REASONING ABILITY TOP 50 PUZZLE QUESTIONS FOR SBI CLERK PRELIMINARY-2018 Directions (1 to 5): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions: Seven friends P, Q, R, S, T, U and V visit a restaurant on four days - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday - in a week. At least one person but not more than two person visits the restaurants on each of these days. Each of them is working in different professions - Lawyer, Doctor, Engineer, Hotelier, Professor, Pilot and Businessman. S visits the restaurant on Wednesday with pilot. The Engineer does not visit on Thursday and neither does he visit the restaurant along with T and V. The businessman U visits alone on Monday. Q visits on Tuesday and he is not engineer. R visits on Tuesday. V is not Pilot. The Engineer visits with lawyer. The Hotelier visits on Wednesday. P is neither professor nor pilot. 1. Who among the following is Doctor? (A) V (B) U (C) R (D) P (E) T 2. Who among the following visit restaurant on Tuesday? (A) S, T (B) P, V (C) R, Q (D) U, R 3. Which of the following is true regarding U? (A) U is a businessman (B) U visit restaurant after R (C) U is a Pilot (D) U visits on Thursday (E) Both A and D 4. The person s visits on Thursday are (A) Businessman & doctor (B) Doctor & Professor (C) Engineer & Lawyer (D) Hotelier & Pilot (E) None of the above 5. Who among the following is Lawyer? (A) U (B) P (C) R (D) S (E) Q Directions (6 to 10): Study the following information and answer the given questions: Six friends Matt, Gerald, Tom, Robert, Barry and Charlie are working in a different company each, viz Titan, Honda, Airtel, Nestle, Bata and Nike, but not necessarily in the same order. All of them belong to three different states, viz Kerala, Goa and Assam, but not more than two belong to a single state. Robert belongs to Kerala and does not work in Nestle. Gerard works in Titan and belongs to Goa with only Charlie, who works in Honda. Tom belongs to Assam and does not work in Airtel. Barry works in Bata and does not belong to Kerala. One of the persons who belong to Kerala works in Nestle. 6. Who among the following belong to Goa? (A) Matt (B) Tom
(C) Robert (D) Barry (E) Charlie 7. Who among the following works in Nike? (A) The person belong to Kerala (B) Charlie (C) Barry (D) The person belong to Goa (E) Tom 8. Who among the following belongs to Assam? (A) The person works in Nike and Bata (B) Barry and Matt (C) Charlie and Robert (D) Matt and Gerald (E) None of the above 9. Who among the following works in Airtel? (A) Matt (B) Charlie (C) Barry (D) Robert (E) Tom 10. Who among the following belong to Kerala? (A) Matt (B) Tom (C) Robert (D) Barry (E) Both A & C Directions (11 to 15): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below: There are 7 people A, B, C, D, E, F and G live in a building with 7 floors. Only 1 person lives on a floor and everyone owns a different colored car Black, Grey, Orange, Purple, Blue, White and Red. Further information is as follows A, D and E live in even numbered floors. F owns a white color car and E owns a Red color car. G lives on 3rd floor and owns a Blue colored car. D lives 2 floors above A and 2 floors below E. Purple color car owner lives on the top floor. F lives below the person who owns an Orange colored car. B and A own Black and Orange colored cars respectively. 11. Who does not live between A and C? (A) E (B) B (C) F (D) G (E) D 12. On which floor does B lives? (A) 4 th (B) 3 rd (C) 7 th (D) 5 th (E) 1 st 13. Who owns the RED colour car? (A) C (B) E (C) B (D) F (E) A 14. F does not live on any of the following floors EXCEPT? (A) 1st (B) 2nd (C) 5th (D) 4th (E) 6 th 15. Which colour car does D own? (A) Red (B) Orange (C) Purple (D) White (E) Grey Directions (16 to 20): Read the following information carefully and answer the given questions: In a School event, different Subjects are scheduled to be held on seven days, starting on Monday and ending on Sunday. Two Subjects are scheduled to be held on Saturday as well as on Sunday and one Subject on each of the remaining five days. The Subjects to be held in these seven days are: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Reasoning, English, G.k., Computer, Maths and Hindi, but not necessarily in the same order. G.k. is scheduled to be held on Thursday. Biology and Hindi are scheduled to be held on the same day. Maths is scheduled to be held three days before Physics, i.e., two
