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PPSC Assistant Superintendent Jail 2013 Solved Past Papers
PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT JAIL (BS-16)
IN THE HOME DEPARTMENT, 2013

1. A Muslim majority area awarded to India during partition is:
(A) Sialkot
(B) Ferozpur ✓
(C) Kasur
(D) Fazalabad

2. War of Mysore was fought during the period of
(A) Tipu Sultan ✓
(B) Muhammad Tayyab
(C) Syed Ahmad Shaheed
(D) Haji Shariatullah

3. A woman who was fighting in 1857 War of Independence:
(A) Razia Sultana
(B) Chand Bibi
(C) Rani Jhansi ✓
(D) None of these

4. D 8 is a group of:
(A) African countries
(B) European countries
(C) Muslim countries ✓
(D) None of these

5. Leppy is a coastal city of:
(A) Egypt
(B) Turkey
(C) Syria ✓
(D) Iran

6. You cannot open your personal account in:
(A) Habib Bank
(B) Cooperative Bank
(C) State Bank ✓
(D) National Bank

7. Which picture is printed on the back of 5000 rupees?
(A) Faisal Mosque ✓
(B) Minar e Pakistan
(C) Shahi Mosque
(D) Shahi Fort

8. Name the Mughal emperor who died in 1707?
(A) Jahangir
(B) Aurangzeb ✓
(C) ShahJahan
(D) Akbar

9. Who is Interior minister of Pakistan?
(A) Ch. Nisar Ali Khan ✓
(B) Nayyar Hussain Bukhari
(C) Dr Abdul Malik Baloch
(D) Nawaz Sharif

10. Keenjar Lake is situated in the district of:
(A) Karachi
(B) Dadu
(C) Badin
(D) Thatta ✓

11. Who is Chairman of senate?
(A) Ch. Nisar Ali Khan
(B) Nayyar Hussain Bukhari ✓
(C) Dr Abdul Malik Baloch
(D) Nawaz Sharif

12. Who is Chief Minister of Balochistan?
(A) Ch. Nisar Ali Khan
(B) Nayyar Hussain Bukhari
(C) Dr Abdul Malik Baloch ✓
(D) Nawaz Sharif

13. Total Seats of national assembly of Pakistan are:
(A) 332
(B) 272
(C) 372
(D) 342 ✓

14. Women seats in national assembly:
(A) 40
(B) 50
(C) 60 ✓
(D) 70

15. Which Muslim ruler sacked Delhi in 1739?
(A) Akbar
(B) Ibrahim Lodhi
(C) Sher Shah Suri
(D) Nadir Shah ✓

16. Quaid e Azam joined Muslim League:
(A) 1911
(B) 1912
(C) 1913 ✓
(D) 1914

17. When Quaid e Azam presented his 14 points?
(A) 1925
(B) 1928
(C) 1929 ✓
(D) 1930

18. Present constitution assembly of Pakistan is:
(A) 11th
(B) 12th
(C) 13th
(D) 14th ✓

19. Pakistan joined NAM in:
(A) 1977
(B) 1976
(C) 1978
(D) 1979 ✓

20. Ban ki Moon is the national of:
(A) North Korea
(B) Japan
(C) South Korea ✓
(D) America

21. Nawaz Sharif s first tenure was started from:
(A) 1991
(B) 1988
(C) 1990 ✓
(D) 1993

22. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto prime minister of Pakistan from:
(A) 1971-1975
(B) 1972-1978
(C) 1973-1977 ✓
(D) 1974-1979

23. What is Wikipedia?
(A) A hilly range in Canada
(B) An online encyclopedia ✓
(C) A children complex in Los Angles
(D) A children's amusement park in Disney Land

24. Guantanamo Bay prison is in:
(A) America
(B) Cuba ✓
(C) Panama
(D) Australia

25. Ricky Ponting is cricket player of:
(A) New Zeeland
(B) Australia ✓
(C) England
(D) South Africa

26. Madagascar is in:
(A) Africa ✓
(B) Australia
(C) America
(D) Asia

27. Lione Messi is a:
(A) Footballer ✓
(B) Hockey player
(C) Golfer
(D) Cricketer

28. The coldest Place of Pakistan:
(A) Zirat
(B) Quetta ✓
(C) Malam Jaba
(D) None of these

29. Taksim Square is present in:
(A) Istanbul ✓
(B) Cairo
(C) Syria
(D) Jordon

30. Founder of jihad movement:
(A) TayyabJi
(B) Syed Ahmad Shaheed ✓
(C) Haji Shariatullah
(D) None of these

31. What is the capital of Ethiopia?
(A) Khartoum
(B) Addis Ababa ✓
(C) Kigali
(D) Abidjan

32. Mount Blanc Mountain is present in:
(A) France ✓
(B) Italy
(C) Nepal
(D) India

33. Sachal Sarmast poet belonged from which province?
(A) Punjab
(B) KPK ✓
(C) Sindh
(D) Balochistan

34. Tehzibul Akhlaq was published by:
(A) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan ✓
(B) Syed Ahmad Shaheed
(C) Haji Shariatullah
(D) None of these

