General Knowledge / Pakistan & Islamic Studies
1. When Pakistan officially joined United Nations Organisations (UNO)?
Answer: 30 September 1947
2. Which year did Afghanistan gain independence from British control?
Answer: 1919
3. Hazrat Sara (RA), wife of Hazrat Ibrahim (AS) and mother of Hazrat Ishaq (AS), was sister of Prophet ____?
Answer: Hazrat Loot (A.S)
4. The first biography on the life of Holy Prophet (PBUH) is written by _____?
Answer: Ibn-e-Ishaq
5. Shaheed Benazir Bhutto became first woman Prime Minister of Pakistan on ____?
Answer: December 2, 1988
6. During which year did the first World War start?
Answer: 1914
7. When Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar issued Comrade newspaper from Kolkata?
Answer: 14 January 1911
8. Who made soap for the first time?
Answer: Hazrat Saleh (A.S)
9. In 1974 Pakistan became the Chairman of ________?
Answer: OIC
10. Which was the first Air Force of the world?
Answer: Royal Air Force of Great Britain
11. What is the name of the first Muslim astronaut?
Answer: Sultan bin Salman Al Saud
12. The biggest Islamic country by area is _____?
Answer: Kazakhstan
13. USA President Bill Clinton arrived in Pakistan in which year?
Answer: 2000
14. Amir Muawiya transferred his capital from Kufa to _____?
Answer: Damascus
15. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built in?
Answer: 600 BC
16. Passage: All states, all powers, that have held and hold rule over men have been and are either republics or principalities.
Answer: Republics or principalities
Agriculture Related Concepts
17. The science of rearing honey bees for honey is known as ____?
Answer: Apiculture
18. Global gene bank of potato is located at ______?
Answer: CIP Peru
19. Protein content in barley is higher than _____?
Answer: Rice
20. Cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, knol-khol are ______?
Answer: Cole Crop
21. The process of producing several identical copies of a gene sequence is referred as _____?
Answer: Gene Cloning
22. Narcotic crops mainly grown in Pakistan is ______?
Answer: Tobacco
23. Which one of the following is the largest sector of Pakistan’s economy?
Answer: Agriculture
24. Plants uptake their nutrients from:
Air / Water / Soil / All of these
Answer: All of these
25. Artificial vegetative reproduction is done by:
Budding / Layering / Grafting / All of these
Answer: All of these
26. Mating between distantly related individuals is known as _____?
Answer: Out Breeding
27. Global gene pool of rice is maintained at ______?
Answer: IRRI Philippines
28. The agriculture sector of Pakistan generates ______% of employment.
Answer: 42.0
29. How much of the total export earning is through agriculture?
Answer: 65%
30. Cultivation of same crop year after year is called _____?
Answer: Mono Cropping
31. Which are major seasons for agriculture crop in Pakistan?
Answer: Kharif & Rabi
Job-Related / Finance / Science
32. Which financial metric provides a measure of the efficiency of a company’s use of its assets in generating profit?
Answer: ROI (Return on Investment)
33. Which of the following is a method used for evaluating the profitability of an investment by finding the interest rate that equates the present value of cash inflows with the present value of outflows?
Answer: NPV
34. If the initial investment for a project is Rs 80,000, and discounted cash inflows are Rs 30,000 per year for three years, what is the IRR?
Answer: 20%
35. A farmer invested Rs 10,000 in a new irrigation system. If the expected annual cash inflow from the system is Rs 2,500 for the next five years, and the discount rate is 8%, what is the NPV?
Answer: To calculate the NPV, we use the formula:
NPV = Initial Investment + (Cash Inflows / (1 + Discount Rate)^Year) − (Initial Investment)
36. If the initial investment for a project is Rs 50,000, the cash inflows are Rs 20,000 per year for four years, and the discount rate is 10%, what is the NPV?
Answer: Rs 13,660
37. A farmer took a loan of Rs 15,000 at an annual interest rate of 8%. If the loan is to be repaid in three equal installments, what is the total interest paid?
Answer: 1200
38. The calculation formula for the gross profit is _____?
Answer: Revenue − COGS
39. What is the formula for calculating interest?
Answer: Principal × Rate × Time
40. What does NPV stand for in financial terms?
Answer: Net Present Value
41. The formula for calculating ROI is:
Answer: (Net Income / Initial Investment) × 100
42. If the selling price of a product is Rs 150, and the COGS is Rs 80, what is the gross profit?
Answer: Rs 70
43. What is the formula for calculating the Profit Margin?
Answer: (Net Income / Revenue) × 100
English Grammar & Vocabulary
44. The Antonym of Zealous is?
Answer: Both A and B (Lazy and Nonchalant)
45. The Synonym of Stringent is?
Answer: Tough
46. The Synonym of Aspersion is?
Answer: Slander
47. The Synonym of Palliative is?
Answer: Curative
48. The Antonym of Obstreperous is?
Answer: Placid
49. The Antonym of Disheveled is?
Answer: Ordered
50. The Antonym of Vainglorious is?
Answer: Humble
51. The Antonym of Affected is?
Answer: Simple
52. The Antonym of Enervating is?
Answer: Invigorating
53. The Synonym of Lugubrious is?
Answer: Mournful
54. In financial term, what does ROI stands for?
Answer: Return On Investment
55. Which of the following is a prime number?
Answer: 2
Arithmetic / Mathematics / Logical Reasoning
56. If A and B together can complete a work in 18 days, A and C together in 12 days and B and C together in 9 days, then B alone can do the work in ____?
Answer: 24 days
57. If the average yield per hectare for a specific crop is 500 kilo grams and a farmer has a field of 2 hectares, what is the total yield?
Answer: 1000 kg
58. A farmer A field produces 10% more corn than farmer B field. If farmer B field produces 800 kg of corn, how much corn did farmer A field produce?
Answer: 880 kg
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