Lecture History BPS-17 HED 2022

Total Questions: 100

1 - Zia ul Haq become president of Pakistan in

A ) 1977
B ) 1978 ✅
C ) 1981
D ) 1985

2 - Which Mughal emperor era Ahmad Shah Abdali faced his first defeat:

A ) Bahadur Shah I
B ) Bahadur Shah ll
C ) Wali Shah
D ) Ahmad Shah Bahadur ✅

3 - The battle fought between Ottomans and Safvids empire was:

A ) Battle of Kosovo
B ) Battle of Chaldiran ✅
C ) Battle of Montiel
D ) None of these

4 - Real name of Mughal Emperor Jahangir was

A ) Farid
B ) Khurram ✅
C ) Saleem
D ) Iqbal

5 - Hazrat Ali (RA) shifted his capital from Madina to:

A ) Karbala
B ) Kufa ✅
C ) Makkah
D ) None of these

6 - Who was Prime Minister of Bengal after 1946 elections:

A ) Hussain Shaheed Suharwardy ✅
B ) Khawaja Nazim ud-Din
C ) Abdul Kasem Fazlul Haq
D ) None of these

7 - Firstly who celebrate 14 February as Valentine Day?

A ) Theodore
B ) Geoffrey Chaucer ✅
C ) Pope Leo
D ) None of these

9 - Taiwan, officially called

A ) Republic of China ✅
B ) People Republic of China
C ) Public of China
D ) None of these

10 - Total period of Abbasids caliphate was:

A ) 500 years
B ) 505 years
C ) 509 years ✅
D ) 515 years

11 - Chachnama was about

A ) Punjab
B ) Sindh ✅
C ) Bengal
D ) None of these

12 - Who is called the Father of Modern psychology?

A ) Wilhelm Wundt ✅
B ) Ibn -e-Khaldoon
C ) Adam Smith
D ) Darwin

13 - The physical part of a computer is known as:

A ) Software
B ) Hardware ✅
C ) Operating System
D ) System Unit

Explanation:

Best and Most Complete Answer (According to All Competitive Exams):

🔹 Question:
Physical component of computer including all peripheral devices are called — ?

🔸 Answer:
Hardware

📚 Detailed Explanation :

Term Definition
  Hardware  | All tangible, physical components of a computer system. This includes both internal and external (peripheral) devices.
  ✅ Examples of Hardware   

  • CPU (Processor)
  • RAM (Memory)
  • Hard Disk
  • Keyboard
  • Mouse
  • Monitor
  • Printer
  • Scanner

  ✅ Software (for contrast)  Non-physical part: instructions/programs used to operate hardware. e.g., Windows, MS Word, etc. 

 Peripheral Devices Include:

🔹 Type 🔸 Devices
  ✅ Input Devices   Keyboard, Mouse, Scanner, Microphone
  ✅ Output Devices   Monitor, Printer, Speakers
  ✅ Storage Devices   Hard Drive, USB, CD/DVD.

14 - Matter exist in which form

A ) Solid
B ) Liquid
C ) Gas
D ) All of these

15 - Khilafat papers was published by:

A ) Shaukat Ali
B ) Maula Muhammad Ali Johar Allama Iqbal ✅
C ) Allama Iqbal
D ) None of these

16 - Who resigned after Tashkent Agreement?

A ) Ayub Khan
B ) Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto ✅
C ) Manzoor Qadir
D ) None of these

17 - When the Indus Water Treaty was signed:

A ) September 1960 ✅
B ) October 1960
C ) November 1960
D ) December 1960

18 - Mahmud Ghaznavi attack early period of its reign on which dynasty:

A ) Saffarid
B ) Shahi ✅
C ) Abbasid
D ) None of these

19 - Old capital of US was:

A ) New York ✅
B ) Washington
C ) Alaska
D ) None of these

21 - British annexed Punjab under which treaty

A ) Treaty of Amritsar
B ) Treaty of Karachi
C ) Treaty of Lahore ✅
D ) None of these

22 - When was second OIC summit conference held:

A ) 1974 ✅
B ) 1977
C ) 1979
D ) 1979

23 - Death anniversary of Allama Iqbal is observed on

A ) 21 April ✅
B ) 21 May
C ) 21 June
D ) 21 July

24 - When the Soviet union attacked Afghanistan?