35. The court call to person in law is called?
(A) Summons ✓
(B) Writ
(C) Pleading
(D) Suit

36. Which is not a primary color?
(A) Blue
(B) Green
(C) Red
(D) Yellow ✓

37. Maximum calories has:
(A) Fat ✓
(B) Proteins
(C) Minerals
(D) Carbohydrates

38. Who invented the Steam Locomotive?
(A) Edison
(B) Stephenson ✓
(C) JRD Tata
(D) Alexander

39. Insulin is produced by:
(A) Pancreas ✓
(B) Liver
(C) Kidney
(D) None of these

40. Short sighted can see clearly:
(A) Distant object ✓
(B) Near object
(C) Both
(D) None of these

41. Who is current Prime minister of Turkey?
(A) Recep Tayyip Erdogan ✓
(B) Abdulla Gul
(C) NasirAjeet
(D) None of these

42. Remission systems means:
(A) Increase imprisonment
(B) Decrease imprisonment ✓
(C) Imprisonment for life
(D) None of these

43. What is the antonym of contract?
(A) Agreement
(B) Treaty ✓
(C) Expand
(D) None of these

44. What is the antonym of gradual?
(A) Sudden ✓
(B) Slow
(C) Ready
(D) None of these

45. Which is the capital of Sudan?
(A) Khartoum ✓
(B) Addis Ababa
(C) Kigali
(D) Abidjan

46. Which is the capital of France?
(A) Paris ✓
(B) London
(C) Brisbane
(D) None of these

47. Mother Teresa was bom in:
(A) Germany
(B) England
(C) Switzerland
(D) Albania ✓

48. Which Mughal emperor built Badshahi Mosque?
(A) Jahangir
(B) Aurangzeb ✓
(C) ShahJahan
(D) Akbar

49. The famous book ‘The Origin of Species was written by:
(A) Tennyson
(B) Charles Darwin ✓
(C) Karl Marx
(D) Virgil

50. Faraizi Movement was founded by:
(A) Muhammad Tayyab
(B) Syed Ahmad Shaheed
(C) Haji Shariatullah ✓
(D) None of these

51 How many jails are present in Punjab?
(A) 31
(B) 32 ✓
(C) 34
(D) 35

52. The Cabinet Mission announced their plan on:
(A) 8th April 1947
(B) 5th December 1947
(C) 15th January 1947
(D) 16th May 1946 ✓

53 Which are responsible for blood clotting?
(A) Platelets ✓
(B) Red blood cells
(C) White blood cells
(D) None of these

54. Big Ben, a huge clock was installed at British Parliament in:
(A) 1940
(B) 1859 ✓
(C) 1875
(D) 1872

55. Who was the first Asian to have received the Nobel Prize?
(A) C.V. Raman
(B) R.N. Tagore ✓
(C) Mother Teresa
(D) I.A. Bunin

56. Who presided over the Simla Conference in 1945?
(A) Lord Minto
(B) Lord Wavell ✓
(C) Lord Irwin
(D) Lord Mountbatten

57. The Nobel Prize for Peace is given in the city of:
(A) Stockholm
(B) Oslo ✓
(C) Brussels
(D) Copenhagen

58. Which is largest gland in the human body?
(A) Pancreas
(B) Liver ✓
(C) Ovary
(D) Sweat gland

59. The World largest island is:
(A) Madagascar
(B) Sumatra
(C) New Guinea
(D) Greenland ✓

60. European Court of Justice is based in:
(A) Luxembourg ✓
(B) Austria
(C) Belgium
(D) Netherlands

61. Which of the following is the oldest Barrage?
(A) Kotri
(B) Guddu
(C) Taunsa
(D) Sukkur ✓

62. The World Cup Cricket 2007 will be played in:
(A) England
(B) Australia
(C) New Zealand
(D) West Indies ✓

63. ‘The Light House of Alexandria’ is among the seven wonders of the world, located in:
(A) Turkey
(B) Egypt ✓
(C) Greece
(D) Italy

64. The term of office of a Judge of International Court of Justice is:
(A) Five Years
(B) Six Years
(C) Nine Years ✓
(D) Ten Years

65. The world's largest natural gas producer country is:
(A) USA
(B) Russia ✓
(C) Iran
(D) France

66. The world's largest glacier is:
(A) Lambert ✓
(B) Siachin
(C) Hispar
(D) None of the above

67. ‘MacMohan Line' is a boundary between:
(A) Germany and Poland
(B) China and India ✓
(C) India and Nepal
(D) China and Nepal

68. The world's oldest National Anthem is of:
(A) China
(B) Iran
(C) Greece
(D) Japan ✓

69. Which capital city is situated at the highest altitude?
(A) Ankara
(B) Sofia
(C) Minsk
(D) La Paz ✓

70. First meeting of constituent assembly of Pakistan was held on
(A) 10th August 1947 ✓
(B) 11 th August 1947
(C) 12th August 1947
(D) 13th August 1947

71. A Dish washer can wash' 12 dishes in 6 minutes. At this rate how many cars can be washed, in three hours?
(A) 330
(B) 340
(C) 380
(D) 360 ✓

72. 12 men build a house in 24 days. How much time will it take 8 men to do this work?
(A) 28 days
(B) 32 days ✓
(C) 30 days
(D) 22 days

