NID MOCK TEST 3 Hours , use only dry colors . No need to take the printout , save paper .

JAN 1 , 2016

DESIZN CIRCLE , 34 , 35 HAUZ KHAS VILLAGE , NEW DELHI

1. Two world's famous prisoners 'Colditz' and 'Pascal' are locked in a cell. They plan to escape from the cell. They noticed there is an open window at 40 feet above the ground level. Both of them tried very hard but are never able to reach there. Then both of them decided to plan to escape by a tunnel and they start digging out. After digging for just 5 days, Colditz and Pascal comes out with the much more easier plan than tunneling and they escaped. what was the plan ?

2. My Friend Einstein who loves gardening planted the apple trees in an ordered way. He planted apple trees in 19 rows. What is the fewest number of apple trees required by Einstein to have trees in such an ordered way ? * More than 2 trees in a row will count as a row.

3. A man 5'11" high is found dead in an closed room. This room is found empty with some puddle of water. The man was died by hanging himself to a 12 feet high fan. How did the man die ?

4. On a random day , i was not able to logged-in with my bank password , so i contacted them on phone. Our conversation is stated as : myself : My password is altered.

myself : I am not able to logged-in. customer-executive : Your password is distinct this time and it got 8 letters , out of which 2 are same of your previous password. myself: Thanks , now i am able to logged-in. Whats my old and new passwords ?

5. I purchased five decks of card from the market and mixed them. Now i have ( 5 * 52 = 260 cards). What is minimum number of cards, i need to take out from the above 260 cards to guarantee at least one 'four of a kind'.

6. A girl, at the funeral of her mother, met a guy whom she did not know. She fell for him and just kept looking at him.Sometime later she realized that the guy is gone and she forgot to take the number of the guy and now she can't find him. A few days later she killed her elder brother. Question: What is her motive in killing her brother ?

7. My grandmom told me a story " Once a father and his 3 sons lives in a village. One day the father met with a terrible accident , so death comes to take the father. Oldest son begs to the death to let his father live for some years, death was kind and so agreed. After an year and half death returned back to take away the father with him.Second son beg and so death agreed and grant him some more time. After 6 months death returned again to take the father. Now the youngest son request to allow his father to live till the candle wick of the candle on his hand burned out.Death agreed. Now as the youngest son thought , the death never returned back. How come ?

8. We have two buckets of 3 liter and 5 liter. Assuming there is an infinite supply of water , how can i measure 1 liter water ?

9. There are many instance in a day when minute needle and hour needle of a clock comes in a straight line. How many time ?

10. If two painters can complete painting of two rooms in two hours. How many painters would be needed to to paints eighteen rooms in six hours ?

11. A pack of cards has 52 cards. You are blindfolded. Out of 52, 42 cards are facing down while 10 are facing up. You have been asked to divide this pack of cards into two decks - so that each deck contains an equal number of face up cards. Remember, you are blindfolded. How will you do it?

12. A lab scientist has nine bottles of wine. However, he used one of the bottles in an experiment and is currently poisoned. The poison is deadly and only one sip will make any living being die instantly. So how can a lab scientist can find the poisoned wine bottle by using just two mice labs.

13. 1 3 5 2 4 ? Do you know what will come in place of ? We must tell you that its not 6.

14. Shihar Dhawan and Virat Kohli were batting on 94. Seven runs were required to win by the team and only three balls were left. At the end, both of them secured a century without being out. How can this be feasible?

15. Can you fynd three errors in that puzzle? 16. ( ) + ( ) + ( ) + ( ) + ( ) = 30

This is what you have for equation. The following are the numbers that you can use to fill in the brackets: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15 You can repeat the numbers if required. The resulting sum should be 30. This question appeared in the UPSC final examination in December 2013. Out of all the people who appeared, only one guy was able to solve this namely Gaurav Agarwal.

Can you solve it?

17. 100 people are standing in a circle. The person standing at number 1 is having a sword. He kills the person next to him with the sword and then gives the sword to the third person. This process is carried out till there is just one person left. Can you find out who survives?

