NTS Past Papers Solved for Assistant Director LDA
NTS GENERAL KNOWLEDGE PAPER 2012
FOR THE POSTS OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR LDA
1. The headquarters of International Olympic Committee is at:
(A) Lausanne, Switzerland ☑️
(B) Moscow
(C) Los Angeles
(D) New York
2. Who was the author of “Utopia"?
(A) Sir Walter Scott
(B) Edith Warton
(C) Charles Dickens
(D) Sir Thomas More ☑️
3. What are Vaccines?
(A) Same as monoclonal antibodies
(B) Treated bacteria or viruses or one of their proteins ☑️
(C) MHC proteins
(D) Strands of nucleic acids
4. Rawal Lake is situated in:
(A) Islamabad ☑️
(B) Peshawar
(C) Quetta
(D) None of these
5. Which one of the following is an example of hereditary disease?
(A) AIDS
(B) Haemophilia ☑️
(C) Syphilis
(D) Formalin
6. First capital of Pakistan was:
(A) Islamabad
(B) Karachi ☑️
(C) Dhaka
(D) None of the above
7. First natural gas reserves was discovered at
(A) Sui ☑️
(B) Zain
(C) Khund
(D) None of the above
8. Which is the largest province of Pakistan according to population?
(A) Punjab ☑️
(B) Sindh
(C) NWF
(D) Baluchistan
9. Cylindrical glasses are advised to a patient suffering from
(A) Hypermetropia
(B) Myopia
(C) Astigmatism ☑️
(D) Night blindness
10. Myopia is a defect of vistor.blurring
(A) Close objects
(B) Distant objects ☑️
(C) Coloured objects
(D) Identification of objects in dim light
11. Autopsy is connected with
(A) Post-mortem ☑️
(B) Study of living cells
(C) Cancer
(D) None of these
12. What do you understand by 'tour de force'?
(A) Tour of Armed forces
(B) Forceful tour
(C) A feat of strength ☑️
(D) None of them
13. Headquarter of International Finance Corporation (FC) is located in:
(A) New York
(B) Washington ☑️
(C) Geneva
(D) None of these
14. Name the author of "Pakistan in the Twentieth Century, A Political History.
(A) S. Akbar Zaidi
(B) Stanley Wolpert
(C) Lawrence Ziring ☑️
(D) Wheeler Mortimer
15. ‘Mein Kampf is autobiography of:
(A) Boras Postemak
(B) Adolf Hitler ☑️
(C) B. Navakov
(D) Goethe
16. The proteins are made in the cells under the ! instructions of:
(A) Genes ☑️
(B) DNA
(C) RNA
(D) Ribosome
17. When the days and nights are equal the rays of the sun directly fall on the:
(A) Equator ☑️
(B) Tropic of Cancer
(C) South Pole
(D) North Pole
18. Which of the following diseases is caused by I virus?
(A) Smallpox ☑️
(B) Tuberculosis
(C) Malaria
(D) Cholera
19. Which one of the following is the highest plateau in the world?
(A) Tibet (Pamir) ☑️
(B) Pother
(C) Lhotse
(D) None these
20. The disease in which bronchial tubes become narrow due to spasms of bronchial muscles Is called
(A) Influenza
(B) Asthma ☑️
(C) Diphtheria
(D) None of these
21. Gene was first isolated in laboratory by
(A) J.C. Bose
(B) John Napier
(C) Hargobind Khorana ☑️
(D) Friedrich Miescher
22. Which one of the following diseases Is genetically linked?
(A) Epilepsy
(B) AIDS
(C) Colorblindness ☑️
(D) Leucoderma
23. Trachoma is a disease of the
(A) Brain
(B) Larynx
(C) Ear
(D) Eye ☑️
24. When first census was conducted in Pakistan?
(A) 1955
(B) 1951 ☑️
(C) 1953
(D) 1954
25. Malaria is a disease which affects the:
(A) Heart
(B) Lungs
(C) Spleen ☑️
(D) Kidney
26. Meningitis is caused by:
(A) Fungi
(B) Salmonella
(C) Meningococcus ☑️
(D) Virus menin
27. Timur invaded India during the reign of:
(A) Alauddin Khilji
(B) Bahlol Lodi
(C) Firoz Tughlaq
(D) Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud ShahTughluq ☑️
28. Who laid the foundation of the first independent Turkish kingdom in India?
(A) Mohammad bin Qasim
(B) Qutubuddin Aibak ☑️
(C) Ghiasuddin Balban
(D) None of these
29. Headquarter of The World Trade Organization (WTO) is located in:
(A) Geneva ☑️
(B) Paris
(C) Vienna
(D) None of these
30. United Nations Development Programme was established in:
(A) 1962
(B) 1965 ☑️
(C) 1956
(D) None of these
31. What is the motto of Red Cross?
(A) In War, Charity ☑️
(B) Service in War
(C) Help in War
(D) All of these
32. Name of the great Muslim scientist who was considered as one of the founders of computer?
(A) Al Khawarizmi ☑️
(B) Zakerya
(C) Abu Sina
(D) None of these
33. Who is the owner of the Microsoft computer company?
(A) Bill Clinton
(B) Dick Cheney
(C) Bill Gates ☑️
(D) None of above
34. What is the diameter of Earth?
(A) 10,556 Kilometre
(B) 12,742 Kilometre ☑️
(C) 14,756 Kilometre
(D) None of these
35. The time required by moonlight to reach the earth is
(A) One second
(B) 1.3 second ☑️
(C) 2 seconds
(D) 3 seconds
36. Lines drawn parallel to the equator are called
(A) Latitudes ☑️
(B) Longitudes
(C) Meridians
(D) None of these
37. Name the author of 'Old Man and the Sea'?
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) Charles Dickens
(C) John Masefield
(D) Earnest Hemingway ☑️
38. Which one of the following is heredity disease?
(A) Polio
(B) Cholera
(C) Typhoid
(D) Haemophilia ☑️
39. Deficiency of sodium and potassium causes:
(A) Muscular cramps
(B) Headache
(C) Constipation
(D) All of these ☑️
40. Which is fastest growing tree in the world?
(A) Teak
(B) Sal
(C) Eucalyptus ☑️
(D) Banyan
41. What is the meaning of Wag?
(A) prig
(B) bore
(C) joker ☑️
(D) blight
42. What is the meaning of Axiom?
(A) absurdity
(B) shirk
(C) elude
(D) maxim ☑️
43. What is the meaning of Authentic?
(A) strive
(B) serve
(C) genuine ☑️
(D) spurious
44. What is the meaning of Bemoan?
(A) acclaim
(B) galvanize
(C) lament ☑️
(D) defect
45. The study of derivation of words is:
(A) Etymology ☑️
(B) physics
(C) Astrology
(D) zoology
46. The study of hair and its disorders is called:
(A) toxophily
(B) tribology
(C) tocology
(D) trichology ☑️
47. What is the meaning of Supercilious?
(A) Arrogant ☑️
(B) courteous
(C) Quell
(D) excite
48. There is a limit everything in life.
(A) to ☑️
(B) on
(C) in
(D) with
49. She took advantage his leniency.
(A) of ☑️
(B) with
(C) after
(D) from
50. I met Asia the way to my office.
(A) in
(B) on ☑️
(C) upon
(D) with
51. Population of a district is 2,96,000 out of which 1,66,000 are male. 50% of the population is literate. If 70% males are literate, the number of women, who are literate is...
A) 32,200
(B) 66,400
(C) 31,800 ☑️
(D) 48,000
52. A certain number when divided by 899 gives a remainder 63. What is the remainder when the same number is divided by 29?
(A) 25
(B) 5
(C) 27
(D) 31
53. A man engaged a servant on the condition that he would pay him Rs. 90 and also give him a turban after service of one year. He served only for nine months and received a turban and Rs. 65. Find the value of the turban in rupees
(A) 10
(B) 9 ☑️
(C) 0
(D) 2.50
54. A can do a piece of work in 24 days which B can do it in 16 days. With the help of C, they finish the work in 8 days. C alone can do the work in
(A) 48 days ☑️
(B) 36 days
(C) 32 days
(D) 40 days
55. A garrison of 500 men had provisions for 24 days. However reinforcement of 300 men arrived. The food will now last for
(A) 18 days
(B) 15 days ☑️
(C) 17 1/2 days
(D) 16 days
56. If 3 men with 4 boys can earn Rs.210 in 7 days and 11 men with 13 boys can earn Rs.810 on 8 days in what time will men with 9 days earn Rs.1100?
(A) 6 days
(B) 10 days
(C) 12 days
(D) 16 days ☑️
57. in a business, A invests half as much as B and B invests twice as much as C. If C invests
Rs. 563, then A’s investment is
(A) Rs.1126
(B) Rs.1689
(C) Rs.563 ☑️
(D) None of these
58. The ratio between two numbers is 3:5. If each number is increased by 5, the ratio becomes
4:5, difference between the numbers is
(A) 1
(B) 2 ☑️
(C) 3
(D) 4
59. In a mixture of 28 litres, the ratio of milk and
water is 5:2. Another 2 litres of water is added to the mixture then the ratio of milk and water in the resulting mixture is
(A) 7:2
(B) 1:2
(C) 5:4 .
