PMS BPS-17 Held in 2012

Total Questions: 99

1 - Which of the following is the landlock

A ) Nigeria
B ) Kenya
C ) Sri Lanka
D ) Uganda ✅

2 - Tehrir square is situated in

A ) Rabat
B ) Tehran
C ) Cairo ✅
D ) Istanbul

3 - Benghazi is a city in

A ) Iraq
B ) Syria
C ) Morocco
D ) Libya ✅

4 - River Nile originates from

A ) Cherangany mountains
B ) Lake Victoria ✅
C ) Springs in Kenya
D ) Lake Nyasa

5 - Greenwich is located in

A ) Green land
B ) England ✅
C ) Holland
D ) France

6 - Canton is a city in

A ) Thailand
B ) Germany
C ) China ✅
D ) South Korea

7 - Indonesia and Malaysia are represented

A ) Inaccessible mountain
B ) Gulf of Malay
C ) Malacca strait ✅
D ) None

8 - Capital of Zimbabwe is

A ) Harare ✅
B ) Seoul
C ) Pretoria
D ) None

9 - Myanmar is the new name of

A ) Cambodia
B ) Burma ✅
C ) Ceylon
D ) None

10 - Morocco and Spain are separated by

A ) Pyrenees hills
B ) Alps
C ) Strait of Gibraltar ✅
D ) River Rhine

11 - The apex elected body in Israel is called

A ) Parliament
B ) Congress
C ) Knesset ✅
D ) Shura

12 - Communist revolution took place in Russia in the month of

A ) March
B ) June
C ) October ✅
D ) November

13 - Pulitzer is an American award in the field of

A ) Sports
B ) Scuba
C ) Letters and journalism ✅
D ) Music

14 - The name of US envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan is

A ) Richard hallbrooke
B ) March Grossman ✅
C ) Leon paneta
D ) Robber Gate

15 - De facto means

A ) Defective
B ) Deficient
C ) Actual as a fact ✅
D ) Legal

16 - Carte blanche means

A ) Full discretionary powers ✅
B ) A blank thing
C ) Going by the rules
D ) Wheel in the motion

17 - Corrigendum means

A ) Agenda of the meaning
B ) Things to be corrected ✅
C ) Study of some gender
D ) Correspondence

18 - Faux pas means

A ) A fine person
B ) Luck
C ) Wisdom
D ) False and incorrect step ✅

19 - Fifth column refers to

A ) Huge pillar
B ) Long writing
C ) Loyalty
D ) Treachery ✅

20 - Paediatrics refers to

A ) Care of pregnant women
B ) Care of old people
C ) Care of children ✅
D ) Care of bones and joints

21 - Pythagoras, geometric belonged to

A ) Syria
B ) Mesopotamia
C ) Greece ✅
D ) Italy

22 - Asian drama An inquiry into the poverty of nations was written by

A ) Jawahar Lal Nehru
B ) Gunner Myrdal ✅
C ) Thomas Pain
D ) Joseph Conrad

23 - Tolstoy was the author of famous novel

A ) Idiot
B ) For whom the bell tolls
C ) Dark continent
D ) War and peace ✅

24 - Which of the following ranks in the air force is higher

A ) Air commondore ✅
B ) Squadron leader
C ) Wing commander
D ) Group captain

25 - The headquarters of WTO is at

A ) New York
B ) Rome
C ) Geneva ✅
D ) London

26 - International court of justice sits at

A ) Brussels
B ) Paris
C ) Hague ✅
D ) New York

27 - Heat received by the Earth from the sun is known as

A ) Insulation
B ) Solar radiation ✅
C ) Solar heat
D ) Thermal radition

28 - The cheapest source of electricity radiation is

A ) Hydel ✅
B ) Nuclear
C ) Solar
D ) Thermal

29 - Largest political agency in Pakistan tribal area in terms of area is

A ) North waziristan
B ) Kurram
C ) Mohamanad
D ) South Waziristan ✅

30 - Lowari pass connects

A ) Kaghan valley with chilas
B ) Kalam with gilgit
C ) Goram chashma with nooristan
D ) Dir with Chitral ✅

31 - From Karachi fastest point on the coastal highway is

A ) Pasni
B ) Jiwani ✅
C ) Gwadar
D ) Ormara

32 - Circumference of the earth is around

A ) 20,000 km
B ) 30,000 km
C ) 40,000 km ✅
D ) 50,000 km

33 - The deepest point in the pasific ocean is

A ) Tonga trench
B ) Mariana trench ✅
C ) Porto Rico trench
D ) Java trench

34 - Mount Kilimanjaro is located in

A ) Kenya
B ) Tanzania ✅
C ) Uganda
D ) South Africa

35 - Suez canal links the following seas

A ) Black sea and Aegean sea
B ) Persian gulf with Arabian
C ) Red sea with the Mediterranean
D ) Mediterranean sea with Adriatic sea ✅

