Model Paper FPSC Assistant in Planning Division BPS-16 2010

Total Questions: 98

1 - _____ 1000 species of fish have been identified.

A ) As many as ✅
B ) As many
C ) As much as
D ) Much as

2 - Put the milk____ the table and cover it _____cloth.

A ) On, with ✅
B ) Near, by
C ) On, by
D ) In ,with

3 - I must hold a discussion_____ you_____ that matter shortly.

A ) About, for
B ) With, for
C ) About, in
D ) With, about ✅

4 - ______ cover of darkness, the enemy crept ____the hill.

A ) In, over
B ) In, along
C ) Under, up ✅
D ) Through, upon

5 - Dead was no agreement _____ the great powers_____ _a treaty to ban unclear weapons.

A ) With, about
B ) Among, on ✅
C ) Between, about
D ) In, for

6 - _____ two weeks he did not venture _____the safety of his house, even once.

A ) Within, for
B ) For, beyond ✅
C ) For, over
D ) Over, for

7 - _____the house tops the kite flew until it got lost_____ the clouds.

A ) By, in
B ) From, in ✅
C ) On, among
D ) Over among

8 - You must bear_____ his rudeness.

A ) To
B ) With ✅
C ) Out
D ) Of

9 - You must dispense ____ his Services

A ) Of
B ) In
C ) At
D ) With ✅

10 - You must attend ____ the lecture

A ) On
B ) With
C ) In
D ) To ✅

11 - He deals _____ vegetables these days.

A ) Out
B ) To
C ) For
D ) In ✅

12 - The blind man was feeling ____ table.

A ) In
B ) For ✅
C ) By
D ) Out

15 - At the time difficulty turn ____ friend for help,

A ) Into
B ) Upon
C ) Up
D ) Down ✅

16 - Some people are extremely fastidious in their choice of dress.

A ) Careless
B ) Pompous
C ) Fussy ✅
D ) Discriminating

17 - The obstacles seem to be insurmountable, but no one should doubt what this fearless woman can accomplish,

A ) Too tall and too high
B ) To trivial to attract attention
C ) Too easy to achieve
D ) Too difficult to overcome ✅

18 - ADEPT

A ) Skillful
B ) Unskillful ✅
C ) adjustable
D ) Fit

19 - ANTIQUE

A ) Colorful
B ) Modern ✅
C ) Ancient
D ) Beautiful

20 - AUSPICIOUS

A ) Favourable
B ) Useless
C ) Unfavorable ✅
D ) Festive

21 - Grand Central Terminal, Park Avenue, New York is the world's

A ) Largest railway station ✅
B ) Highest railway station
C ) Longest railway station
D ) None

22 - Entomology is the science that studies

A ) Behaviour of human beings
B ) Insects ✅
C ) The origin and history of Technical and scientific terms
D ) The formation of rocks

24 - For which of the following discipline is Nobel prize awarded?

A ) Physics and chemistry
B ) Physiology or medicine
C ) Literature peace and economics
D ) All of the above ✅

25 - Hitler party which come into power in 1933 is known as

A ) Labour party
B ) Nazim party ✅
C ) Ku- Klux - klan
D ) Democratic party

26 - Which is the longest river of North America?

A ) Mississippi ✅
B ) Amazon
C ) Niger
D ) Lena

28 - Epsom ( England) is the place associated with

A ) Horse racing
B ) Polo
C ) Shooting ✅
D ) Snooker

30 - Galileo was an Italian astronomer who

A ) Developed the telescope
B ) Discovered four satellites of Jupiter
C ) Discovered that the movement of pendulum produces a regular time measurement
D ) All of the above ✅

31 - Who was the first president of the constitution Assembly?

A ) Liaquat Ali Khan
B ) Quaid-e-Azam ✅
C ) Maulvi tamiz-ud-Din Khan
D ) Abdul Rab Nishtar

32 - Which was- the important bill the first Constituent assembly passed?

A ) PRODA (Public Representative Office Disqualification Act) ✅
B ) Representative Act
C ) Objective Resolution
D ) Presidential Act 1953

33 - When general elections where held during Pervaiz Musharraf Reign?

A ) 15th October, 2002
B ) 19th October, 2002
C ) 10th October, 2002 ✅
D ) 8th October, 2002

35 - In 1905 Allama Iqbal when to England for higher education. In which institution of England he got education?

