District Zakat Officer in the Zakat and Usher department, 2009

Total Questions: 100

1 - "Nisab" in relation to gold as prescribed in the Zakat and Usher ordinance 1980 is:

A ) 612.32 grams
B ) 305.25 grams
C ) 87.48 grams ✅
D ) 100 grams

3 - By which year had the Islamic Zakat system been enforced and implemented?

A ) Within 5 years of the beginning of the revelation of the Holy Quran
B ) Before the Prophet (peace be upon him) migrated to Madina
C ) By 9th A.H(ninth Hijri) ✅
D ) By the time of the martyrdom of Umar the Great

4 - Who had been appointed as governor of yaman with the responsibility of collecting zakat by The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)?

A ) Hazrat Abdullah Bin Umar
B ) Hazrat Ma'az Bin Jabal ✅
C ) Hazrat Osama Bin Zayed
D ) Hazrat Khalid Bin Walid

6 - The scope for the disbursement of Zakat and Usher is limited to:

A ) Muslim citizens of Pakistan ✅
B ) Muslims of any Nation
C ) Converts to Islam
D ) Scope extends much beyond the above 3 categories

7 - Zakat year means:

A ) Calendar year commencing on the first day of January
B ) Hijra year commencing on the first day of Ramadhan ✅
C ) Financial year beginning first of July
D ) Agriculture year starting first of chart

9 - Usher shall be charged and collected on compulsory basis only from:

A ) Landowner in cultivating possession
B ) Tenant cultivator
C ) Self cultivating allottee
D ) Every Landowner ,guarantee, allottee ,lessee, lease holder or land holder ✅

10 - The land owner would be exempt from payment of Usher if the produce from his land is less than:

A ) 948 kilograms of wheat or its equivalent ✅
B ) 2000 kilograms of wheat or its equivalent
C ) 3000 kilograms of wheat or its equivalent
D ) No exemption limit

12 - Earth's surface temperature has increase mainly because of:

A ) Radioactivity
B ) Higher level of CO² concentration ✅
C ) Lower level of nitrogen in the air
D ) Growth in forests

13 - The printing press was invented by:

A ) Thomas Edison
B ) Johannes Gutenberg ✅
C ) Johann Mendel
D ) Robert Koch

14 - When was the world's first steam engine invented?

A ) 1710 ✅
B ) 1830
C ) 1957
D ) 1687

16 - Gordian knot means:

A ) A very difficult task ✅
B ) A sailor's rope
C ) Couplings connecting railway carriages
D ) Climber's hook

17 - Operating Midnight Jackal was launched to:

A ) Capture kargil heights
B ) Topple Benazir govt in 1996
C ) Topple Nawaz Sharif govt. in 1999
D ) Topple Benazir govt in 1989 ✅

18 - Rubicon means:

A ) Package of ribbons
B ) Compound containing vitamin B and C
C ) Anything made of rubber
D ) A significant boundary ✅

19 - Basmati Paddy (rice) is harvested in Punjab in the month of:

A ) April ✅
B ) September
C ) November
D ) January

20 - Lower Chenab Canal takes off from:

A ) Marola Headworks
B ) Qadriabad Barrage ✅
C ) Trimmu Barrage
D ) Khanki Headworks

22 - Herd of grazing goats up to which number was exempt from zakat?

A ) 10 goats
B ) 19 goats
C ) 39 goats ✅
D ) 51 goats

23 - Zakat Collector were directed by the Prophet ( peace be upon him) to collect Zakat on animals by:

A ) Asking the cattle owners to attend his office along with an affidavit about Zakat due from them
B ) Visiting the place where the cattle are kept by the owner ✅
C ) Asking the Owner to produce the cattle at a place notified for the purpose
D ) Collecting verbal evidence about strength of the herd.

24 - Were the poor and indigent belonging to Bani Hashim tribe (Prophet's Tribe)eligible to receive Zakat?

