PPSC Written Test for Recruitment to the Posts of DISTRICT OFFICER CIVIL DEFENCE / DEPUTY DISTRICT OFFICER CIVIL DEFENCE / CHIEF STAFF OFFICER / PROVINCIAL RESCUE OFFICER (BS- 16) in the Punjab Home Department (2015)
PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
(A) Freedom Fighter ✓
(B) Punjabi Poet
(C) Historian
(D) Mughal Architect
2. The Battle of Plassey was fought in 1787 by Robert Clive against
(A) Sirajuddin ✓
(B) Tipu Sultan
(C) MirJaffar
(D) MirQasim
3. The Second World War was fought between the years
(A) 1938-1945
(B) 1939-1945 ✓
(C) 1935-1942
(D) 1936-1946
4. The estimated number of service personnel and civilians killed* in the Second World War was
(A) 25 Million
(B) 60 Million
(C) 75 Million ✓
(D) 49 Million
5. Ho Chi Minh was the independence leader of
(A) Thailand
(B) Philippines
(C) Vietnam ✓
(D) Myanmar
6. The Headquarters of GCC is in
(A) Riyadh ✓
(B) Jeddah
(C) Bahrain
(D) Kuwait
7. The old name of Sri Lanka was
(A) Ceylon ✓
(B) Lacca deep
(C) Ravan
(D) Maldives
8. The Headquarters of World Trade
Organization is in
(A) Lausanne
(B) Geneva ✓
(C) Bale
(D) Strasburg
9. Dmitri Madvadev is of Russia.
(A) Prime Minister ✓
(B) President
(C) Business tycoon
(D) Film Director
10. Area wise the largest country in the world is
(A) Canada
(B) Indonesia
(C) China
(D) Russia ✓
11. Ancient city of Byzantium is today known as
(A) Ankara
(B) Istanbul ✓
(C) Izmir
(D) Antalya
12. Chinese currency is known as J
(A) Yuan ✓
(B) Yen
(C) Dong
(D) Ringgit
13. UN General Assembly meets every year for the new session in which month?
(A) October
(B) September ✓
(C) August
(D) November
14. The capital city of Cuba is
(A) Rio de Janeiro
(B) Brasilia
(C) Mar del Plata
(D) Havana ✓
15. ECO Secretariat is located in
(A) Tabriz
(B) Istanbul
(C) Tehran ✓
(D) Ashgabad
16. Astana is the capital city of
(A) Kyrgyzstan
(B) Turkmenistan
(C) Azerbaijan
(D) Kazakhstan ✓
17. “Humayun Nama” was written by
(A) Altaf Gauhar
(B) Gulbadan Begum ✓
(C) NurJehan
(D) Emperor Akbar
18. Agarthala city made famous by 1968 conspiracy case is located in
(A) Myanmar
(B) Bangladesh
(C) India ✓
(D) Nepal
19. Kamran's Bara-Dari in Lahore is named after
(A) Babur’s father
(B) Humayun’s brother ✓
(C) Sher Shah Suri's father
(D) Akbaris uncle
20. Allama Inyatallah Mashriqi was the founder of
(A) Anjuman Himayat-e-lslam
(B) Arafat Magazine
(C) MAO College Lahore
(D) Khaksar Movement ✓
21. The Continent Antarctica lies at the
(A) North Pole
(B) South Pole ✓
(C) Under Atlantic Ocean
(D) None of these
22. Aden is a port city of
(A) Oman
(B) Eritrea
(C) Yemen ✓
(D) Djibouti
23. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is the president of
(A) Sudan
(B) North Sudan
(C) Philippines
(D) Egypt ✓
24. Suez Canal connects which two seas?
(A) Mediterranean and Red ✓
(B) Red & Black
(C) Dead & Black
(D)
