Puzzles

1. A two digit number, read from left to right is 4.5 times as large as the same number read from right to left.
what is the number?
2. Only one of these 5 statements is correct--which one is corect?1.Only one of these statement is correct
2. Only two of these statements are false
3.Three of these satatements are false
4. Four of these statements are false
5. All five of these statements statements are false

3. Which number when added to 5/4 gives the same result as when multiplied by 5/44. A Girl has as many sisters as she has brothers.But each brother has twice as many sisters as brothers. How many sisters and Brothers in the family?
5. A train leaves Chennai at 8.00AM and travels to Hyderabad at 60kmph . At 9am Another train leaves Hyderabad and travels towards Chennai at 90kmph. Which train is nearer to Hyderabad when they pass?

6. If the only sister of your mother's only brother has an only child, what would be your relashionship with that child?

7.A man buys a carton of 200 cigarettes, and every day he smokes seven cigarettes less than the day before Evantually the arrives when his quota is down to one cigarette-which happens to be all that there left in the original carton.
How many a day was he smoking when he bought the carton?

8. There are eight oranges in a box. How can you devide them between eight people so that each person gets one orange, and one orange left in the box.The oranges must not be peeled or cut.

9. Jack's famous Beanstalk doubled its hieght every day. After twenty one days it was as high as the town hall. after how many days was it half the hieght of the town hall?

10. Some ducks are marching across a path. There's a duck in front of two ducks , there is a duck in the middle

answers
1. 81
2. Statement (4), i.s only four of these statements are false
3. X+5/4= X*5/4 i.e 4X+5= 5X...solving u get X=5..Hence the Nuber is 5
4. Three boys and four girls
5. Both are at the same distance away when they pass
6. It would be you
7. He was smoking fifty a day at the outset, but he also had four cigarettes left over from his last packet.
8. Each person gets one orange but one man also gets the box
9.Twenty days
10. Three ducks

Current Gk

1. Recently which Ghazal Singer and Padmabhushan Awardee, Passed Away in Mumbai ?
-Jagjit Singh
Veteran ghazal singer Jagjit Singh passed away on 10 October 2011 in Mumbai. He was 70. He was admitted in
Lilavati Hospital for more than two weeks. The singer had undergone an emergency surgery for brain
hemorrhage at the Hospital on 23 September 2011.

2. Name the Ex-Chief Minister of Karnataka who was arrested recently.
B.S.Yeddyurappa

3. Name the 3D animation film Shemaroo Entertainment which is set to release online.
Super K

4. Who is set to head special purpose vehicle called the GST Network?
Nandan Nilekani

5.Which business has NIIT sold to Skillsoft for $110 million?
Element K

6. Who has been appointed as commissioner for the AFC Champions League final?
FIFA badge holder Gautam Kar

7. Name the men's and women's singles National champions who won the Fenesta National
Championship.
Yuki Bhambri and Rutuja Bhonsle

8. Name the Indian golfer who finished 2nd in the Hero Indian Open golf tournament.
Chiragh Kumar

9. Name the Indian women's discus thrower who qualified for London Olympics after clinching gold
medal at an event of the Fling Throw Meet in Portland, USA.
Krishna Poonia

10. Upon whose name a highway leading south out of the capital in Grenada is set to be renamed?
Kirani James Boulevard
11. Which director is set to make film on mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan?
Roger Spottiswoode

12. Name the team which won the Durand Cup?
Churchill Brothers

13. Which former Ranji Player died after falling from train at Vaikom in Kottayam?
K.R.Krishna Varma

14. Name the 69-year-old who collapsed and died minutes after fulfilling his life-long ambition of
climbing Africa's highest mountain peak, Mount Kilimanjaro.
Alistair Cook

15. Which Bollywood movie have been watched by over 1.3 lakh Chinese since its Mandarin version
release?
Aamir Khan's 3 Idiots 
16. Which Asian Advertising congress is coming back to India after 8 years?
Ad Asia (October 31st to November 3rd 2011)

17. Name the education technology solution launched by Texas Instruments in association with CORE
Education and Technologies to facilitate a better learning experience for students in classrooms across
India.
STEMpower

18. Who has been honoured with Dr.B.Saroja Devi award recently?
Dr.Vyjayanthimala

19. Who is set to receive Mahatma Gandhi peace prize in South Africa?
Dalai Lama

20. Name the rocket and navigation satellite launched by Russia after August's space ship crash.
Soyuz-2 rocket launched a GLONASS navigation satellite 
21. Who has been voted as 2nd most powerful business-woman in US?
Indra Nooyi

22. Which company has struck natural gas reserves in its first well drilled in the offshore Mannar basin
in Sri Lanka?
Cairn India

23. Who has been selected to create the theme music for the London Olympics 2012?
Scottish rocker Mark Ronson

24. Which Indian shuttler finished runner-up in Czech International Open?
Arundhati Pantawane

25. Which IAS officer has joined as Prime Minister's principal secretary?
Pulok Chatterjee 
26. Name the trio who received Nobel Medicine Prize for immune system research.
Bruce Beutler of USA, Jules Hoffmann Luxembourg and Ralph Steinman Canada

27. Which FM radio channel has taken initiative to make Goddess Durga idol out of bio-degradable and
recyclable waste material in Kolkata?
OYE 104.8 FM

28. Who is called as the Gandhian of Brazil?
Lia Diskin

29. Who is the inventor of the implantable cardiac pacemaker which keeps the heartbeat in a regular
rhythm?
Wilson Greatbatch

30. What is the name of the China's first space Laboratory?
Tiangong-1 
31. Name the famous television personality of CBS News channel's program called "60 minutes" retired
recently?
Andy Rooney

32. Which UAE telecom giant recently launched 4G mobile broadband network in UAE?
Etisalat

33. Who retired as the CEO of Hyundai Motor co. recently?
Yang Seung-suk

34. Name the planetary scientist who worked for NASA recently died?
Micheal J.Drake

35. Name the three Indian boxers who have qualified for London Olympics 2012?
Jai Bhagwan, L.Devendro Singh and Manoj Kumar 
36. Name the Afghan President who was in India for a two-day visit.
Hamid Karzai

37. Who has been appointed as Chairman of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation?
Sudhir Vasudeva

38. Name the MD and VP, Nokia India, who has been assigned global role to head India, Middle East and
Africa region.
D.Shivakumar

39. Name the company which has launched apps for iPad and Android phones recently.
Adobe

40. Who has shot a film in 47 days titled 'Facebook'?
RP.Patnaik
41. Who won the 2011 Nobel prize in chemistry?
Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman for his discovery of quasicrystals

42. Name the world's cheapest laptop launched in India.
Aakash

43. Name the Ashes hero who died at the age of 52.
Former England fast bowler, Graham Dilley

44. Who won the Irani Cup 2011?
Rest of India Team

45. Name the application launched by Monster India for Facebook users.
BeKnown