Subjects are scheduled between Maths and Physics. Maths is not scheduled to be held on Wednesday. Computer is scheduled immediately after the day Biology is scheduled. Chemistry is scheduled immediately after the day Maths is scheduled. English is not scheduled on Monday. 16. Which of the following Subjects is scheduled to be held on Friday? (A) Physics (B) Math (C) English (D) Computer (E) Reasoning 17. Which of the following Subjects is scheduled to be held on Sunday? (A) Chemistry (B) Math (C) Physics (D) Hindi (E) English 18. On which of the following days is Reasoning scheduled? (A) Saturday (B) Friday (C) Wednesday (D) Monday (E) Cannot be determined 19. On which of the following days is Chemistry scheduled? (A) Monday (B) Tuesday (C) Wednesday (D) Friday (E) Sunday 20. G.K. is related to Physics in the same way as Math is related to (A) Reasoning (B) Chemistry (C) G.k (D) Computer (E) Biology Directions (21 to 25): Study the following information and answer the questions given below. There are 6 friends Varun, Ranbir, Anushka, Yash, Aamir and Sidharth stay on different floors of a six-storey building (ground floor is numbered as floor 1 and top floor is numbered as floor 6). Each of them plays one of the following games: Golf, Hockey, Squash, Tennis, Chess and Volleyball, but not necessarily in the same order. Ranbir stays on floor 4 and he plays neither Chess nor Volleyball. The one who plays Hockey stays on floor 3. Aamir plays Tennis and he doesn t stays on either floor 1 or 6. Anushka stays on floor 2 and plays Squash. Yash plays Volleyball but neither he nor Siddhartha stays on floor 1. 21. Who plays Golf? (A) Sidharth (B) Yash (C) Ranbir (D) Varun 22. Which game does Varun play? (A) Squash (B) Chess (C) Hockey (D) Golf 23. On which floor does Aamir stay? (A) 5 th (B) 4 th (C) 3 rd (D) 2 nd 24. Who plays Hockey? (A) Ranbir (B) Varun (C) Sidharth (D) Anushka 25. Which of the following combinations is true? (A) Varun Floor 1 Hockey (B) Aamir Floor 5 Chess (C) Yash Floor 6 Volleyball (D) Ranbir Floor 4 Chess Directions (26 to 30): Study the following information carefully and answer the question given below-
Seven friends i.e. Y, N, D, P, B, M and W have decided to travel to different cities of the world. These cities are Singapore, London, Bangkok, New York, Dubai, Rome and Paris. They travel on different days of a week, starting from Monday to Sunday. There are two days gap between the one who goes on Friday and the one who goes to London. D goes to Singapore and just before B s visit. There is three days gap between the one who goes to London and D. P goes on Monday. The one who goes to Dubai went on Friday. B does not go either on Wednesday or Thursday. W goes to Rome but not after N. There is one day gap between N s visit and B s visit. The one who goes to Paris, goes to before Thursday. W who does not go to Paris, goes before Y. The one, who goes to Bangkok, goes after N. 26. Who among the following goes to NewYork? (A) D (B) W (C) P (D) M (E) Y 27. Who among the following goes on Tuesday? (A) Y (B) M (D) W (E) N 28. In which city, N travels? (A) New York (B) Dubai (C) Bangkok (D) Paris (E) London 29. On which day, W goes to Rome? (A) Saturday (B) Friday (C) Monday (D) Wednesday (E) Sunday 30. Who among the following goes to Bangkok? (A) B (B) N (C) M (D) W (E) Y Directions (31 to 35): Study the following arrangement carefully and answer the questions given below: Seven employees W, B, T, D, P, Y, and M live in different floors of seven storey building. Ground floor is numbered as 1st floor and top floor is 7th floor. They work in different companies i.e. TCS, HCL, KP, CP, CTS, BC and HP. The one who works in HP lives on odd numbered floor but above from 4th floor. D does not live just above the floor on which P lives. B lives immediate above the floor, of the one who lives immediate above the floor on which P lives. Y does not live on even numbered floor. There is one floor between Y and W. There are 5 floors between the one who works in HP and the floor on which P lives. The one who works in KP, lives on 5th floor. Y does not work in HP. M lives above T. The one, who works in HCL lives above the floor on which B lives. There are two floors between the floor on which Y lives and the one who works in CTS. There is one floor between the one who works in CP and CTS. D does not work in CP. B does not work in BC. 31. Who among the following lives on 2nd floor? (A) M (B) B (C) T (D) D (E) W 32. Who among the following works in TCS? (A) M (B) B (D) T (E) W 33. Who among the following lives on top floor? (A) T (B) W (D) M (E) Y 34. Who among the following does not live on odd numbered floor? (A) W (B) Y