(D) 2:1 ☑️
60. The average of 13 results is 68. The average of first seven is 63 and that of the last seven is 70; the seventh result is
(A) 73.5
(B) 94
(C) 47 ☑️
(D) 69
61. Whoever, habitually deals in stolen property, shall be punished with:
(A) Imprisonment for life and fine
(B) Imprisonment extendable to ten years
(C) Imprisonment extendable to ten years and fine
(D) a & c are correct ☑️
62. Punishment of cheating shall be:
(A) Improvement extendable to one year
(B) Improvement extendable to one year or fine
(C) Improvement extendable to one year or fine or both ☑️
(D) Improvement extendable to one year and fine
63. Whoever cheats by “personation* shall be punished with:
(A) Imprisonment which may extend to seven years
(B) Fine
(C) Imprisonment which may extend to seven years and fine
(D) All of the above ☑️
64. Punishment for mischief shall be:
(A) Imprisonment extendable to three months or fine or both
(B) Imprisonment extendable to four months or fine or both ☑️
(C) Imprisonment extendable to six months or fine or both
(D) Imprisonment extendable to one year or fine or both
65. Right of Qisas in Qatl-i-Amd rests with:
(A) The Wali, if he is the only Wali
(B) If the victim has no Wali, then with the government
(C) Both of the above ☑️
(D) None of the above
66. Chapter III of Specific relief Act deals with:
(A) Specific Performance of Contracts
(B) Rectification of Instruments ☑️
(C) Recession of contracts
(D) Cancellation of Instruments
67. Term the body with judicial powers?
(A) Court ☑️
(B) Bar
(C) Judicial Court
(D) Civil Court
68. What is called an amount of money which is claimed as compensation for physical/material loss?
(A) Fine
(B) Demurrage
(C) Damages ☑️
(D) Compensation
69. An order of the court in proceedings commenced by petition is called:
(A) Decree ☑️
(B) Decision
(C) Short orders
(D) Court orders
70. What is called that legal document which sets out the terms of an agreement, signed by both parties?
(A) Decree
(B) Affidavit
(C) Deed ☑️
(D) Charter
71. Order I Rule 1 deals with:
(A) Who may be joined as plaintiff ☑️
(B) Power of court to order separate trials
(C) Who may be joined as defendants
(D) Court may give judgment for or against one or more of joint parties
72. Order II of CPC deals with:
(A) Frame of suit ☑️
(B) Recognized agents & pleaders
(C) Institution of suits
(D) Issue and service of summons
73. Order III CPC deals with:
(A) Frame of suit
(B) Recognized agents and pleaders ☑️
(C) Institution of suits
(D) Issue and service of summons
74. Under Order VII, Rule 11, a plaint shall be rejected if:
(A) It does not disclose a cause of action, or, the suit appears from the statement in the plaint to be barred by any law
(B) Where thft, relief claimed is undervalued and the plaintiff does not correct the valuation within the time fixed by the court for the said purpose
(C) Where the relief claimed is property valued but the plaint is written upon paper insufficiently stamped
(D) All of the above ☑️
75. Under section 124 of CPC the rules which made the ‘Rule Committees’ shall report to:
(A) District Court
(B) Session Court
(C) High Court ☑️
(D) Supreme Court
76. Under section 126 of CPC the rules which , made the “Rule Committees” shall be subject I to previous approval of the:
(A) High Court
(B) Local Government
(C) Provincial Government ☑️
(D) Federal Government
77. Precept is:
(A) An order to the decree holder to get the decree executed.
(B) An order or direction given by one court to another court for some act to be done ☑️
(C) An order to judgment debtor
(D) All of the above
78. The Code of Criminal Procedure 1898 came into force on the
(A) 1st July, 1899
(B) 6th July, 1901
(C) 8th July, 1898 ☑️
(D) 4th July, 1900
79. means a Judicial Magnate and
includes a Special Judicial Magistrate appointed under Sections 12 and 14
(A) Judicial Proceeding
(B) Magistrate ☑️
(C) Non-cognizable offence
(D) Offence
80. means an offence for, and “non-cognizable case* means a case in which a police officer, may not arrest with our warrant
(A) Judicial Proceeding
(B) Magistrate
(C) Non-cognizable offence ☑️
(D) Offence
81. Damar means the compensation determined by the court to be paid by the offender to the victim for causing hurt not liable to:
(A) Arsh ☑️
(B) Diyat
(C) Ikhar-i-Tam
(D) Wali
82. Qatl-i-Amd is:
(A) Killing a person with intention to kill him
(B) Injuring a person which ordinarily would cause his death
(C) Both of the above ☑️
(D) None of the above
83. In “Counterfeit* a man makes one thing to resemble with another to practice:
(A) Law
(B) Fraud
(C) Deception ☑️
(D) All of the above
84. “A will” as defined by PPC denotes:
(A) A document of property
(B) Any testamentary document ☑️
(C) An F.I.R.
