PPSC Inspector Cooperative Societies 2017 Solved Past Paper

PPSC Inspector Cooperative Societies 2017 Solved Past Paper
PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION (PPSC) WRITTEN EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO THE POST OF  INSPECTOR COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES IN THE PUNJAB COOPERATIVES DEPARTMENT -2017

1. WORM, In the field of computers stands fen
(A) Write once Read Many ✓
(B) Writable on Random Memory
(C) Write once Read Memory
(D) None of these

2. Gandhi Jinnah talks were held In 1844 to discuss the C.R, Formula, prepared by:
(A) Raja Gopal Acharia ✓
(B) V.P, Menon
(C) Abu-al-Kalam Azad
(D) Lord Waveil

3. Complete the Idiom/ Proverb: A bad workman quarrels with his
(A) Tools ✓
(B) Nails
(C) Hammer
(D) Anvil

4. In the Obama Administration Ashton Carter was the:
(A) US Ambassador to Pakistan
(B) US Foreign Secretary
(C) US Secretary of Defence ✓
(D) None of these

5. Which of the following Organization did Paklstanjolnfn1968?
(A) SAARC
(B) NAM
(C) OIC ✓
(D) D-8

6. The AIDS virus Is called:
(A) A.I.B
(B) B.I.H
(C) H.I.V ✓
(D) V.l.H

7. The Headquarters of the Asian Development Bank is located In;
(A) Bangkok
(B) Manila ✓
(C) Tokyo
(D) Kuala Lumpur

8. The novel “Old Man and the Sea” was written
(A) Charles Dickens
(B) T.S. Eliot
(C) H.V. Hudson
(B) Earnest Hemingway ✓

9. Which country is known as the 'Land of Prophets'?
(A) Iraq
(B) Saudi Arabia
(C) Palestine ✓
(D) Syria

10. The World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) conference was held on 23*24 May, 2016 in:
(A) Cairo, Egypt
(B) New York, USA
(C) Istanbul, Turkey ✓
(D) Paris, France

11. Which country was invaded twice by Germany in the 20th century and Itself had brutally colonized Congo?
(A) Belgium ✓
(B) Poland
(C) France
(D) UK

12. Fill in the blank: “He suggested that the meeting postpone.
(A) Be
(B) Is
(C) Must ✓
(D) About

13. To fill a tank 25 buckets of water are required. How many buckets of water will be required to All the same tank If the capacity of the bucket Is reduced to two-fifth of Its present capacity?
(A) 30
(B) 36
(C) 62.5 ✓
(D) None of these

14. Which among the following is the highest award for bravery?
(A) Sltara-e-Shujaat ✓
(B) Hflal-e-Shujaat
(C) Nishan-e-Shujaat
(D) Tamgha-e-Shujaat

15. Fill in the blank: Abdul grabbed the boy and rolled him on the ground to _______ the flames.
(A Kill
(B) Smother ✓
(C) burnout
(D) encourage

16. Choose the correct meaning of ENERVATE
(A) To frighten
(B) Strengthen
(C) Excite
(D) Weaken ✓

17. If A runs less fast than A and B runs fast not faster than C then, as compared to A, C runs:
(A) Same speed as A
(B) Faster then A ✓
(C) Slower then A
(D) Cannot he determined

18. The Trues of Hudabiys was an Important event In the Islamic History. Hudaibya was the name a:
(A) River
(B) Well ✓
(C) Cave
(D) Tree

19. What comes next in the series, 11,21, 32,43,54,65
(A) 76 ✓
(B) 86
(C) 73
(D) 83 .

20. In 2016, Pakistani born British boxer, Amir Khan lost a boxing bout against Saul Caneto Alvarez. To which country does Caneto Alvarez belong?
(A) USA
(B) UK
(C) Brazil
(D) Mexico ✓

21. The first mechanical calculating machine was made by:
(A) William Oughtred
(B) Goilfried Lebnitz
(C) Blaise Pascal ✓
(D) Charles Babbage

