17. 18, ‘Cais — PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION COMBINED COMPETITIVE EXAM TION FOR RECRUITMENT TO THE POSTS OF PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENTS SERVICES, ETC, - 2012 PAPER: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Which of the following is a landlocked country? (a) Nigeria (b) Kenya (©) Sri Lanka (a) Uganda Tahrir Square is situated in: (a) Rabat (b) Tehran (©) Cairo (d) Istanbul Benghazi is a city in: (a) Iraq (b) Syria (©) Morocco (a) Libya River Nile originates from: (a) Lake Nyasa (b) Cherangani Hills (¢) Lake Victoria () Springs in Kenya Greenwich is located in: (a) Greenland (b) England (©) Holland (a) France Canton is a city in: (a) Thailand (b) Germany (c) US (d) South Korea Indonesia and Malaysia are separated by: (a) Inaccessible mountains (b) Gulf of Malay (©) Malacca Strait (d) None of these Capital of Zimbabwe is: (a) Harare (b) Seoul (©) Pretoria (d) None of these Myanmar is the new name of: (a) Cambodia (b) Burma (©) Ceylon (d) None of these Morocco and Spain are separated by: (a) Pyrenees Hills (b) Alps (6) Strait of Gibraltar (d) River Rhine ‘The apex elected body in Israel is called: (a) Parliament (b) Congress (©) Knesset (a) Shura Communist Revolution took place in Russia in the month of: (a) March (b) June (©) February (a) November Pulitzer Prize is an American Award in the field of: (a) Sports (b) Scuba diving (©) Letters and journalism (a) Music ‘The name of US Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan is: (a) Richard Hobrooke (b) Daniel F. Feldman (c) Leon Panetta (d) Robert Gates De facto means: (a) Defective (b) Deficient (c) Actual,asafact (d) Legal Carte blanche means: (a) Full discretionary powers (b) A blank thing (©) Going by the rules (d) Wheel in the motion Corrigendum means: (a) Agenda of the meaning (b) Things to be corrected (¢) Study of some gender (d) Correspondence Faux pas means: (a) A fine person (b) Luck (d) False and incorrect step20. 1. 22. 23. 24, 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30, 3. 32. xB. 34, 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 60 Fifth Column refers to: (a) Huge pillar Paediatrics refers to (b) Long writing (a) Care of pregnant women (©) Care of children Pythagoras, geometrician belonged to: (a) Syria (b) Mesopotamia (©) Loyalty (a) Treachery (b) Care of old people (d) Care of bones and joints, (©) Greece (a) Italy “Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations” was written by: (@) Jawaharlal Nehru (b) Gunnar Myrdal Tolstoy was the author of famous novel: (a) Idiot (©) Dark Continent (©) Thomas Paine — (d) Joseph Conrad (b) For Whom the Bell Tolls (d) War and Peace ‘Which of the following ranks in the air force is higher? (a) AirCommodore " (b) Squadron Leader The headquarters of WTO is at: (a) New York (b) Rome International Court of Justice sits at: (a) Brussels (b) Paris (c) Wing Commander (d) Group Captain (c) Geneva (a) London (c) The Hague (d) New York Heat received by the Earth from the Sun is known as: (a) Insulation (b) Solar radiation The cheapest source of electricity generation is: (a) Hydel (b) Nuclear (6) Solar heat (d) Thermal radiationi (c) Solar (d) Thermal Largest political agency in Pakistan’s tribal areas in terms of area is: (a) North Waziristan Lowari Pass connects: (a) Kaghan Valley with Chilas (©) Garam Chashma with Nuristan (b) Kurram (c) Mohmand (a) South Waziristan (b) Kalam with Gilgit (a) Dir with Chitral From Karachi farthest point on the Coastal Highway is: (a) Jiwani (b) Ormara Circumference of the Earth is : (a) 20000 km (b) 30000 km ‘The deepest point in the Pacific Ocean is: (a) Tonga Trench (©) Puerto Rico Trench Mount Kilimanjaro is located in: (a) Kenya (b) Tanzania ‘Suez Canal links: (a) Black Sea and Aegean Sea(b) (©) Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea Khojak Pass is located between: (a) Jamrud and Landi Kotal (©) Quetta and DI. Khan Nearest part of atmosphere to earth is called: (a) Stratosphere (b) Troposphere Colosseum, an amphitheatre was built in: (@) Athens (b) Naples Special theory of relativity was proposed by: (a) Isaac Newton (b) Albert Einstein (©) Pasni (a) Gawadar (©) 40075 km (@ 50000 km (b) Mariana Trench (@) Java Trench (©) Uganda (@) South Africa Persian Gulf with Arabian Sea (d) Mediterrancan Sea with Adriatic Sea (b) Sibi and Machh (@) Quetta and Chaman (©) Ionosphere (a) Mesosphere (©) Rome @) Milan (©) Galileo (@) Robert Hooke41. 