A ) 24 December 1977
B ) 24 December 1978
C ) 24 December 1979 ✅
D ) 24 December 1980

25 - The initial center of Ottoman Empire was:

A ) Anatolia ✅
B ) Konya
C ) Ankara
D ) None of these

26 - The concept of zero was given by:

A ) Indian ✅
B ) Egyptian
C ) Syrian
D ) None of these

27 - Samarkand is in which country:

A ) Uzbekistan ✅
B ) Azerbaijan
C ) Kazakhstan
D ) None of these

28 - Who was the secretary general of OIC in 1985?

A ) Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada ✅
B ) Hamid Algabid
C ) Tunku Abdul Rahman
D ) None of these

29 - Name of US president who was a film actor?

A ) Richard Nixon
B ) Ronald Reagan ✅
C ) Jimmy Cartor
D ) None of these

30 - Ibn Battuta visited India in the reign of:

A ) Allaudin khilji
B ) Ghiasuddin Balban
C ) Sultan Muhammad Tughlaq ✅
D ) None of these

31 - Badshahi mosque built by:

A ) Akbar
B ) Aurangzeb ✅
C ) Jahangir
D ) Mahabat Khan

32 - Khalifat movement was launched by:

A ) Quaid -e-Azam
B ) Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar ✅
C ) Chandhi
D ) None of these

33 - Faraizi movement was started by:

A ) Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar
B ) Sir Agha Khan
C ) Haji Shariat Ullah ✅
D ) None of these

34 - What is the real name of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar?

A ) Shah Muhammed Qasim
B ) Hazrat Usman Marwandi ✅
C ) Abdul Rasool
D ) None of these

35 - He said to me,' Go away from here." Change to Indirect speech

A ) He ordered me to go away from here.
B ) He ordered me to go away from there. ✅
C ) He ordered me to go away from there.
D ) None of these

36 - A doctor said, " you take rest."

A ) A doctor advised me to take rest. ✅
B ) A doctor was advised me to take rest.
C ) A doctor advised me to took rest.
D ) A doctor said me to you had taken rest.

37 - Kitab al- ibar was diwan al-mobtadae wa al-Khabar book wrote by

A ) Al -Beruni
B ) Ibn-e-Haitham
C ) Ibn-e-Khaldoon ✅
D ) None of these

38 - Who wrote the book entitled 'Archaeology of knowledge'?

A ) Karl Marz
B ) Voltaire
C ) Michael Foucault ✅
D ) Febvre

39 - Orthodox Khilafat lasted how many years:

A ) 10
B ) 30 ✅
C ) 45
D ) 112

42 - Meaning of neck and neck:

A ) Complete equally ✅
B ) Corridor
C ) Lost the game
D ) None of these

43 - Itimad-ud-Daula's tomb at Agra was built by

A ) Akbar
B ) Jahangir
C ) Noor Jahan ✅
D ) Shah Jahan

44 - Miftah-ul- Futuh book by Amir Khusro in honour of:

A ) Jalal-ud-din Firuz khilji ✅
B ) Alaudin khilji
C ) Quli Qutab Shah
D ) None of these

45 - Who is head of State in New Zealand?

A ) Jacinda Ardern
B ) Queen Elizabeth ✅
C ) David Cameroon
D ) None of these

46 - Hazrat Ali (R.A) was martyred in:

A ) 661 AD ✅
B ) 670 AD
C ) 678 AD
D ) 665 AD

47 - Kushan Empire introduced which coins?

A ) Silver
B ) Gold ✅
C ) Zinc
D ) Nickel

48 - Where was Rosetta Stone found?

