Model Paper PPSC 2020 AD Population Welfare/Deputy District Population Officer BPS-17

Total Questions: 100

1 - Before giving up singing, Junaid Jamshed was part of which music group?

A ) Strings
B ) Vital Signs ✅
C ) Janoon
D ) Fuzon

3 - From which country Pakistan purchased Gwadar?

A ) Kuwait
B ) Iran
C ) Oman ✅
D ) Qatar

5 - What is the old name of Zhob?

A ) Canton
B ) Fort Sandeman ✅
C ) Amir Kot
D ) Suri Nagar

6 - First President of Indian National Congress was:

A ) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
B ) Dadabhai Naorojee
C ) Womesh Chandra Bannerjee ✅
D ) Dinshaw Edulju Wacha

7 - What is called the reduction in the rate of currency?

A ) Devolution
B ) Devaluation ✅
C ) Price cap
D ) Cut-rate

8 - Babar Azam is a famous in the field of:

A ) Films
B ) Singing
C ) Cricket ✅
D ) Journalism

9 - What is the meaning of "Ex-post facto"?

A ) A comfortable thing as fact
B ) With retrospective action or force ✅
C ) A suitable environment to work
D ) An unwelcome guest

10 - Bobby Dylan got the Noble Prize in the field of:

A ) Medicine
B ) Literature ✅
C ) Physics
D ) None of these

11 - Amir Khusro was the famous poet in the Court of:

A ) Zaheer-ud-Din Babar
B ) Jalal-U-Din Akbar
C ) Ibrahim Lodhi
D ) Alauddin Khilji ✅

12 - Commonwealth games 2018 was hosted by:

A ) China
B ) Canada
C ) France
D ) Australia ✅

13 - Which kind of Tax is Federal subject?

A ) Excise Tax
B ) Property Tax
C ) Zakat &Ushar
D ) General Sales Tax ✅

14 - "Just good enough" means:

A ) Not sufficient time
B ) An estimated criteria
C ) Good for circumstances ✅
D ) None of these

15 - "Red Lake"is situated in:

A ) Canada
B ) Russia
C ) America ✅
D ) France

16 - Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah enrolled in which school?

A ) SindhJamia High School
B ) Darul Uloom High School
C ) Sindh Madras Tul Islam ✅
D ) Mission Public School Karachi

17 - Isotopes are atoms of the same element with different number of:

A ) Electrons
B ) Protons
C ) Neutron ✅
D ) Positron

19 - Fill in the blank: A cat differs.....a dog.

A ) With
B ) From ✅
C ) For
D ) Over

20 - Physiotherapy is a curative method of:

A ) Heart Disease
B ) Immobility of Joints ✅
C ) Cirrhosis of the liver
D ) Drug addiction

21 - "Mount Kinabalu" is located in:

A ) Indonesia
B ) Malaysia ✅
C ) Kenya
D ) Botswana

23 - A new Presentation can be created from:

A ) Blank Presentation
B ) From existing Presentation
C ) From design template
D ) All of these

24 - USA purchased "Louisiana" from which country?

A ) Russia
B ) France ✅
C ) Argentina
D ) None of these

25 - "The Lighthouse of Alexandria" is situated in which country?

A ) Turkey
B ) Egypt ✅
C ) Syria
D ) Jordan

26 - Pakistan is situated in:

A ) Asia Minor
B ) Far East Asia
C ) South Asia ✅
D ) South East Asia

Explanation:

 ✅ Continent: Asia ✅ Region: South Asia

Borders:

  1. East: India
  2. North: China
  3. Northwest: Afghanistan
  4. West: Iran

 ✅ Coastline: Arabian Sea in the south

 ✅ Strategic Importance: Connects South Asia with Central Asia and the Middle East.

27 - "Accolade" means:

A ) To give up completely
B ) Keenness of mind or insight
C ) An award or salute or ✅
D ) Sharp or harsh in language

28 - A firm buys good on credit, which document does the firm use to record this?

A ) Credit Note
B ) Purchase Invoice ✅
C ) Sale Invoice List
D ) Supplier's Statement

29 - Where is "Bridge of No Return" is located?

A ) China
B ) Japan
C ) Korea ✅
D ) France

30 - "The Lessons of History"is a famous book by:

A ) Will Durant ✅
B ) Russell
C ) Thomas Power
D ) James Frazer

31 - The Prime function of Accounting is to:

A ) Record Economic Data
B ) Provide the informational basis for action
C ) Attain non economic goals and objectives
D ) Classify & Record business transaction ✅

32 - Contraband means:

A ) Economic Sanctions
B ) Banned Goods ✅
C ) Family Planning Material
D ) Temporary stoppage of trade

33 - Slump is:

A ) An Economic term ✅
B ) Social Depression
C ) Political Vendetta
D ) Transfer of Criminal

34 - Which of the following is type of culture?