25. Ch. Rehmat Ali who coined the name Pakistan is buried in
(A) Lala Musa
(B) Cambridge ✓
(C) Jerusalam
(D) Lahore
26. Two kings of Hindustan are buried in Lahore one is Jahangir the other is
(A) Mohammad Ghori
(B) Qutb-uddin Aibak ✓
(C) Sikandar Lodhi
(D) Muhammad Tuglaq
27. Emperor Babur's last resting place is in
(A) Agra
(B) Kabul ✓
(C) Kandahar
(D) Delhi
28. Sher Shah Suri is buried in
(A) Jalalabad
(B) Akora Khattack
(C) Sasaram ✓
(D) Murshedabad
29. Emperor Akbar was bom in
(A) Umerkot ✓
(B) Jaipur
(C) Peshawar
(D) Agra
30. Who was the last Viceroy of British India?
(A) LordWavell
(B) Robert Clive
(C) Lord Mountbatten ✓
(D) Cecil Raddiff
Choose the word that is nearly similar in meaning to the word in capital letters:
31. CALLIGRAPHY
(A) handwriting ✓
(B) word-processing
(C) keyboard
(D) fever
32. DEMISE
(A) perfection
(B) end
(C) conclude
(D) death ✓
33. INCENDIARY
(A) cheerful
(B) snigger
(C) causing fire ✓
(D) playful
34. SURMISE
(A) doubt
(B) guess ✓
(C) fear
(D) kill
35. TOUCHSTONE
(A) criterion ✓
(B) auditorium
(C) varanda
(D) recall
Indicate the word most nearly the opposite in meaning to the world in capital letters.
