JANUARY 2003



The quiz is in two parts. The first part is to be answered without thinking much and without using paper and pen.

PART-I

1. You are participating in a race. And you overtake the second person.
What position are you in?



To answer the second question, don't take as much time as you took for the first question.

2.) If you overtake the last person, then you are...?



I am sorry you mucked up two questions.

3.) This must be done in your head only. Do NOT use paper and pencil or a calculator. Try it.
Take 1000 and add 40 to it.
Now add another 1000.
Now add 30.
Add another 1000.
Now add 20.
Now add another 1000.
Now add 10.
What is the total?


Maybe you will get the last question right?

4.) Mary's father has five daughters:
1. Nana,
2. Nene,
3. Nini,
4. Nono.
What is the name of the fifth daughter?



Now try the normal Quiz.

PART-II

What is the next number in this series?

149, 162, 536, 496, 481, ... 		Complete these words by inserting the same three letters in each one.

B---LE R---ENT L---UE

What do the following words have in common?

IRISH MASTER ROUSE CHAMPION VIOLENT

Rearrange these letters to form the name of a famous writer:

I AM A WEAKISH SPELLER

THINK !

When Prasad was a student, he was an active participant of Mukul Sharma's 'Mindsport' in Illustrated Weekly at that time (now in Sunday Times). I am repeating one of the questions which Prasad had asked in that column. In fact I was reminded of this question when Hu was nominated for President of China. The question is

Can you think of questions to which the answer (phonetically or otherwise) is the question itself? (e.g.,Who has been nominated as China's president? and the answer is same 'Hu has been nominated as China's president.)



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