A ) Material Culture
B ) Non-material Culture
C ) Both a and b
D ) None of these

35 - Who is the current President/CEO of Google?

A ) Larry Page
B ) Satya Nadella
C ) Sundar Pichai ✅
D ) Sergey Brin

36 - In the process of galvanization an iron sheet is coated with:

A ) Tin
B ) Zinc ✅
C ) Aluminium
D ) Galena

37 - Which of the following gases is used in extinguish fire?

A ) Oxygen
B ) Hydrogen
C ) Water Vapour
D ) Carbon dioxide ✅

38 - Which of the following is a non-metallic mineral?

A ) Bauxite
B ) Gypsum ✅
C ) Magnesium
D ) Manganese

39 - WWW was invented by:

A ) Robert Cailliau
B ) Adam Osborne
C ) Tim Berners Lee ✅
D ) Robert E. Kahn

40 - Which shortcut key is used to insert an end note in MS-Word 2016?

A ) Ctrl+D
B ) Alt+Shift+D
C ) ALT+Ctrl+D ✅
D ) Shift+Ctrl+D

41 - The Karakorum Highway (N-35) starts from:

A ) Haripur
B ) Wah
C ) Hassan Abdal ✅
D ) Taxila

42 - Hyperlinks are:

A ) Picture
B ) Drawing objects
C ) Text
D ) All of these

43 - "Cultural Relativism" was coined by:

A ) James Wray Miller ✅
B ) P. E. Griffith
C ) Joseph le Doux
D ) Russell and Fernandez Dols

44 - Hazrat Ali martyred in:

A ) 17 Rajab,40 Hijri
B ) 21 Shaban, 40 Hijri
C ) 17 Ramzan, 40 Hijri
D ) 21 Ramzan, 40 Hijri ✅

45 - The most important ore of Aluminum is:

A ) Bauxite ✅
B ) Magnetite
C ) Hematite
D ) Monazite

46 - Who introduced the conflict perspective in sociology

A ) Friedrich Engels
B ) Ludwig Gumpliwicz
C ) Herbert Spencer
D ) Karl Marx ✅

47 - Synonym of "Delete" is:

A ) Strange
B ) Efficient
C ) Remove ✅
D ) Nasty

49 - Choose the correct words from the options to complete the sentence correctly: Khalid is.....taller than Naveed.

A ) Not as tall but as
B ) As tall, if not
C ) As if not
D ) As tall as,if not ✅

50 - The gas used in manufacturing of Banaspati ghee is?

A ) Helium
B ) Oxygen
C ) Nitrogen
D ) Hydrogen ✅

51 - Choose the correct antonym of "Liberty"?

A ) Freedom
B ) Delivered
C ) Slavery ✅
D ) Scrupulous

52 - Abraham Lincoln was belonged to:

A ) Cuba
B ) America ✅
C ) Russia
D ) None of these

53 - Real name of Hazrat Abu Bakar was;

A ) Ahmad
B ) Abdullah ✅
C ) Haris
D ) None of these

54 - Statistical calculations and preparation of tables and graphs can be done using:

A ) Excel ✅
B ) PowerPoint
C ) Notepad
D ) Adobe Photoshop

55 - "Madness and Civilization" was written by:

A ) David D. Burns
B ) Michel Foucault ✅
C ) Jonathan kellerman
D ) Thomas Hale Jr.

56 - "Jinnah of Pakistan" was written by:

A ) Jaswant singh
B ) Stanley walport ✅
C ) Bal RAM Nanda
D ) I. H Qureshi

57 - Gawadar became part of Pakistan in the year?

A ) 1960
B ) 1958 ✅
C ) 1969
D ) 1972

58 - A culture within a culture is called as:

A ) Mini-Culture
B ) Norma
C ) Society
D ) Sub-Culture ✅

59 - Which of the following is not an objective of "Millennium Development Goals?

A ) Eradicate Poverty
B ) Environment Stability
C ) Reduce HIV ✅
D ) None of these

60 - A circle touch the triangle from inside is called:

A ) Excircle or described Circle
B ) Incorcle or inscribed Circle ✅
C ) Tangent line of a Circle
D ) Trigonometric Rules

61 - Population density is a measurement of

A ) Population per town
B ) Population per unit square
C ) Population per district
D ) Population per unit area ✅

62 - Bronze era started from which country?

A ) Syria
B ) Egypt ✅
C ) Turkey
D ) Yemen

63 - Complete the series 1, 2,9,27,64,125........?

