PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
Combined Competitive Examination (CCE) 2012
For Recruitment to the Posts of Provincial Management Service (PMS)
SUBJECT: General Knowledge
Time Allowed: 3 Hours
Maximum Marks: 100
Q: The longest river in Pakistan is ____?
Answer: Indus
Q: Isaac Newton gave?
Answer: Laws of motion and gravitation
Q: Morocco and Spain are separated by _____?
Answer: Strait of Gibraltar
Q: Faux Pas means?
Answer: Social blunder
Q: Corrigendum means?
Answer: Things to be corrected
Q: What is the Circumference of Earth?
Answer: 40,075 km
Q: The cheapest source of electricity generation is _____?
Answer: Hydel
Q: The headquarters of International Court of Justice (ICJ) is located in _____?
Answer: Hague
Q: Benghazi is a city of which country?
Answer: Libya
Q: Tahrir Square is situated in _____?
Answer: Cairo
Q: Which of the following is a landlocked country?
Answer: Uganda
Q: From Karachi, the farthest point on the coastal highway is _______?
Answer: Jiwani
Q: Lowari pass connects Dir with ______?
Answer: Chitral
Q: Where is the Headquarter of World Trade Organization (WTO) located?
Answer: Geneva
Q: Our galaxy (Milky Way Galaxy) is _____ in shape.
Answer: Spiral
Q: Which is the coldest planet in the Solar System?
Answer: Neptune
Q: Who discovered Penicillin?
Answer: Alexander Fleming
Q: How many Muslims/Sahaba (RA) were Martyred in the Battle of Badr?
Answer: 14
Q: Which poetry was first written by Allama Iqbal in Persian and then translated into Urdu?
Answer: Armaghan-e-Hijaz
Q: On 18 May 1974, India exploded its first nuclear device under the code name of?
Answer: Operation Smiling Buddha
Q: Turnip is a root described as?
Answer: Napiform
Q: The celebrated scientist Isaac Newton was?
Answer: British
Q: Who won the Grand Slam in tennis twice (in a single calendar year)?
Answer: Rod Laver
Q: Blind Dolphins are found in which river in Pakistan?
Answer: Indus
Q: The father of former President Barack Obama belonged to _____?
Answer: Kenya
Q: President of Syria Bashar Al-Assad is by faith a?
Answer: Alawite
Q: Who was the captain of the Pakistan cricket team that defeated England at the Oval in 1954?
Answer: Abdul Hafeez Kardar
Q: When Ayub Khan took over power in 1958, the Prime Minister was?
Answer: Malik Feroze Khan Noon
Q: The Secretary-General of the United Nations (Antonio Guterres) is from?
Answer: Portugal
Q: Who was NOT a member of the Punjab Board of Administration?
Answer: Robert Montgomery
Q: Who is the Father of Modern Science Fiction?
Answer: H.G. Wells
Q: The office of District Magistrate was abolished through?
Answer: Local Government Ordinance 2001
Q: Indian Railway started operation in?
Answer: 1853
Q: The most brightest planet is ______?
Answer: Venus
Q: Greenwich is located in which country?
Answer: United Kingdom
Q: The Nile River flows in which continent?
Answer: Africa
Q: Who was NOT a member of the 1st Cabinet of Pakistan?
Answer: Hussain Shaheed Suharwardy
Q: The President of Yugoslavia/Serbia tried by the War Criminal Tribunal was?
Answer: Slobodan Milosevic
Q: IMF and World Bank are collectively called?
Answer: Bretton Woods Institutions
Q: The single biggest hydel power generating site (Three Gorges Dam) is situated in?
Answer: China
Q: The annual average flow of water in the Indus River system is?
Answer: 140-145 MAF
Q: Christopher Columbus, who discovered America, was?
Answer: Italian
Q: Mount Everest is named after Col. George Everest, who was?
Answer: Surveyor General of India
Q: Laws of Heredity were discovered by ___?
Answer: Gregor Mendel
Q: Which part of the atmosphere is closest to earth?
Answer: Troposphere
Q: Khojak pass connects ________?