18. A homicide detective is called at a crime scene. A man is lying dead in front of the building and seeking the position of the windows on the building and the position in which the body is lying, it is evident that the man jumped out from one of them and committed suicide. The detective asks his team to collect the traces if they can find any on the body and heads towards the building. He goes to the first floor and towards the room that is on the front side. Inside the room, he lights a cigarette, walks towards the window facing the dead body, opens the window and throws out the cigarette. He then goes to the second floor and repeats the same process. He keeps doing the same thing till he is done with all the floors and then takes the lift to the ground floor. Upon reaching there, he informs the team that it is not a suicide but a murder. While the whole team is shocked to hear the revelation, he lights another cigarette and takes a hard puff. How do you think he found out that it was a not a suicide?

19. In the given picture, you can find a few numbers. Now you have to fill each square of the grid in a manner that every row and every column contains the digits 1 to 6. Another thing to keep in mind is that the connected squares must have the same number in them. Do you accept the challenging task?

20. AS you can see the picture, all you have to do is analyze it and tell who all

from the pictured people will die if the person at E pushes the round object to the slide on the slope. Keep in mind all the physics and the terrain while you analyze the things.

21. How will you place six crosses on a Tic Tac Toe board without forming any three-in-a-row combination?

22. You have to place all the digits from 1 to 9 without repeating any number

in a tic tac toe board. The condition is that the numbers should add up to 15 whether you add the numbers in each row, column or diagonally. Can you do it?

23. In the figure given below, you can see that there are five squares. Supposedly if this figure is formed using different matchsticks (refer the slight gap between matchsticks), can you remove just two matchsticks so that only two squares remain ?

24. Eight Brothers lives in an old house where there is no electricity and no

computers or any any other gadget. Brother-1: Reading Comics Brother-2: Playing Chess Brother-3: Writing Brother-4: making food for the family Brother-5: sleeping and snoring Brother-6: cleaning house Brother-7: watering the plants

25. There are two barber shop in a small town – one located in the eastern market and the other on the northern market. The shop in the eastern market is quite untidy and the barber has a shabby haircut. While the shop in the northern market is quite neat and clean and the barber is sporting an excellent haircut himself. Which of the two shops will any foreign visitor opt for?

26. Seeing the picture, can you identify in which direction is it going - left or right? Keep in mind that the bus is moving in UK

27. In a recreational activity, you are given four different jars of 2 liters, 4

liters, 6 liters and 8 liters respectively with an unlimited water supply. Then you are asked to measure exactly 5 liters of water using them. How will you do it?

28. Alan is an honest person who never speaks a lie. He thinks of a number among 1, 2 and 3. Now, you can ask him only one question and that too for which the answer that you will receive will be in the form of yes, no or don't know. But he will reply only truth fully. What will you ask from his so that you can know the number he is thinking of?

29. Birbal is a witty trader who trade of a mystical fruit grown far in north. He travels from one place to another with three sacks which can hold 30 fruits each. None of the sack can hold more than 30 fruits. On his way, he has to pass through thirty check points and at each check point, he has to give one fruit for each sack to the authorities. How many mystical fruits remain after he goes through all the thirty check points?

30. You are given with two ropes with variable width. However if we start burning both the ropes, they will burn at exactly same time i.e. an hour. The ropes are non-homogeneous in nature. You are asked to measure 45 minutes by using these two ropes. How can you do it? Please note that you can’t break the rope in half as it is being clearly stated that the ropes are non-homogeneous in nature.

31. One man was moving to and fro in worry when a bright woman noticed him. On asking he told her that while replacing his tire, he incidentally dropped all the four nuts into a deep drain. She told him what to do and he was then able to drive back successfully till his office. What did she say to him?

32. Jamie looked at his reflection on the window mirror of the 45th floor. Driven by an irrational impulse, he made a leap through the window on the other side. Yet Jamie did not encounter even a single bruise. How can this be possible if he did neither landed on a soft surface nor used a parachute?

33. Once there lived a king who did not allow anybody to leave the kingdom and any foreigners in his kingdom. There was only one bridge that connected his empire with the outer world. A guard who was a sharpshooter was specially assigned for a lookout on the bridge. According to the orders, anyone moving outside should be killed and anyone coming to his kingdom should be sent back. To take rest, the guard used to sit inside his hut for 5 minutes and return back on the lookout. The bridge took a minimum of 8 minutes to pass. Even then, a woman was able to escape the kingdom without incurring any kind of harm to the guard. How ?