73. Which number will come next? 3. 5, 7,11,13,17
(A) 21
(B) 23
(C) 18
(D) 19 ✓

74. Oaniyal sold a chair Rs.800 which he was bought for Rs.1000. What is his % loss?
(A) 20%
(B) 10%
(C) 15%
(D) 25%

75. Mention the number, whose 17% is 51?
(A) 300 ✓
(B) 150
(C) 351
(D) 510

76. Pick up the correct word?
(A) Bureaucracy ✓
(B) Beureaucracy
(C) Buraoucracy
(D) Bureuocracy

77. Pick up the correct word?
(A) Elctridty
(B) Electrydty
(C) Elactricity
(D) Electncity ✓

78. Pick up the correct word?
(A) Immeditely
(B) Imediately
(C) Emmediately
(D) Immediately ✓

79. Pick up the correct word?
(A) Oppuortunity
(B) Oppartunity
(C) Oportunity
(D) Opportunity ✓

80. Pick up the correct word?
(A) Challange
(B) Chalenge
(C) Challenge ✓
(D) Chellange

81. The famous book ‘The origin of Spedes is written by:
(A) Tennyson
(B) Charles Darwin ✓
(C) Karl Marx
(D) Virgil

82. Raja Gidh is written by:
(A) Imtiaz Ali Taj
(B) Banu Kudsia ✓
(C) Allama lqbal
(D) Ahmad Fraz

83. Taluvee Islam is written by:
(A) Imtiaz Ali Taj
(B) Banu Kudsia
(C) Allama lqbal ✓
(D) Ahmad Fraz

84. Who won Lenin prize?
(A) Imtiaz Ali Taj
(B) Banu Kudsia
(C) Allama Iqbal
(D) Faiz Ahmad Faiz ✓

85. Who is known as Awami poet of Urdu?
(A) Allama Iqbal
(B) Nazir Akber Allabadi ✓
(C) Ahmad Fraz
(D) None of these

86. What are the total Sahae Sitta books?
(A) 4
(B) 5
(C) 6 ✓
(D) 8

87. Tadveen Quran was started during khilaft period of
(A) HazratUmerRA
(B) Hazrat Ali RA
(C) Hazrat Usman RA ✓
(D) None of these

88. Which prophet name is the most time mentis in Quran?
(A) Hazrat Issa AS
(B) Hazrat Mossa AS ✓
(C) Hazrat Adam AS
(D) None of these

89. Bat ul Muqadas was conquered during khil* period of:
(A) Hazrat Usman RA
(B) Hazrat Umer RA ✓
(C) Hazrat Ali RA
(D) None of these

90. First revelation came to the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) in:
(A) Arafat
(B) Cave in Hira ✓
(C) CaveofThaur
(D) Ka'aba

91. ChachaChhakan was written by:
(A) Imtiaz Ali Taj ✓
(B) BanuKudsia
(C) Allama Iqbal
(D) Ahmad Fraz

92. The Bolshevik Revolution is assodated with
(A) France
(B) Germany ✓
(C) Russia
(D) England

93. Nelson Mandela was the President of which country?
(A) Ethiopia
(B) Zambia
(C) Ghana
(D) South Africa ✓

94. Niagara Falls are situated in:
(A) France
(B) Italy
(C) Sweden
(D) USA & Canada ✓

95. Headquarters of World Economic Forum i| situated in:
(A) Davos
(B) London
(C) Geneva ✓
(D) New York

96. Which was the first Ghazwa of Islam?
(A) Abwa ✓
(B) Badr
(C) Ohad
(D) Mota

97. Greenwich is situated near the city of
(A) New York
(B) Tokyo
(C) Paris
(D) London ✓

98. Who was the last Viceroy?
(A) Lord Irwin
(B) Lord Mountbatten ✓
(C) Lord Waved
(D) Lord Linlithgow

99. What day is observed internationally on 1st October?
(A) Children day
(B) Education day
(C) Teachers day ✓
(D) Aids day

100. Name the city which is a seat of UNO International Court of Justice?
(A) Hamburg
(B) Greenwich
(C) Geneva
(D) Hague ✓

PPSC Assistant Superintendent Jail 2015 Solved Past Papers
PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT JAIL (FEMALE)
IN THE PUNJAB PRISON (HOME) DEPARTMENT, 2015

(A) Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk
(B) Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk
(C) Muiana Muhammad Ali Jauhar ✓
(D) Justice Shah Din

2. The Hindu had launched “Swadeshi Movement" (to boycott English made goods) in the wake of
(A) The Urdu Hindi Controversy 1867
(B) Partition of Bengal 1905 ✓
(C) Jallianwala Bagh Tragedy 1919
(D) All of these events

3. What was the significances of 21" annual : session of all India Muslim League
(A) Quaid-e-Azam presented 14 points
(B) Allama Iqbal Delivered Allahabad Address ✓
(C) Lahore Resolution was passed
(D) Quaid-e-Azam was elected as permanent President of All India Muslim League

4. Under which act the Muslim demand of Separate Electorate was first conceded by the British Government?
(A) The India Council Act 1892
(B) Minto Morley Reforms 1909 ✓
(C) Montagu Chelmsford Reforms 1919
(D) The Government of India Act 1935

5. Who was the Viceroy of India ffoml 889 to 1905?
(A) Lord Curzon ✓
(B) Lord Mountbatten
(C) Lord Inwin
(D) Lord Attlee

6. Waddia mandir Scheme" of Congress rule (1937-39) related to
(A) Health
(B) Social Welfare
(C) Education ✓
(D) Police

7. Which of the following Leaders helped Quaid-e-Azam in the preparation of his 14 point in 1929
(A) Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar ✓
(B) Maulana Shaukat Ali
(C) Liaqat Ali Khan
(D) Maulana Hasrat Mohani

8. Under Gandhi Irwin pact March 1931, it was decided that
(A) The system of Diarchy will be abolished
(B) The System of the Separate Electorates will be retained for the Muslims
(C) The Congress will represent the Low caste Hindus in the elected bodies
(D) The Congress will discontinue its Civil Disobedience Movement ✓