A ) Oxford University
B ) Trinty college Cambridge
C ) Cambridge University ✅
D ) Lincoln I nn

37 - A condominium is:

A ) A state of chaos
B ) A state enjoying dominion status
C ) A State with federal form constitution
D ) A particular territory over which joint dominion is exercised by two or more external powers ✅

40 - " Diego Garcia" is located in South of the equator in the central

A ) Pacific Ocean
B ) Arctic Ocean
C ) Indian Ocean ✅
D ) Atlantic Ocean

41 - " Pomology" is a branch of science that deals with:

A ) The study of birds
B ) The study and cultivation of fruits ✅
C ) The study of poisons
D ) The study of insects

42 - The most abundant element found in the earth's crust is

A ) Oxygen ✅
B ) Iron
C ) Aluminium
D ) Silicon

44 - What is meant by capital stock?

A ) Authorized amount of stock for issue by corporation
B ) The total stated or par value of the permanently invested capital of corporation
C ) Both of them ✅
D ) None

45 - What is cost -effective?

A ) Cheap things
B ) Sub-Standard things
C ) Economical in terms of the goods or services received for the money spent ✅
D ) Free in terms of the goods or services received for the money spent

46 - What is physiotherapy?

A ) Creative method for immobility of joints ✅
B ) Curve without medicine
C ) A Latin way of cure
D ) Npne

47 - Name the mosquito that cases Malaria fever?

A ) Monopheies
B ) Anopheles ✅
C ) Onopheles
D ) None

49 - What is the chemotherapy?

A ) Cure by chemicals
B ) Cure without chemicals
C ) Use of none antibiotic chemical substance to treat diseases (most often cancer) ✅
D ) None

50 - IAEA is meant _______

A ) Initial Atomic Energy Agency
B ) International Atomic Energy Agency ✅
C ) International Atomic Energy Authority
D ) International Association Energy Agency

52 - Answer the missing number 212 179 146 113

A ) 65
B ) 84 ✅
C ) 80
D ) 73

59 - The process of bleaching by chorine is called

A ) Decomposition
B ) Oxidation ✅
C ) Reduction
D ) Substitution

60 - Which among the following non -metals is a liquid?

A ) Bromine ✅
B ) Carboji
C ) Phosphorus
D ) Sulphur

61 - Which of the following statements about the physical properties of metal is not correct?

A ) All metals are solid axcept mercury
B ) Most of the metals are hard except sodium and potassium
C ) They are not malleable ✅
D ) Most of the metals are ductile

62 - Which of the following are produced by the electrolysis of brine?

A ) Chlorine and sodium
B ) Chlorine and sodium hydroxide
C ) Chlorine hydrogen and sodium hydroxide
D ) Hydrogen and chlorine ✅

63 - What are the most common elements present in the earth's crust?

A ) Oxygen, iron and potassium
B ) Oxygen, iron and silicon
C ) Silicon, polonium and oxygen ✅
D ) Silicone, iron and magnesium

64 - Of the following items, tell which one is present in stomach:

A ) Gastric juice
B ) Optic nerve ✅
C ) Sperm
D ) Dandruff

65 - Of the following human muscles, tell which one is of thigh

A ) Deltoid
B ) Trapezius
C ) Vastus exterms
D ) Biceps ✅

66 - For measuring the growth of planets which instrument is used:

A ) Phytometer
B ) Gytometer
C ) Potometer
D ) Crescograph ✅

67 - "Lactometer" is an instrument to estimate the pirityy of'

A ) Malik ✅
B ) Diamond
C ) Water
D ) None of these

68 - ' sphygmomanometer ' is meant to measure.

A ) Hrart movement
B ) Plus rate
C ) Blood pressure ✅
D ) Time while on ships

69 - 'Clinical' thermometer is an instrument to measure:

A ) Temperature of gases
B ) Temperature of liquids
C ) Temperature of human body ✅
D ) Room temperature

70 - The sextant is used to measure.

A ) Height of an object ✅
B ) Volume of building
C ) Length of space
D ) Breath of a tower

71 - An instrument used to compare the intensities of two sources of light is called:

A ) Hydrophone
B ) Ear Phone
C ) Gramophone ✅
D ) Headphone

72 - " Hygrometer" is an instrument to measure:

A ) Pressure of air
B ) Reality humidity of the atmosphere ✅
C ) Sound under water
D ) Electric current

73 - Why does a hydrogen balloon rise in ai

A ) Because hydrogen is lighter than air ✅
B ) Because its weight is less than the weight of air that it displeces
C ) Both A and B
D ) None of above

74 - Why does the electric bulb break with bang?

