Twisted One Reasoning Questions for SBI PO Mains 2017

Directions (1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions.

P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are 8 members of a family each having different age. Also each person likes different colours i.e. Blue, Red, Brown, Black, Grey, Purple, Pink and White. They are sitting around a rectangular table facing the centre and they all are seated with equal distance, but not necessarily in the same order. Each side of the table two person sits together, no person sits on the corner of the table. Ages are an integer value. There are four couples in the family. 

Each husband is at least two years elder than his wife. V does not sit opposite to W. R’s son-in-law does not like Purple and Red colour. S, who is 34 years old, is son-in-law of T and seated second to the right of V, who is the wife of P. S’s brother-in-law likes Pink colour. Person likes Black colour sits second to the right of the person, who is 80 year. R is the father of Q, who is not the youngest member in the family. W’s grandfather does not like White colour. No three females are sitting together. The daughter-in-law of P is 56 years old. W is 6 years elder than his wife. The person who is 36 years old is seated second to the left of U’s father-in-law. The age of P is 2.5 times the age of Q. Only one couple can sit together. The one, whose age is 78 years likes neither Grey nor White colour. No one is less than 22 years old. Each parent is at least 20 years elder than his/ her child. V is the grandmother of W. The daughter-in-law of T is not near to her. The one who likes Blue colour is immediate neighbour of the persons, who likes Red colour and the one, who is husband of U. Person likes Purple colour sits opposite to the person, who is immediate right of Q’s husband. P is seated between W’s grandmother and wife of W. 

Q4. Who sits opposite to R’s mother? 
(a) P 
(b) Person whose age is 56 yr.
(c) W
(d) The Person who likes red colour. 
(e) None of these.

Q5. How many years gap between P’s daughter-in-law and T’s daughter-in-law? 
(a) 28yr
(b) 22yr 
(c) None of these
(d) 24yr
(e) 26yr

Which of the following can be inferred from the above statement?
(a) Labour ministry is flogging a dead horse.
(b) Government is not sincere for creating more job opportunities for the youths.
(c) The rate of decline in job creation has remained constant for past 6 years.
(d) Policies of the government have not proved to be effective in creating more jobs.
(e) None of these

Q7. A top Indian athlete was handed a lifetime suspension by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) on Wednesday after testing positive for banned performance enhancing substance meldonium. 
Which of the following facts justifies the action taken by NADA?

Q8. India’s gold imports witnessed a huge jump in April, increasing threefold to $3.85 billion from $1.23 billion in April 2016. 
Which of the following can be the repercussions of the above mentioned fact?
(i) Investing in gold will become like keeping a white elephant.
(ii) Trade deficit of India will increase.
(iii) Prices of the blue chip shares will increase
(a) Only (i)
(b) Both (i) and (ii)
(c) Both (ii) and (iii)
(d) Only (iii)
(e) None of these

Q9. Opponents of GM crops say that GM crops may prove uneconomical to the farmers due to its costly seeds. 
Which of the following, if true undermines the argument above?
(a) They reduce the need for pesticides and herbicides.
(b) Genetically modified food have a higher shelf life.
(c) GM crops can sustain weather fluctuations and extremes.
(d) GM foods can be engineered to have a high content of a specific nutrient that is lacking in the diet of a local population group.
(e) Both (a) and (c)

Q11. What will be the position of ‘victory’ with respect to ‘fast’ in the step III of the input?

Q13. Which of the following will be the penultimate step?
(a) Step VI
(b) Step V
(c) Step IV
(d) Step III
(e) None of these

Q14. After how many steps no further rearrangement of words is possible?
(a) Five
(b) Four
(c) Six
(d) Seven
(e) Eight

Q15. What will be the position of ‘fast’ in step IV?
(a) Sixth from right
(b) Seventh from right 
(c) Seventh from left
(d) Fifth from left
(e) None of these