(D) B 35. How many employees live between the one who works in CP and the one who works in BC? (A) One (B) Two (C) Three (D) Four Directions (36 to 40): Study the following information carefully and answer the question given below- Seven friends A, K, L, P, S, T and U go for a movie on different days of a week starting from Monday to Sunday and in interval they buy chips of different brands viz. Bingo, Haldiram, Jacker, Kurkure, Lays, Tastilo, Uncle chips with different kinds of cold drink viz. Coca-cola, Frooti, Maza, Pepsi, Sprite, Slice, 7-UP. The one who buys Testilo also buys Sprite. Three persons go for movie in between K and S.P does not buy Slice. The one who buys Unclechips goes for movie immediately before the one who buys Pepsi but not after Thursday. T goes for movie on Thursday and buys Frooti. Only one person goes for movie between T and K. S does not go for movie on Tuesday. A buys Kurkure and U buys Maza. Lays have been purchased three days before frooti but neither by U nor L. L goes immediately before S who buys 7-UP. Three persons go for movie in between the one who buys Slice and the one who buys Haldiram. Bingo is not purchased after Testilo. 36. Who among the following goes for movie on Sunday? (A) A (B) P (C) T (D) U (E) S 37. Which of the following brand s chips is liked by T? (A) Kurkure (B) Haldiram (C) Bingo (D) Jacker (E) Tastilo 38. Which of the following combination is true regarding P? (A) Haldiram-7-UP (B) Tastilo- Sprite (C) Jacker- Maza (D) Bingo- Frooti (E) Lays- Coca-Cola 39. How many persons go for movie before the one who buys Pepsi? (A) One (B) Two (C) Three (D) Four (E) Five 40. The one who buys Sprite goes for movie on which of the following day? (A) Wednesday (B) Tuesday (C) Friday (D) Monday (E) Saturday Directions (41 to 45): Read the following information and answer the questions that follow: In an university, for the B.Tech programme, There are six students i.e. M, N, O, P, Q and R are going to college in different days of week from Monday to Sunday. They all belong to different cities i.e. Patna, Goa, Lucknow, Kanpur, Chennai and Delhi. The one who is going just after holiday, belongs to Delhi. O does not go on Friday. M is going immediately after P. The one who is going on Tuesday belongs to Lucknow. There is a gap of two days between N and R. There are five days gap between the one who belongs to Kanpur and Chennai. There is one holiday except Saturday. R is going on the next day of holiday. Q is going on Wednesday and it is not immediately followed by R. Q belongs to Patna. M does not belong to Kanpur. The one who is going just before M, belongs to Goa. 41. Who among the following is going to college on Friday? (A) O
(B) M (C) R (D) P (E) No one 42. Who among the following belongs to Kanpur? (A) P (B) O (C) Q (D) M 43. On which day Q is going to College? (A) Tuesday (B) Monday (C) Thursday (D) Friday (E) Wednesday 44. Who among the following going to college just before Holiday? (A) P (B) Q (C) M (D) R (E) No one 45. From which place P belongs to? (A) Delhi (B) Patna (C) Lucknow (D) Goa Directions (46 to 50): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions below. There are six students A, B, C, D, E, F and they study in different colleges viz. I, II, III, IV, V, VI. Each of these colleges are situated in different cities Bangalore, Noida, Roorkee, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi. Also, each of them scores different marks. B study in college V and scores less marks than only two students. College III is situated in Noida. D study in a college which is situated in Chennai. C and F do not study in college III and also not in a college which is situated in Delhi. The one who study in a college which is situated in Delhi score second lowest marks. A score more marks than E but less marks than D. Both B and F do not study in a college which is situated in Roorkee. A does not study in college IV and VI. College I is situated in Hyderabad. D score more marks than the one who study in college I but less marks than the one who study in college IV. The one who study in college III score least marks. 46. Who among the following score third lowest marks? (A) C (B) A (C) E (D) B 47. Which of the following college is situated in Roorkee? (A) I (B) IV (C) II (D) VI 48. The one who score second lowest marks study in which college? (A) I (B) IV (C) II (D) VI 49. How many persons score, less marks than the one who study in a college which is situated in Bangalore? (A) One (B) Two (C) Three (D) Four 50. F studied in which college? (A) I (B) IV (C) II (D) VI