PMS BS-17 2012

Total Questions: 100

1 - Which of the following is the landlocked?

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

5 - Greenwich is located in:

A ) Greenland
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 separated:

A ) Inaccessible mountain
B ) Gulf of Malaya
C ) Malaka Strait ✅
D ) None of these

8 - Capital of Zimbabwe is:

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

9 - Myanmar is the new name of?

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

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 ) Richards Hallbrooke
B ) Marc Grossman ✅
C ) Leon paneta
D ) Robber gate

15 - Defacto means:

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

16 - Carte Blanche means:

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

17 - Corrigendum mean:

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 - 5th column refers to:

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

20 - Pediatrics refers to:

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

21 - Pythagoras, geometrician belong to:

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

22 - Asian drama "An enquiry into the poverty of nations "was written by:

A ) Jawaharlal Nehru
B ) Gunnar 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 commodore ✅
B ) Squadron leader
C ) Wing commander
D ) Group caption

25 - The headquarter 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 radiation

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 ) Moahamand
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 farthest point on the coastal highway is:

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

32 - Circumference of the Earth is round:

A ) 20000 km
B ) 30000 km
C ) 40000 km ✅
D ) 50000 km

33 - The deepest point in the Pacific Ocean is:

A ) Tonga trench
B ) Mariana trench ✅
C ) Parto Rico trench
D ) Java trance

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 with adriatic SE

36 - Kocjak pass is located between:

A ) Jamrud and landi kotal
B ) Sibi and machh
C ) Quetta and Di 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 amphitheatre was built in:

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

39 - Special theory of relativity was proposed by:

A ) Isaac Newton
B ) Albert Einstein ✅
C ) Galileo
D ) Robert Hook

40 - Isaac Newton gave;

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

41 - 'Composition of Alchemy" is written by

A ) IBN Al Haithem
B ) Jabir bin Hayan ✅
C ) IBN Rushd
D ) Nasir Al Din

42 - The book 'Al Qanun fi al tib '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 ✅

45 - Agriculture the key sector in the Pakistan economy accounts for:

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

46 - The earth is more close to the sun in:

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

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

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

48 - Device which incodes characters by the depression of keys is known as:

A ) Printer
B ) Keyboard ✅
C ) Mouse
D ) Hard drive

49 - Mixture of two metals is called:

A ) Dispersant
B ) Alloy ✅
C ) Amalgam
D ) Metaloid

52 - That time taken by light to reach the earth is:

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

53 - The shape of our milky way galaxy is:

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

54 - The coldest planet of solar system is:

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

55 - The BIMAN is an airline of:

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

56 - 38 parallel line is a boundary line between:

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

58 - The brightest planet in the solar system is:

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

59 - The planet with shortest day time is:

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

60 - Insulin in human body is produced in:

A ) Liver
B ) Kidney
C ) Pancreas ✅
D ) none of these

61 - Dynamite was discovered by:

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

62 - How far is the dead se before Mediterranean?

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

63 - Laws of heredity were discovered by:

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

65 - The longest river is located in:

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

66 - The highest mountain peak mount Everest has been named after Col. George Everest who was:

A ) Commandant of 1st mountain infantry unit
B ) A commander of Golscha bridge
C ) A political agent of NWFP
D ) Surveyor General of India ✅

67 - Christopher Columbus who discovered America was :

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

68 - The annual average flow of water in Indus River system is:

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

69 - The single biggest hydel power generating site is situated in:

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

70 - The US Congress and senate raised the debit limit of US government by:

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

71 - IMF and world bank are created through:

A ) Yalta conference
B ) New deal
C ) Treaty of Versailles
D ) Bretton Woods agreement ✅

73 - The president of yugoslavia/ Serbia who was indicated and tried by war criminal tribunal was:

A ) Franjo Tudrnan
B ) Slobodan Milosevic ✅
C ) Ralko Mladic
D ) Radoslav Bradjnin

74 - Who was not a member of the first cabinet of Pakistan?

A ) Sardar Abdul Raab nishtar
B ) Hussain Shahid soharwardi ✅
C ) Jogendra Nath Mandal
D ) Malik Ghulam Muhammad

75 - President of Syria Bashar Al Asad is by faith a:

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

76 - US President Barack Obama's father was:

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

77 - Blind dolphins are found in:

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

78 - The caption 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

80 - When Ayub khan took over power in 1958 the prime minister of Pakistan was:

A ) Muhammad Ali bogra
B ) Hussain Shahid soharwardi
C ) Malik Feroz khan noon ✅
D ) Chaudhary Muhammad Ali

81 - The first international flight taken by PIA was taken on:

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

82 - The present deputy chairman of planning commission is:

A ) Nadeem Al Haque
B ) Dr. Akram sheikh
C ) Dr. Ishrat Hussain
D ) Dr .Muhammad Jahanzeb khan ✅

83 - The present secretary general of UN is from:

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

84 - The cash balance of the company is more than the cash balance of US:

A ) Apple ✅
B ) Microsoft
C ) Bechtel
D ) Dupont

86 - The father of modern science fiction is:

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

87 - 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

88 - Indian railway started operation:

A ) 1847
B ) 1849
C ) 1853 ✅
D ) 1861

90 - The one who won grand slam in tennis twice:

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

91 - Hanging gardens in Babylon were located in modern day:

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

92 - First satellite Sputnik 1 was launched in October 1957, indicate the date:

A ) 2 October 1957
B ) 4 October 1957 ✅
C ) 6 October 1957
D ) 8 October 1957

93 - The celebrated scientist Isaac Newton was:

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

94 - Turnip is a root described as:

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

95 - Penicillin was discovered by:

A ) Victor Fleming
B ) Lan Fleming
C ) Alexander Fleming ✅
D ) Stephen

96 - 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 Buddha ✅
D ) Operation

97 - The poverty first written by Allama Iqbal in Persian and then translated in Urdu on popular demand:

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

98 - The book" Indian Muslims "published in 1871 was written by:

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