Answer: Qila Abdullah and Chaman
Q: Suez canal connects?
Answer: Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea
Q: Which planet has the shortest day?
Answer: Jupiter
Q: Dynamite was discovered by Alfred Nobel in 1867 in _______?
Answer: Sweden
Q: Oxygen by volume has a presence in the atmosphere of about?
Answer: 21%
Q: “38th Parallel” is the boundary line between _____?
Answer: North and South Korea
Q: An extremely small piece of silicon on which integrated circuits are implicated is called?
Answer: Chip
Q: A device which encodes characters by the depression of keys is known as _____?
Answer: Keyboard
Q: A mixture of two metals is called?
Answer: Alloy
Q: Pythagoras, the geometrician, belonged to?
Answer: Greece
Q: Asian Drama was written by?
Answer: Gunnar Myrdal
Q: Leo Tolstoy was the author of which famous novel?
Answer: War and Peace
Q: Heat of the sun reaches the earth by ________?
Answer: Radiation
Q: Which is the largest Tribal Agency of FATA in terms of area?
Answer: South Waziristan
Q: Carte Blanche means?
Answer: Full authority
Q: Pulitzer prize is awarded for outstanding work in the field of _____?
Answer: Journalism
Q: Who is the Current Ambassador of Pakistan to Afghanistan?
Answer: Obaid Ur Rehman Nizamani
Q: De facto means?
Answer: In practice
Q: The apex elected body in Israel is called?
Answer: Knesset
Q: Which is the capital of Zimbabwe?
Answer: Harare
Q: “Myanmar” is the new name of _____?
Answer: Burma
Q: Indonesia and Malaysia are separated by?
Answer: Malacca Strait
Q: Canton (Guangzhou) is a city in?
Answer: China
Q: The time light takes from Sun to reach Earth is _____?
Answer: 8 minutes 20 seconds
Q: A doctor who treats children is called?
Answer: Pediatrician
Q: What is the Pakistan economy growth rate forecast by IMF for 2024-25?
Answer: 3.2%
Q: Special theory of relativity was given by ___?
Answer: Albert Einstein
Q: Dr. Abdus Salam won the Nobel Prize for physics in the year _____?
Answer: 1979
Q: According to distance, earth is the _____ closest planet to the sun.
Answer: Third
Q: Pakistan won a gold medal for the first time in the Olympics in _____?
Answer: 1960
Q: “Biman” is an airline of ______?
Answer: Bangladesh
Q: How far is the Dead Sea below the Mediterranean?
Answer: 430 meters
Q: Mount Kilimanjaro is located in?
Answer: Tanzania
Q: First International Flight of PIA was taken on ____?
Answer: 1 February 1955
Q: The agriculture sector of Pakistan generates ______% of employment.
Answer: 42%
Q: Where were the first modern Olympics games played in 1896?
Answer: Athens
Q: First space satellite ‘Sputnik 1’ was launched by the Soviet Union in the year?
Answer: 1957
Q: Insulin is made in which part of the human body?
Answer: Pancreas
Q: The cash balance of which company was once reported to be more than the USA’s?
Answer: Apple
Q: The Moorish Kingdom of Granada (Spain) surrendered to Christians in the year:
Answer: 1492
Q: Colosseum, an amphitheater, was built in:
Answer: Rome
Q: The Communist revolution took place in Russia in the month of:
Answer: October
Q: What is the average depth of the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: 4,280 metres
Q: Fifth column refers to:
Answer: Traitors
Q: The area inside a computer frame where data and instructions are stored is called:
Answer: Memory
Q: The time required for a computer to locate and transfer data is called?
Answer: Access Time
Q: Chile has a longest shore along:
Answer: Pacific Ocean
Q: Composition of Alchemy was written by ___?
Answer: Jabir Bin Hayyan
Q: Who is the current deputy chief of Planning Commission (PC)?
Answer: Mohammad Jehanzeb Khan
Q: The book “Indian Musalmans” published in 1871 was written by?
Answer: W.W. Hunter
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