36 - Khojak pass is located between

A ) Jamrud and Landi kotal
B ) Sibi and machh
C ) Quetta and D.I.Khan ✅
D ) Quetta and chaman

37 - Nearest part of atmosphere to earth is called

A ) Stratosphere
B ) Troposphere ✅
C ) Lonosphere
D ) Mesosphere

38 - Colosseum an amphitheater was built in

A ) Athens
B ) Naples
C ) Rome ✅
D ) Milan

39 - Special theory of relativity was proposed by

A ) Issac Newton
B ) Albert Einstein ✅
C ) Galilo
D ) Robert Hooke

40 - Issac Newton gave

A ) Law of planetary motion
B ) Laws of motion and laws of gravitation ✅
C ) Laws of geometry
D ) None

41 - Composition of alchemy is written by

A ) IBN Al Haitham
B ) Jabir bin Hyan ✅
C ) IBN Rushd
D ) Nasir Al Din

42 - The book Al Qanun fi at-tibb is written by

A ) Al Biruni
B ) Abu Ali Sina ✅
C ) Al Baltani
D ) IBN Rushd

43 - Chile has the longest shore along

A ) Atlantic sea
B ) Black sea
C ) Mediterranean sea
D ) Pacific ocean ✅

44 - Agriculture the key sector in the Pakistan economy account for

A ) 21% of GDP ✅
B ) 28% GDP
C ) 25% of GDP
D ) 51% GDP

45 - The earth is more close to the sun is

A ) January ✅
B ) July
C ) September
D ) June

46 - Time required for a computer to locate and transfer data is called

A ) Analogue time
B ) Access time ✅
C ) Starting time
D ) Basic time

47 - A device which encodes characters by the depression of keys is known as

A ) Printer
B ) Keyboard ✅
C ) Mouse
D ) Hardware

48 - Mixture of two metals is called

A ) Dispersant
B ) Alloy ✅
C ) Amalgams
D ) Metalloid

51 - The time taken by light to reach the earth is

A ) 4 minutes to 30 seconds
B ) 8 minutes 15 second ✅
C ) 10 minutes 20 seconds
D ) 12 minutes 30 seconds

52 - The shape of our milky way galaxy is

A ) Irregular
B ) Spiral ✅
C ) Elliptic
D ) Rectangular

53 - The coldest planet of solar System is

A ) Venus
B ) Earth
C ) Neptune ✅
D ) Pluto

54 - BIMAN is an airline of

A ) Sri Lanka
B ) Cambodia
C ) Afghanistan
D ) Bangladesh ✅

55 - 38th parallel line is a boundary line between

A ) Myanmar and Thailand
B ) Thailand and Malaysia
C ) India and China
D ) South and North Korea ✅

57 - The planet with shortest daytime is

A ) Venus
B ) Earth
C ) Jupiter ✅
D ) Pluto

58 - Insulin in human body is produced by

A ) Liver
B ) Kidney
C ) Pancreas ✅
D ) None

59 - Dynamite was discovered by

A ) Dailmer
B ) Mosley
C ) Alfred Nobel ✅
D ) Freud

60 - How far is the dead sea before Mediterranean

A ) 250m
B ) 300 m
C ) 400 m ✅
D ) 1000 m

61 - Laws of heredity were discovered by

A ) Benjamin Franklin
B ) Darwin
C ) Mendel ✅
D ) None

63 - The longest river is located in

A ) Asia
B ) Africa ✅
C ) Latin America
D ) North America

64 - The highest mountain peak mount everest has been named after col. George Everest who was

A ) Commandant of 1st mountain infantry units
B ) A commander of golscha bridge
C ) A political agent of NWFP
D ) Surveyor general of india ✅

65 - Christopher Columbus who discovered America was

A ) Spanish
B ) Dutch
C ) Italian ✅
D ) French

66 - The single biggest hydel power generating site is situated in

A ) Brazil
B ) China ✅
C ) United States
D ) India

67 - The US congress and Senate raised the debt limit of US government by

A ) $500 billion ✅
B ) $1500 billion
C ) $15000 billion
D ) $2000 billion

68 - IMF and world Bank are created through

A ) Yalta conference
B ) New deal
C ) Treaty of Versailles
D ) Breton woods agreement ✅