9. Who announced the Communal Award of 1932?
(A) Sir Ramsay Macdonald ✓
(B) Lord Rippen
(C) Sir John Simon
(D) Lord Minto

10. To whom Lord Waved succeeded as Governor General of India in 1943?
(A) Lord Irvin
(B) Lord Minto
(C) Lord in Linlithgow ✓
(D) Lord Mayo

11. The All India Muslim League rejected the Waved Plan of 1945 for
(A) It delayed the Partition of India for another decade
(B) It ensured important portfolios to congress in the Executive
(C) It did not give League the si nominate the Muslim Member Executive Council ✓
(D) None of the above

12. The August Offer (1940) was aimed at
(A) Inviting a certain numbers of Indian representatives to join Viceroy's Executive Council ✓
(B) Resolving Hindu Muslim differences
(C) Offering autonomy to Provinces
(D) Offering greater shares to Indians in services

13. The Indian Muslims observed “Day of Deliverance" after the resignation of congress ministries on
(A) 12 September 1939
(B) 22 September 1939
(C) 12 December 1939
(D) 22 December 1939 ✓

14. Identify the person who took part in all three round table conferences (1930-32)
(A) Chauhdary Muhammad Ali
(B) Sikandar Mirza
(A) Ghulam Muhammad
(D) Sir Muhammad Zafarullah ✓

15. The head of the boundary commission for demarcation of borders between India and Pakistan was
(A) Sir Stafford Cripps
(B) Lord Mountbatten
(C) Sir Cyril Raddiffe ✓
(D) Lord Waved

16. Identify the Secretary of State for India who led the Cabinet Mission in 1946
(A) Sir Stafford Cripps
(B) A.V. Alexander
(C) Lord Pethick Lawrence ✓
(D) Sir Anthony Macdonald

17. Which of the following is the lightest metal?
(A) Mercury
(B) Silver
(C) Lithium ✓
(D) Lead

18. The element present in the largest amount in rocks and minerals is:
(A) Carbon
(B) Silicon
(C) Hydrogen ✓
(D) Aluminium

19. Balloons are filled with:
(A) Helium ✓
(B) Oxygen
(C) Nitrogen
(D) Argon

20. The most abundant metal in the earth's crust is:
(A) Zinc
(B) Copper
(C) Aluminium ✓
(D) Iron

21. The gas used to extinguish fire, is:
(A) Neon
(B) Nitrogen
(C) Carbon dioxide ✓
(D) Carbon monoxide

22. The Element common to all acids is
(A) Carbon
(B) Hydrogen ✓
(C) Oxygen
(D) Sulphur

23. Which form of phosphorus is used in safety matches
(A) White Phosphorus
(B) Yellow Phosphorus
(C) Red Phosphorus ✓
(D) Black Phosphorus

24. Which of the following is used in pencil
(A) Charcoal
(B) Silicon
(C) Phosphorus
(D) Graphite ✓

25. Which of the following is best conductor nil electridty?
(A) Copper
(B) Mica
(C) Zinc
(D) Silver ✓

26. Washing soda is the common name of
(A) Calcium carbonate
(B) calcium bicarbonate
(C) Sodium carbonate ✓
(D) Sodium bicarbonate

27. Which of the following is the lightest gas
(A) Nitrogen
(B) Hydrogen ✓
(C) Ammonia
(D) Carbon dioxide;

28. Which of the following gasses is lighten in Air?
(A) Carbon dioxide
(B) Oxygen
(C) Ammonia ✓
(D) Chlorine

29. Which of the following metals was first discovered by man:
(A) Bronze
(B) Silver
(C) Iron
(D) Cooper ✓

30. Which synthetic fiber is known as artificial
(A) Cotton
(B) Rayon ✓
(C) Terylene
(D) Nylon

31. Wood is the main raw material for the manufacture of
(A) paint
(B) paper ✓
(C) ink
(D) gunpowder

32. One horse power is equal to
(A) 736 watts
(B) 746 watts ✓
(C) 758 watts
(D) 768 watts

33. Electric current is measured by
(A) Anemometer
(B) Voltmeter
(C) Ammeter ✓
(D) Commutator

34. Which of the following is not a gland
(A) Stomach
(B) Liver
(C) Kidney ✓
(D) Pancreas

35. Insulin is secreted in
(A) Pituitary
(B) Liver
(C) Pancreas ✓
(D) parathyroid

36. The Magna Carta is
(A) The name of an English King
(B) One of Napoleon's Wars
(C) A British naval ship
(D) A historical document curbing the kind power ✓

37. 'Renaissance' is:
(A) An event of Russian Revolution
(B) An event of French revolution
(C) A period of revival or rebirth of leaning ✓
(D) A war which took place between End and France

38. The French Revolution began in the year
(A) 1770
(B) 1788
(C) 1789 ✓
(D) 1750

39. Who wrote the Communist Manifesto?
(A) Lenin
(B) Karl Marx ✓
(C) Stalin
(D) None of these

40. To which of the following countries did Karl Marx belong?
(A) Italy
(B) Yugoslavia
(C) Russia
(D) Germany ✓

41. Crusades were
(A) Movement to spread Christianity
(B) Movement against Catholic Christians
(C) Movement against protestants
(D)  Religious wars by European Christians to liberate the holy land ✓

42. Which country suffered the maximum in World War II?
(A) France
(B) Germany
(C) Japan ✓
(D) England

43. Napoleon Bonaparte belonged to
(A) France ✓
(B) Austria
(C) Germany
(D) England

44. Which of the following is not a UN Agency?
(A) World Health Organization
(B) International Labour Organization
(C) Food and Agriculture Organization
(D) International Committee of Red Cross ✓

