PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
Combined Competitive Examination (CCE) 2019
For Recruitment to the Posts of Provincial Management Service (PMS)
SUBJECT: General Knowledge
Time Allowed: 3 Hours
Maximum Marks: 100
Q: Mount Judi (Cudi) also known as Mount Qardū exists in?
Answer: Turkey
Q: The shortest day in Australia is _____?
Answer: 21 June
Q: Opium War was fought between China and _____?
Answer: Britain
Q: Adam’s Peak is located in ___?
Answer: Sri Lanka
Q: The ‘Statue of Liberty’ was a gift to the US from?
Answer: France
Q: Which is considered the world’s oldest city?
Answer: Damascus
Q: What was the name of the Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
Answer: Little Boy
Q: The International Dateline passes through the _____?
Answer: Bering Strait
Q: Former Secretary General Kofi Annan belonged to?
Answer: Ghana
Q: Who was exiled to Saint Helena after the Battle of Waterloo (1815)?
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte
Q: Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took place on?
Answer: 13 April 1919
Q: What was the relation between Plato and Aristotle?
Answer: Aristotle was the student of Plato
Q: Who is the author of “Conversations with Myself”?
Answer: Nelson Mandela
Q: Which of the following is NOT caused by a virus?
Answer: Typhoid and Cholera
Q: Which is the hottest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Venus
Q: Guava has the maximum amount of which Vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin C
Q: Cholera is caused by _____?
Answer: Bacteria
Q: Ascorbic Acid is also known as ______?
Answer: Vitamin C
Q: Breakbone fever is another name of ____?
Answer: Dengue
Q: What is the weight of the heart of an adult human being?
Answer: 300 grams
Q: Which disease is hereditary (moroosi)?
Answer: Hemophilia
Q: The Scientist Chadwick in 1932 discovered?
Answer: Neutron
Q: Amnesia is related to ______?
Answer: Loss of memory
Q: Which element is used as a moderator in nuclear reactors?
Answer: Heavy water
Q: Which enzyme breaks down starch into maltose?
Answer: Amylase
Q: Gold and Copper deposits of Pakistan are found mostly in _____?
Answer: Chaghi
Q: Gandhara civilization is in _____?
Answer: Pakistan
Q: Partition of Bengal (1905) was annulled (mansookh) in?
Answer: 1911
Q: Quaid-e-Azam joined All India Muslim League in _____?
Answer: 1913
Q: Working boundary is the border between Pakistan and _______?
Answer: Indian-occupied Kashmir
Q: Before partition in 1947, how many Princely states existed?
Answer: 562
Q: The height of K-2 is _______ feet.
Answer: 28,251 feet
Q: Who wrote the book ‘Hujjat Allah Al Baligha’?
Answer: Shah Wali Ullah
Q: Where is Katas Raj temple located?
Answer: Chakwal
Q: RAM stands for ____?
Answer: Random Access Memory
Q: Who invented the First Computer Mouse?
Answer: Douglas Engelbart
Q: URL has an abbreviation of?
Answer: Uniform Resource Locator
Q: If 5x−15=60, then x is _____?
Answer: 15
Q: If (x+y)+(x−y)=112, then x will be _____?
Answer: 56
Q: A (20 min) and B (30 min) working together take?
Answer: 12 minutes