(D) Letter of succession
85. If, through fraud or mutual mistake of the parties, a contract or instrument does not truly express their intention, then:
(A) Only Plaintiff can institute a suit for its rectification
(B) Only Defendant can institute a suit for its rectification
(C) Either party can institute a suit for its rectification, which may be rectified by the court only if it is clearly shown that there has been fraud or mistake in framing the instrument ☑️
(D) None of above
86. Total sections in Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997 are
(A) 78 ☑️
(B) 76
(C) 31
(D) 55
87. An offence has been committed, or is suspected on reasonable grounds to have been committed by a person against the laws of the requesting State which, if committed in Pakistan, would have constituted an
(A) Offence under this Act ☑️
(B) Not offence under this Act
(C) Not crime under this Act
(D) None of these
88. means any act or omission made punishable by any law for the time being in force it also includes any act in respect of which a complainant may be made under Section 20 of the Cattle Trespass Act, 1871
(A) Judicial Proceeding
(B) Magistrate
(C) Non-cognizable offence
(D) Offence ☑️
89. includes also a house, building, tent and vessel
(A) Officer in charge of a police station
(B) Place ☑️
(C) Pleader
(D) Police Station
90. means any post or place declared, generally or specially, by the Provincial Government to be a police station, and includes any local area specified by the Provincial Government in this behalf
(A) Officer in charge of a police station
(B) Place
(C) Pleader
(D) Police Station ☑️
91. means any person appointed under Section 492, and includes any person acting under the directions of a Public Prosecutor and any person conducting a prosecution on behalf of the State in any High Court in the exercise of its original criminal jurisdiction
(A) Public Prosecutor ☑️
(B) Sub-division
(C) Pleader
(D) Police Station
92. The period of imprisonment awarded in default of payment of fine shall not exceed
(A) Full imprisonment of the offence.
(B) Half imprisonment of the offence.
(C) One-Fourth of the imprisonment of the offence ☑️
93. Punishment for criminal breach of trust shall be:
(A) Imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years of fine or both ☑️
(B) Imprisonment for a term which may extend to six years of fine or both
(C) Imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years or fine or both
(D) Imprisonment for a term which may extend to eight years or fine or both
94. Whoever being a public servant or banker or merchant or agent, commits criminal breach of trust, shall be punished With:
(A) Imprisonment which may extend to ten years
(B) Imprisonment which may extend to ten years or fine
(C) Imprisonment which may extend to ten years or fine or both
(D) imprisonment which may extend to ten years and find ☑️
95. Anyone guilty of blasphemy shall be punished with:
(A) Life imprisonment with fine
(B) Death with fine
(C) Both of the above ☑️
(D) None of the above
96. The Court of Civil Judge passing the decree if applied for execution of the decree passed by it:
(A) Cannot stay the operation of the decree
(B) Can stay the execution till filing of the appeal to the higher court ☑️
(C) Can stay the execution even after the period for filing the appeal is expired.
(D) None of these
97. If anyone of the members of dacoits, commit a murder during dacoity, every member shall be punished with:
(A) Death Penalty
(B) Life Imprisonment
(C) Rigorous imprisonment for a period not less than 5 years and not more than 10 years
(D) All of the above ☑️
98. Whoever dishonestly misappropriates any movable property shall be punished with:
(A) Imprisonment extendable to five years
(B) Imprisonment extendable to five years or fine
(C) Imprisonment extendable to five years or fine or both ☑️
(D) Imprisonment extendable to five years and fine
99. Anyone guilty of sale of adulterated drugs shall be punished with:
(A) Imprisonment extendable to six months
(B) Fine extendable to one thousand rupees
(C) Both of the above
(D) All of the above ☑️
100. Any one guilty of deliberate and malicious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs shall be punished with:
(A) Imprisonment extendable to ten years, or with fine, or with both
(B) Imprisonment extendable to eleven years, or with fine, or with both
(C) Imprisonment extendable to fifteen years, or with fine, or with both
(D) None of the above ☑️