45. The permanent seat of the International Court of Justice is located at
(A) Paris
(B) Geneva
(C) Rome
(D) The Hague ✓

46. Which of the following UN Agencies is concerned with the welfare of the children throughout the world?
(A) UNESCO
(B) UNICEF ✓
(C) WHO
(D) WWF

47. The term of office of a judge of the International Court of Justice is?
(A) 5 Years
(B) 6 Years
(C) 9 Years ✓
(D) 10 Years

48. Red Cross was founded by
(A) J.H Durant ✓
(B) Baden Powell
(C) Trygve Lie
(D) Frederick Passey

49. Quaid-i-Azam solar Park of 900 MW capacity is being established in:
(A) Sahiwal
(B) Multan
(C) Bahawalpur ✓
(D) Rahim Yar Khan

50. A 27 KM Metro Train system, with China’s cooperation will be established in Lahore by the name:
(A) Green Line
(B) Orange Line ✓
(C) Yellow Line
(D) Friendship Train

51. Homer was a great poet of
(A) English
(B) German
(C) Greek ✓
(D) Italian

52. Who was the first human space traveler
(A) Edwin Adrin
(B) Frank Boreman
(C) Yuri Gagarin ✓
(D) Gherman S. Titov

53. Who pioneered the modern nursing system?
(A) Florence Nightingale ✓
(B) Mother Teresa
(C) Greta Garbo
(D) Louis Braille

54. “Fire Temple" is place of worship of
(A) Hindus
(B) Jains
(C) Parsis ✓
(D) Buddhists

55. In which year did the first modern Olympics Games take place?
(A) 1896 ✓
(B) 1906
(C) 1908
(D) 1912

56. “Swaythling Cup” is associated with the game
(A) Lawn Tennis
(B) Table Tennis ✓
(C) Golf
(D) Chess

57. The Indus Valley civilization was famous for
(A) Well Planned Cities
(B) Effective Civic Organization
(C) Progress of Art and Architecture
(D) All of the above ✓

58. Who was the first Lady Prime Minister of the world?
(A) Sirimavo Bandoranaike ✓
(B) Margaret Thatcher
(C) Indira Gandhi
(D) Benazir Bhutto

59. Martin Luther King was a
(A) Social Reformer
(B) King of Belgium ✓
(C) Black US civil right leader
(D) None of these

60. Dr. Abdus Salam was Nobel Prize winner in the field of
(A) Physics ✓
(B) Medicine
(C) Chemistry
(D) Economics

61. “Paracel Islands” in South China Sea are disputed between China and:
(A) Vietnam ✓
(B) Japan
(C) South Korea
(D) Russia

62. The only tribal agency of FATA does not share border with Afghanistan is:
(A) Kurram
(B) Khyber
(C) Bajaur
(D) Orakzai ✓

63. The Secretary General Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) lyad Ameen Madani, Belongs to
(A) Qatar
(B) Oman
(C) Kuwait
(D) None of these ✓

64. The Headquarters of Gulf Cooperator Council is located at
(A) Riyadh ✓
(B) Doha
(C) Muscat
(D) None of these

65. The "Dasu Dam” on the Indus River will be constructed in
(A) Punjab
(B) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ✓
(C) Gilgit Baltistan
(D) Sindh

66. Pakistan Purchased “Gwadar" in 1958 from
(A) Qatar
(B) Oman ✓
(C) UAE
(D) Bahrain

67 Pakistan share common border with China
(A) 523 KM ✓
(B) 805 KM
(C) 905 KM
(D) None of these

68. “Landhi Kotal° is an important town of
(A) Kurram Agency
(B) Khyber Agency ✓
(C) Mohmand Agency
(D) Bajaur Agency

69. The Strait of Malacca is a narrow 805 km stretch of water between
(A) North Korea and Japan
(B) China and Taiwan
(C) China and Japan
(D) Malaysia and Indonesia ✓

70. Malala Yusafzai is the youngest Nobel Laureate in the world, she won this prize at the age of
(A) 15 years
(B) 17 years ✓
(C) 18 years
(D) 19 years

71. In which category the largest number of women won the Nobel Prizes so far:
(A) Literature ✓
(B) Medicine
(C) Peace
(D) Chemistry

72. Pakistan coastline is
(A) 900 km
(B) 997 km
(C) 1046 km ✓
(D) 1146 km

73. UN Commission on Limits of the Continental Shelf has recently approved extension in Pakistan's Continental Shelf, adding area of approximately:
(A) 40000 Sq kms
(B) 50000 Sq kms ✓
(C) 70000 Sq kms
(D) None of these

74. Identify the first woman ombudsperson of Punjab
(A) Dr. Mira Phalibus ✓
(B) Farkhanda Waseem Afzal
(C) HinaJilani
(D) Fakhur un Nisa Khokhar

75. Pakistan's permanent representative in the United Nation is
(A) Abdullah Haroon
(B) Masood Ahmed Khan
(C) Tasneem Aslam
(D) Maliha Lodhi ✓

