#11 - Trivia Riddle

An American nightclub called 'The Coconut Grove' had a terrible fire in which over 400 people died. A simple design flaw in the building led to the death toll being so high. Subsequently, regulations were changed to ensure that all public buildings throughout the country eliminated this one detail which proved so deadly. What was it?

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The doors at 'The Coconut Grove' opened inward. In the mad panic to escape the fire, people were crushed against the doors and could not pull them open. After 'The Coconut Grove' disaster in 1942, all public buildings had to have doors which opened outward.

#12 - Logical Thinking Problem

Rose, Lily and Jasmine decided to buy flowers for their moms on Mother's Day. One of them bought lilies, the other roses, and the third one jasmines.
'It's funny!' said the girl with roses, 'we bought roses, jasmines and lilies, but none of us bought the flowers matching her name'.
'You're right!', said Lily.
What kind of flowers did each of the girls buy?

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Rose bought lilies, Lily bought jasmines and Jasmine - roses. By the condition, the girl, who bought the roses isn't Rose. She's not Lily either, because Lily answered to that girl. So, the roses were bought by Jasmine, and thus lilies were bought by Rose and jasmines by Lily.

#13 - Mathamatical Symbol Puzzle

Replace Question Mark With any mathamatical symbol to make statement Correct
(8 ? 0) ? (5 ? 4) ? (9 ? 5) = 3

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(8 - 0) - (5 - 4) - (9 - 5) = 3

#14 - Lateral Thinking Puzzle

A large truck is crossing a bridge 100 mile long. The bridge can only hold 14000 lbs, which is the exact weight of the truck. The truck makes it half way across the bridge and stops. A bird lands on the truck. Does the bridge collapse? Give a reason.

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No it does not collapse. Because it has driven a half mile - you would subtract the gas used from the total weight of the truck

#15 - Mystery Riddle

It was a dark stormy night and a couple were in a car racing madly through a foreign city. The car broke down and the husband had to go get help from someone who spoke his language. He was afraid to leave his wife alone in the car so he pulled up the windows and locked the car before leaving. When he came back, the car was in the same state as he had left it but his wife was dead, there was blood on the floor and there was a stranger in the car. What happened?

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The wife was about to have a baby. They were driving to the hospital. The baby was born, and the wife didn't survive the birth

#16 - FAQ Puzzle

Ankit Garg holidaying abroad fell off a yacht into deep water. He could not swim and he was not wearing anything to keep him afloat. It took 30 minutes for the people on the yacht to realize someone was missing. The missing man was rescued two hours later. Why didn't he drown?

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He fell into the Dead Sea, which lies between Israel and Jordan. The water is so salty and dense that anyone in it floats very easily.

#17 - Analytical Riddle

Aamir Khan buys rice at Rs60/kg from Britain and then sells them at Rs 5/kg pound in India.As a result of this he becomes a millionaire. How come?

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He started out as a billionaire, but lost so much money in his good works(by giving to poor people) that he became a millionaire.

#18 - Maths Time Puzzle

A large water tank has two inlet pipes (a large one and a small one) and one outlet pipe. It takes 3 hours to fill the tank with the large inlet pipe. On the other hand, it takes 6 hours to fill the tank with the small inlet pipe. The outlet pipe allows the full tank to be emptied in 9 hours.

What fraction of the tank (initially empty) will be filled in 0.64 hours if all three pipes are in operation? Give your answer to two decimal places (e.g., 0.25, 0.5, or 0.75).

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In one hour,

Soln 1:
the large inlet pipe fills 1 / 3 of the tank;
the small inlet pipe fills 1 / 6 of the tank;
the outlet pipe empties 1 / 9 of the tank; and therefore
all three pipes together fill [ (1 / 3) + (1 / 6) − (1 / 9) ] of the tank.

Fraction of the tank that will be filled in 0.64 hours =
0.64 [ (1 / 3) + (1 / 6) − (1 / 9) ] = 0.25.


Soln 2:
Let V be the total volume of the tank. From equation (1),

Flow Rate (large inlet pipe) = V / 3
Flow Rate (small inlet pipe) = V / 6
Flow Rate (outlet pipe) = V / 9.

Substituting in equation (2),

Rate of Accumulation in tank = (V / 3) + (V / 6) − (V / 9).

Using the above result in equation (1),

Time required to fill the complete tank = V / [ (V / 3) + (V / 6) − (V / 9) ].

Note that V cancels out on simplifying the above expression.

Fraction of the tank that will be filled in 0.64 hours =

0.64 [ (1 / 3) + (1 / 6) − (1 / 9) ] = 0.25.

#19 - Most Stupid Question

What can you serve, but never eat?

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"A Tennis Ball" Or a "Badminton shuttle"

#20 - Dictionary Spell Riddle

I noticed one of word in oxford dictionary is spelled incorrectly. What about you ?

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the word is 'incorrectly'