A ) Libya
B ) Lebanon
C ) Egypt ✅
D ) None of these

50 - All Pakistan women Association (APWA) founded by:

A ) Begum Rana Liaquat Ali Khan ✅
B ) Shaista Ikram Ullah
C ) Fatima Jinnah
D ) None of these

51 - Tarikh al-Rusul wal-Muluk was written by:

A ) Al-tabari ✅
B ) Al-razi
C ) Ibn sina
D ) Al- ghazzali

52 - Jamal al-din al-Afghani was against

A ) Indian Independence
B ) European colonialism ✅
C ) Central Government
D ) None of these

53 - Who established Saudi Arabia in 1923?

A ) King Abdul Aziz ✅
B ) King Faisal
C ) King Khalid
D ) King Salman

55 - Byzantine empire was:

A ) Northern Roman Empire
B ) Western Roman Empire
C ) Eastern Roman Empire ✅
D ) None of these

56 - Who was the first Caliph of Islam:

A ) Hazrat Abu Bakar (R.A) ✅
B ) Hazrat Umer ( R.A)
C ) Hazrat Usman (R.A)
D ) Hazrat Ali (R.A)

57 - Who was the world's first female prime Minister?

A ) Indira Gandhi
B ) Sirmavo Bandaranaike ✅
C ) Margaret Thatcher
D ) None of these

58 - Ibn-e- Khaldun was a famous

A ) Sociologist ✅
B ) Chemist
C ) Physicist
D ) None of these

59 - The Headquarter of Arab League is at

A ) Dubai
B ) Cairo ✅
C ) Madina
D ) None of these

Explanation:

The headquarters of the Arab League is located in: Cairo, Egypt

➡️ In 1979 Arab League shifted its Headquarters from Cairo to Tunis (Return to Cairo:

  • In 1989, Egypt was reinstated as a member.
  • In 1990, the headquarters was moved back to Cairo

 Key Facts:

  •  ➡️  Organization: Arab League (League of Arab States)
  •  ➡️  Headquarters: Cairo, the capital of Egypt
  •  ➡️  Established: 22 March 1945
  •  ➡️ Number of Founding Members: 6 (initial signers) — later counted as 7, including Yemen (Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan (then Transjordan), and Yemen.)
  • ✅ Although the Arab League was founded on 22 March 1945 with 6 signatory countries, Yemen joined just a few weeks later on 5 May 1945.
  •  ➡️ Total Member :22. 

60 - Qawali was introduced by which Sufi silsila:

A ) Qadria
B ) Chistia ✅
C ) Suharwardia
D ) None of these

61 - The first mechanical calculating machine was made by:

A ) Charles Babbage
B ) Howard Aiken
C ) Blaise Pascal ✅
D ) None of these

62 - Who first attacked on sub continent:

A ) Darius ✅
B ) Alexander
C ) Cyrus
D ) None of these

63 - Who was son of Hazrat Ameer Muawiya RA

A ) Yazid ✅
B ) Zubair
C ) Salman
D ) None of

64 - The Holy Quran was first complied during the caliphate of:

A ) Hazrat Abu Bakar (R.A) ✅
B ) Hazrat Umar (R.A)
C ) Hazrat Usman (R.A)
D ) Hazrat Ali (R.A)

65 - British sent whome to Saudi Arabia:

A ) Lawrence Persia
B ) Lawrence of Egypt
C ) Lawrence of Arabia ✅
D ) None of these

66 - Who declared Buddhism as state religion:

A ) Chandragupta
B ) Ashoka ✅
C ) Bindusara
D ) None of these

67 - In 1846 the British sold Kashmir to Dogra Maharaja Gulab Singh for an amount of:

A ) 7 Million
B ) 7.5 Million ✅
C ) 8 Million
D ) 8.5 Million

69 - In 1999 who imposed martial law:

A ) Ayub Khan
B ) Yahya Khan
C ) Pervaiz Musharraf
D ) None of these

70 - US Ambassador who died with President Zia ul Haque in plane crash was?

A ) Arnold Lewis Raphael ✅
B ) Deane Roseh Hinton
C ) Robert B. Oakley
D ) None of these

71 - Durkheim was influenced by Comte's idea of

A ) Peace
B ) Positivity ✅
C ) Discipline
D ) None of these

72 - The Saur Revolution took place in 1978 in

A ) Afghanistan ✅
B ) China
C ) Sweden
D ) None of these

73 - Mughal emperor Akbar reigned from

A ) 1550-1605
B ) 1556-1605 ✅
C ) 1580-1605
D ) None of these

74 - Congress did not attend which Round Table conference:

A ) First ✅
B ) Second
C ) Both A and B
D ) None of these

75 - What is the name of the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan?