Choose the Word that is similar in meaning

76. ACRIMONIOUS
(A) Bitter ✓
(B) Provocative
(C) Cheep
(D) Polite

77. DEMISE
(A) Conclude
(B) Departure
(C) Death ✓
(D) Disagreement

78. TURPITUDE
(A) Repulsiveness ✓
(B) Honor
(C) Artificial
(D) Tendency

79. NEBULOUS
(A) Tiny
(B) Not clear ✓
(C) Fancy
(D) Honest

80. NOSTALGIC
(A) Healthy
(B) Angry
(C) Homesick ✓
(D) Puzzle

Fill in the blanks

81. There is a limit everything in life
(A) to ✓
(B) on
(C) in
(D) with

82. Let us make our differences
(A) on
(B) in
(C) after
(D) up ✓

83. You ought to abide this decisi"
(A) With
(B) of
(C) by ✓
(D) from

84. I was amazed his behavior
(A) with
(B) on
(C) of
(D) at ✓

85. He has great lust wealth
(A) in
(B) of
(C) on
(D) for ✓

Choose the right meaning of the foreign phrases

86. Cul-de-sac
(A) Without Outlet
(B) A passage with many outlets
(C) A passage with one outlet ✓
(D) Confused passage

87. Perse
(A) Essentially
(B) In itself ✓
(C) As such
(D) all of them

88. Prima facie
(A) Human Nature
(B) At first view ✓
(C) Value able
(D) Repeatedly

89. Status quo
(A) The same state as before ✓
(B) Adverse condition
(C) Don't write in this way
(D) Change

90. Sine Die
(A) Definitely
(B) Soon
(C) Indefinitely ✓
(D) Road Acclde

91. By which year has the Islamic Zakat Syr been enforced and implemented?
(A) Within five years of the beginning of revelation of the Holy Quran
(B) Before the Prophet (Peace Be upon Him) migrated to Madina
(C) By 7th A.H. (Seven Hijri)
(D) By 9th A.H. (Ninth Hijri) ✓

92. In which Surah of Holy Quran, the list of beneficiaries of Zakat has been specific given?
(A) Al-Tauba (A) Al-Yusaf ✓
(B) Al-Ana’m (A) Al-Kahf
(C)
(D)

93. The Treaty of Hudabia was signed in
(A) 5th Hijrah
(B) 6th Hijrah ✓
(C) 7th Hijrah
(D) 8th Hijrah

94. Ghazwa-e-Tabuk was happened in
(A) 7th Hijrah
(B) 8th Hijrah
(C) 9th Hijrah ✓
(D) 10th Hijrah

95. How many Surah the Holy Quran Contain,
(A) 114 ✓
(B) 124
(C) 109
(D) 220

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1. Baltoro is a famous ____ of Pakistan.
(A) Glacier ✓
(B) River
(C) Mountain Lake
(D) Mountain Peak

2. Gayari, the site of a catastrophic avalanche in 2012, lies in
(A) Siachen ✓
(B) Balochistan
(C) Azad Kashmir
(D) Salt Range

3. Diamer-Bhasha hydro-electric project is being built on river.
(A) Jhelum
(B) Kabul
(C) Indus ✓
(D) Hunza

4. The main city of Hunza Valley is
(A) Karmabad ✓
(B) Gust
(C) Battagram
(D) Bisham

5. The first ever American President to be assassinated was
(A) John Adams ✓
(B) Abraham Lincoln
(C) William Coleridge
(D) John F. Kennedy

6. Peoples Republic of China was founded in
(A) 1950
(B) 1949 ✓
(C) 1948
(D) 1951

7. Which mineral is mostly found in northern and western mountains of Pakistan?
(A) Chromite
(B) China Clay
(C) Limestone
(D) Gypsum

8. Barrak Hussain Obama is the President of U.S.A.
(A) 42nd
(B) 43rd
(C) 44th ✓
(D) 40th

9. President Mamnoon Hussain is the    President of Pakistan.
(A) 12th ✓
(B) 14th
(C) 11th
(D) 15th

10 All of the following are non-metallic minerals except:
(A) Asbestos
(B) Graphite
(C) Platinum ✓
(D) Sulphur

11. The British Cabinet Mission visited India in
(A) 1945
(B) 1946 ✓
(C) 1944
(D) 1947

12 Who founded the Indian National Congress?
(A) A.O. Hume ✓
(B) Dadabhoy Naorojee
(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(D) Mahatma Gandhi

13 Who is the current President of Pakistan Hockey Federation?
(A) Shahnaz Sheikh
(B) QasimZia
(C) Islahuddin
(D) Akhtar Rasool ✓

14. Jalilanwala Bagh is located in which city?
(A) Gujranwala
(B) Jallundar
(C) Amristar ✓
(D) Batala

15. Which pair of words refers to butterflies and birds?
(A) Bear, bare
(B) aiary, apiary ✓
(C) bore, boar
(D) fair, fare

16. Tasmante. is the major island of which country?
(A) Indonesia
(B) Australia ✓
(C) New Zealand
(D) Philippines

17. Pakistan's First Five Year Development Plan was from
(A) 1954-1959
(B) 1955-1955
(C) 1955-1960 ✓
(D) 1956-1961

18. The current Five Year Development Plan of Pakistan is it's
(A) Eighth
(B) Ninth
(C) Tenth
(D) Eleventh ✓

19. Durand Line, the present border between Pakistan and Afghanistan was established in?
(A) 1873
(B) 1893 ✓
(C) 1901
(D) 1859

20. Which was the first Paksitani feature film released after independence?
(A) Teri Yaad ✓
(B) Do Ansoo
(C) Chan Way
(D) Jugga Dakko

21. Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the former NWFP was first created as a separate province in
(A) 1901
(B) 1910
(C) 1948 ✓
(D) 1935-

22- Gurdawara Rohri Sahib is located in
(A) Farooqabad
(B) Faisajabad
(C) Emlnabad ✓
(D) Hasan Abdal

23. The first railway line between Karachi and Kotri was opened in
(A) 1861 ✓
(B) 1869
(C) 1871
(D) 1900

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

25. When was the last time a Pakistani won an individual medal at Olympic Games?
(A) Los Angeles 1982
(B) Seoul 1988 ✓
(C) Tokyo 1964
(D) Mexico 1966

Pakistan has won two individual medals in the Olympics to date, both bronze medals: one in wrestling in Rome 1960 and one in boxing in Seoul 1988. Pakistan has not won a single medal at the Olympic games since 1992 Barcelona.