34. A homicide team enters a crime scene where a dead body of a fat old man lies there on the floor with blood oozing out of his head. The victim is holding a gun and a tape recorder lies there by his side. One of the detective picks up the recorder and plays it "I am tired of this life and hence I have decided to relieve myself from the worldly pains". A gunshot follows the

message. The teams starts investigating a murder investigation. Why?

35. An old priest fell on a bottom of the well of a church. The well is 20 inches deep. At day time, the old priest climbs 5-inches but when at dark he slip back 4 inches. In how many days priest will come out of the well ?

36. Four kids having five rocks each were playing a game in which they need to throw the rock at solid area in the water. Kid1: Succeeded in throwing three rocks at solid area but one of the rock sunk. Kid3: His aim was so bad that all rocks got sunk. Kid4: He was awesome and none of the rocks got sunk. Kid2 was the winner but was struck by a rock in the head and died. Who killed Kid2 ?

37. There are two arch enemy Dhuryodhan and Bheem. One day two are going together and a god appeared in from of them. The God grant three wishes to Bheem and one to Dhuryodhan. Dhuryodhan replied smartly 'Give me twice of whatever Bheem ask for'. For 1st wish Bheem asked the god 'Give me a room full of money'. Soon Dhuryodhan gets two room full of money. For 2nd wish Bheem asked the god 'give me 100 slaves'. Soon Dhuryodhan gets 200 slaves. Whats should be Bheem third wish ?

38. Solve this logic number sequence puzzle by the correct digit 8080 = 6 1357 = 0 2022 = 1 1999 = 3 6666 = ?

39. 1 pound = 100 penny = 10 penny x 10 penny = 1/10 pound x 1/10 pound = 1/100 pound = 1 penny => 1 pound = 1 penny Solve this math trick question ?

40. The digits 0-9(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) can be rearranged into 3628800 distinct 10 digits numbers. How many of these numbers are prime ?

41. SPOT THE ERRORS A B C 1) His attitude towards me / is hostile / from the beginning. A B C 2) Neither the Minister / nor his Secretary / were in office. A B C 3) He was one / of the greatest / poet of India. A B C 4) He committed / suicide twice / before he died. A B C 5) The hours / tripped by / on rosy wings. A B C 6) He / is too / weak.

42. Choose the word or group of words which is MOST SIMILAR in meaning to the word printed in capital as used in the passage. Question 1: PLEASANTLY (1) extremely (2) delightfully (3) charming (4) friendly (5) coolly Question 2: WAILING (1) Crying (2) complaining (3) shouting (4) Tears (5) Grumbling Question 3: RIGHT (1) Suitable (2) Legally (3) Accurately (4)Straight (5) Immediately Question 4: BEGETS (1) produces (2) loses (3) expects (4) avoids (5) calls Question 5: STERN (1) hard (2) tall (3) easy (4) tight (5) severe

43. Two environment friendly measures have been launched by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu. They are: a. 26 MW Wind Mill Plant (Jaisalmer) b. Head on generation system in Mumbai Rajdhani c. Both of the above d. None of the above Global economic growth will be below par next year according to IMF MD. Who is she? a. Christine Lagarde b. Janet Yellan c. Angela Merkel d. None of the above The oldest Quran found at University of Birmingham may belong to -

a. Abu Bakr b. Mohammed Ali c. Jamal Bin Sheikh d. Rashid Al Mektoum Which of the following name is not associated with painting? 1. K. L. Saigal 2. Jamini Roy 3. Manjit Bawa 4. M. F. Hussain Which of the following festival associated with full-moon day? 1. Eid-ul-Fitr 2. Easter 3. Holi 4. Diwali IDENTIFY THE FOLLOWING PERSONALITIES

CREATIVE ABILITY TEST

1. Look at the following Graphic and bring out three keywords that describe the visual, using those three keywords design three Daily use products.( for example: ‘proportion’ could be a keyword to design a toothbrush, but the design of the toothbrush should be different in terms of proportion, so that it brings out the idea of using proportion as a keyword)

2. Narrate a comic strip showing the future where there is no life on Earth but Mars is full of life.

3. “Buy less, choose well and help it last long” design a poster to state this sustainable thought of living, also, name the Designer who often quotes this.