A ) Line of Control
B ) Order–Neisse line
C ) Durand Line ✅
D ) None of these

76 - Ertugrul Ghazi's life history only authentic source is:

A ) Saljuq-name ✅
B ) Siasat name
C ) Usman memoir
D ) None of these

77 - Oklahoma bombing of 1995 perpetrated by:

A ) Black lives matter
B ) Which Supremacist ✅
C ) Slavery
D ) None of these

78 - Which woman issued its own coin:

A ) Noor Jahan ✅
B ) Mumtaz
C ) Gulbadan
D ) None of these

79 - During the partition of India who was king of Britain

A ) George lV
B ) George v
C ) George Vi ✅
D ) None of these

80 - Which of the following Mughal emperor 's has not tomb:

A ) Aurangzeb ✅
B ) Shah Jahan
C ) Jahangir
D ) None of these

81 - Hujjatullah ul Balagha "was written by?

A ) Sir Syed "Ahmed Khan
B ) Shah wali Ullah ✅
C ) Syed Ahmed
D ) None of these

82 - The Delhi sultanata came to an and in

A ) 1526 ✅
B ) 1290
C ) 1325
D ) None of these

83 - In which language did Babar write his autobiogaphy'Tuzk-e-Babair'?r

A ) Hindi
B ) Turkish ✅
C ) Persian
D ) None of these

84 - Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo government was restored by High Court in:

A ) November 1996 ✅
B ) September 1996
C ) August 1996
D ) None of these

85 - Change voice: they great Me cheerfully every morning

A ) I am greeted cheerfully by them every morning. ✅
B ) Every morning I was greeted cheerfully.
C ) I am being greeted cheerfully by them every morning.
D ) None of these

86 - How many physical division of Pakistan:

A ) 04
B ) 06 ✅
C ) 07
D ) None of these

87 - Ferdinand Magellan help in the discovery of:

A ) Spain
B ) Alaska
C ) USA ✅
D ) None of these

88 - Solar calendar is which type of calendar:

A ) Persian
B ) Gregorian ✅
C ) Chinese
D ) None of these

90 - The ancient Indian source was:

A ) Paintings
B ) Archaeological excavation ✅
C ) Literature
D ) None of these

91 - Who was the monarchy in England in 1857

A ) Alexandrina Victoria ✅
B ) Elizabeth l
C ) Elizabeth ll
D ) None of these

92 - While Memory Serves wrote by:

A ) William Stoke
B ) Sir Francis Tuker ✅
C ) Robert Cook
D ) None of these

93 - Mahatma Gandhi was born in:

A ) 1866
B ) 1867
C ) 1868
D ) 1869 ✅

94 - Democracy and Authoritarianism in south Asia book wrote by:

A ) Maleeha lodhi
B ) Minor Akram
C ) Ayesha lodhi ✅
D ) None of these

95 - Who is called the Frontier Gandhi:

A ) Khan Abdul Gaffar khan ✅
B ) Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan
C ) Abdul Khan
D ) None of these

96 - When Sir Syed Ahmed Khan established Indian Patriotic Association?

A ) 1880
B ) 1888 ✅
C ) 1898
D ) None of these

98 - تشبیہ میں وہ چیز جس کے ساتھ تشبیہ دی جائے اسے کیا کہتے ہیں؟

A ) وجہ شبہ
B ) طرفین تشبیہ
C ) مشبہ بہ ✅
D ) آن میں سے کوئی نہیں

99 - اقبال کا کون سا مجموعہ اردو اور فارسی میں ہے ؟

A ) ارمغان حجاز ✅
B ) بانگ درا
C ) زبورِ عجم
D ) ان میں سے کوئی نہیں

100 - Liaqat Ali Khan visited which country from 3 May to 26 May 1950:

A ) Russia
B ) USA ✅
C ) China
D ) None of these