26. The oldest Public Radio Station* in Pakistan was established in 1935; where?
(A) Lahore ✓
(B) Dhaka
(C) Peshawar
(D) Karachi

27. Khanjarab is the border Pass between Pakistan and which country?
(A) China ✓
(B) Pakistan
(C) Afghanistan
(D) Iran

28. Babamama was originally written in
(A) Persian
(B) Chagatai Turkish ✓
(C) Arabic
(D) None of these

29. Daewoo is a famous brand of which country?
(A) China
(B) Japan
(C) Pakistan
(D) Republic of Korea ✓

30. Which country is known as the “Land of the Rising Sun"?
(A) China
(B) Japan ✓
(C) South Korea
(D) Canada

31. The Strait of Malacca lies between which two countries?
(A) Indonesia Malaysia ✓
(B) Thailand-Philippines
(C) Malaysia Singapore
(D) Indonesia Singapore

32. Lee Kwan Yew was the founder of which nation?
(A) Bruner
(B) Singapore ✓
(C) Timor-Leste
(D) Taiwan

33. The Headquarter of ASEAN is located in
(A) Penang
(B) Jakarta ✓
(C) Singapore
(D) Bangkok

34. The capital city of Somalia is
(A) Mombasa
(B) Zanzibar
(C) Mogadishu ✓
(D) Asmara

35. The first ever Atom Bomb was dropped on which city
(A) Nagasaki
(B) Yokohama
(C) Osaka
(D) Hiroshima ✓

36. Mount Fujiyama is located in which country?
(A) Japan ✓
(B) North Korea
(C) Philippines
(D) Vietnam

37. The capital city of Cambodia is
(A) Pnom Penh ✓
(B) Haiphong
(C) Hanoi
(D) Vientiane

38. The current king of Saudi Arabia is
(A) Khalid
(B) Abdullah
(C) Salman ✓
(D) Sultan

39. Mesopotamia is the ancient name of
(A) Syna
(B) Iraq ✓
(C) Turkey
(D) Yemen

40. Women population of Pakistan is
(A) Equal to the number of male population
(B) Less than the number of male population
(C) More than the number of male population ✓
(D) None of the above

41. Gross GDP of Pakistan in US Dollars is
(A) 237 Billion ✓
(B) 300 Billion
(C) 220 Billion
(D) 400 Billion

42. Total Budget of Pakistan for the current fiscal year 2014-15 is Rupees
(A) 3945 Billion ✓
(B) 3900 Billion
(C) 4000 Billion
(D) 3600 Billion

43. Women quota for government employment currently is
(A) 10%
(B) 12%
(C) 15% ✓
(D) 5%

44. When was Sindh separated from the British Presidency and created a separate province?
(A) 1935 ✓
(B) 1935
(C) 1938
(D) 1941

45. Which was the first Provincial Assembly to pass a resolution for a separate state for Muslims of India?
(A) Punjab
(B) Sindh ✓
(C) Balchistan
(D) None of these

46. Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy was the
(A) Prime Minister of Pakistan ✓
(B) Speaker of the Constituent Assembly
(C) Ambassadar to USA
(D) Foreign Minister

47. Brojen Das was the first Pakistani to
(A) Climb Mount Everest
(B) Swim across the British Channel ✓
(C) Win an Olympic Gold Medal
(D) Sail to the South Pole

48. Captain of the Pakistan Cricket team that beat England in 1954 was
(A) A.H. Kardar ✓
(B) Fazal Mehmood
(C) Imtiaz Ahmed
(D) Shuja-uddin

49. When was the Punjab Public Service Commission founded?
(A) 1942
(B) 1937 ✓
(C) 1959
(D) 1940

50. When was the first PTV programme broadcast?
(A) November 1964 ✓
(B) September 1964
(C) October 1964
(D) December 1964

51. European Parliament is located in which city?
(A) Brussels ✓
(B) Luxemburg
(C) Paris
(D) Strasburg

52. Who was the first President of the United States of America?
(A) Thomas Jefferson
(B) George Washington ✓
(C) John Adams
(D) Alexander Hamilton

53. Astore District is located in which area?
(A) Balochistan
(B) Khyber-Pukhtunkhwa
(C) Gilgit Batistan ✓
(D) Sindh

54. Pakistani actor Fawad Khan acted in which recent Bollywood film?
(A) Burfi
(B) Khoobsurat ✓
(C) Jalaibee
(D) Golmaal

55. Uch Sharif’s most famous monument is the tomb of:
(A) Bibi Jawindi ✓
(B) Nawab Safahuddin Abbasi
(C) Maulvi Barkhudar
(D) Shams Tabrezi

56. The full name of Dr. Khan Sahib, Chief Minister of NWFP, assassinated in Lahore in 1958, was
(A) Jamaiuddin Khan
(B) Abdul Jabbar Khan ✓
(C) Khush Gul Khan
(D) Phool Badshah Khan

