TREASURE HUNT PRELIMS

General Instructions:
1. Give brief and precise answers. 2 .The answers must be sent before 9 PM, 6th September (Tuesday). 3. The answers must be sent to krish.kgn@gmail.com and all entries must specify the names and contact details of the team members. 4. All the answers must be sent in *.pdf format. Answers sent in any other format will not be considered for evaluation. 5. More than one entry per team will not be entertained; evaluation will be done on the basis of the first entry. 6. One mark will be awarded for each correct answer. 7. The teams to send maximum correct answers in shortest amount of time will be selected for the final round. The priority will be for maximum no. of correct answers and in case of tie time factor will be considered.

1) In a faraway land, in a long lost country, there stood a temple with four ponds at the corners. The picture below symbolizes that temple. The square stands for the boundary wall, and the four circles surrounding are four ponds. Now the temple needs renovation. It should be enlargedbut the trouble is that the God doesnt want the ponds inside the boundary wall and the temple should always come in a perfect square So how will you increase the temple area without incurring the deitys wrath?

2) It lies ahead the event horizon, beyond the black hole There ends time and space Without it neither energy nor matter is defined Nor will the universe will have its elegance

3) One kind of change you can survive is getting a haircut. But are you the same after it? What about a heart replacement? May be there is no lack of explanation for your appearance. A kind of messianic role can be attributed to a wise old man, but not you. But the surprising thing is in New York a monster computer could be fed with all the known data in physics. Thus our very existence could be regarded as a qualitative confirmation of grand unified theories , but the uncertainties being such that the spiritual fragility and ambivalence about the inquiry into the nature of religious beliefs contradicts the right-centric world we lives in. As we look at the past with our present day gaze, the veils that shroud the darkness begin to lift. Still why do the temple astrologers say that the treasure should not be assessed to the extent that there is an ennobling detachment abdicating any claim to wealth.?

We just dont get the answer.do you? This is not philosophy, think as much as you wantwhatever you say, the answer is right...we are anyway not poised to win the local elections or head intelligence services after all..

4) Solve this for your treasure quest You will find forests of no inhabitation. Roads without cars and oceans without water

5) X and Y were treasure hunters. They were in search for a treasure in the Amazon forests. They wandered in the forests for a long time and finally they reached a peculiar place. There were two paths from that juncture. One leading to the treasure and the other to mortal danger! The ways were guarded by two ancient guardians of the treasure. One will speak the truth and the other is a constant liar. Only one question can be asked and any of the two might answer it. So what is that unique question that might lead them to the treasure?

6) It is there in the darkest of the skies Defines what is not light For some it frightens them For some it blinds

7) This is my girl friends landline number 2626688. Tell me to which place she belong.use the STD code as hint 78283 Confused?? Try messaging any of your friends and you may get all you want.

8) "Only four words exist with words ending in hry- garnishry, goldsmithry, ochry." So tell me which is the fourth word?

9) Yellow red all tangled Curled twisted hot and spicy Served hot preferred solid IIST's beloved

10) Brilliant yet so tiny they appear Jumbled together arts they make up If you find about this one I agree you are one

11) DIAGON ALLEY

BINNS ALBUS SNAPE DRACO CLOAK

(History repeats itself)

12) You are in a zoo. There are 4 wolves, 5 buffaloes,1 lion,2 tigers, 4 giraffes, 3 camels, 5 hyenas, 5 gorillas and 2 rabbits in that zoo. Identify where is the zoo??

13) What is wrong with this duck?

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