PPSC Past Papers for the Post of Zilladars (BS-14) 2011
MODEL PAPER 9
Punjab Public Service Commission
Written Test for Recruitment to the Post of
Zilladars (BS-14) 2011
1. Pathway to Pakistan’ is tHe autobiography of:
(A) M.A.H. Isphani
(B) Choudhry Khaliq uz Zaman ✔️
(C) A. Fazlul Haq
(D) Sir Fazl-i-Kussain
2. Chaudhri Rehmat AN first used the word ‘Pakistan’ in his pamphlet ‘Now or Never” in:
(A) 1933 ✔️
(B) 1935
(C) 1937
(D) 1938
3. 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 McDonald
4. Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah joined All India Muslim League in:
(A) 1937
(B) 1939 ✔️
(C) 1938
(D) 1940
5. Congress launched “Quit India Movement” against the British Government in:
(A) 1940
(B) 1941
(C) 1942 ✔️
(D) 1944
6. Gandhi-Jinnah talks were held in 1944 to discuss the C.R. Formula, prepared by:
(A) Raj Gopa Acharia ✔️
(B) V.P. Menon
(C) Abu-al-Kalam Azad
(D) Lord Waved
7. Who presided over the Simla Conference in 1945?
(A) Lord Minto
(B) Lord Wavell ✔️
(C) Lord Irwin
(D) Lord Mountbatten
8. Quaid-e-Azam met M.K. Gandhi for the first time in 1916 at:
(A) Delhi
(B) Bombay
(C) Calcutta
(D) Lucknow ✔️
9. The National Anthem of Pakistan was approved by the Government in:
(A) 1947
(B) 1950
(C) 1952
(D) 1954 ✔️
10. The land lying between the river Ravi and river Chenab is called':
(A) Rachna Doab ✔️
(B) Bari Doab
(C) Chaj Doab
(D) Sindh Sagar Doab
11. The artificial forests are being maintained at:
(A) Changa Manga
(B) Chichawatni
(C) Kotla Adeeb Shahid
(D) All of these
12. Which of the following forts was built by Mughal Emperor Zahir-ud-Din Babar?
(A) Bala Hissar Fort ✔️
(B) Rohtas Fort
(C) Ranikot Fort
(D) Attock Fort
13. Which of the following districts of Baluchistan contains huge deposits of Copper?
(A) Loralai
(B) Sibbi
(C) Khuzdar
(D) Chaghi ✔️
14. The only National Elections held on non-party basis were in:
(A) 1977
(B) 1985 ✔️
(C) 1988
(D) 1990
15. “Chandka Medical College" is located at:
(A) Hyderabad
(B) Nawabshah
(C) Larkana ✔️
(D) None of these
16. Nuclear Research Laboratory at Kahuta was
(a) 1974
(B) 1976 ✔️
(C) 1978
(D) 1980
17. "Rawal Dam” was built in 1962 on river:
(a) Soar
(B) Haro
(C) Korang ✔️
(D) Jhelum
18. Who is considered to be the first poet of Punjabi language:
(A) Bulleh Shah
(B) Baba Farid Ganj Shakr ✔️
(C) Khawaja Ghulam Farid
(D) Sultan Bahu
19 Pakistan became a member of International Labour Organization (ILO) in:
(A) 1947 ✔️
(B) 1949
(C) 1951
(D) 1957
20. The first Water Accord was signed among the provinces in:
(A) 1988
(B) 1991✔️
(C) 1994
(D) 1997
21. Which of the following signed on 8 April 1950:
(A) SEATO
(B) CENTO
(C) Liaquat Nehru Pact ✔️
(D) Colombo Plan
22. “Mast Tawakli” was prominent poet of:
(A) Balochi ✔️
(B) Phusto
(C) Sindhi
(D) Barohi
23.Archaeological site “Bhambore” is located in the district of:
(A) Khairpur
(B) Dadu
(C) Larkana
(D) Thatta ✔️
24.bDecimal System was introduced in Pakistan on First January:
(A) 1951
(B) 1959
(C) 1961 ✔️
(D) 1963
25. Which was the first missile launched by Pakistan:
(A) Hatf ✔️
(B) Anza'
(C) Ghauri
(D) Shaheen
26.“Thomas Cup" is given for the game of:
(A) Lawn Tennis
(B) Golf
(C) Table Tennis
(D) Badminton ✔️
27. The Noble Prize for Peace is given in the city of:
(A) Stockholm
(B) Oslo ✔️
(C) Brussels
(D) Copenhagen
28. Identify the world’s largest "Peninsula”:
(A) Alaska
(B) Scandinavia
(C) Arabia ✔️
(D) Labrador
29. What is the length of “Great Wall of China*”?
(A) 21196 km ✔️
(B) 2600 km
(C) 3200 km
(D) 3400 km
30.Which is largest gland in the human body?
(A) Pancreas
(B) Lachrymal
(C) Liver ✔️
(D) Sweat glands
31. Who is the founder of “Scout Movement”?
(A) Robert Baden Powell ✔️
(B) E.O. Lawrence
(C) Maccollins
(D) Nicoba Tesla
32. The UN Security Council consists of:
(A) 5 members
(B) 11 members
(C) 15 members ✔️
(D)20 members
33. The headquarters of the “Asian Development Bank” is at:
(A) Jakarta
(B) Tokyo
(C) Kuala Lumpur
(D) Manila ✔️
34. ‘ITAR-TASS’ is a news agency of:
(A) Israel
(B) Iran
(C) United States
(D) Russia ✔️
35. What is "Cathy Pacific”?
(A) Island
(B) Newspaper
(C) News Agency
(D) Airline ✔️
36. ‘Ariana’ is an airline of:
(A) Sri Lanka
(B) Iran
(C) Afghanistan ✔️
(D) Turkey
37. After cotton, which is the second highest exchange earner crop of Pakistan?
(A) Rice ✔️
(B) Wheat
(C) SugarCane
(D) None of these
37. IPP stands for:
(A) Internal Programme of Planning
(B) International Press of Pakistan
(C) Independent Power Producer ✔️
(D) Internal Power Plan
38. What is “Pentagon”?
(A) Name of the French Parliament
(B) Offices of American Defence Ministry ✔️
(C) Official residence of United Nations Secretary General
(D) A kind of boat used in forming a bridge to let the army cross the river
40. The World's oldest surviving monarchy is in:
(A) England
(B) Japan ✔️
(C) Saudi Arabia
(D) Nepal
41.OPEC's largest oil producing country is-
(A) Kuwait
(B) Iran
(C) Saudi Arabia✔️
(D) U.A.E.
42.“Pedagogy” is a science of:
(A) Bodily diseases
(B) Stamp collecting
(C) Languages
(D) Teaching ✔️
43.After U.S.A. which country is the second biggest* arms seller in the world?
(A) Britain
(B) Russia ✔️
(C) France
(D) Germany
44.“Digital Computer**" was invented by:
(A)Vannevor Bush
(B) John Vincent Atanasoff ✔️
(C)M.R. Bissel
(D)Howard Aiken
45. Pinpoint the World’s oldest* democratic country:
(A) United States
(B) Great Britain ✔️
(C) Greece
(D) France
46.The highest literacy rate among the SAARC countries is in:
(A) India
(B) Maldives ✔️
(C) Sri Lanka
(D) Pakistan
47.The world’s largest island is:
(A) Madagascar
(B) Sumatra
(C) New Guinea
(D) Greenland ✔️
48. Among the SAARC countries, the highest per capita income* is of:
(A) India
(B) Pakistan
(C) Sri Lanka ✔️
(D) Bangladesh
49.Which international agency supervised Indus Basin Treaty, 1960 between Pakistan and India?