57. After independence the first Governor of Punjab province was
(A) Sir Francis Mudi ✓
(B) Mumtaz Ahmad Khan Daultana
(C) Nawab Mamdot
(D) Sir John Lawrence

58. Mujibur Rehman had proposed a formula to solve the 1971 crisis which was called
(A) Seven Point
(B) Agartala Proposal
(C) Six Points ✓
(0) Sonar Bangla Formula

59. TDAP is responsible for
(A) Export Promotion ✓
(B) Investment Promotion
(C) Power Load Management
(D) Water Distribution

60. WHO head office is located in
(A) New York
(B) Vienna
(C) Geneva ✓
(D) Paris

61. The UN Security Council comprises of a total of ___ countries of which _____ are non-permanent.
(A) 10,6
(B) 15,10 ✓
(C) 11,7
(D) 18,15

62. Ban Ki Moon is currently the ___ of United Nations.
(A) Chairman
(B) President
(C) CEO
(D) Secretary General ✓

63. The Islamic Revolution in Iran took pace in
(A) February 1979 ✓
(B) January 1980
(C) March 1981
(D) March 1979

64. Quaid-i-Azam married his cousin ____ before going off to London for higher studies in 1892.
(A) Rube
(B) Emibai ✓
(C) Jumabal
(D) Maryam

65. One molecule of water is composed of
(A) Two Hydrogen atoms, two oxygen atoms
(B) One atom of hydrogen, one atom of oxygen
(C) Two atoms of Hydrogen, one atom of oxygen ✓
(D) One atom of Hydrogen, two atoms of oxygen

66. Water covers how much of the Planet Earth?
(A) 70% ✓
(B) 65%
(C) 75%
(D) 60%

67. Sphygmomanometer is an instrument used to measure
(A) Humidity in the Air
(B) Blood Pressure ✓
(C) Purity of Milk
(D) Thickness of Water

68. Numinatics is the study of
(A) Coins ✓
(B) Horses
(C) Flags
(D) Weapons

69. Muslim scientist & philosopher Ibn-al-Haytham made his most famous contribution to the field of
(A) Medicine
(B) Poetry
(C) Optics ✓
(D) Mathematics

70. Who is a Polymath?
(A) Mathematician
(B) Astronomer
(C) Inventor of Tools
(D) Expert of many subjects ✓

71. Pain Killer drugs are called:
(A) Anesthetics
(B) Analgesics ✓
(C) Beta Blockers
(D) Antibiotics

72. Ecology is an interdisciplinary field that includes
(A) Biology & Earth Science ✓
(B) Agriculture & Chemistry
(C) Pharmacy & Gardening
(D) Biology & Economics

73. Bio-fuels are source of energy derived from
(A) Birds
(B) Plants & animals ✓
(C) Oceans
(D) Air & Water

74. Natural Rubber is obtained from
(A) A special kind of tree ✓
(B) A kind offish
(C) Water weeds
(D) Animal Waste Pick the odd word out

75.
(A) railway
(B) aeroplane
(C) ferry
(D) bread ✓

76.
(A) ball
(B) earth
(C) tree ✓
(D) moon

77.
(A) milk
(B) juice
(C) biscuit ✓
(D) lemonade

78.
(A) cool ✓
(B) cut
(C) dig
(D) blow

79. Normal body temperature is
(A) 98"F
(B) 97.4°F
(C) 97.2°F
(D) 98.4°F ✓

80. Which is the most widely used letter in the English language?
(A) A
(B) S
(C) E ✓
(D) P

81. Maulana Rumi is buried in which city?
(A) Istanbul
(B) Konya ✓
(C) Balkh
(D) Jalalabad

82. Bi Amma was the:
(A) Mother of Maulana Shibli Naumani
(B) Wife of Maulana Abur Kalam Azad
(C) Mother of Maulana Mohammad Ali Johar ✓
(D) Sister of Raja of Mahmoodabad

83. The capital city during Omayyad Caliphate was
(A) Madina
(B) Damascus ✓
(C) Kufa
(D) Baghdad

84. Raja Purshottam (Porus) was ruling this region when ______ invaded
(A) Mahmood Ghaznavi
(B) Mohammad Ghori
(C) Alexander the Great ✓
(D) Kanishka

85. The Safavid dynasty of rulers was based in
(A) Iran ✓
(B) Turkey
(C) Afghanistan
(D) Turkmenistan

86. Mohammad Bin Qasim came to Sindh during which Caliphate of Islam?
(A) Andalusian
(B) Omayyad ✓
(C) Abbasside
(D) Seljuk

87. Which province of Pakistan is called Babul Islam?
(A) Sindh ✓
(B) Punjab
(C) Baluchistan
(D) Kyber Pukhtunkhwa

88. Begum Hazrat Mahal was the:
(A) Wife of Nawab Wajid Ali Shan ✓
(B) Mother of Bahadur Shah Zafar
(C) Daughter of Bahadur Shah Zafar
(D) Ruler of Bhopal State

89. Persian poets Sheikh Sadi and Hafiz are buried in which city?
(A) Isfahan
(B) Kabul
(C) Shiraz ✓
(D) Tehran

90. Who wrote the Qissa Sussi Punnu in Punjabi language?
(A) Hashim Shah ✓
(B) Fazal Shah
(C) Damodar
(D) Waris Shah

What comes next in the sequence:

91. 2,12,32,62,102,
(A) 152 ✓
(B) 182
(C) 162
(D) 172

92. 90, 85, 75, 55,
(A) 20
(B) 25 ✓
(C) 15
(D) 5

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