Logical Reasoning — UNILORIN Post UTME Quiz

1. Which set of letters is the odd one
out?

2. Bible is to a priest as ........to a don

3. Steam is to water as a liquid is to

4. Sue and Jennifer are fair, Brian and Robyn are dark, Sue and Robyn are tall, who is fair and tall?

5. Hour is to time as kilometer is
to: 

6. Consider the following statements. Statement One: 2 kg of bread is lighter than 2 kg of stones. Statement Two: 5kg of cement is not heavier than 5kg of sand. Which of the options is correct?

7. reorganize the following sentences into the order in which they were originally written

P: ICT is generally taken to mean technologies that support communication via computers.

Q: Presently, the world is experiencing an ever-increasing use of information
and communication technology (ICT) in many areas of human endeavour.

R: Thus, the advent of ICT has brought about effective and efficient information generation, utilization and dissemination, as well as storage
and retrieval.

S: Such technologies include the Internet, local area networking, electronic mail, and the worldwide- web.

8. Bisi is older than Ore, Dele is older than Bisi. Who is the youngest of all?

9. Gaseous water is called?

10. If the word DONE is written
under the word BALL, the word COLD is written above the word BALL and the word SING is written above the word COLD, how many words can be read diagonally?

11. If the word HAVE is written under the word FARM, the word COST is written above the word FARM and the word GATE is written under the word HAVE, what word cannot be read diagonally?

12. which sequential order best describes the events in the following?

13. ZK9PXL428 as follows – letters first in alphabetical order, followed by the numbers in ascending numerical order, gives:

14. Bola had fewer sum rights than Ojo, Ojo had fewer sum rights than Dele. Which had the most right answers?

15. Fact 1: Mary said, "Ann and I both have cats."
Fact 2: Ann said, "I don't have a cat."
Fact 3: Mary always tells the truth, but Ann sometimes lies.
If the first three statements are facts, which of the following statements must also be a fact?
I: Ann has a cat.
II: Mary has a cat.
III: Ann is lying.

16. A forest is to a tree as a tree is to a

17. I owe a sum of two hundred and twenty Naira and was able to pay one hundred and ten Naira. What percentage have I not paid?

18. A horse rider rode into town on Friday, spent one night there, and left on Friday. Which of the following explains the situation?

19. Bola had fewer sum right than Ojo, and Ojo had fewer sum rights than Dele. Which had the most right answers?

20. Rearrange 582QUETF67 as follows – first, the consonants in alphabetical order, followed by the numbers in descending numerical order, then the vowels in alphabetical order

21. I thought the time was ten minutes to two, but I was looking at the clock in a mirror. What time was it really?

22. School is to pupils, as an army is to:

23. A, C, F, J, O, what letter comes next?

24. Which set of letters is the odd one out?

25. In the series: AB, ABD, ABDG, ABDGK,... What comes next?

26. You live in a bungalow made entirely of red wood. What colour would the stairs be?

27. my successor’s father is my father’s son, and I do not have any brothers or sons. Who is my successor?

28. My holiday starts in six days’ time. Yesterday was my birthday – Friday, June 23rd. On which day of the week will my holiday start?

29. Audu is taller than Laide but shorter than Deji. Deji is of the same height as Taiwo. Who is the shortest?

30. Abayo, Tope, Femi, and Seyi are friends. Only Abayo likes going to the theatre. Only Tope and Seyi like the cinema. Only Femi and Seyi like
dancing. Which boy likes neither dancing nor cinema?

31. Water and ship, air and ________

32. Up is to down as before is to:

33. which of the following statements should come first, second, and third in the normal order of occurrence?

1. I went to bed early yesterday evening.
2. I was very tired.
3. I worked hard throughout yesterday

34. I do not like grapes or bananas but I have bought some fruits to eat.

Do you think it is grapes, bananas, both or neither?

35. Fausat, Bolanle, Amaka, and Osese are polyglots. Fausat and Bolanle speak French, whereas the others speak Russian. Bolanle and Osese speak Italian. Everyone except
Fausat speaks German. Which of them only speaks Russian and German?

36. If Friday is the fourth day of the month, what day is the 13th day of the month?

37. If we represent the word GRATEFUL with 97413586, what word is represented by 1347?

38. Complete the series in English, French, Hindi, and Arabic

39. Ade is to arrange 5S55ES in reverse order. Which one of the following is the correct arrangement?

40. You live in a bungalow made entirely of red wood. What colour would the stairs be?

41. my successor’s father is my father’s son, and I do not have any brothers or sons. Who is my successor?

42. Samuel was out for a walk when
it started to rain. He did not have an umbrella and he was not wearing a hat. His clothes were soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How could this happen?

43. Trumpet is to blow as gong is to _________

44. if APPETIZER corresponds to 122361738, then PRIZE will correspond to _________

45. Hold and hand, Kneel and:

46. A 3 -3 bedroom flat in Abuja costs 1 million naira per annum. The same flat in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital will cost

47. All the tulips in Zoe's garden are white. All the pansies in Zoe's garden are yellow. All the flowers in Zoe's garden are either white or yellow if the first two statements are true, the third statement is

48. Choose the two statements that would necessarily make the given piece of information true: Fifty candidates sat for the examination.

I) Twenty candidates answered under half the questions

II) There were ten failures in the examination

III) Over half the questions were answered by thirty candidates

IV) Forty candidates were successful.

49. A group of friends lives in a house divided into one flat per floor. Tony is in the flat below Julie and Madeleine is in the flat above Sarah. Sarah is in the flat below Tony and Julie lives with Roger. Peter lives on the top floor. Apart from Julie and Roger, who else shares a flat?

50. The day after tomorrow is three days before a Monday. What day is it today?