Directions for the following 5 (five) items: Consider the following information and answer the five items that follow:
There are five persons in a group — P, Q, R, S and T. The group has one doctor, one lawyer and one artist. P and S are unmarried students. T is a man married to one of the group members. Q is the brother of P and is neither doctor nor artist. R is not doctor.
Who of the following is definitely a man?
Answer & explanation
Answer: (c) Q
Q is described as the brother of P, so Q is certainly a man. Nothing fixes the sex of P or S. T is also a man, but T is not among the options.
- Q is 'the brother of P' — so Q is a man.
- P and S are only called unmarried students; their sex is not given.
- T is 'a man' but is not an option, so the answer is Q.
Remember · 'Definitely' needs a direct word in the data — brother, man, husband; roles like student or doctor say nothing about sex.
Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper II (2016, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). ·