42, 43. 44, 45, 46. 47. 48. 49. 51. 52. 53. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 61 Isaac Newton gave: (a) Law of planetary motion (b) Laws of motion and Laws of gravitation (©) Laws of geometry (d) None of these "Composition of Alchemy" is written by: (a) Ibn Al-Haithem —(b) Jabirbin Hayyan (c) Tbn-Rushd (d) None of these The book ' Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb' is written by: (a) Al-Biruni (b) Abu Ali Sina (©) Al-Baltani (@) Ibn-e-Rushd Chile has the longest shore along: (a) Atlantic Sea (b) Black Sea (©) Mediterranean Sea (d) Pacific Ocean Gross domestic product (GDP) in Pakistan is growing at the rate of: (as per 2015-16 statistics) (a) 2% (b) 4.71% (©) 5.0% (@) 7% Agriculture, the key sector in the Pakistan economy accounts for (a) 21% of G.D.P. (b) 28%% of G.D.P. (ec) 25% of G.D.P. (d@) 51% of G.D-P. The Earth is closest to the Sun in: (a) January (b) July (©) September (a) June Time required for a computer to locate and transfer data is called: (a) Analogue time (b) Basic time (c) Starting time (@) Access time A device which encodes characters by the depression of keys is known as: (a) Printer (b) Keyboard (©) Mouse (@) Hard drive Mixture of two metals is called: (a) Dispersant (b) Alloy (©) Amalgam (a) Metalloid ‘The area inside a computer frame and auxiliary where date and instructions are stored is called: (a) Memory (b) Interpreter (©) Recorder (a) Hopper An extremely small piece of silicon on which integrated circuits are fabricated is called: (a) Chip (b) Card reader (©) Feed (@) Hollerith Code The time taken by light to reach the Earth is: (a) 4 minutes 30 seconds (b) 8 minutes 15 seconds (©) 10 minutes 20 seconds (@) 12 minutes 30 seconds The shape of our Milky Way galaxy is: (a) Irregular (b) Spiral (c) Elliptic (d) Rectangular The coldest planet of the solar system (a) Venus (b) Earth (c) Neptune (d) None Biman is an airline of: (a) Sri Lanka (b) Cambodia (©) Afghanistan (@) Bangladesh 38th Parallel is a boundary line between. (a) Myanmar and Thailand (b) Thailand and Malaysia (©) India and China (@) South and North Korea ‘Oxygen by volume has a presence in the atmosphere of about: (a) 10% (b) 21% (©) 30% (a) 45% ‘The brightest planet in the solar system is: (a) Satu (b) Venus (©) Neptune (@) Mars The planet with shortest daytime is: (a) Venus (b) Earth (©) Jupiter (@) None of these Insulin in human body is produced in: (a) Liver (b) Kidney (c) Pancreas (d) None of these Dynamite was discovered by: (a) Gottlieb Daimler (b) Oswald Mosley —_(¢) Alfred Nobel (d) Sigmund Freud How far is the Dead Sea before Mediterranean? (a) 250 metres (b) 300 metres (c) 400 metres (@) 1654 km67. 68. 69. 70. nm. 2. 73. 74. 15. 76. 77. 78. 79. 62 Laws of Heredity were discovered by: (a) Benjamin Franklin (b) Charles Darwin (c) Gregor Mendel — (d)_ None of these Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Dr Abdus Salam in the year: (a) 1969 (b) 1975 The longest river is located in: (a) Asia (b) Africa (c) 1979 (d) 1983 (c) Latin America (d)_ North America ‘The highest mountain peak, Mount Everest, has been named after Col. George Everest who was: (a) Commandant of Ist Mountain Infantry unit (©) A political agent of NWFP. Christopher Columbus who discovered America was: (a) Spanish (b) Dutch (6) A Commander of Gorkha brigade (a) Surveyor General of India (c) Italian (d) French ‘The annual average flow of water in Indus River system is: (a) 130 MAF The single biggest hydel power generating site is situated in: (a) Brazil (b) 145 MAF (b) China (c) 100 MAF (d) 90 MAF (©) United States (d) India The US Congress and Senate raised the debt limit of US government by: (a) $500 billion (b)_$15000 billion (©) $1500 billion (d)_ $2000 