22. Who succeeded President Zla-ul-Haq as the President of Pakistan?
(A) Rafiq Tarar
(B) Ghulam Ishaq Khan ✓
(C) Farooq Leghari
(D) Fazal Elahi Chaudhry

23. What was the amount in Dirhams fixed as "Haq Mehr" when the Holy Prophet (PBUH) married Hazrat Khadlja (R.A)?
(A) 200
(B) 300
(C) 400 ✓
(D) 500

24. A soap factory makes 600 units In 9 days with help of 20 machines. How many units can be made In 12 days with the help of 18 machines?
(A) 680
(B) 720 ✓
(C) 760
(D) 810

25. Who was Nicolas Sarkozy?
(A) Former German Chancellor
(B) Former Canadian President
(C) Former French President ✓
(D) Former Prime Minister of Italy

26, Birds are:
(A) Cold-blooded
(B) Warm-blooded  ✓
(C) Both A and B
(D) None of these

27. During drought, which Nemaz Is performed?
(A) Salaat al Istasqa ✓
(B) Salat a Khasoof
(C) Salaat e Kisoof
(B) None of these

28, Whet Is the average (arithmetic mean) of the positive Integers from 1 to 169, Inclusive?
(A) 49
(B) 49.5
(6) 50
(B) 50.5 ✓

29. What is the antonym of “Subsequent"?
(A) Consequent
(B) Prior ✓
(C) Comparative
(D) Last

30. _____of the following which city received Hilal-e-Istiqlal for the heroic resistance during 1965 indo-Pak war?
(A) Narowal
(B) Peshawar
(C) Sialkot ✓
(D) Kasur

31. The headquarters of ASEAN Is located In:
(A) Kuala Lumpur
(B) Yangon
(C) Jakarta ✓
(D) Singapore

32. On September 9, 1966, Pakistan purchased Gwadar from?
(A) Oman ✓
(B) Behrain
(C) Iran
(D) Nona of these

33. Deficiency of vitamin D leads to .
(A) Anaemia
(B) Week Bones ✓
(C) Constipation
(D) Bleeding of Gums

34. Pakistan's Fiscal years If from:
(A) 1st June to 30th June
(B) 1st July to 30th June ✓
(C) 15th June to 18th July
(D) 1st July to 3 August

35. Who was the first Deputy President of the first Constituent Assembly?
(A) Liaqut All Khan
(B) J.N Mandal
(C) Molvi Tamizuddin Khan ✓
(D) Malik Ghulam Muhammad

36. The Blue Mosque of the “Mosque of Sultan Ahmad Is located In:
(A) Tehran
(B) Istanbul ✓
(C) Jeddah
(D) Cairo

37. Which of the following rivers does not flow In Africa?
(A) Nile
(B) Congo
(C) Zambezi
(D) Tigris ✓

38. The Objectives Resolution was presented by:
(A) Muhammad Ail Chaudhary
(B) Ch. Rehmat All
(C) Sardar Abdur Rab Nlshtar
(D) Liaquat Ali Khan ✓

39. Hazrat Shah Wall Uliah, a great religious scholar, was bom during the reign of whloh Mughal emperor?
(A) Akbar
(B) Shajahan
(C) Aurengzeb ✓
(D) None of these

40. Who presided over the 72 session of UN General Assembly starting from September 12,2617?
(A) Antonio Guterres ✓
(B) Peter Thomson
(C) Miroslaw Lajack
(B) Ban Ki Mon

41. The shortcut key to close a selected window is:
(A) ALT+F4 ✓
(B) Ctrl + F4
(C) Alt + F5
(D) Alt + Fe

42. Change the Passive voice of the following sentence: Flowers have grown all over the field.
(A) The field was all over been grown with flowers
(B) The field has been all over been grown with flowers
(C) The whole field is grown by the flowers
(D) The field had all over been grown with flowers ✓

43. Complete the idiom/Proverb: A sleeping fox catches no
(A) Grapes
(B) Bird
(C) Prey
(D) Poultry ✓

44. Baglihar Dam is located in Doda district of Indian Occupied Kashmir on river:
(A) Indus River
(B) Jhelum River
(C) Chenab River ✓
(D) Ravi River

