PPSC Junior Clerk Past Paper 2017 (P-2) PDF

1. Islamic Studies

Q1. اصحابِ کہف کی تعداد کتنی تھی؟
Answer: 7
Q2. ذوالقرنین کا ذکر قرآن پاک کی کس سورت میں ہے؟
Answer: سورة الکہف
Q3. حضرت عمرؓ قریش کے کس قبیلے سے تعلق رکھتے تھے؟
Answer: بنو عدی
Q4. پانچ نمازیں کس نبوی میں فرض قرار دی گئیں؟
Answer: 10th Nabvi
Q5. حج کب فرض کیا گیا؟
Answer: 9 A.H
Q6. حضرت اسماعیل علیہ السلام کی پیدائش کے وقت حضرت ابراہیم علیہ السلام کی عمر کتنی تھی؟
Answer: 86 years
Q7. کن سورتوں کو معوذتین (Mauzatain) کہتے ہیں؟
Answer: Last two surahs (Surah Al-Falaq and Surah An-Nas)

2. Pakistan Studies

Q1. Who presented the Lahore Resolution on 23rd March 1940 at Minto Park?
Answer: A.K. Fazlul Haq
Q2. Quaid-e-Azam gave his Fourteen Points in response to what?
Answer: Nehru Report
Q3. Who was the Viceroy of India at the time of the partition of Bengal (1905)?
Answer: Lord Curzon
Q4. The book “Friends Not Masters” was written by whom?
Answer: General Ayub Khan
Q5. When was the Lucknow Pact signed between the Muslim League and Congress?
Answer: December 1916
Q6. Where is the Katas Raj Temple (Qila Katas) located?
Answer: Chakwal
Q7. The land area (Doab) between the Ravi and Chenab rivers is called what?
Answer: Rachna Doab
Q8. Who was the first female commercial pilot of Pakistan?
Answer: Shukria Khanum
Q9. Qadianis were declared Non-Muslims during the government of which Prime Minister?
Answer: Z.A. Bhutto
Q10. Why were the Muslim majority areas of Gurdaspur and Pathankot given to India in the 1947 Radcliffe Award?
Answer: It provided a road link from India to the Kashmir valley
Q11. Out of the world’s 14 highest peaks, how many are located in Pakistan?
Answer: 5
Q12. In which district is the archaeological site of Harappa located?
Answer: Sahiwal
Q13. Which article of the 1973 Constitution deals with the impeachment of the President?
Answer: Article 47
Q14. Who played the character of Zarqa in the famous Pakistani movie “Zarqa”?
Answer: Neelo
Q15. 1950 میں پاکستان کے پہلے وزیراعظم (لیاقت علی خان) نے کس ملک کا سرکاری دورہ کیا؟
Answer: America
Q16. The famous book titled “Witness to Surrender” was written by whom?
Answer: Brigadier Siddique Salik
Q17. Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) was established in Pakistan under which leader?
Answer: Prime Minister Z.A. Bhutto
Q18. What is the old name of Zhob?
Answer: Fort Sandman

3. Urdu

Q1. رئیس المتغزلین کس شاعر کو کہا جاتا ہے؟
Answer: حسرت موہانی
Q2. مشہور ناول ”راجہ گدھ“ کس کی تصنیف ہے؟
Answer: بانو قدسیہ
Q3. حروف تہجی کے لحاظ سے کون سا لفظ لغت میں پہلے آئے گا؟
Answer: سنگدل
Q4. ”ماہِ تمام“ کس شاعرہ کی کلیات ہے؟
Answer: پروین شاکر
Q5. ”بابائے اردو“، ”بابائے قوم“ اور ”بابائے صحافت“ کے الفاظ قواعد کی رو سے کیا ہیں؟
Answer: لقب
Q6. ”گو میڈ“ کے درست مطلب کا انتخاب کیجیے۔
Answer: دیوانہ ہو جانا
Q7. پھول کی پتی سے کٹ سکتا ہے ہیرے کا جگر
مرد نادان پہ کلام نرم و نازک بے اثر
یہ شعر کس کا ہے؟
Answer: علامہ اقبال
Q8. ”اے لافنگ اسٹاک“ (A laughing stock) کے درست مطلب کا انتخاب کیجیے۔
Answer: ملامت / مضحکہ خیز شخص
Q9. ”جمہوریت اک طرز حکومت ہے کہ جس میں
بندوں کو گنا کرتے ہیں تولا نہیں کرتے“
یہ شعر علامہ اقبال کے کس مجموعہ کلام سے ہے؟
Answer: ضربِ کلیم