billion IMF and World Bank have been created through: (a) Yalta Conference (©) Treaty of Versailles (b) New Deal (d) Bretton Woods Agreement Moorish Kingdom of Granada (Spain) surrendered to Christians in the year: (a) 1453 ‘The President of Yugoslavia/ Serbia who was indicted and tried by International War Criminal ‘Tribunal was: (a) Franjo Tudman (©) Ratko Mladic (b) 1492 (c) 1526 (d) 1556 (b) Slobodan Milosevic (d) Radoslav Brdanin Who was not a member of the Ist Cabinet of Pakistan? (a) Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar (c) Jogendra Nath Mandal President of Syria, Bashar Al Assad is by faith a(n): (a) Druze US President Barack Obama's father was a(n): (a) Indonesian (b) Alawite (b) Nigerian Blind Dolphins are found in: (a) Indus River (b) Nile River (b) Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (d) Malik Ghulam Muhammad (©) Wahabi (@) Sunni (©) Egyptian (a) Kenyan (©) Yangtze River (d) None of these ‘The captain of Pakistan cricket team that defeated England at the Oval in 1954 was: (a) Fazl Mahmood () Abdul Hafeez Kardar (b) Hanif Muhammad (@) Khan Muhammad ‘The 1st Olympic Gold Medal for Pakistan was in the Summer Olympic Games of: (a) 1956 (b) 1960 (c) 1964 (a) 1968 ‘When Ayub Khan took over power in 1958, the Prime Minister of Pakistan was: (a) Muhammad Ali Bogra (©) Malik Feroz Khan Noon The first international flight of PIA was taken on: (a) 25th May 1951 (b) 7th June 1954 (b) Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (@) Chaudhary Muhammad Ali (©) Ist February 1955 (d) 17th June 196182. 83. 85. 86. 87. 89. 90. a1. 92. 93. 94, 95. 97. 98. 99, 100, 63 ‘The present Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission is: (a) Absan Iqbal (b) Dr Akram Sheikh (ec) Drlshrat Husain (d) Dr Shahid Amjad The present Secretary General of UN is from: (a) Australia (b) S.Korea (©) Brazil (@) Austria The cash balance of the company is more than the cash balance of US: (a) Apple (b) Microsoft (©) Bechtel (@) DuPont ‘After the conquest of Punjab, the Britishers constituted a three — member board of Administration for governing the Punjab. Indicate who was not the member among the following: (a) Henry Lawrence (b) John Lawrence (©) Charles Mansel (d) Robert Montgomery The father of modern Science Fiction is: (a) Bertrand Russell (b) Hugo Gernsback —(¢) Aldous Huxley (d) Maupassant The Office of District Magistrate was abolished through: {a) Local Government Ordinance 2001 (b) Police Order 2002 (©) Amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure (@) 17th Amendment in the Constitution Indian Railway started operation in: (a) 1847 (b) 1849 (o) 1853 (a) 1861 First international Olympic Games were held in Greece in 1896 in the month of: (a) April (b) May (©) June (@) July The one who won grand slam in tennis twice: (a) Leo Hoad (b) Roy Emerson —(¢) Rod Laver (d) Jimmy Connors Hanging Gardens of Babylon were located in modern day: (a) Syria (b) Iraq. (©) Lebanon (@) Jordan First Satellite Sputnik 1 was launched in October 1957. Indicate the date, (a) 2 October (b) 4 October (©) 6 October (@) 8 October The celebrated scientist Isaac Newton was: (a) British (b) Dutch (©) Italian (@) French The ‘sun’ is mainly composed of: (a) Oxygen (b) Hydrogen (©) Carbon dioxide (d) Potassium Penicillin was discovered by: (a) Victor Fleming (b) lan Fleming (©) Alexander Fleming (@) Stephen Victor On 18th May 1974, India exploded first nuclear devise under the code name of: (a) Operation Blue Star (b) Operation Gibraltar (©) Operation Smiling Buddha (a) Operation Rakshak ‘The poetry first written by Allama Iqbal in Persia (a) Bal-e-Jibreel (b) Bang-e-Dara (c) Zarb-e-Kaleem — (d)_Asrar-e-Khudi ‘The book ‘Indian Musalmans'. published in 1871 was written by; (a) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (b) William Wilson Hunter (©) Rudyard Kipling (a) Justice Ameer Ali Indian Rebellion of 1857 (War of Independence) began on 10th May from the town of: (a) Jhansi (b) Gwalior (c) Meerut (d) Lucknow How many Sahaba were martyred in Battle of Badar? 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