45. A number is increased by 20% and then decreased by 20%, the final value of the number:
(A) Does not change
(B) Decreases by 2%
(C) Increases by 4%
(D) Decreases by 4% ✓

46. Name the camel which the Holy Prophet (PBUH) was riding on the migration of Madina:
(A) Duldul
(B) Anza
(C) Qaswa ✓
(D) Zulfiqar

47. If x + y = 6, y + z = 7 and z + x = 9,‘the average (arithmetic mean) of x, y and z is:
(A) 11/3 ✓
(B) 11/2
(C) 22/3
(D) 11

48. Gulf of Sidra is present off the Coast of:
(A) Libya ✓
(B) Liberia
(C) Macedonia
(D) None of these

49. India attacked Pakistan across the International border on:
(A) 11 September 1964
(B) 12 December 1964
(C) 6 September 1965 ✓
(D) 6 September 1966

50. A small town in Sindh “Keti Bunder" is famous for.
(A) Dry port
(B) Gas and Oil field
(C) Fish harbour ✓
(D) Military base

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51. Which of the following gases is most abundant in the air?
(A) Oxygen
(B) Nitrogen ✓
(C) Argon
(D) Hydrogen

52. Waterloo, where Napoleon was finally defeated, is situated in:
(A) France
(B) Germany
(C) Holland
(D) Belgium ✓

53. Complete the Idiom “The more things change, the more they ".
(A) Begin to improve
(B) Repeat history
(C) Stay the same ✓
(D) Resist change

54. Who invented the Polio vaccine (Oral)?
(A) Jonas Salk
(B) Burk Holder
(C) Robert Koch
(D) Albert Sabin ✓

55. Euphonious is the opposite of:
(A) Concordant
(B) Lethargic
(C) Harmonious
(D) Cacophonic ✓

56. Complete the Idioms/Proverb: to rob peter to pay ?
(A) Paul ✓
(B) Thomas
(C) Bills
(D) Debt

57. On July 16, 2017 which country celebrated the first anniversary of a foiled military coup?
(A) Indonesia
(B) Turkey ✓
(C) Yemen
(D) Republic of Congo

58. Hanna Lake is situated near:
(A) Quetta ✓
(B) Karachi
(C) Sialkot
(D) Peshawar

59. Which leader resigned from Congress party just because it did not give prayer break in its sessions?
(A) Hakim Ajmal Khan
(B) Maulana Hasrat Mohani ✓
(C) Maulana Zafar Ali Khan
(D) None of these

60. Which of the following Treaties was passed in the United Nation with 122 votes in favour and only 1 against, on July 7,2017?
(A) Treaty on the Prohibition of Child Labour
(B) Treaty on the Prohibition of Prohibition of Terrorism
(C) Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons ✓
(D) Treaty on the Prohibition of Slavery

61. Identify Pakistan’s largest Dam in terms of generating capacity:
(A) Mangla Dam
(B) Tarbela Dam ✓
(C) WarsakDam
(D) SatparaDam

62. Who was the author the booklet "Causes of the Indian Revolt’ (Asbab-e-Baghawat-e-Hind)?
(A) Nawab Salimullah
(B) Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk
(C) Viqar-ul-Mulk
(D) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan ✓

63. Who scored the first cricket test century for Pakistan in 1952?
(A) Nazar Muhammad ✓
(B) Hanif Muhammad
(C) Alimuddin
(D) Saeed Ahmad

64. Who scored the only goal to give Pakistan the first Olympic Hockey Gold Medal in 1960?
(A) Naseer Bunda ✓
(B) NoorAlam
(C) Shahnaz Sheikh
(D) Abdul Hameed Hameedi

65. Pakistan hosted the SAARC Summit for the first time in:
(A) 1986
(B) 1987
(C) 1988 ✓
(D) 1990

66. The last town inside Pakistan on the Karakoram Highway before the Chinese border is:
(A) Havelian
(B) Diamer
(C) Hunza
(D) Sost ✓

