Reasoning Quiz

DIRECTIONS (1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

Sujat,  Pradeep, Warran, Bishop, and Chetan are five players of the College Cricket Team and their home towns are Surat, Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, and Chandigarh but not in that order. The five specialist  slots of spinner, pace bowler, wicket keeper, batsman and captain are held by them, again not in the order of their names stated above. Their names, home towns and specialities do not start with the same letter. Neither Pradeep nor Warran is the captain and they do not belong to either Surat or Delhi. Sujat is neither a wicket keeper nor a batsman. Pune is not Bishop hometown. The player who hails from Delhi is a wicket-keeper. The captain’s home town is Pune while the batsman does not hail from Mumbai.

1. The Spinner’s home town is

(1) Chandigarh

(2) Delhi

(3) Mumbai

(4) Pune

(5) None of these

2. Chandigarh is the home town of:

(1) Sujat

(2) Bishop

(3) Warran

(4) Pradeep

(5) Can’t Say

3. Who is the pace-bowler?

(1) Chetan

(2) Warran

(3) Sujat

(4) Bishop

(5) None of these

4. Who is the spinner?

(1) Pradeep

(2) Chetan

(3) Bishop

(4) Warran

(5) Can’t Say

5. Chetan’s  home town is 

(1) Pune

(2) Surat

(3) Mumbai

(4) Delhi       

(5) None of these

DIRECTIONS (6-10) : In each of the following questions two  statements are given and these statements are followed by two conclusions numbered (I) and (II). You have to take the given two statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the two given statements, disregarding commonly known facts. Give answer:

(1) If only Conclusion I is true. 

(2) If only Conclusion II is true. 

(3) If either Conclusion I or II is true. 

(4) If neither Conclusion I nor II is true. 

(5) If both Conclusions I and II are true.

6.Statements:  

All bank are river. 

All rocks are river.

Conclusions: 

I. Some river are rock.

II. Some river are bank.

7.Statements:  

All plane are line.  

Some plane are point.

Conclusions: 

I. Some line are point. 

II. All point are line.

8. Statements:  

Some doors are window. 

Some window are house.

Conclusions: 

I. Some houses are not doors.

II. All house are doors.

9.Statements:   

Some girls are nice. 

No nice is beautiful.

Conclusions: 

I. Some girls are not beautiful.

II. All girls are beautiful.

10. Statements: 

No bike are tyre.  

Some tyre are car.

Conclusions: 

I. Some bike are car. 

II. All bikes are cars.

ANSWERS

Person	Sujat	Pradeep	Warran	Bishop	Chetan
Specialist	Captain	Spinner	Batsman	Pace Bowler	Wicket-Keeper
Home Town	Pune	Mumbai	Chandigarh	Surat	Delhi

1. (3)

2. (3)

3. (4)

4. (1)

5. (4)

6. (5)

7. (1)

8. (3)

9. (1)

10. (4)