A ) It is the breaking of the glass that creates this sound
B ) Because the air rushes to fill the partial vacuum inside ✅
C ) Both A and B
D ) None of above

75 - Mercury is used in thermometer because

A ) It is cheaply available
B ) It is the only metal which is liquid at ordinary room temperature ✅
C ) It uniformly spreads and does wet the walls of thermometer
D ) None of above

76 - Why does the smoke in the atmosphere rise in curls?

A ) Due to atmospheric resistance at different levels ✅
B ) Owing to the air current
C ) Both A and B
D ) None of above

77 - Why are the mountains cooler and the plains?

A ) Seylvan surrounding and less industrial population make mountain cooler than the plaines
B ) Because there is less oxygen at the mountains
C ) Being less dense on account of absence of dust particles, etc., the air of the mountains does not ✅
D ) None of these

78 - One type of calculators was often referred to as the ancient computers. Can you identify is?

A ) Slide rule
B ) Computer clock
C ) Abacus ✅
D ) Napier's bones

79 - Lord Chelmsford ruled Indian form 1916 A.D

A ) 1919 A.D
B ) 1920 A.D ✅
C ) 1921 A.D
D ) 1922 A.D

80 - Lord Williston was viceroy of India from 1931 to:

A ) 1932
B ) 1936 ✅
C ) 1939
D ) 1940

81 - Which number Round Table conference session was held in London in 1931:

A ) Second ✅
B ) Third
C ) Both second and third
D ) Fourth

83 - Mr. Gandhi decided to fast unto to death as a protest against:

A ) Rowlett Act
B ) Communal Award ✅
C ) British rule in India
D ) None

84 - The East India company was granted chapter in the year for trade:

A ) 1599 A.D
B ) 1600 A.D ✅
C ) 1610 A.D
D ) None

85 - Lord Clive was the founder of a regular to new system in British India in the field of:

A ) Postal service ✅
B ) Agricultural
C ) Industrial
D ) None

87 - By introducing subsidiary system, British expanded their empire vastly:

A ) With war
B ) Without war ✅
C ) With the help of masses
D ) None

88 - When Tipu Sultan ascended the throne of Mysore?

A ) 26 December, 1782 ✅
B ) 27 December, 1782
C ) 28 December, 1782
D ) 29 December, 1782

89 - Who was the first writer of 'Wahi" in Quraish?

A ) Hazrat Abdul Rahman Bin Auf (RA)
B ) Hazrat Zaid Bin sabit (RA) ✅
C ) Hazrat Abdullah Bin Zubair (RA)
D ) Hazrat Ibn Masuod( RA)

90 - Kitab -ut-Assar is complied by:

A ) Imam Abu Hanifa (RA) ✅
B ) Imam Shafi (RA)
C ) Imam Malik (RA)
D ) Imam humble(RA)

92 - What was the name of foster sister of the Holy prophet (PUBH)?

A ) Hazrat Salmah( RA)
B ) Hazrat Raqiyyah (RA)
C ) Hazrat Mariah (RA)
D ) Hazrat Shima (RA) ✅

93 - "Namaz-e-Istisqa" ka is prayer for,

A ) Blessing of God
B ) Pardon
C ) Rain ✅
D ) Sleep

94 - Who is called "Saqi Zam Zam"?

A ) Hazrat Abbas (RA) ✅
B ) Hazrat Hamza (RA)
C ) Hazrat Muaz bin jabal ( RA)
D ) Hazrat Muawiyah (RA)

95 - The "kissing of the Hajr-e-Aswad" is called:

A ) Saee
B ) Mabroor
C ) Istelam ✅
D ) Shaut

97 - The word Mohammad ( PBUH) was a name has been mentioned in Qur'an only

A ) Two time
B ) Four time ✅
C ) Six time
D ) Seven time

98 - Khateeb- ul-Anbia is a title of:

A ) Hazrat Idrees ( A.S)
B ) Hazrat Ibrahim (A.S)
C ) Hazrat Yaqub (A.S)
D ) Hazrat Shoaib ( A.S) ✅