This document contains a summary of 30 preliminary round questions and answers from a quiz competition called SPARKLERS 2014. The questions cover a range of topics including math, word puzzles, logic problems, and more. The answers are provided and range from single words to short explanations. The overall document serves as a reference sheet summarizing questions commonly seen in preliminary rounds of quiz competitions.

1. SPARKLERS 2014
INFOTAINMENT

2. PRELIMINARY ROUND
ANSWERS

3. 1. SUDOKO
Each of the Small squares must have one of
Each of the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4

4. 2. Sam is a butcher who's 6 feet tall. What does he weigh?
Answer: Meat

5. 3. Divide 50 by half and add 40.
Answer: 140
50 divided by ½ and add 40
(50*2)+40

6. 4. What goes up and down, but still remains in the same place?
Answer: Stairs

7. 5. Jumble words
a. Egrsitriotan
Answer: Registration
b. Befauryr
Answer: February

8. 6. You want to purchase 3-cent stamps. You're at the post office and
waiting in line for your turn. How many 3-cent stamps you will get in a dozen?
Answer: 12

9. 7. Given
1 = 5
2 = 25
3 = 325
4 = 4325
What does 5 equal?
Answer: 54325. Rather than being a mathematical
solution, the answer is derived by prepending (putting in
front of) the value on the left side of the equation with
the previous answer. So for 3 you take 25, the previous
answer, and put 3 in front, giving you 325. Then you put
4 in front to get 4325 and lastly, put 5 in front to get
54325.

10. 8. There are two ducks in front of a duck, two ducks behind a duck and a
duck in the middle. How many ducks are there in total?
Answer: Three. They’re all in a row, so ducks 1
and 2 are in front of duck 3, ducks 2 and 3 are
behind duck 1 and duck 2 is in the middle.

11. 9. What does this represent? - COF FEE
Answer: Coffee break. The word coffee is broken into two pieces

12. 10. Odd man out
(1) Cat dog turtle elephant
Reason: Turtle is a reptile
(2) Lion cat tiger bear
Reason: Bear not a cat family
(3) Doctor psychologist priest poet
Reason: Poet doesn’t wear a white dress

13. 11. A farmer had 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many live sheep does he have left?
Answer: 9. If all but 9 died, there are 9 remaining live sheep.

14. 12. What do these words have in common?
1. Banana
2. Dresser
Answer: If you move the first letter to the end of the word, it forms
the same word backwards. Banana = ananab, dresser = resserd

15. 13. A zebra was going to the river. On the way the zebra
encountered five giraffes. Each giraffe had five monkeys on
their neck. How many animals were going to the river?
A. 1
B. 20
C. 30
D. 6
Answer: Just one – the zebra. The other 30 animals (5 giraffes and 25 monkeys)
were going the other way

16. 14. A red-house is made of red bricks, has a red wooden door and a red roof. A yellow-
house is made of yellow bricks, has a yellow wooden door and a yellow roof. What is a
green-house made of?
Answer: Glass

17. 15. Find the way out

18. 16. What does this represent? - Pot OOOOOOOO
Answer: Potatoes (Pot + 8 Os)

19. 17. You are in the woods with owls and wolves. There are 22 eyes and 32 legs. How many
owls and wolves are there?
Answer: 5 owls and 5 wolves, (not 6 owls
because 2 of the eyes and legs are yours).
2 * owls + 2 * wolves = 20 eyes
2 * owls + 4 * wolves = 30 legs
owls + wolves = 10 eyes → owls = 10 – wolves
owls + 2 * wolves = 15 → 10 – wolves + 2 *
wolves = 15 → wolves = 5
owls + 5 = 10 → owls = 5

20. 18. If an electric train is going 150 miles per hour north and the wind is blowing the same
south, which way does the smoke blow?
Answer: There is no smoke in electric train

21. 19. Crossword
Answers –
1. Ruler
2. Computer
3. Play Ground
4. Pencil
5. Paper
6. Books
7. Teacher
8. Black Board
9. Desk
10. Write

22. 20. Which word is the odd one out:
a. First
b. Second
c. Third
d. Forth
e. Fifth
f. Sixth
g. Seventh
h. Eighth
Answer: Fourth – it has a spelling mistake there

23. 21. Three crows were sitting on a fence when a farmer spots them. He shoots one how
many were left?
Answer: None. they flew away.

24. 22. Which is heavier: a ton of gold or a ton of feathers?
Answer: Both would weigh as same, since each are a ton.

25. 23. Find the difference

26. 24. A man and his son were in a car accident. The man died on the way to the hospital, but the boy was
rushed into surgery. The surgeon said "I can't operate, that's my son!" How is this possible?
Answer: Surgeon was his mother

27. 25. A snail creeps 10 feet up a wall during the daytime, then falls asleep. It wakes up the
next morning and discovers it slipped down 6 feet. If this happens each day, how many days
will it take to reach the top of a 20 foot wall?
Answer: Four days.
Day 1: up to 10, down to 4
Day 2: up to 14, down to 8
Day 3: up to 18, down to 12
Day 4: up to 22 (20 really) and done

28. 26. What do these represent?
24 - HiaD
7 - DotW
Answer: 24 hours in a day
7 days of the week

29. 27. Word search
Find
1. Cow
2. Duck
3. Goat
4. Horse
5. Turkey

30. 28. There are six glasses in a row. The first three are full of water, and the next three are
empty. By moving only one glass how can you make them alternate between full and empty?
Answer: Pour the water from the 2nd glass into the 5th glass

31. 29. How many squares are in this figure?
Answer: 40

32. 30.Complete the series.
9 = 4
21 = 9
22 = 9
24 = 10
99 = 10
17 = ?
Answer: 9
17 = 9 [The number of letters in the spelling of 17 (seventeen) is 9