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PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
Combined Competitive Examination (CCE) 2024
For Recruitment to the Posts of Provincial Management Service (PMS)
SUBJECT: General Knowledge
Time Allowed: 3 Hours
Maximum Marks: 100
Q: Ocean between Europe and the United States?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean
Q: Battle of Plassey was fought in?
Answer: 1757
Q: Kitab-ul-Hind was written by?
Answer: Al-Biruni
Q: Who is the creator of Sherlock Holmes?
Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle
Q: Who is called the Father of History?
Answer: Herodotus
Q: Silicon Valley is in?
Answer: California
Q: Silicon Valley is famous for?
Answer: Computers
Q: Largest Coal Producing Country?
Answer: China
Q: IMF funds are primarily for?
Answer: Economic stabilization and reform
Q: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange belongs to?
Answer: Julian Assange (Australia)
Q: Reuters is the news agency of?
Answer: United Kingdom
Q: Where the city ‘Samarkand’ is located?
Answer: Uzbekistan
Q: A Long Walk to Freedom is an autobiography of?
Answer: Nelson Mandela
Q: Hitler first attacked which country in WWII?
Answer: Poland
Q: The largest Island of the world is?
Answer: Greenland
Q: Amount of IMF loan to Pakistan in June 2023?
Answer: $3 billion
Q: Oxford Union President from Pakistan (2025)?
Answer: Israr Kakar
Q: Headquarter of ASEAN?
Answer: Jakarta
Q: Wall street is located in?
Answer: New York
Q: Country that does not yield veto power?
Answer: Canada
Q: Who was Ibn-e-Insha?
Answer: All of these (Poet, Columnist, Travelogue writer)
Q: Main reason of Tsunami?
Answer: Earthquake
Q: New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) location?
Answer: Wall Street
Q: Israel-Palestine crisis 1947 decision?
Answer: UN Partition Plan
Q: Meaning of the term Apartheid?
Answer: Segregation
Q: Libya, Algeria, and Tunisia continent?
Answer: Africa
Q: Kala Pani Jail location?
Answer: Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Q: Profession of Ukraine’s President before politics?
Answer: Comedian
Q: Recent goal of the IMF?
Answer: Modest growth
Q: Order of the Rising Sun is an award of?
Answer: Japan
Q: Trade surplus means?
Answer: Exports are greater than imports
Q: UN Charter was finalized at?
Answer: San Francisco Conference
Q: Country north of the Gulf of Aden?
Answer: Yemen
Q: Country that changed criminal laws in July 2024?
Answer: India
Q: Which country is the “Boot of Europe”?
Answer: Italy
Q: Cyril Ramaphosa is the president of?
Answer: Cyril Ramaphosa (South Africa)
Q: Houthi uprising location?
Answer: Yemen
Q: Author of ‘In Search of Identity’?
Answer: Anwar Sadat
Q: Benjamin Franklin’s country?
Answer: United States (America)
Q: Cutting Edge is the autobiography of?
Answer: Javed Miandad
Q: USSR disintegrated in how many states (1991)?
Answer: 15
Q: Mussolini’s country?
Answer: Italy
Q: Nippon is the stock exchange of?
Answer: Tokyo (Japan)
Q: Cathay Pacific is an airline of?
Answer: Hong Kong
Q: ‘7-Habits of the Highly Effective People’ author?
Answer: Stephen Covey
Q: Northern Rhodesia new name?
Answer: Zambia
Q: Anthophobia is the fear of?
Answer: Flowers
Q: Biggest district of Pakistan by area?
Answer: Chaghi
Q: First Muslim ruler to introduce Price Control?
Answer: Alauddin Khilji
Q: Warsak Dam province?
Answer: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Q: Central National Muhammadan Association (1877) founder?
Answer: Syed Ameer Ali
Q: Boundary agreement between Pakistan and China?
Answer: 2 March 1963
Q: First Pak-EU summit location (2009)?
Answer: Brussels
Q: Gandhara civilization religion?
Answer: Buddhism
Q: First Governor of State Bank?
Answer: Zahid Hussain
Q: National Flag designer?
Answer: Amir Uddin Kidwai
Q: First Census in Pakistan?
Answer: 1951
Q: Kashmiri leader Zakir Musa killed in?
Answer: 2019
Q: Percentage of Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir?
Answer: 60%
Q: Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity?
Answer: Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Q: Sui gas discovered in?
Answer: 1952
Q: Objective Resolution passed on?
Answer: 12 March 1949
Q: Light year is a unit of?
Answer: Distance
Q: Animals that eat only animals?
Answer: Carnivores
Q: World Environment Day date?
Answer: 5 June
Q: Animals that eat both plants and animals?
Answer: Omnivores
Q: RNA synthesis from DNA?
Answer: Transcription
Q: Solar cells convert?
Answer: Solar energy to electrical energy
Q: Noble Gas examples?
Answer: Both A and B (Helium and Argon)
Q: Layers of atmosphere?
Answer: 5
Q: Thalassemia abnormality in?
Answer: Hemoglobin
Q: What are moraines?
Answer: Deposits by glaciers
Q: James Chadwick Nobel Prize (1935) for?
Answer: Discovery of the neutron
Q: What is a peninsula?
Answer: Land surrounded by water on three sides
Q: Water percentage in carbonated drinks?
Answer: 92%
Q: Stone is a unit of?
Answer: Weight
Q: Process when a cell engulfs another?
Answer: Phagocytosis
Q: Nonrenewable source of energy?
Answer: Nuclear energy
Q: Detritivores are also called?
Answer: Decomposers
Q: Protein factories of cells?
Answer: Ribosomes
Q: Computer language in binary codes only?
Answer: Machine Language
Q: Set of rules for data communication?
Answer: Protocol
Q: Technique to steal passwords?
Answer: Phishing
Q: Use of a firewall?
Answer: Security
Q: BCC stands for?
Answer: Blind Carbon Copy
Q: Default view of MS Word?
Answer: Print Layout
Q: Gutter margin in MS Word?
Answer: Binding side margin
Q: Father of Computer?
Answer: Charles Babbage
Q: Opportunity cost means?
Answer: Giving up the next best alternative
Q: A questionnaire survey collects?
Answer: Primary Data
Q: What is a subsidy?
Answer: Benefit given by the government
Q: Thal Nova project sector?
Answer: Energy
Q: Train Math Problem (45km/h in 5h, then 3h)?
Answer: 75 km/h
Q: True discount on 1760 at 12% is 160?
Answer: 10 months
Q: ‘A Brief History of Time’ author?
Answer: Stephen Hawking
Q: Who wrote ‘Heer Ranjha’?
Answer: Waris Shah
Q: ‘Mehr-e-Do Neem’ author?
Answer: Iftikhar Arif
Q: ‘Shahr-e-Sukhan Aarasta Hai’ author?
Answer: Ahmad Faraz
Q: Before Damascus, capital of Muslim Empire?
Answer: Madina
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