PPSC Assistant Superintendent Jail 2015 Solved Past Papers

PPSC Assistant Superintendent Jail 2015 Solved Past Papers
PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT JAIL (BS-16)
IN THE PUNJAB PRISON (HOME) DEPARTMENT, 2015

1. Baltoro is a famous ____ of Pakistan.
(A) Glacier ✓
(B) River
(C) Mountain Lake
(D) Mountain Peak

2. Gayari, the site of a catastrophic avalanche in 2012, lies in
(A) Siachen ✓
(B) Balochistan
(C) Azad Kashmir
(D) Salt Range

3. Diamer-Bhasha hydro-electric project is being built on river.
(A) Jhelum
(B) Kabul
(C) Indus ✓
(D) Hunza

4. The main city of Hunza Valley is
(A) Karmabad ✓
(B) Gust
(C) Battagram
(D) Bisham

5. The first ever American President to be assassinated was
(A) John Adams ✓
(B) Abraham Lincoln
(C) William Coleridge
(D) John F. Kennedy

6. Peoples Republic of China was founded in
(A) 1950
(B) 1949 ✓
(C) 1948
(D) 1951

7. Which mineral is mostly found in northern and western mountains of Pakistan?
(A) Chromite
(B) China Clay
(C) Limestone
(D) Gypsum

8. Barrak Hussain Obama is the President of U.S.A.
(A) 42nd
(B) 43rd
(C) 44th ✓
(D) 40th

9. President Mamnoon Hussain is the    President of Pakistan.
(A) 12th ✓
(B) 14th
(C) 11th
(D) 15th

10 All of the following are non-metallic minerals except:
(A) Asbestos
(B) Graphite
(C) Platinum ✓
(D) Sulphur

11. The British Cabinet Mission visited India in
(A) 1945
(B) 1946 ✓
(C) 1944
(D) 1947

12 Who founded the Indian National Congress?
(A) A.O. Hume ✓
(B) Dadabhoy Naorojee
(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(D) Mahatma Gandhi

13 Who is the current President of Pakistan Hockey Federation?
(A) Shahnaz Sheikh
(B) QasimZia
(C) Islahuddin
(D) Akhtar Rasool ✓

14. Jalilanwala Bagh is located in which city?
(A) Gujranwala
(B) Jallundar
(C) Amristar ✓
(D) Batala

15. Which pair of words refers to butterflies and birds?
(A) Bear, bare
(B) aiary, apiary ✓
(C) bore, boar
(D) fair, fare

16. Tasmante. is the major island of which country?
(A) Indonesia
(B) Australia ✓
(C) New Zealand
(D) Philippines

17. Pakistan's First Five Year Development Plan was from
(A) 1954-1959
(B) 1955-1955
(C) 1955-1960 ✓
(D) 1956-1961

18. The current Five Year Development Plan of Pakistan is it's
(A) Eighth
(B) Ninth
(C) Tenth
(D) Eleventh ✓

19. Durand Line, the present border between Pakistan and Afghanistan was established in?
(A) 1873
(B) 1893 ✓
(C) 1901
(D) 1859

20. Which was the first Paksitani feature film released after independence?
(A) Teri Yaad ✓
(B) Do Ansoo
(C) Chan Way
(D) Jugga Dakko

21. Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the former NWFP was first created as a separate province in
(A) 1901
(B) 1910
(C) 1948 ✓
(D) 1935-

22- Gurdawara Rohri Sahib is located in
(A) Farooqabad
(B) Faisajabad
(C) Emlnabad ✓
(D) Hasan Abdal

23. The first railway line between Karachi and Kotri was opened in
(A) 1861 ✓
(B) 1869
(C) 1871
(D) 1900

24. Who scored the only goal to give Pakistan the Olympic Hockey Gold Medal in 1960?
(A) Naseer Bunda ✓
(B) Noor Alam
(C) Shahnaz Sheikh
(D) Abdul Hameed Hameedi

25. When was the last time a Pakistani won an individual medal at Olympic Games?
(A) Los Angeles 1982
(B) Seoul 1988 ✓
(C) Tokyo 1964
(D) Mexico 1966

Pakistan has won two individual medals in the Olympics to date, both bronze medals: one in wrestling in Rome 1960 and one in boxing in Seoul 1988. Pakistan has not won a single medal at the Olympic games since 1992 Barcelona.

