ISLAMIC STUDIES
1. Which Treaty was termed as “Fath-um-Mubeen” in Surah Al-Fath of the Holy Quran?
Answer: Treaty of Hudaibiya
2. How many Verses (Ayaat) of Sajdah Tilawat are there in the Holy Quran?
Answer: 14 Ayaat
3. Who was appointed as the commander of the Muslim army in the Battle of Yarmouk by Hazrat Umar (RA)?
Answer: Hazrat Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah (RA)
4. What is the total length of time between the First and Second Revelations (Wahi) during the Fatrah period?
Answer: Approximately 6 months to 2.5 years (varies by historical accounts)
5. In which Hijri year was the Commandment regarding the performance of Hajj made compulsory?
Answer: 9 A.H.
6. Who was the chief architect behind the compilation of Hadith known as “Sahih Ibn Hibban”?
Answer: Ibn Hibban
7. Which Ghazwa is also referred to as “Ghazwa-e-Usrah” (The Battle of Hardship)?
Answer: Battle of Tabuk
8. What is the literal meaning of the term “Qiyas” in Islamic jurisprudence?
Answer: Analogical Reasoning
9. Which Companion of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) was given the title of “Tarjuman-ul-Quran” (The Interpreter of the Quran)?
Answer: Hazrat Abdullah ibn Abbas (RA)
10. What is the minimum threshold limit (Nisab) of Gold for Zakat eligibility?
Answer: 7.5 Tolas (87.48 grams)
11. Which Prophet is referred to as “Zun-Nun” in the Holy Quran?
Answer: Hazrat Yunus (AS)
12. In which year was the Treaty of Aqabah First (Bai’at-e-Aqabah Ula) taken?
Answer: 621 C.E. (12th year of Nabawih)
13. Who wrote the classic biographical work on the Holy Prophet (PBUH) titled “Al-Sira al-Nabawiyya”?
Answer: Ibn Hisham
14. What is the distance between Safa and Marwah hills in meters?
Answer: Approximately 395 to 400 meters
15. Under which Caliphate was the state administrative system divided into formal provinces (Wilayat) first established?
Answer: Caliphate of Hazrat Umar (RA)
PAKISTAN STUDIES
16. Who served as the Secretary of State for India when the Morley-Minto Reforms were enacted in 1909?
Answer: Lord John Morley
17. In which year was the “Delhi Muslim Proposals” formulated by Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah?
Answer: 1927
18. Who was the author of the historical treatise “The Indian Musalmans” published in 1871?
Answer: Sir William Wilson Hunter
19. Under which British Prime Minister was the Communal Award announced in 1932?
Answer: Ramsay MacDonald
20. Who was the president of the All-India Muslim League session held at Lucknow in 1916?
Answer: Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
21. What was the exact date when the First Constituent Assembly of Pakistan was dissolved by Ghulam Muhammad?
Answer: 24th October 1954
22. Who was appointed as the first Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Navy?
Answer: Rear Admiral James Wilfred Jefford
23. Under which President was the system of Basic Democracies (BD System) promulgated in 1959?
Answer: Field Marshal Ayub Khan
24. What is the total length of the Indus Waters Treaty boundary/river allocation system established in 1960?
Answer: Covers 6 major rivers (3 Western to Pakistan, 3 Eastern to India)
25. What is the maximum elevation of the Tirich Mir peak in the Hindu Kush range?
Answer: 7,708 meters
26. Which pass connects the Mardan district with Malakand division in KP?
Answer: Dargai Pass / Dargai Heights
27. Who was the First Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan upon its establishment in 1973?
Answer: Khan Habibullah Khan
28. Under which Constitutional Amendment was the Shariat Court established in Pakistan?
Answer: 8th Amendment (Constitution Amendment Act)
29. In which year was the Rann of Kutch border agreement signed between Pakistan and India?
Answer: 1968
30. Which lake in Pakistan is recognized as the largest artificial lake in the country?
Answer: Keenjhar Lake (or Manchar as largest natural freshwater)
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
Computer Science
31. Which protocol operates at the Transport Layer of the OSI model to provide connectionless, unreliable transmission?
Answer: UDP (User Datagram Protocol)
32. What is the worst-case time complexity of the Quick Sort algorithm?
Answer: O(n^2)
33. Which CPU scheduling algorithm can lead to the “Convoy Effect”?
Answer: First-Come, First-Served (FCFS)
34. What type of address is 255.255.255.255 in IPv4 networking?
Answer: Limited Broadcast Address
35. What is the process of converting an object state into a byte stream in Java/Object-Oriented Programming called?
Answer: Serialization
36. Which RAID level provides block-level striping with distributed parity across all disks?
Answer: RAID 5
37. What is the size of an IPv6 address in bits?
Answer: 128 Bits
38. Which relational database operation combines rows from two or more tables based on a related column?
Answer: JOIN
39. What is the main memory management technique that allows execution of processes that are not completely in memory?
Answer: Virtual Memory
40. What is the shortcut key in MS Excel to open the “Format Cells” dialog box?
Answer: Ctrl + 1
Everyday Science
41. What is the SI unit of magnetic flux density?
Answer: Tesla (T)
42. Which enzyme in human saliva begins the chemical digestion of starches into sugars?
Answer: Salivary Amylase (Ptyalin)
43. Which gas is produced when concentrated Nitric Acid reacts with Copper metal?
Answer: Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2)