A ) Yes
B ) no ✅
C ) Only disabled could receive it
D ) Only distant relations of Prophet (peace be upon him) could receive it

25 - Norman Borlaug was:

A ) Russian Nuclear Scientist
B ) Mexican Novelist
C ) Agriculture scientist who developed high yielding verities of Wheat ✅
D ) Christian Missionary

26 - The tomb of Anarkali in Lahore is:

A ) A popular Shrine visited by hundreds of pilgrims every day
B ) Housing Punjab public Library
C ) Under the use of Gymkhana for indoor games
D ) Housing the Punjab Archives ✅

27 - The monster Frankenstein - a fictional character was created by: (4 Time in Exams)

A ) Charles Dickens
B ) Lord Byron
C ) G .B. Shaw
D ) Mary Shelley ✅

28 - Murphy's law, briefly is

A ) Everything that could go would do so ✅
B ) Barking dogs would seldom bite
C ) Work would expand according to available space
D ) None of these

29 - First fully sequenced human genome was completed in:

A ) April 2003 ✅
B ) May 2006
C ) June 2007
D ) January 2009

30 - I have a dream was a famous speech delivered by:

A ) Winston Churchill
B ) Martin Luther king ✅
C ) Bill Clinton
D ) Mahatma Gandhi

31 - Yale is one of the world's top most universities .It is based in:

A ) New York
B ) Paris
C ) Berlin
D ) New Haven connecticut ✅

32 - Usher is assessed and collected by:

A ) District Zakat and Usher committee
B ) Tehsil Zakat and Usher Committee
C ) Village Zakat and Usher committee
D ) Provincial revenue department ✅

33 - The Zakat deducted at source shall be credited to:

A ) Provincial Zakat fund ✅
B ) District Zakat fund
C ) Government Exchequer
D ) Central zakat fund

34 - The expenditure on the administrative division and the central council shall be met by:

A ) Central zakat fund ✅
B ) Federal Government
C ) Through grants and auyyat
D ) Provincial zakat council

36 - Doha round of W.T.O negotiations on free trade had:

A ) Succeeded in 2008
B ) Collapsed in 2008 ✅
C ) Borne fruit in 2009
D ) None of these

37 - Imam Khomeini spent longest period of exile in:

A ) Iraq ✅
B ) France
C ) Lebanon
D ) England

38 - K-2 The second highest peak in the world is situated in:

A ) Hindu khush range
B ) Nanga parbat
C ) Suleman range
D ) Karakoram range ✅

39 - The latest elections of 736 members of European parliament were held in:

A ) January 2007
B ) April 2008
C ) June 2009 ✅
D ) September 2009

40 - Ibn-e-Khaldoon was a famous:

A ) Muslim general
B ) Sultan of Morocco
C ) Historian and sociologist ✅
D ) Religious reformer

42 - The account of a provincial Zakat fund is maintained and operated by:

A ) Chairman of provincial Zakat council
B ) Jointly by secretary Zakat and chairman of zakat council
C ) Finance department's nominee
D ) The chief administrator ✅

43 - The audit report on a provisional Zakat fund is laid before:

A ) Governor
B ) Chief minister
C ) Provincial assembly ✅
D ) Central zakat council

45 - Wikipedia is:

A ) A hilly range in Canada
B ) An online encyclopaedia ✅
C ) A children complex in Los Angles
D ) Childrens amusement park in Disneyland

46 - Mother Teresa was born in:

A ) Germany
B ) England
C ) Switzerland
D ) Albania ✅

47 - First revelation came to the Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him) in:

A ) Arafat
B ) Cave in Hira ✅
C ) Cave of Thaur
D ) Ka'aba

49 - Zakat prescribed in respect of a buried treasure discovered from an uninhabited place during early Muslim period was:

A ) Half of the total proceeds
B ) One third of the total proceeds
C ) One fourth of the total proceeds
D ) One fifth of the total proceeds ✅

50 - The goods meant for trading were :