A ) 144
B ) 225
C ) 256 ✅
D ) None of these

64 - All Pakistan Women Association established for:

A ) Social Development of Women
B ) Political Developments of Women
C ) Moral Development of Women
D ) All of these

65 - The number of deaths occuring in any year for every 1000 of the population is referred to:

A ) Death Ratio
B ) Death Rate ✅
C ) Casualty Rate
D ) None of these

67 - MDGs stands for:

A ) Million Development Goals
B ) Millennium Development Goals ✅
C ) Maximum Development Goals
D ) Minimum Development Goals

70 - Complete the series:3,5,10,12,24,26

A ) 52 ✅
B ) 30
C ) 28
D ) 48

71 - Cabinet Mission was sent to India in:

A ) March 1946 ✅
B ) April 1946
C ) May 1946
D ) August 1946

72 - World's Population day is observed every year on:?

A ) 11 june
B ) 11 July ✅
C ) 27 July
D ) 29 July

73 - United Nations agency with the mandate to protect refugees?

A ) UNICEF
B ) UNFPA
C ) UNESCO
D ) UNHCR ✅

74 - Noble prize winner Anwar Sadat belonged to:

A ) Turkey
B ) Syria
C ) Egypt ✅
D ) Palatine

75 - "Jinnah:India, partition, independence was written by:

A ) Hector Bolitho
B ) Jaswant Singh ✅
C ) Stanley Walport
D ) Dr. Ayesha Jalal

76 - The study of age,ages and aging is called as:

A ) Histology
B ) Cosmology
C ) Gerontology ✅
D ) None of these

77 - Idiom "Burn the midnight oil" means:

A ) Counting yours days earning in the night
B ) Heat up a place to make it comfortable
C ) Stay awake or study late into the night ✅
D ) Finish all the resources available

78 - Who is investigating the Russian involvement in the USA's election 2016?

A ) Alexander Bastrykin
B ) Nyrkov Yuri Mikhailovich
C ) Robert Mueller ✅
D ) None of these

79 - Who broke Shahid Afridi's record of most sixes in international cricket?

A ) Harshal Gibs
B ) Yuraj Sing
C ) Chris Gayle ✅
D ) None of these

80 - Human eye is sensitive to which colour(light)?

A ) Red
B ) Green ✅
C ) Blue
D ) None of these

81 - Monsoons are names of:

A ) Rain
B ) Winds ✅
C ) Climate
D ) Weather

82 - MS-Excel is a:

A ) Workbook
B ) Design format
C ) Spreadsheet ✅
D ) None of these

83 - How many surah of Quran are the name on animals?

A ) 2
B ) 4
C ) 6 ✅
D ) None of these

85 - Battery was invented by:

A ) Volta ✅
B ) Excide
C ) Fermi
D ) Maiman

86 - Wind energy is an example of:

A ) Potential Energy
B ) Kinetic Energy ✅
C ) Transverse Energy
D ) Mechanical Energy

87 - The Reko Diq Mine is located near Reko Diq town in Chagai District ,province of?

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

88 - Which gas is predominantly responsible for global warming?

A ) Nitrogen peroxide
B ) Carbon dioxide ✅
C ) Nitrous monoxide
D ) Carbon monoxide

89 - The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, located in?

A ) Germany
B ) France
C ) Australia ✅
D ) South Africa

90 - "Anorexia Nervosa" is a disease of:

A ) Sleeping sickness
B ) Nervous disorder
C ) Eating disorder ✅
D ) Loss of memory

91 - طلسم خیال"مشہور ناول کس نے لکھا؟"

A ) اکرم بریلوی ✅
B ) طارق اسماعیل
C ) وہاب الخیری
D ) کرشن چندر

92 - خان بہادر" قواعد کی رو سے کیا ہے؟"

A ) عرف
B ) لقب ✅
C ) خطاب
D ) کنیت

93 - یادوں کی بارات" کس کی آپ بیتی ہے؟"

A ) شوکت صدیقی
B ) افضل حق
C ) صلاح الدین
D ) جوش ملیح آبادی ✅

94 - اداس نسلیں" کس کی تصنیف ہے؟"

A ) ممتاز مفتی
B ) رضیہ بٹ
C ) عبداللہ حسین ✅
D ) جمیلہ ہاشمی

97 - عزیمت" کے کیا معنی ہیں؟"

A ) طلسمی دعا
B ) ارادہ
C ) مقصد
D ) تمام درست ہیں

99 - خامہ بگوش" کس ادیب کا قلمی نام ہے؟"

A ) مظفر علی سید
B ) مشفق خواجہ ✅
C ) جمیل جالبی
D ) حیدر علی آتش

100 - گھر کی مرغی" اس فکاہی تصنیف کا مصنف کون ہے ؟"

A ) شبلی نعمانی
B ) کرنل محمد خان
C ) اثر نعمانی ✅
D ) جعفر احمد جعفری