70 - The president of Yugoslavia who was indicated and tried by war criminal tribunal was

A ) Franjo tudrnan
B ) Slobodan Milosevic ✅
C ) Ralko mladic
D ) Radoslav bradjnin

71 - Who was not a member of the 1st cabinet of Pakistan

A ) Sardar Abdur Rub Nishter
B ) Hussain shaheed sharawardi ✅
C ) Jogendra Nath mandal
D ) Malik Ghulam Muhammad

72 - President of Syria Bashar Al Assad is by faith a

A ) Druze
B ) Alavi ✅
C ) Shia
D ) Sunni

73 - US president Barack Obama's father was

A ) Indonesian
B ) Nigerian
C ) Egyptian
D ) Kenyan ✅

74 - Blind dolphins are found in

A ) Ganges river ✅
B ) Nile river
C ) Yangtze river
D ) None

75 - The captain of Pakistan cricket team which defeated England at the oval in 1954 was

A ) Fazal Mehmood
B ) Hanif Muhammad
C ) Abdul Hafeez kardar ✅
D ) Khan Muhammad

77 - When Ayub Khan took overpower in 1958, the prime Minister of Pakistan was

A ) Muhammad Ali Bogra
B ) Hussain shaheed sharawardi
C ) Malik Feroz Khan Noon ✅
D ) Chaudhary Muhammad Ali

78 - The 1st international fight taken by PIA was taken on

A ) 25 May 1951
B ) 7 June 1954
C ) 1st February 1955 ✅
D ) 17 June 1961

79 - The present deputy chairman of planning commission is

A ) Nadeem ul Haque
B ) Dr. Akram Sheikh
C ) Dr. Ishrat Hussain
D ) Dr. Shahid Amjad ✅

80 - The present secretary general of UN is from

A ) Australia
B ) Korea ✅
C ) Brazil
D ) Austria

81 - The cash balance of the company is more than the cash balance of US

A ) Apple ✅
B ) Microsoft
C ) Bachtel
D ) DuPont

83 - The father of modern science fiction is

A ) Bertrand Russell
B ) H. G. Wells ✅
C ) Aldous Huxley
D ) Maupassant

84 - The office of district magistrate was abolished through

A ) Local government ordinance 2001 ✅
B ) Police order 2002
C ) Amendment in the code of criminal procedure
D ) 17th amendment in the constitution

86 - The one who grand slam in tennis twice

A ) Leo Hoad
B ) Roy Emerson
C ) Rod Laver ✅
D ) Jimmy Connors

87 - Hanging garden in Babylon were located in modern day

A ) Syria
B ) Lebanon
C ) Iraq ✅
D ) Jordan

88 - 1st satellite Sputnik 1 was launched in October 1957. Indicate the date

A ) 2 October
B ) 4 October ✅
C ) 6 October
D ) 8 October

89 - The celebrated scientist Issac Newton was

A ) British ✅
B ) Dutch
C ) Italian
D ) French

90 - Turnip is a root described as

A ) Napiform ✅
B ) Fusiform
C ) Couical
D ) Tubrous

91 - Pencilin was discovered by

A ) Victor flaming
B ) Ian Fleming
C ) Alexander Fleming ✅
D ) Stephen

92 - On 18th May 1974 India exploded first Nuclear device under the code name of

A ) Operation blue star Rakshak
B ) Operation Gibraltar
C ) Operation Smiling Buddah ✅
D ) Operation

93 - The poetry first written by Allama Iqbal in Persian and then translated in Urdu on popular demand

A ) Bal-e-Jibraeel
B ) Bal-e-Dara
C ) Zarb-e-Kaleem
D ) Armghan-e-Hijaz ✅

94 - The book indian Musalmans published in 1871 was written by

A ) Sir Syed Ahmad khan
B ) William Wilson Hunter ✅
C ) Rudyard Kipling
D ) Justice ameer Ali

95 - Indian Rebellion of 1857 began on10th May from the town of

A ) Jhansi
B ) Gwalior
C ) Meerut ✅
D ) Lucknow

97 - The brightest planet in the solar system is

A ) Saturn
B ) Venus ✅
C ) Neptune
D ) Mars

98 - The annual average flow of water in Indus river system is

A ) 130 MAF
B ) 110 MAF ✅
C ) 100 MAF
D ) 90 MAF

99 - Indian railway started operation

A ) 1847
B ) 1849
C ) 1853 ✅
D ) 1861