saturday nor with T and V. Oncologist U visits alone on Tuesday. Q visits on Wednesday, and he is not a Pediatrician. R visits on Wednesday. V is not a Radiologist. Pediatrician visits with ENT specialist. Neurologist visits on Friday. P is neither Orthopaedics nor Radiologist.

On which day of the week does T visit?

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Three ladies and four men are a group of friends i.e. R, M, T, S, L, W, and Z. Each one has a different profession i.e. Lawyer, Travel Agent, Air hostess, Doctor, Professor, Consultant, and Jeweller and each one owns a different car i.e. Alto, Corolla, Santro, Lancer, Ikon, Scorpio and Esteem, not necessarily in that order. None of the ladies is a Consultant or a Lawyer. T is an Air hostess and she owns an Ikon car. R owns a Scorpio. M is not a Doctor. L is a Jeweller and he owns Corolla. W is a Lawyer and does not own Alto. Z is a Consultant and owns Santro. The Doctor owns Esteem car whereas the Professor owns Scorpio. The Travel Agent owns an Alto. None of the ladies own a Scorpio.

What is the profession of R?

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Six exams Maths, Science, History, Economics, English, and Hindi are to be scheduled starting on 2nd March and ending on 8th March with Sunday being an off day, but not necessarily in the same order. Each of the exams has a different time duration: 40 minutes, 50 minutes, 60 minutes, 75 minutes, 90 minutes, and 100 minutes, again not necessarily in the same order. The 8th March is not Sunday and an exam of 40 minutes is scheduled for that day. The Maths exam is for less than 60 minutes and is scheduled immediately before the English exam. There are two exams scheduled between the Hindi exam which is for 100 minutes, and the History exam which is for 60 minutes. The English exam is before Sunday and there are two days between Sunday and the Maths exam. The economics exam which is for 75 minutes, is not scheduled for 2nd March. The exam scheduled on Saturday is for 100 minutes.

Which of the following exam, day, and time duration combinations is correct? 

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Samir, Nita, Richa, Shweta, Gifty, Paul, and Mohit, seven company representatives, travelled to three different countries: South Africa, Australia, and France. Each of them travelled on different days of the week (no two people travelled on the same day), starting on Monday and ending on Sunday. A minimum of two people travelled to each country and South Africa is the only country to which three people travelled.
Samir travelled to South Africa on Monday. Paul visited Australia, but not on Tuesday or Saturday. Mohit travelled on Sunday, but not to France. The one who travelled to Australia travelled on Tuesday, and the one who travelled to France travelled on Saturday. Gifty travelled on Wednesday. Richa travelled to South Africa, but not on Thursday. Nita did not travel to France.

Who was the last one to travel?

During the first hour a clock goes fast by one minute, by two minutes at the end of the second hour, by $4$ Minutes at the end $3^{rd}$ Hour, by eight minutes by the end $4^{th}$ Hour, and so on. Which hour, will it be fast by just over sixty minutes at the end ?

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A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight employees of an organization working in three departments viz. Personnel, Administration and Marketing with not more than three of them in any department. Each of them has a different choice of sports from football, cricket, volleyball, badminton, lawn tennis, basketball, hockey and table tennis not necessarily in the same order.
D works in Administration and does not like either football or cricket. F works in Personnel with only A who likes table tennis. E and H do not work in the same department as D. C likes hockey and does not work in marketing. G does not work in administration and does not like either cricket or badminton. One of those who work in the administration likes football. The one who likes volleyball works in personnel. None of those who work in the administration likes either badminton or lawn tennis. H does not like cricket.

What is E's favorite sport?

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Three ladies and four men are a group of friends i.e. R, M, T, S, L, W, and Z. Each one has a different profession i.e. Lawyer, Travel Agent, Air hostess, Doctor, Professor, Consultant, and Jeweller and each one owns a different car i.e. Alto, Corolla, Santro, Lancer, Ikon, Scorpio and Esteem, not necessarily in that order. None of the ladies is a Consultant or a Lawyer. T is an Air hostess and she owns an Ikon car. R owns a Scorpio. M is not a Doctor. L is a Jeweller and he owns Corolla. W is a Lawyer and does not own Alto. Z is a Consultant and owns Santro. The Doctor owns Esteem car whereas the Professor owns Scorpio. The Travel Agent owns an Alto. None of the ladies own a Scorpio.

Which car does S own?

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Eight friends A, B, C, D, P, Q, R, and S were playing on a staircase having eight stairs numbered $1$ to $8$ from top to bottom. Their position will be decided by drawing a card from the deck of eight cards having four red coloured cards and four black coloured cards. The person drawing the red card will stand at an odd-numbered stair and the person drawing the black card will stand at the even-numbered stair. All of them will draw one card and the stairs will be filled in the increasing order of numbers following the given rule.

Rule: If the first and the second persons draw red coloured cards, so the first person will occupy the first stair and the second person will occupy the third stair.

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B drew a red card and is standing three places above S. The number of persons standing above Q and below A is the same. C is standing on the fifth stair. Three persons are standing between P and Q. D drew a black card and stood four places below S. C is standing exactly between R and A both of them drew red cards. Q is standing above P and A is standing below R.

S is standing on which of the following stairs?

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Six children P, Q, R, S, T, and U were playing on the staircase of a playground. The staircase had a total of sixteen steps which were numbered according to their face value from bottom to top as the bottommost stair will be $1$ and so on. Only one student was standing on one stair. The position of the students was decided by playing the game of rolling a dice. Each child rolled the dice only once in the alphabetical order i.e., P rolled first and so on. They made the movements up the stairs as per the following order.

S is standing on the stair which is the same as the number he rolled. There is a gap of five stairs between S and P, and they got consecutive numbers when they rolled. T's step number was five times the step number of U. U rolled thrice as that of T. P was below R and there is a gap of two stairs between them. P's stair number was thrice as that of the number rolled by Q. Q's stair number was a prime number which was three more than the number he rolled. The first stair was vacant.

What is the number of stairs of P, and what is the number he rolled?

Direction: Study the following information and answer the question given below it. There is a group of five persons K, G, H, Rand J.
$\left(i\right)$ K, G, and H are intelligent.
$\left(ii\right)$ K, R, and J are hard-working.
$\left(iii\right)$ R, H, and J are honest.
$\left(iv\right)$ K, G, and J are ambitious.
Which of the following person is neither hardworking nor ambitious?

In a school, $120$ boys have registered for a singles carom tournament. Each match eliminates one player. How many matches are to be organised to determine the champion?