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PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

FOR THE POST OF PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE (PMS)
BPS-17 (2019)

TIME ALLOWED: 90 MINS

01. Who among the following is the current (14th) Secretary-General of SAARC?*

A. Ahmed Saleem
B. Arjun Bahadur Thapa
C. Amjad Hussain B. Sial
D. Esala Ruwan Weerakoon (from Sri Lanka since 2020)

02. Who was the 1st Governor of State Bank of Pakistan?

A. Zahid Hussain
B. Abdul Qadir
C. Shujaat Ali Hasnie
D. Mahbubur Rashid
03. Kurt Waldheim was an Austrian diplomat and statesman who served two terms as the
_____ Secretary-General of the United Nations.

A. Third
B. Fourth
C. Fifth
D. Sixth

04. The General Assembly and the Security Council elect the judges of the
International Court of Judges for the period of 9 years. The ICJ is comprised of _____ judges.

A. 30
B. 15
C. 10
D. 35
05. Kirthar Range is a mountain range in Pakistan extending about 190 miles. In which
province of Pakistan does the range’s largest portion reside?

A. Sindh
B. Balochistan*
C. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
D. Punjab

06. When Balochistan was given the status of province?

A. 1969
B. 1970* (as per some internet sources it is 1971)
C. 1971
D. 1972

07. What is the length of Karakoram Highway N-35?

 A. 910 miles
B. 810 miles (~1300 km)
C. 710 miles
D. 610 miles

08. Who among the following was the penultimate viceroy of British India?

A. Lord Irwin
B. Lord Willingdon
C. Lord Linlithgow
D. Lord Wavell
09. ‘Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin’ is a book based on
conversations and interviews of those who were close to Jinnah. Who wrote this book?

A. Ayesha Jalal
B. Akbar S. Ahmed
C. Stanley Wolpert
D. Hector Bolitho

10. Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jahan to immortalize his wife Mumtaz Mahal. Its construction
spanned 22 years. When was the project commenced?

A. 1622
B. 1632
C. 1642
D. 1652

11. How many layers does Earth’s atmosphere have?

A. 6
B. 4
C. 8
D. 10

12. Less than 1% of Earth’s water is fresh water but the oceans contain _____ of the Earth’s
water.

A. 87%
B. 97%
C. 77%D. 99%

13. Who among the following is the current (27th) President of Azad Jammu & Kashmir?
*

A. Raja Zulqurnain Khan

B. Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan
C. Sardar Masood Khan
D. Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry (from PTI)

14. Katas Raj Temples are revered Hindu temples in Pakistan. In which district the temples
reside?

A. Jhelum
B. Chakwal
C. Mianwali
D. Dera Ghazi Khan

15. Nawab Malik Amir Mohammad Khan also known as Nawab of Kalabagh was (3rd) governor
of West Pakistan in 1960. He was from:
A. Bahawalpur
B. Mianwali
C. Mirpur Khas
D. Dera Ismail Khan

16. Attock Fort was built during the reign of which Mughal Emperor?

A. Zaheer-ud-din Babur
B. Humayun
C. Akbar
D. Jahangir

17. Bit is also called:

A. Binary Unit
B. Binary Digit
C. Binary SystemD. Digital System

18. According to World Bank, what was the growth rate of Pakistan in 2018?

A. 5.4%
B. 5.8%
C. 5.12%
D. 5.10%

19. Which of the following vitamin contains traces of Selenium?

A. Vitamin A
B. Vitamin E*
C. Vitamin D
D. Vitamin K

20. PROM chips are programmed by plugging them into:

A. Chip Kits
B. ROM burners
C. PROM Programmer
D. PROM Reader

21. IRSA, Indus River System Authority was established for regulating and monitoring the
distribution of water resources of Indus Rivers in:

A. 1991
B. 1992
C. 1993D. 1994

22. Sindh Sagar Doab is one of the five major doabs of the Punjab province. It is the tract of
land between the following rivers:

A. Indus and Chenab

B. Chenab and Jhelum
C. Indus and Jhelum
D. Jhelum and Ravi

23. Who is the current (22nd) Chief of Air Staff (CAS)?*

A. Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt

B. Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman
C. Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan
D. Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmad Babar Sidhu

24. International Mother Language Day is celebrated on:

A. 21 Mar
B. 21 Feb
C. 21 Apr
D. 21 May

25. Which among the given options is the capital of Kazakhstan?

A. Tashkent
B. Nur-Sultan (formerly called Astana)
C. Dushanbe
D. Ashgabat

26. SCO, Shanghai Cooperation Organization was established in:

A. 1995
B. 2001
C. 1996D. 2009

27. According to a report published (in 2018) by IMF, Pakistan has been ranked _____ in the
world among countries facing acute water shortage.*

A. 2nd
B. 3rd
C. 4thD. 5th
28. Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organization for Human Rights.
It was founded in:

A. 1960
B. 1961
C. 1962D. 1963

29. A mechanical stopwatch can measure a time interval up to a minimum _____ seconds.

A. 0.2 s
B. 0.1 s
C. 0.5 s
D. 0.01 s

30. When in ICC Champions Trophy 2017 did Pakistan defeat India?

A. 22 Jun
B. 18 Jun
C. 24 Jun
D. 26 Jun

31. Which among the following defines the event of Supernova?

A. Expanding Black Hole

B. Exploding Star
C. Shining Comet
D. Moving Asteroid

32. ‘King of Pop’, Michael Jackson was an American singer, songwriter and dancer. He died in:
A. June 2010
B. June 2009
C. June 2008
D. June 2007

33. Who among the following is known as Poet of Beauty?

A. William Wordsworth
B. John Keats
C. Rudyard KiplingD. P. B. Shelley

34. In mathematics, a solution to an equation that emerges from the process of solving the
problem but is not a valid solution to the problem is called solution:

A. Homogeneous
B. Heterogeneous
C. Extraneous
D. Identical

35. The number of elements in power set {1,2,3} is:

A. 5
B. 6
C. 8
D. 7

36. How many subsets does an empty set have?

A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. 10

37. When a triangle has two congruent sides, it is called _____ triangle.

A. Equilateral
B. Isosceles
C. Scalene
D. Iso Scale

38. The _____ is equal to the sum of all the values in the data divided by the number of values in
the data.

A. Mode
B. Mean
C. Median
D. Geometric Mean

39. A _____ is a representation of a frequency distribution by means of rectangles whose widths

represent class intervals and whose areas are proportional to the corresponding frequencies.

A. Pictograph
B. Histogram
C. Pie Chart
D. Bar Chart

40. Which instrument is suitable to measure the internal diameter of a test tube?
A. Screw Gauge
B. Vernier Calipers
C. Feeler Gauge
D. Bore Gauge

41. Crude Oil is heated in the furnace up to:

A. 300ºC
B. 350ºC
C. 400ºCD. 450ºC

42. Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum (SER) is involved in the synthesis and storage of:

A. Polysaccharides
B. Proteins
C. LipidsD. DNA

43. World Food Program an organization of the United Nations was created at the behest of:

A. U Thant
B. Dwight Eisenhower
C. J. F. KennedyD. Kissinger

44. Asabiyya, a concept of social solidarity with an emphasis on unity, was given by:

A. Al-Farabi
B. Ibn Khuldun
C. Ibn Hazm
D. Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari

45. Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi was a polymath, physician, alchemist and philosopher
from:

A. Iraq
B. Syria
C. Iran
D. Morocco

46. ‘Al-Qanun fi Al-Tibb’ is an encyclopaedia of medicine in five books written by:

A. Al-Farabi
B. Avicenna (also known as Abu Ali Sina)
C. Ibn-e-Hazm
D. Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari

47. Who among the following discovered the sunspots?

A. Johannes Kepler
B. Albert Einstein
C. Galileo Galilei
D. Nicolaus Copernicus

48. Which city was hit by the earthquake of 1935?

A. Muzaffarabad
B. Quetta, Balochistan
C. Attock
D. Peshawar

49. In which country does the Batura Glacier lie?

A. China
B. Pakistan
C. Nepal
D. India

50. Which province among the following has Uch Gas field?

A. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
B. Punjab
C. Balochistan
D. Sindh

51. How many countries are there in Asia?*

A. 49
B. 48
C. 50D. 46

52. A horse runs around a ground twice and covers a distance of 8 km, one side of square
ground is:

A. 8 km
B. 4 km
C. 1 km
D. 2 km
53. Who among the following invented bifocal spectacles and lightning rod?

A. Galileo-Galilei
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Thomas Edison
D. James Madison

54. Which gas field among the following is the second largest gas field in Pakistan which is
being operated by OGDCL?

A. Bobi gas field

B. Chachar gas field
C. Qadirpur gas field, Sindh
D. Uch gas field

55. Mars, neighbour of Earth, has natural satellites.

A. Three
B. Two (Phobos and Deimos)
C. FourD. Five

56. Max Planck won Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 for the discovery of _____.

A. Time Constant
B. Energy Quantum
C. Heat Constant
D. Wave Constant
57. Which among the following instruments is used to measure the amount of liquid
precipitation (rain) over a set period of time?

A. Hygrometer
B. Rain Gauge
C. Pedometer
D. Barometer

58. Parsec is a unit used to measure _____.

A. Time
B. Speed
C. Distance (approx. equal to 3.26 light-years)
D. Force

59. Solar eclipse occurs when:

A. Earth comes between Sun and Moon

B. Moon comes between Sun and Earth
C. Sun comes between Earth and Moon
D. Sun rays don’t reach Earth

60. A camera uses convex lens to form an image which is:

A. Real, inverted, magnified

B. Real, inverted, diminished
C. Virtual, inverted, diminished
D. Real, upright, diminished
61. When NaHCO3 is heated, it produces:

A. CaCO3
B. CO2
C. Ca(OH)2
D. CaO

62. Stomata, found in the epidermis of leaves closes when guard cells _____.

A. Gain water
B. Lose water
C. Exchange gas
D. Become turgid

63. Iron and steel structures are damaged by:

A. Carbon monoxide
B. Sulphur dioxide
C. Carbon dioxide
D. Methane
64. Inflammation of liver is caused by:

A. Cholera
B. Hepatitis
C. Typhoid
D. Jaundice

65. Paris Climate Agreement (within UNFCCC) was adopted in:

A. 2014
B. 2015
C. 2016D. 2017

66. The first United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known
as ‘Rio or Earth Summit’ was held in:

A. 1990
B. 1991
C. 1992
D. 1993

67. What is the speed of sound in air?

A. 1347 km/h
B. 1235 km/h
C. 1290 km/h
D. 1495 km/h
68. Enzymes are basically made up of:

A. Fats
B. Nucleic Acids
C. Proteins
D. Vitamins

69. What is the life span of Red Blood Cells?

A. 110 days
B. 140 days
C. 120 days
D. 170 days
70. What is the percentage of water present in our brain?

A. 75%
B. 85%
C. 73%
D. 95%

71. In order to make Nitrogen available to primary producers like plants, in ecosystem it is
converted into:

A. Nitrates
B. Nitrites
C. Ammonia
D. Nitric Acid

72. Parthenocarpy is the production of fruit which makes the fruit:

A. Full of seeds
B. Seedless
C. Bitter
D. Waterless

73. The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is a United Nations observance
observed on:

A. 17 Jul
B. 17 Jun
C. 17 Aug
D. 17 May
74. A normal CD-ROM usually can store up to _____ data.

A. 650 MB
B. 680 MB
C. 720 MB
D. 820 MB

75. Dengue is caused by which type of mosquito:

A. Culex
B. Marsh
C. Aedes aegypti (also termed as Yellow Fever mosquito)
D. Mayaro

76. Which tube among the following joins kidneys and bladder?

A. Urethra
B. Ureter
C. Inferior Vena Cava
D. Suprapubic Tube

77. Edward Jenner successfully developed world’s first vaccine in:

A. 1696
B. 1796
C. 1896
D. 1596

78. The pancreatic juice which aids digestion is secreted into?

A. Liver
B. Duodenum
C. Stomach
D. Ileum

79. Who among the following transmitted first radio signal through air?

A. Faraday
B. Marconi
C. Alexander Graham Bell
D. Tesla

80. High-tech exports of Pakistan stand at:*

A. 0.7%
B. 0.8%
C. 2.3% (as per 2019 stats)
D. 0.9%

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81. Who among the following Prime Ministers of Pakistan secured Gwadar from Oman?

A. Chaudhry Muhammad Ali

B. Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
C. Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar
D. Sir Malik Feroz Khan Noon

82. Villi are small finger like structures in the:

A. Large intestine
B. Small intestine
C. Stomach
D. Esophagus

83. Yeast is essential in making of bread because it produces:

A. Bacteria
B. Carbon dioxide
C. Oxygen
D. Sugar
84. Kartarpur corridor links which Gurdwara to India:

A. Panja Sahib
B. Darbar Sahib
C. Sacha SahibD. Rohri Sahib

85. Pakistan being Alma-Ata signatory in 1978 launched ‘The National Program for Family
Planning and Primary Healthcare’ in:

A. 1968
B. 1994
C. 1973
D. 1985
86. After fertilization, a fruit develops from which part of the plant?

A. Ovule Wall
B. AntherC. Ovary
D. Sepals

87. Which disease is caused by the deficiency of Vitamin D?

A. Scurvy
B. Rickets
C. Night Blindness
D. Malaria
88. The largest famine hit Ethiopia in:

A. 1980
B. 1983
C. 1990
D. 1993

89. The medians of a triangle cut each other in the ratio:

A. 4:1
B. 3:1
C. 2:1D. 1:1

90. Who among the following was the longest serving Chairman of Senate?*

A. Wasim Sajjad (24 Dec 1988 – 12 Oct 1999)

B. Mohammad Mian Soomro
C. Farooq Naek
D. Nayyar Bukhari
91. Which among the following is responsible for the clotting of blood?

A. Erythrocytes
B. Platelets
C. Basophils
D. White Blood Cells

92. Mastication is called the process of:

A. Digesting
B. Grinding
C. Chewing
D. Swallowing

93. At which temperature does bacteria die?

A. 106ºF
B. 102ºF* (as per internet sources it is 149ºF)
C. 110ºF
D. 120ºF
94. What is the colour of Oxyhaemoglobin?

A. Red
B. Bright Red
C. Dark Red
D. Pale Yellow

95. Pepsinogen is converted into _____ in stomach.

A. HCl
B. Gastrin
C. Pepsin
D. Bicarbonate

96. Literacy rate in Christian world is 100% compared to that literacy rate in Muslim world is:*

A. 50%
B. 40%
C. 60%
D. 70%

97. Pakistan’s population is what percent of the world’s population?*

A. 2.4%
B. 2.65%
C. 2.8%
D. 2.7%
98. Circumference of Earth is around:

A. 20,000 km
B. 30,000 km
C. 40,075 km
D. 50,000 km

99. Indian Railways started operation in:

A. 1813
B. 1847
C. 1853
D. 1863
100. What is the title of Hazrat Ibrahim (‫?)عليه السالم‬

A. Kalim Ullah
B. Khalil Ullah
C. Saif Ullah
D. Jad-ul-Anbiyah
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