67. Which of the following devices is used to store data permanently?
(A) Hard Disk ✓
(B) Printer
(C) Cache
(D) RAM

68. In the 10th Nabavi year a very dear and near uncle of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) died. What was his name?
(A) Hazrat Hamza (RA)
(B) Hazrat Abu Talib (RA) ✓
(C) Hazrat Zubair (RA)
(D) Hazrat Abbas (RA)

69. Change the indirect speech: We said, ‘Bravo! Shahid, you have played very well".
(A) We exclaimed Shahid you played very well
(B) We applauded Shahid saYing that he had played very well ✓
(C) We wished Shahid that he played very well
(D) We advised Shahid to play well

70. Synonym of “COAGULATE" is:
(A) Collect
(B) Solidity ✓
(C) Malt
(D) Mix

71. What represents the shortest pause in a sentence?
(A) Comma ✓
(B) Hyphen
(C) Semicolon
(D) Colon

72. The speed of light (miles per second) is:
(A) 186000 ✓
(B) 286000
(C) 216816
(D) 176656

73. The All India Muslim League Resolution of ‘Divide and Quit" in 1943 was in response to
(A) "Quit India" movement of the Congress ✓
(B) Nehru Report
(C) AryaSamaj
(D) Moplah Revolt

74. Simplify the equation 5 + 2 x 6 + 3(2) = ?
(A) 9
(B) 12
(C) 7 ✓
(D) 5

75. Where is the Mughal Emperor Zaheer-ud-Din Babar buried?
(A) Kabul ✓
(B) Delhi
(C) Ajmer Sharif
(D) Ferghana

76. ‘Qissa Sohni Mahiwal" was written by?
(A) Wans Shah
(B) Mian Muhammad Baksh
(C) Hashim Shah ✓
(D) Shah Hussain

77. When was the first Constituent Assembly dissolved by Governor General Ghulam Muhammad?
(A) 1951
(B) 1952
(C) 1953
(D) 1954 ✓

78. Complete the number series 4, 9,13,22, 35?
(A) 57 ✓
(B) 70
(C) 63
(D) 75

79. Who was the author of the book “Daughter of the East"?
(A) Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah
(B) Begum Shaista ikramuliah
(C) AyeshaJalal
(D) Mohtarma Benazir Bhutt ✓

80. Who was the captain of Pakistan’s Cricket team which won the T-20 championship in 2009?
(A) Muhammad Hafeez
(B) Misbah-ul-Haq
(C) Shahid Afridi
(D) Younus Khan ✓

81. Which Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army also concurrently served as Defence Minister in the Cabinet?
(A) Gen. Frank Maservy
(B) Gen. Ayub Khan ✓
(C) Gen Yahya Khan
(D) Gen. Jahangir Karamat

82. Name the largest mammal in the world?
(A) Elephant
(B) Giraffe ✓
(C) Octopus
(D) Blue Whale

83. In which province is the town Dalbandin located?
(A) Punjab
(B) Sindh
(C) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
(D) Balochistan ✓

84. Complete the Proverb ‘A friend in need is a friend
(A) Not enemy
(B) of others
(C) Indeed ✓
(D) of course

85. In which district is the archaeological site Harappa located?
(A) Sukker
(B) Sahiwal ✓
(C) Thatta
(D) Chakwal

86. The 1857 War of Independence started from:
(A) Agra
(B) Lucknow
(C) Meerut ✓
(D) Delhi

87. Sharmeen Obald Chinoy won an Oscar Award for the second time for her documentary movie titled
(A) Saving Face ✓
(B) Road to Forgiveness
(C) In the Line of Duty
(D) A Girl in the River

88. Complete the Idiom 'Every cloud has a silver
(A) Halo
(B) Rain
(C) Liningv
(D) Shadow

89. In which year did Pakistan win its first Olympic Hockey Gold Medal?
(A) 1957
(B) 1960
(C) 1964 ✓
(D) 1968

90. Solve the equation 9-3 +1/3 + 1= ?
(A) 1
(B) 3 ✓
(C) 9
(D) 6