26. The oldest Public Radio Station* in Pakistan was established in 1935; where?
(A) Lahore ✓
(B) Dhaka
(C) Peshawar
(D) Karachi

27. Khanjarab is the border Pass between Pakistan and which country?
(A) China ✓
(B) Pakistan
(C) Afghanistan
(D) Iran

28. Babamama was originally written in
(A) Persian
(B) Chagatai Turkish ✓
(C) Arabic
(D) None of these

29. Daewoo is a famous brand of which country?
(A) China
(B) Japan
(C) Pakistan
(D) Republic of Korea ✓

30. Which country is known as the “Land of the Rising Sun"?
(A) China
(B) Japan ✓
(C) South Korea
(D) Canada

31. The Strait of Malacca lies between which two countries?
(A) Indonesia Malaysia ✓
(B) Thailand-Philippines
(C) Malaysia Singapore
(D) Indonesia Singapore

32. Lee Kwan Yew was the founder of which nation?
(A) Bruner
(B) Singapore ✓
(C) Timor-Leste
(D) Taiwan

33. The Headquarter of ASEAN is located in
(A) Penang
(B) Jakarta ✓
(C) Singapore
(D) Bangkok

34. The capital city of Somalia is
(A) Mombasa
(B) Zanzibar
(C) Mogadishu ✓
(D) Asmara

35. The first ever Atom Bomb was dropped on which city
(A) Nagasaki
(B) Yokohama
(C) Osaka
(D) Hiroshima ✓

36. Mount Fujiyama is located in which country?
(A) Japan ✓
(B) North Korea
(C) Philippines
(D) Vietnam

37. The capital city of Cambodia is
(A) Pnom Penh ✓
(B) Haiphong
(C) Hanoi
(D) Vientiane

38. The current king of Saudi Arabia is
(A) Khalid
(B) Abdullah
(C) Salman ✓
(D) Sultan

39. Mesopotamia is the ancient name of
(A) Syna
(B) Iraq ✓
(C) Turkey
(D) Yemen

40. Women population of Pakistan is
(A) Equal to the number of male population
(B) Less than the number of male population
(C) More than the number of male population ✓
(D) None of the above

41. Gross GDP of Pakistan in US Dollars is
(A) 237 Billion ✓
(B) 300 Billion
(C) 220 Billion
(D) 400 Billion

42. Total Budget of Pakistan for the current fiscal year 2014-15 is Rupees
(A) 3945 Billion ✓
(B) 3900 Billion
(C) 4000 Billion
(D) 3600 Billion

43. Women quota for government employment currently is
(A) 10%
(B) 12%
(C) 15% ✓
(D) 5%

44. When was Sindh separated from the British Presidency and created a separate province?
(A) 1935 ✓
(B) 1935
(C) 1938
(D) 1941

45. Which was the first Provincial Assembly to pass a resolution for a separate state for Muslims of India?
(A) Punjab
(B) Sindh ✓
(C) Balchistan
(D) None of these

46. Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy was the
(A) Prime Minister of Pakistan ✓
(B) Speaker of the Constituent Assembly
(C) Ambassadar to USA
(D) Foreign Minister

47. Brojen Das was the first Pakistani to
(A) Climb Mount Everest
(B) Swim across the British Channel ✓
(C) Win an Olympic Gold Medal
(D) Sail to the South Pole

48. Captain of the Pakistan Cricket team that beat England in 1954 was
(A) A.H. Kardar ✓
(B) Fazal Mehmood
(C) Imtiaz Ahmed
(D) Shuja-uddin

49. When was the Punjab Public Service Commission founded?
(A) 1942
(B) 1937 ✓
(C) 1959
(D) 1940

50. When was the first PTV programme broadcast?
(A) November 1964 ✓
(B) September 1964
(C) October 1964
(D) December 1964

51. European Parliament is located in which city?
(A) Brussels ✓
(B) Luxemburg
(C) Paris
(D) Strasburg

52. Who was the first President of the United States of America?
(A) Thomas Jefferson
(B) George Washington ✓
(C) John Adams
(D) Alexander Hamilton

53. Astore District is located in which area?
(A) Balochistan
(B) Khyber-Pukhtunkhwa
(C) Gilgit Batistan ✓
(D) Sindh

54. Pakistani actor Fawad Khan acted in which recent Bollywood film?
(A) Burfi
(B) Khoobsurat ✓
(C) Jalaibee
(D) Golmaal

55. Uch Sharif’s most famous monument is the tomb of:
(A) Bibi Jawindi ✓
(B) Nawab Safahuddin Abbasi
(C) Maulvi Barkhudar
(D) Shams Tabrezi

56. The full name of Dr. Khan Sahib, Chief Minister of NWFP, assassinated in Lahore in 1958, was
(A) Jamaiuddin Khan
(B) Abdul Jabbar Khan ✓
(C) Khush Gul Khan
(D) Phool Badshah Khan

57. After independence the first Governor of Punjab province was
(A) Sir Francis Mudi ✓
(B) Mumtaz Ahmad Khan Daultana
(C) Nawab Mamdot
(D) Sir John Lawrence

58. Mujibur Rehman had proposed a formula to solve the 1971 crisis which was called
(A) Seven Point
(B) Agartala Proposal
(C) Six Points ✓
(0) Sonar Bangla Formula

59. TDAP is responsible for
(A) Export Promotion ✓
(B) Investment Promotion
(C) Power Load Management
(D) Water Distribution