A ) Exempt from zakat
B ) Liable to pay Zakat ✅
C ) Liability of zakat was on the buyer
D ) Exempt but subject to a separate sales tax

51 - Under Zakat and Usher ordinance 1980, Istehqaq for treatment through public hospital is determined by:

A ) Local Zakat and Usher committee
B ) District Zakat and Usher committee ✅
C ) District Zakat officer
D ) Administrator of the hospital

52 - Members of local Zakat and Usher committee are:

A ) Nominated by District Committee
B ) Elected through secret ballot by local residents
C ) Elected by the pious adult Muslims
D ) Selected in a public gathering of adult Muslims ✅

53 - Tehsil Committee consists of :

A ) The Ilaqa magistrate three women member and 8 elected male members.
B ) The assistant commissioner, two women and six elected male members. ✅
C ) Two women members and 8 nominated male members.
D ) Twelve members of whom four would be women

54 - Jerusalem was recaptured from crusaders by:

A ) Sultan Nooruddin Zangi
B ) Salahuddin Ayubi ✅
C ) Sultan Mehmood
D ) None of these

55 - Kim Clysters_mother of a baby girl earned well- deserved fame by:

A ) Climbing Mount Everest
B ) Winning Nobel prize for literature
C ) Championing the cause of refugees
D ) Winning grand slam title (US open tennis champion) ✅

56 - "Das Kaptial"is:

A ) Headquarters of the Government of USA
B ) Novel by Dostoevsky
C ) Manifesto of Britain's labour party
D ) Book written by Karl Marx ✅

57 - Vatican is situated in the Suburbs of:

A ) Rome ✅
B ) Paris
C ) Geneva
D ) London

58 - "Twelfth Night" is a:

A ) Novel by Thomas Hardy
B ) Comedy by William Shakespeare ✅
C ) An epic by Milton
D ) An ode by Coleridge

59 - The Chairman of the district Zakat and Usher committee shall be:

A ) Elected by zila council
B ) Appointed by chief minister
C ) Nominated by the provisional Zakat and Usher council ✅
D ) Elected through secret ballot by chairman of local committee

61 - Alzheimer disease is:

A ) A waterfall in Canada
B ) A brain wasting disease ✅
C ) A mountain range in Switzerland
D ) An exotic animal of Amazon

62 - Lambardar (village headman) is:

A ) An employee of the revenue department in BPS- 6
B ) Patwari of The villages
C ) An elected official of The villages
D ) A non-salaried public servant appointed by collector ✅

63 - The capital of the ottoman Empire was:

A ) Cairo
B ) Delhi
C ) Tehran
D ) Istanbul ✅

64 - Magna carta laid the foundations of:

A ) Popular government in France
B ) Democratic political system in great Britain ✅
C ) Separation of powers in United States of America
D ) Roman Empire

65 - Zakat literally means:

A ) Deduction:slicing away
B ) Growth and nourishment
C ) Distribution
D ) Taxation

66 - Quranic concept of Tama visualizes:

A ) Renunciation of the wordly comforts
B ) Fear of Allah leading to submission to his will
C ) Retirement to life of meditation
D ) Living on public charity ✅

67 - French Revolution happened in:

A ) 1683
B ) 1774
C ) 1789 ✅
D ) 1798

68 - Who was elected as prime minister of Japan in September 2009?

A ) Yukio Hatoyama ✅
B ) Katsuya Okada
C ) Naoto kan
D ) Hirohisa Fujii

69 - A District committee can be suspended under section 21 of the Zakat and Usher ordinance 1980 by:

A ) Chief minister
B ) Provincial minister of Zakat
C ) Provincial council ✅
D ) Chief administrator

70 - The minimum age limit for female members of different Zakat committees is:

A ) 25 years
B ) 30 years
C ) 40 years
D ) 45 years ✅

73 - World's biggest Uranium producer during 2008 was:

A ) USA
B ) Russia
C ) Kazakhstan
D ) Canada ✅

74 - Where exactly is Rohtas Fort (UNESCO declared world heritage) located?

