Practice Complex family puzzles - verbal reasoning Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams

Directions:
Read the following information carefully to answer the question that follow.
    I. A, B, C, D, E and F are the members of a family.
    II. These members are engineer, doctor, designer, lawyer, manager and professor but not in the same order.
    III. There are two married couples in the family.
    IV. C is the designer and is married to lawyer.
    V. B is either father or mother of F and E.
    VI. A is married to manager D.
    VII. F is a professor who is the grandson or granddaughter of doctor.
    VIII. B is a female while doctor is a male member.

[Hotel Mgmt 2011]

Q-1)   How many females are there in the family?

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

Explanation:

Gender of F and E is not known. So, total number of females in the family cannot be determined.

Directions:
Read the following information carefully to answer the questions that follow.

    I. P, Q, R, S, T AND U are six members of a group, of which three are males and three are females.
    II. There are two engineers, two lawyers, one teacher and one doctor in the group.
    III. Q, T, P and R are two married couples and no two persons in this group have the same profession.
    IV. T, a teacher with blue dress, married a male lawyer with brown dress
    V. Colour of the dresses of both the husbands and that of both the wives is the same.
    VI. Two persons have blue dress, two have brown and the remaining one each has black and green.
    VII. P is a male engineer whose sister S is also an engineer.
    VIII. Q is a doctor.

[N.M.A.T. 2006]

Q-2)   Who is the wife of P?

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

Explanation:

Q is the wife of P.

Directions:
Study the following information carefully and answers the questions given below:
    * M, K, J, R, T, R, D and W are seven members of a family.
    * There are two married couples among them belonging to two different generations.
    * Each of them has a different choice of Cuisine - Chinese, Continental, Thai, Punjabi, South indian, Gujarati and Malwani.
    * The grandfather is the family likes Gujarati food. None of the ladies likes continental or Thai food.
    * T is son of M, who likes Chinese food.
    * W is J's daughter-in-law and she likes south Indian food.
    * K is grandfather of D, who likes Punjabi food.
    * J is mother of R, who likes continental food.

[Bank P.O. 2004]

Q-3)   How many male members are there in the family?

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

Explanation:

The sex of D cannot be determined.

Directions:
Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
    * P, Q, R, S, T, V and W are seven members of a family belonging to three generations.
    * There are two married couples, one each of first and second generations respectively.
    * They travel in three different cars X, Y and Z so that no car has more than three members and there is at least one female in each car.
    * R who is a granddaughter, does not travel with her grandfather and grandmother.
    * Q travels with his father T in car Y.
    * V travels with her granddaughter S in car X.
    * P travels with her daughter in car Z.

[I.B.P.S. 2002]

Q-4)   In which car three members are travelling?

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

Explanation:

Q, T and W travel in car Y.

Directions:
Read the following statements to answer the questions:
    * Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F were playing a game of cards.
    * A's father, mother and Uncle were in the group.
    * There were two women. B, the mother of A, got more points than her husband.
    * D got more points than E but less than F. Niece of E got lowest points.
    * Father of A got more points than F but could not win the game.

[L.I.T.T.M. 2003]

Q-5)   Who won the game?

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

Explanation:

B got the highest points and won the game.

Directions:
Read the following statements to answer the questions:
    * Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F were playing a game of cards.
    * A's father, mother and Uncle were in the group.
    * There were two women. B, the mother of A, got more points than her husband.
    * D got more points than E but less than F. Niece of E got lowest points.
    * Father of A got more points than F but could not win the game.

[L.I.T.T.M. 2003]

Q-6)   Who is the husband of B?

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

Explanation:

C is B's husband.

Directions:
Read the following statements to answer the questions:
    * Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F were playing a game of cards.
    * A's father, mother and Uncle were in the group.
    * There were two women. B, the mother of A, got more points than her husband.
    * D got more points than E but less than F. Niece of E got lowest points.
    * Father of A got more points than F but could not win the game.

[L.I.T.T.M. 2003]

Q-7)   B was one of the ladies. Who was the other lady?

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

Explanation:

The two ladies are B, the mother of A, and A, the niece of E.

Directions:
Read the following statements to answer the questions:
    * Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F were playing a game of cards.
    * A's father, mother and Uncle were in the group.
    * There were two women. B, the mother of A, got more points than her husband.
    * D got more points than E but less than F. Niece of E got lowest points.
    * Father of A got more points than F but could not win the game.

[L.I.T.T.M. 2003]

Q-8)   Who stood second in the game?

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

Explanation:

C got the second-highest points and stood second in the game.

Directions:
Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
    * A, B, C, D, E, F and G are seven members of a family.
    * Each of them has a different profession - Doctor, Teacher, Lawyer, Engineer, Architect, Chartered accountant (CA) and Banker and their incomes are different.
    * There are two married couples in the group.
    * C is the Doctor and earns more than the Engineer and the Lawyer.
    * E is married to the CA and she earns the leeast.
    * No lady is either lawyer or Engineer.
    * B, the Teacher, earns less than A, the Banker.
    * G is married to B and he earns more than D and A.
    * F is not the lawyer. The CA earns less than the Lawyer but more than the Banker.

[S.B.I.P.O. 2002]

Q-9)   Who earns the maximum in the family?

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

Explanation:

C earns the maximum.

Directions:
Read the following information carefully to answer the question that follow.
    I. A, B, C, D, E and F are the members of a family.
    II. These members are engineer, doctor, designer, lawyer, manager and professor but not in the same order.
    III. There are two married couples in the family.
    IV. C is the designer and is married to lawyer.
    V. B is either father or mother of F and E.
    VI. A is married to manager D.
    VII. F is a professor who is the grandson or granddaughter of doctor.
    VIII. B is a female while doctor is a male member.

[Hotel Mgmt 2011]

Q-10)   Which of the following is one of the pairs of couples in the family?

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

Explanation:

AD and BC are the two couples and AD is one of them which is given in the options.