60. WHO head office is located in
(A) New York
(B) Vienna
(C) Geneva ✓
(D) Paris

61. The UN Security Council comprises of a total of ___ countries of which _____ are non-permanent.
(A) 10,6
(B) 15,10 ✓
(C) 11,7
(D) 18,15

62. Ban Ki Moon is currently the ___ of United Nations.
(A) Chairman
(B) President
(C) CEO
(D) Secretary General ✓

63. The Islamic Revolution in Iran took pace in
(A) February 1979 ✓
(B) January 1980
(C) March 1981
(D) March 1979

64. Quaid-i-Azam married his cousin ____ before going off to London for higher studies in 1892.
(A) Rube
(B) Emibai ✓
(C) Jumabal
(D) Maryam

65. One molecule of water is composed of
(A) Two Hydrogen atoms, two oxygen atoms
(B) One atom of hydrogen, one atom of oxygen
(C) Two atoms of Hydrogen, one atom of oxygen ✓
(D) One atom of Hydrogen, two atoms of oxygen

66. Water covers how much of the Planet Earth?
(A) 70% ✓
(B) 65%
(C) 75%
(D) 60%

67. Sphygmomanometer is an instrument used to measure
(A) Humidity in the Air
(B) Blood Pressure ✓
(C) Purity of Milk
(D) Thickness of Water

68. Numinatics is the study of
(A) Coins ✓
(B) Horses
(C) Flags
(D) Weapons

69. Muslim scientist & philosopher Ibn-al-Haytham made his most famous contribution to the field of
(A) Medicine
(B) Poetry
(C) Optics ✓
(D) Mathematics

70. Who is a Polymath?
(A) Mathematician
(B) Astronomer
(C) Inventor of Tools
(D) Expert of many subjects ✓

71. Pain Killer drugs are called:
(A) Anesthetics
(B) Analgesics ✓
(C) Beta Blockers
(D) Antibiotics

72. Ecology is an interdisciplinary field that includes
(A) Biology & Earth Science ✓
(B) Agriculture & Chemistry
(C) Pharmacy & Gardening
(D) Biology & Economics

73. Bio-fuels are source of energy derived from
(A) Birds
(B) Plants & animals ✓
(C) Oceans
(D) Air & Water

74. Natural Rubber is obtained from
(A) A special kind of tree ✓
(B) A kind offish
(C) Water weeds
(D) Animal Waste Pick the odd word out

75.
(A) railway
(B) aeroplane
(C) ferry
(D) bread ✓

76.
(A) ball
(B) earth
(C) tree ✓
(D) moon

77.
(A) milk
(B) juice
(C) biscuit ✓
(D) lemonade

78.
(A) cool ✓
(B) cut
(C) dig
(D) blow

79. Normal body temperature is
(A) 98"F
(B) 97.4°F
(C) 97.2°F
(D) 98.4°F ✓

80. Which is the most widely used letter in the English language?
(A) A
(B) S
(C) E ✓
(D) P

81. Maulana Rumi is buried in which city?
(A) Istanbul
(B) Konya ✓
(C) Balkh
(D) Jalalabad

82. Bi Amma was the:
(A) Mother of Maulana Shibli Naumani
(B) Wife of Maulana Abur Kalam Azad
(C) Mother of Maulana Mohammad Ali Johar ✓
(D) Sister of Raja of Mahmoodabad

83. The capital city during Omayyad Caliphate was
(A) Madina
(B) Damascus ✓
(C) Kufa
(D) Baghdad

84. Raja Purshottam (Porus) was ruling this region when ______ invaded
(A) Mahmood Ghaznavi
(B) Mohammad Ghori
(C) Alexander the Great ✓
(D) Kanishka

85. The Safavid dynasty of rulers was based in
(A) Iran ✓
(B) Turkey
(C) Afghanistan
(D) Turkmenistan

86. Mohammad Bin Qasim came to Sindh during which Caliphate of Islam?
(A) Andalusian
(B) Omayyad ✓
(C) Abbasside
(D) Seljuk

87. Which province of Pakistan is called Babul Islam?
(A) Sindh ✓
(B) Punjab
(C) Baluchistan
(D) Kyber Pukhtunkhwa

88. Begum Hazrat Mahal was the:
(A) Wife of Nawab Wajid Ali Shan ✓
(B) Mother of Bahadur Shah Zafar
(C) Daughter of Bahadur Shah Zafar
(D) Ruler of Bhopal State

89. Persian poets Sheikh Sadi and Hafiz are buried in which city?
(A) Isfahan
(B) Kabul
(C) Shiraz ✓
(D) Tehran

90. Who wrote the Qissa Sussi Punnu in Punjabi language?
(A) Hashim Shah ✓
(B) Fazal Shah
(C) Damodar
(D) Waris Shah

What comes next in the sequence:

91. 2,12,32,62,102,
(A) 152 ✓
(B) 182
(C) 162
(D) 172

92. 90, 85, 75, 55,
(A) 20
(B) 25 ✓
(C) 15
(D) 5