44. What is the transition boundary between the Troposphere and Stratosphere called?
Answer: Tropopause
45. Which instrument is used to measure the specific gravity or density of liquids?
Answer: Hydrometer
46. What is the phenomenon of splitting white light into its component colors called?
Answer: Dispersion
47. Deficiency of Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) leads to which neurological disorder?
Answer: Beriberi
48. What is the chemical formula of Heavy Water?
Answer: D2O (Deuterium Oxide)
49. What is the value of Universal Gravitational Constant (G)?
Answer: 6.674 x 10^-11 N m^2/kg^2
50. Which organ in the human body secretes the hormone Calcification/Calcitonin?
Answer: Thyroid Gland
Current Affairs
51. Where is the official seat of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) situated?
Answer: London, United Kingdom
52. What is the official currency of Brazil?
Answer: Brazilian Real
53. Which narrow body of water separates the Sinai Peninsula from the Arabian Peninsula?
Answer: Gulf of Aqaba
54. Where is the headquarters of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) located?
Answer: Vienna, Austria
55. Which strait connects the Andaman Sea (Indian Ocean) to the South China Sea (Pacific Ocean)?
Answer: Strait of Malacca
56. What is the official capital city of Kazakhstan?
Answer: Astana
57. Which country is the world’s largest producer of Uranium?
Answer: Kazakhstan
58. Where is the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) located?
Answer: Geneva, Switzerland
59. Which sea lies between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula?
Answer: Yellow Sea
60. What is the largest landlocked country in Africa by geographic area?
Answer: Chad
ENGLISH GRAMMAR
61. Choose the correct synonym for the word “Recondite”:
Answer: Abstruse / Obscure / Profound
62. Choose the correct antonym for the word “Perspicacious”:
Answer: Dull / Ignorant / Unperceptive
63. Fill in the blank with the correct preposition: “He is oblivious _____ the dangers around him.”
Answer: To (or Of)
64. Convert to passive voice: “One should keep one’s promises.”
Answer: Promises should be kept.
65. Identify the conditional type: “Had I known about the meeting, I would have attended.”
Answer: Inverted Third Conditional
66. Convert to indirect speech: The manager said, “Let us call off the strike.”
Answer: The manager suggested that they should call off the strike.
67. Choose the correct spelling: (A) Supercilious (B) Supersilious (C) Supercellious
Answer: Supercilious
68. What figure of speech is present in: “Parting is such sweet sorrow”?
Answer: Oxymoron
69. What is the plural form of the Latin word “Corrigendum”?
Answer: Corrigenda
70. Choose the correct meaning of the idiom “To burning one’s bridges”:
Answer: To commit to a course of action from which there is no turning back
71. Select the correct word: “The minister gave an _____ speech that moved the audience.” (eloquent / elegiac)
Answer: Eloquent
72. Fill in the blank: “Not only did he fail the test _____ he lost his scholarship.” (but also / than)
Answer: But also
73. Choose the correct antonym for “Sanguine”:
Answer: Pessimistic / Gloomy
74. Identify the grammatical status of “To err” in: “To err is human.”
Answer: Subject infinitive
75. Choose the correct pronoun: “It was _____ who rang the bell.” (he / him)
Answer: He
76. Complete the idiom: “Curiosity killed the _____”
Answer: Cat
77. What is the past participle form of the verb “Cleave” (meaning to split)?
Answer: Cloven (or Cleft)
78. Fill in the blank: “The committee _____ divided in their opinions.” (was / were)
Answer: Were
79. Choose the correct synonym for “Pellucid”:
Answer: Translucent / Clear / Transparent
80. Identify the sentence structure: “Although he was rich, he was unhappy, but he never complained.”
Answer: Compound-Complex Sentence
MATHEMATICS
81. Solve the system of linear equations for x and y: 2x + 3y = 13 and 5x – 2y = 4
Answer: x = 2, y = 3
82. What is the sum of the interior angles of a 12-sided polygon (Dodecagon)?
Answer: 1800 degrees
83. A train travelling at 72 km/h crosses a 200m long platform in 20 seconds. What is the length of the train?
Answer: 200 meters
84. Find the compound interest on Rs. 16,000 at 15% per annum for 3 years compounded annually:
Answer: Rs. 8,334
85. A can do a work in 10 days, B in 15 days, and C in 30 days. How many days will they take working together?
Answer: 5 days
86. Evaluate: (256)^(0.16) * (256)^(0.09)
Answer: 4
87. What is the area of a regular hexagon with side length 4 cm?
Answer: 24 * sqrt(3) cm sq (approx. 41.57 cm sq)
88. If the ratio of volumes of two cubes is 27:64, what is the ratio of their surface areas?
Answer: 9:16
89. Evaluate the logarithmic expression: log(base 2) of 64 minus log(base 3) of 27
Answer: 3
90. A trader marks his goods 20% above cost price and allows a discount of 10%. What is his profit percentage?
Answer: 8%
91. Calculate the variance of the first 5 natural numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5):
Answer: 2
92. Find the roots of the quadratic equation: x^2 – 5x – 6 = 0
Answer: x = 6 and x = -1
93. A box contains 4 red balls and 6 blue balls. If 2 balls are drawn at random without replacement, what is the probability that both are red?
Answer: 2/15
94. What is the total surface area of a right circular cone with radius 3 cm and height 4 cm? (Take pi = 22/7)
Answer: 75.42 cm sq (or 24 * pi)
95. If the Arithmetic Mean of two numbers is 25 and their Geometric Mean is 20, what is their Harmonic Mean?
Answer: 16
96. Simplify: (64 / 125)^(-2/3)
Answer: 25/16
97. Find the sum of the first 20 terms of the Arithmetic Progression: 2, 5, 8, 11…
Answer: 610
98. In a triangle ABC, if side a = 7 cm, b = 8 cm, and c = 9 cm, what is the value of cos(A) using Cosine Law?
Answer: 2/3
99. Convert the octal number 57 into its decimal equivalent:
Answer: 47
100. If the diagonal of a cube is 6 * sqrt(3) cm, what is its total surface area?
Answer: 216 cm sq