Source: http://ramanarayanan.blogspot.com/2006/05/ias-interview-answers.html
Hi all,
This is what presence of mind can really be! Maybe a good exercise for lateral thinking too.. read till end!
Not only our technical knowledge helps, but also the presence of mind and the right answer at right time. Even if u don't know the answer for a question just confuse the questioner
Question and the Answer given by Candidates (oh sorry they are IAS Officers now!)
Q.How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor
without cracking it?
A. Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC
Topper)
Q.If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how
long would it take four men to build it?
A. No time at all it is already built. (UPSC 23 Rank
Opted for IFS)
Q.If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand
and four apples and three oranges in the other hand,
what would you have?
A. Very large hands.(Good one) (UPSC 11 Rank Opted for
IPS)
Q. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A. It is not a problem, since you will never find! an
elephant with one hand. (UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)
Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A. No Probs , He sleeps at night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)
Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it
will become?
A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that. (UPSC IAS
Rank 2)
Q. What looks like half apple ?
A : The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper )
Q. What can you never eat for breakfast ?
A : Dinner.
Q. What happened when wheel was invented ?
A : It caused a revolution.
Q. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
A : Liquid (UPSC 33Rank )
Interviewer said "I shall either ask you ten easy
questions or one really difficult question.
Think well before you make up your mind!" The boy
thought for a while and said, "my choice is one really
difficult question."
"Well, good luck to you, you have made your own
choice! Now tell me this. "What comes first, Day or
Night?"
The boy was jolted into reality as his admission
depends on the correctness of his answer,
but he thought for a while and said,
"It's the DAY sir!"
"How" the interviewer asked,
"Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a
SECOND difficult question!"
He was selected for IIM!
bye
Sanjeevanam Restaurent, Adyar, chennai-20 . Yes, Except the Different , Natural, Healthy food items, It is full of worst. Worst service, Worst A/C, but costs.
Most of these certified & High class hotels like this, sangeetha, aanandha bhavan, saravana bavan , etc in Chennai like cities are in same category.
Worst fellows, they keep banners like quality food, we care for your health, etc.
I visited this sanjeevanam 3 times:
FIRST TIME: went with free coupon for 2 lunch. ordered for 3 lunch. we enquired many times about the billing once we entered. And it was clearly mentioned in the coupon also. But that fools (ISO Certified fools) billed for all 3 lunches and went arguing on that. Finally one genius accepted and we came out by paying only for extra one lunch.
SECOND TIME: Another 2 or 3 fools asked us to wait in reception since it was houseful at 2pm and told he will come and call us. Till 2.20 no one turned up. Then we entered and asked them. The Certified people replied that the meals are over. We were very hungry, tired. Not to disturb the others and the environment we came out quietly.
about Hotels in & around ADYAR Signal, Chennai-600020
2 Categories by current cost of living!!!: Low-class and Middle class
LOW-CLASS:
- items cost Rs. 20/- and above (Snacks from 5 rs)
- if u have 50 rupees, enough for 1 session
- Quality (according to me): may be filled with low-class (govt 1 rs/kg rice!!) rice/impure water/much baking soda(bread soda,cooking soda)/less masala items,
- Quantity : doubles the another category
- Environment: employees with local dress (dirty lungies and shirts/banian) without proper hair dress, without shaving, worst behaviours in front of customers,
- we need to stand and eat in that unclean area
- no proper ventilation, small dining rooms
- cleaning dining tables without water
- toilets: no
- Service: Self service,
Samples:Ganesh bhavan (near signal),Rathna cafe (near signal), Treat out-eat!! (near malar hospital bus stop), Krishna hot spot (opp. to krishna sweets/Sangeetha restaurent, gandhinagar bus stop), Yash (opp. adyar bus stand, not depot!!)
MIDDLE-CLASS:
- items cost Rs. 40/- and above (Snacks from 10 rs)
- if u have 150 rupees, enough for 1 session
- Quality (according to me): Hotels under this category keep big banners, advertise for their quality. But all are only up to that (only in banners and advertisements). Some times my self and our friends found (got!!)species and insects including snails and cockroach (TWO times in Sangeetha restaurent)
may be filled with middle-class (15 rs/kg rice!!) ,LESS baking soda(bread soda,cooking soda)/MUCH masala items,
- Quantity : HALF of the another category
- Environment: employees with Uniforms, they dont come to customers, we should call them every time for every thing including for billing!!
-Water: purified corporation water with their hands inside the cup!!
- Tiles, grand and colorful bulbs with dim light, one will remove the emptied plates(wait for 5 min), one will clean the table, one will take order, one will serve (wait minimum 15-20 minutes for every order), one will supervise
- no proper ventilation, big but congested dining rooms, A/C for namesake
- cleaning dining tables with water if you or the superwisor is present
- Service: Call bearer 2 or 3 times
- toilets: yes
Samples:near Gandhinagar or adyar canal bus stop- krishna sweets and sangeetha, near malar hospital bus stop: Treat, near adyar signal-the great adyar aanandha bhavan(A2B), vaigai woodlands!!,near BSNL Office, LB Road- Vasanth bhavan(better), sri bhavan, another hotel with lady’s name,opp. adyar bus stand, not depot!!-adyar bakery, janapriya (formerly non-veg)
BEST SNCKS in ADYAR Signal (near adyar bakery): there is a nameless snacks shop in a lane,
hot, fast moving & quality,
starts from 3Rs, timings: Evening 3 to 8
people wait and get satisfied every day