A ) District Attock
B ) District Hazara
C ) District Jhelum_ West of GT road ✅
D ) District of Jhelum _East of GT road

75 - The victim of the Lockerbie Bombing in 1988 which killed over 200 passenger was:

A ) British airways flight
B ) Swiss air flight
C ) Pan Am flight ✅
D ) None of these

77 - Arrears of Usher shall be recovered by:

A ) Local Zakat and Usher committee
B ) District Zakat and Usher committee
C ) District Zakat Officer
D ) Tahsildar of the revenue department ✅

78 - The proceeds of Usher are to be deposited in:

A ) Local Zakat fund of the one concerned local committee
B ) P.L.A of district Zakat fund ✅
C ) A special account maintained by District Zakat Officer
D ) A revenue account

79 - The Chief Executive in respect for matters relating to Zakat and Usher is:

A ) Chairman of Central zakat council ✅
B ) Administrator general
C ) Minister of religious affairs
D ) None of these

81 - Telephone was invented by:

A ) Alexander Graham bell ✅
B ) Michael Faraday
C ) I.k Brunei
D ) Thomas Huxley

82 - "Origin of species" a controversial book was written by:

A ) Charles Dickens
B ) Thomas Huxley
C ) Charles Darwin ✅
D ) J.S.Mill

83 - Dead sea is surrounded by:

A ) Egypt and Sudan
B ) Saudi Arabia and Yemen
C ) Nigeria and Uganda
D ) Israel ,Jordan and Palestine ✅

87 - Keenjar lake is situated in the district of :

A ) Karachi
B ) Dadu
C ) Badin
D ) Thatta ✅

88 - Bronte sisters (Anne, Emily and Charlotte) were famous as:

A ) Singers
B ) Tennis players
C ) Actors
D ) Novelists ✅

89 - Zakat and Usher ordinance 1980 vests the power to make rules in:

A ) Federal government ✅
B ) Central Zakat council
C ) Administrator general
D ) None of these

90 - The second book of the old testament is:

A ) Genesis
B ) Numbers
C ) Exodus ✅
D ) Judges

91 - Abdullah Yousuf Ali is famous for being:

A ) A disciple of Ghandi
B ) A stalwart of all India Muslim League
C ) A co founder of deoband Madrassah
D ) English translator and commentator of the Holy Quran ✅

92 - Abraham Lincoln's library and museum is located in the city /town of:

A ) Chicago
B ) New York
C ) Spring field ✅
D ) St.Louis

94 - Hector Bolitho was:

A ) British world war ll general
B ) Biographer of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah ✅
C ) American archaeologist
D ) Human rights champion

95 - Payment of zakat for a Saheb-e-Nisab Muslim is:

A ) Just a moral obligation
B ) Binding religious duty ✅
C ) Act of voluntary charity
D ) Community service

96 - Who of the following died a natural death?

A ) Mahatma Gandhi
B ) Jawaharlal Nehru ✅
C ) Indira Gandhi
D ) Rajiv Gandhi

97 - The last great Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir's last resting place (mazar) is in:

A ) Red Fort of Delhi
B ) Fatehpur sikri
C ) Khuldabad in former state of Deccan ✅
D ) Ajanta in Maharashtar

98 - European Union presently comprises of:

A ) 16 States/ Nations
B ) 21 States /Nations
C ) 27 States /Nations (now 28) ✅
D ) 32 States/ Nations

99 - The "Da vinci code"is:

A ) Freemasons' Manual
B ) Famous novel by Dan Brown ✅
C ) Book predictions and mysteries
D ) Collection of Roman laws and procedure

100 - Suez Canal connects:

A ) Persian gulf with Arabian sea
B ) Mediterranean sea with red sea ✅
C ) Red sea with dead sea
D ) None of these