IAS Interview Question

If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it?




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2) If the two candies are of the same flavour, you add a blueberry one otherwise, you add the strawberry one.

You repeat these two steps till there is just one candy remaining in the jar. Which flavoured candy will be left?

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You can not eat me and never want to part with me
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You keep me but i am not forever just yours
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In a kingdom, King George did not allow any citizen to visit the world outside. Also, only a person with proper paperwork was allowed to enter or he was sent back. A wooden bridge was what connected the kingdom to the world. The king had appointed a sharpshooter who would check the every five minutes on the bridge to check. After checking, he would go back to his hut and return exactly after five minutes again. The bridge took 9 minutes to cross.

A merchant was able to escape the kingdom without harming the shooter. How?

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Can you name any English verb that becomes its past tense by simply rearranging the alphabets ?

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Count the number of triangles in the below picture?

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what one word does the below rebus identifies?

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If your uncle’s sister is not your aunt, what relation is she to you?

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Move three sticks of the spiral below to form a square.

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