(A) IMF
(B) World Bank ✔️
(C) World Health Organization
(D) International Red Cross
50.Punjab’s size in the total land mass of Pakistan is:
(A) 20.7% ✔️
(B) 25.8%
(C) 29.7%
(D) 37.7%
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51.Which of the following leaders first raised the demand of separate electorate for the Indian Muslims?(A) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan ✔️
(B) Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk
(C) S.M. Shafi
(D) None of these
52. Chaudhri Rehmat Ali first used the word “Pakistan” in his pamphlet ‘Now or Never’ in:
(A) 1933 ✔️
(B) 1935
(C) 1937
(D) 1938
53. Lahore Resolution of 23rd March 1940, was seconded from Sindh province by:
(A) G. M. Syed
(B) Mekhdoom Talib ul Mula
(C) Abdullah Haroon ✔️
(D) Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto
54. Who presided over the Simla Conference in 1945?
(A) LordMinto
(B) Lord Wavell ✔️
(C) Lord Irwin
(D) Lord Mountbatten
55. The Pirpur Report on the brutalities of the congress ministries (1937-39), was compiled by:
(A) A.K. Fazl-ul-Haq
(B) Raja Muhammad Mehdi ✔️
(C) Nawab Salim Ullah Khan
(D) M. Sharif
56. Who administered the oath of office to Liaquat Ali Khan as the first Prime Minister of Pakistan?
(A) Quaid-i-Azam ✔️
(B) Justice Mian Abdul Rashid
(C) Lord Mountbatten
(D) Maulvi Tamizuddin
57. Pakistan’s first Nuclear power plant was set up in 1974 at Karachi with the assistance of:
(A) China
(B) France
(C) Canada ✔️
(D) North Korea
58. Pakistan-Afghanistan border “Durand Line” was drawn in:
(A) 1892
(B) 1890
(C) 1893 ✔️
(D) 1897
59. The headquarters of international environmental organization 'Green Peace’ is in:
(A) London
(B) Paris
(C) Vienna
(D) Amsterdam ✔️
60. The cause of Malaria was discovered by:
(A) Edward Jenner
(B) Alexander Fleming
(C) Ronald Ross ✔️
(D) None of these
61. The largest Producer of Natural Gas in the Muslim world is:
(A) Qatar
(B) Turkmenistan
(C) Iran ✔️
(D) Kazakhstan
62. 'Bakhtar' is the news agency of:
(A) Bangladesh
(B) Iran
(C) Belgium
(D) Afghanistan ✔️
63. Which of the following Vitamin’s overdose can cause kidney damage?
(A) Vitamin A
(B) Vitamin C
(C) Vitamin D ✔️
(D) Vitamin E
64. ‘Ibn Battuth’ was a famous traveller of:
(A) Iran
(B) Morocco ✔️
(C) Syria
(D) Indonesia
65. ‘Ringgit’ is the currency of:
(A) Sudan
(B) Nigeria
(C) Finland
(D) Malaysia ✔️
66. The largest country by population in Africa is:
(A) Algeria ✔️
(B) Nigeria
(C) Egypt
(D) Somalia
67. The capital of ‘Somalia’ is:
(A) Kampala
(B) Maputo
(C) Asmara
(D) Mogadishu ✔️
68. “Google" is a:
(A) Computer software company
(B) Computer hardware company
(C) Internet search engine ✔️
(D) Mobile phone brand
69. The world’s oldest national anthem is of:
(A) Denmark
(B) Thailand
(C) Norway
(D) Japan ✔️
Pinpoint the substitute word of the following words mentioned in bold letters:
70. Accumulate
(A) wealth
(B) complete
(C) collect ✔️
(D) gain
71. CELEBRITY
(A) famous personality ✔️
(B) cleaver
(C) occasion
(D) unknown person
72. COLLISION
(A) clash✔️
(B) conspiracy
(C) abatement
(D) association
73. DETRIMENTAL
(A) firm
(B) Wilful
(C) Harmful ✔️
(D) determined
74. STRENUOUS
(A) tiring
(B) light
(C) strong✔️
(D) strange
Pick the most suitable / appropriate prepositions:
75. The train went the tunnel.
(A) through ✔️
(B) in
(C) at
(D) to
76. Pour the tea the cup.
(A) to
(B) at
(C) into ✔️
(D) in
77. She jumped the bus.
(A) off
(B) on ✔️
(C) of
(D) at
Choose the correct meaning of:
78. “RANCOUR"
(A) resentment✔️
(B) greed
(C) sadness
(D) ugly
79. RAPID
(A) loud
(B) quick ✔️
(C) slow
(D) bright
80. ‘ZEST’
(A) great enjoyment ✔️
(B) Keenness
(C) Extremely large
(D) Helpless
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