4. General Knowledge

Q1. Which city is the capital of Tajikistan?
Answer: Dushanbe
Q2. OIC stands for what?
Answer: Organization of Islamic Cooperation
Q3. Golden Gate Bridge is located in which city?
Answer: San Francisco
Q4. How many states are there in the USA?
Answer: 50
Q5. Malakhra is a traditional game of which Pakistani province?
Answer: Sindh
Q6. Constantinople (Istanbul) fell into the hands of Muslims in which year?
Answer: 1453 AD
Q7. Which country is known as the “Playground of Europe”?
Answer: Switzerland
Q8. Which poet wrote the line “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”?
Answer: John Keats
Q9. What is the capital of Malta?
Answer: Valletta
Q10. Neelum Valley is located in which region?
Answer: Azad Kashmir
Q11. Bashar Al-Assad is the President of which country?
Answer: Syria
Q12. Abdul Sattar Edhi passed away on which date?
Answer: 8th July 2016
Q13. Which is the largest river in Balochistan?
Answer: Hingol River
Q14. Who is the founder of WikiLeaks?
Answer: Julian Assange
Q15. The 17th parallel line was the provisional boundary between which countries?
Answer: North and South Vietnam
Q16. Which animal is used in the logo of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)?
Answer: Panda
Q17. When was the state of Israel admitted to the UNO?
Answer: 1949
Q18. Who proposed the theory of Evolution by Natural Selection?
Answer: Charles Darwin
Q19. Who is known as the Father of Psychoanalysis?
Answer: Sigmund Freud
Q20. Who was the author of the novel “The Da Vinci Code”?
Answer: Dan Brown
Q21. Who served as the Secretary-General of the UN directly before Ban Ki-moon?
Answer: Kofi Annan
Q22. Pope Benedict XVI, who died in 2022 (and resigned in 2013), hailed from which country?
Answer: Germany
Q23. What are the official languages of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)?
Answer: Russian and Chinese
Q24. “Majlisi Oli” is the name of the parliament of which country?
Answer: Tajikistan
Q25. Which major city is not located on the Pacific Coast?
Answer: New York
Q26. Where was the oldest major international beauty contest, Miss World, started?
Answer: UK
Q27. Who suggested the formation of SAARC?
Answer: Ziaur Rahman
Q28. Which organ of the United Nations gives full representation to all member states?
Answer: General Assembly
Q29. Ricky Ponting was the cricket captain of which country?
Answer: Australia

5. Current Affairs

Q1. Which body of the UN is dedicated exclusively to refugee assistance?
Answer: UNHCR
Q2. What is used in a computer network server to prevent unauthorized access?
Answer: Firewall
Q3. What does Seismograph record?
Answer: Earthquake
Q4. The program containing instructions to operate a specific hardware device is called what?
Answer: Device Driver
Q5. What is the primary role of an LDC in administrative operations?
Answer: File tracking, record keeping, and routine paperwork execution
Q6. Which document tracking system is standard in government departments?
Answer: Diary and Dispatch System

7. Computer Science

Q1. What does RAM stand for?
Answer: Random Access Memory
Q2. What does USB stand for?
Answer: Universal Serial Bus
Q3. Twitter is primarily classified as what type of online service?
Answer: Social network service
Q4. What does UPS stand for?
Answer: Uninterruptible Power Supply

8. Mathematics

Q1. What figure has four equal sides?
Answer: Square (or Rhombus, depending on angles; both have 4 equal sides)
Q2. Which number completes the series: 2, 5, 12, 23, 38, 57, _____?
Answer: 80 (Pattern: +3, +7, +11, +15, +19, +23)
Q3. Complete the sequence: 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12, _____?
Answer: 15 (Pattern: +1, +3, +1, +3, +1, +3)
Q4. If A is twice as old as B, and 3 years ago A was three times as old as B, how old is A now?
Answer: 12 years
Q5. Solve: (9 + 43 – 4) ÷ 24 – 2 = ?
Answer: 0
Q6. If a car washer washes 8 cars in 18 minutes, how many cars can be washed in 3 hours (180 mins)?
Answer: 80 cars
Q7. What is the exact midpoint between 103 and 301?
Answer: 202

9. English & Grammar

Q1. What does the idiom “A pipe dream” mean?
Answer: An impracticable wish / Unattainable dream
Q2. What does “To cast pearls before a swine” mean?
Answer: To offer a person a thing which he cannot appreciate
Q3. What does “To take the bull by the horns” mean?
Answer: To grapple courageously with a difficulty
Q4. What is the synonym of “De JURE”?
Answer: By law
Q5. What is the synonym of “Notion”?
Answer: Idea
Q6. What is the synonym of “Myopic”?
Answer: Nearsighted
Q7. What is the synonym of “Lurid”?
Answer: Gory
Q8. What is the antonym of “Miscellaneous”?
Answer: Similar
Q9. Fill in the blank: “Send this letter ___ my address.”
Answer: to
Q10. Fill in the blank: “He was meditating ___ the problem.”
Answer: on
Q11. Fill in the blank: “He became addicted ___ drugs at an early age.”
Answer: to
Q12. Fill in the blank: “You must stick ___ your views.”
Answer: to
Q13. Complete the proverb: “Justice delayed is justice ______?”
Answer: Denied
Q14. Active/Passive Voice: “Circumstances will oblige me to go.”
Answer: I shall be obliged to go by the circumstances.
Q15. Active/Passive Voice: “People say that honesty is the best policy but they seldom act upon it.”
Answer: Honesty is said to be the best policy but it is seldom acted upon.

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