36. CONCORD
(A) unity
(B) accord
(C) variance ✓
(D) agreement
37. HYPOCRISY
(A) cheat
(B) can't
(C) deceit
(D) uprightness ✓
38. FLUID
(A) moving
(B) frozen ✓
(C) still
(D) airy
39. ONEROUS
(A) light ✓
(B) difficult
(C) burdensome
(D) fluent
40 Gregarious
(A) talkative
(B) lonesome ✓
(C) cheerful
(D) boring
41. Yoghurt is produced by adding to milk.
(A) Bacteria ✓
(B) Acid
(C) Sugar
(D) Sodium
42. All that is not gold.
(A) glows
(B) glitters ✓
(C) sells
(D) bums
43. Where there is a there is a way.
(A) will ✓
(B) money
(C) gold
(D) politics
44. Sherlock Holmes was a
(A) Famous Thief
(B) Private Detective ✓
(C) Radio Journalist
(D) British Viceroy
45. Thomas Cup is the prize associated with which sport?
(A) Squash
(B) Badminton ✓
(C) Table Tennis
(D) Football
46. Pakistan won the first Hockey Gold Medal in Olympic Games of 1960 held in
(A) Barcelona
(B) Rome ✓
(C) Mexico City
(D) Los Angeles
47. The legendary football player Pele is from which country?
(A) Argentina
(B) Columbia
(C) Spain
(D) Brazil ✓
48. Last Summer Olympic Games were held in 2012 in
(A) Seoul
(B) Sydney
(C) London ✓
(D) Beijing
49. Who is called the “Bradman of Asia"?
(A) Zaheer Abbas ✓
(B) Hanif Muhammad
(C) Majid Jahangir
(D) Mudassar Nazar
50. Dilute Acetic Acid is the chemical name of
(A) Honey
(B) Lemon Juice
(C) Vinegar ✓
(D) Tamarind Juice
51 Lactometer is an instrument for measuring
(A) tpSed of Sound
(B) Humidity in the Air
(C) Density of Milk ✓
(D) Thickness of Yoghurt
52. Bronze is an alloy of
(A) Copper & Tin ✓
(B) Iron & Silver
(C) Silver & Lead
(D) ’None of these
53. Ampere is a unit of
(A) Pressure
(B) Energy
(C) Electric Current ✓
(D) Time
54. Oasis is associated with
(A) Air
(B) Ocean
(C) Desert ✓
(D) Canal
55. Name the famous book of Al-Beruni where de details Hindu religion and culture
(A) Indiana
(B) Kitab al Maroof
(C) Kitab al Hind ✓
(D) Kashf al Mahjoob
56. The instrument which measure very high temperature is called
(A) Thermometer
(B) Hygrometer
(C) Chromometer
(D) Pyrometer ✓
57. Chemicals which kill rats and mice are
(A) rodenticides ✓
(B) pesticides
(C) insecticides
(D) none of these
58. Eugenics is the study of
(A) Genetics of plants
(B) Different races of mankind
(C) Unborn babies ✓
(D) none of the above
59. In a railway track, two rails are joined end to end with a gap in between them because
(A) Air gaps are necessary for bearing the weight of the train
(B) Steel can be saved
(C) Accidents due to expansion of track can be avoided
(D) None of these
60. Who won the last World Kabbadi Tournament?
(A) Canada
(B) Pakistan
(C) India ✓
(D) Norway
61. "Scrabble" is a
(A) Board Game ✓
(B) Water Sport
(C) Card Game
(D) Kind of Wrestling
62. Steve Jobs was associated with which technology?
(A) Wrist Watch
(B) Diagnostic Radiology
(C) Computers ✓
(D) MotorCars
63. Computer Memory is measured in
(A) Millimeters
(B) Kilowatts
(C) Gigabytes ✓
(D) none of these
64. A “Terabyte" is equal to
(A) 100 Million Bytes
(B) One Billion Bytes
(C) 10,000 Bytes
(D) 1000 Gigabytes ✓
65. The Silicon Valley is located in
(A) Canada
(B) Mexico
(C) USA ✓
(D) Ireland
66. “Google" is a
(A) Computer Game
(B) Search Engine ✓
(C) Music Programme
(D) Browser
67. K.K. Aziz was a famous
(A) Poet
(B) Historian ✓
(C) Film Director
(D) Canadian
68. At birth Dillip Kumar was named
(A) Feroz Khan
(B) Amjad Khan
(C) Allah Rakha
(D) Yusuf Khan ✓
69. Shahrukh Khan's ancestral town is
(A) Nowshera
(B) Lahore
(C) Lucknow
(D) Peshawar ✓
70. “Dhurpad" & “Khayal" are terms of
(A) Poetry
(B) Painting
(C) Music ✓
(D) Grammar
71. Who composed the music for the movie Mughal-e-Azam?
(A) Naushad Ali ✓
(B) Master Ghulam Hussain
(C) R.D. Burman
(D) Khayyam
72. A rolling stone gathers no
(A) Moss ✓
(B) Dirt
(C) Oil
(D) Grass
73. Gandhi called off the Khiiafet Movement in 1922 because a mob had set a police station tiro where?
(A) Maiakand
(B) ChauriChaura ✓
(C) Nagpur
(D) Allahabad
74. In 1937 Elections All India Muslim League got percent of the Muslim seats.
(A) Five ✓
(B) Two
(C) Ten
(D) Fifteen
75. Allama Iqbal went for Hajj in
(A) 1930
(B) Never ✓
(C) 1908
(D) 1905
76. "Now or Never" was a pamphlet written by
(A) Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar
(B) Ch. Rehmat Ali ✓
(C) Syed Amir Aii
(D) Abdullah Yusuf Aii
77. Kattas Raj monuments near Chakwal are sacred to which religion?
(A) Hinduism ✓
(B) Buddhism
(C) Jainism
(D) Sikhism
78. “LNG" refers to
(A) Motor Fuel ✓
(B) A Source of Energy
(C) Shipping
(D) Civil Aviation
79. Riko Dig Is a site of
(A) GasFields
(B) War Monument
(C) Health Resort
(D) Copper & Gold ✓
80. Gorakh Hill is Ipcated in
(A) Baluchistan
(B) Gilgit Baltistan
(C) Sindh ✓
(D) Punjab
81. Rehana was the birth place of
(A) President Ayub Khan ✓
(B) Gen. Yahya Khan
(C) NoorJehan
(D) none of these
82. Sir Syed founded the Translation Society in 1864 in which city?
(A) Aligarh
(B) Ghazipur ✓
(C) Delhi
(D) Lahore
83. When did Pakistan become a Republic?
(A) 14 August 1947
(B) 23 March 1956 ✓
(C) 21 January 1962
(D) 11 September 1962
84. Who was the first Foreign Minister of Pakistan?
(A) Muhammad Ali Bogra
(B) M.M. Jsphahani
(C) Khawaja Nazimuddin
(D) Sir Zafarullah Khan ✓
85. The only Pakistani female film maker to get an Oscar Award is
(A) Shameen Obaid Chinoy ✓
(B) Samina Peerzada
(C) Musarat Nazir
(D) Sangeet
86. The Terrorist Group Al-Shabab is based in
(A) Kenya
(B) Somalia ✓
(C) Ethiopia
(D) Eritrea
87. “ISIS’is a
(A) A Space Station
(B) Computer Company
(C) Terrorist Network ✓
(D) Satellite Station
What comes next in these sequence
88. 2,4,12,48,
(A) 280
(B) 260
(C) 240 ✓
(D) 290
89. 1,11,31,61,
(A) 101 ✓
(B) 121
(C) 151
(D) 111
90. If ten oranges cost Rs. 75, how much will one dozen oranges cost?
(A) 85
(B) 80
(C) 90 ✓
(D) 95
91. 12 + 31 +19 + 22 + 87=
(A) 159
(B) 149
(C) 171 ✓
(D) 181
92. 121 + 1.5
(A) 90.2
(B) 80.6 ✓
(C) 78.4
(D) 92.8
Pick the Odd Word:
93.
(A) Cake
(B) Pastry
(C) Bread
(D) Orange ✓
94.
(A) white
(B) Dark ✓
(C) blue
(D) Green
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