Model Paper PPSC 2020 Assistant Director Investigation BPS-17

Total Questions: 99

1 - Where is "The Brandenburg Gate"located?

A ) Poland
B ) Germany ✅
C ) France
D ) Serbia

3 - Who was the first male Shaheed (martyr) of Islam?

A ) Hazrat Shoaib Roomi(R. A)
B ) Hazrat Hais bin Halla(R. A) ✅
C ) Hazrat Zaid Bin Haris(R. A)
D ) Hazrat As'ad bin Zurarah(R. A)

4 - When was The Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) established?

A ) 15 February 1957
B ) 11 March 1958 ✅
C ) 22 February 1958
D ) 22 April 1960

5 - Which of the following is the highest civil award of Pakistan?

A ) Tamgh-e-Pakistan
B ) Hilal-e-Pakistan
C ) Nishan-e-Pakistan ✅
D ) Sitara-e-Shuja'at

6 - What was the original (Real) name of Abu Jahal?

A ) Amr bin Hakam
B ) Omar bin Hasham ✅
C ) Salam bin Hakam
D ) Amr bin Ummayah

8 - Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) is governed by......?

A ) FPSC Ordinance 1977 ✅
B ) FPSC Parliamentary Act 1977
C ) FPSC Ordinance 1926
D ) FPSC Rules 1977

9 - What is the name of Israel and UAE accords of peace Agreement 2020?

A ) Daud Agreement
B ) Abraham Agreement ✅
C ) Hittite Peace Agreement
D ) UAE Israel Agreement

10 - "Shakir Ali Museum" is located in which city of Pakistan?

A ) Lahore ✅
B ) Peshawar
C ) Faisalabad
D ) Islamabad

11 - PET is a type of nuclear medicine imaging test technique. What does PET stands for?

A ) Positron Emission Tomography ✅
B ) Positron Emission Terminology
C ) Positron Emitted Techniques
D ) Positron Emitted Techniques

12 - Titu Mir struggled hard for the:

A ) Indigo Planet
B ) Muslim peasants of Bengal ✅
C ) All peasants of Bengal
D ) Poor families of Assam

15 - Allama Iqbal got his Ph.D degree from which University?

A ) Oxford University (London)
B ) Cambridge University (London)
C ) Munich University (Germany) ✅
D ) Lincoln's Inn University (London)

17 - Shah Wali Ullah wrote how many books?

A ) 45
B ) 50
C ) 51 ✅
D ) 55

20 - Who was the president of Pakistan prior to Fazal Elahi Chaudhary?

A ) Z. A Bhutto
B ) Zia-ul-Haq
C ) Wasim Sajjad ✅
D ) Rafiq Tarar

21 - The city famous for its surgical instruments is:

A ) Lahore
B ) Jehlum
C ) Sialkot ✅
D ) Faisalabad

22 - Integrated Circuits (ICs) were used in generation of computer:

A ) First
B ) Second
C ) Third ✅
D ) Fourth

24 - In MS Word, formulas and symbols are us d in which menu?

A ) Insert ribbon
B ) Insert menu ✅
C ) Both a and b
D ) None of these

25 - Study of family history is called:

A ) Genetics
B ) Etymology
C ) Gencology ✅
D ) Gerontology

26 - "Phir Punjab Hill" is a part of which range?

A ) Himalayas ✅
B ) Hindu Kush
C ) Karakorum
D ) Koh-i-Sultan

27 - Synonym of "IMPECCABLE" is:

A ) Faultless ✅
B ) Dirty
C ) Criminal
D ) Poverty-stricken

28 - One Unit established in which year?

A ) 1953
B ) 1954
C ) 1955 ✅
D ) 1956

29 - The uncharged particle in an Atom is called:

A ) Proton
B ) Electron
C ) Neutron ✅
D ) Positron

30 - 10 Downing Street is the official residence of:

A ) American President
B ) Queen of England
C ) British Prime Minister ✅
D ) President of France

31 - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan died in 1898 and buried at......:

A ) Lahore
B ) Dehli
C ) Dhaka
D ) Ali Garh ✅

32 - In which Surah of the Holy Quran the name of "Zulqarnain" is mentioned?

A ) Surah-e-Al Mujadala
B ) Surah-e-Al Kahaf ✅
C ) Surah-e-Al Tehreem
D ) Surah-e-Al Hamad

33 - Geographical Pakistan is situated in:

A ) East Asia
B ) Central Asia
C ) South Asia ✅
D ) West 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.

34 - Fill in the blank; A book is known by its:

A ) Color
B ) Cover ✅
C ) Size
D ) None of these

35 - One horsepower is equal to:

A ) 726 watts
B ) 736 watts
C ) 746 watts ✅
D ) 756 watts

36 - The founder of "Zamindar"(Newspaper) was:

A ) Chaudhary Rehmat Ali
B ) Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar
C ) Maulana Abu Kalam Azad
D ) Maulana Zafar Ali Khan ✅

37 - Shandur Pass connects.....:

A ) Upper swat with lower swat
B ) Chitral with Gilgit ✅
C ) Bannu with Afghanistan
D ) Gilgit with Kashgar

38 - Who is the current governor of the State Bank of Pakistan?

A ) Ashraf Mahmood Wathra
B ) Dr. Shamshad Akhtar
C ) Dr. Raza Baqir ✅
D ) None of these

39 - What is the total length of Line of Control (LOC) in Kashmir?

A ) 520 km
B ) 680 km
C ) 740 km ✅
D ) 850 km

41 - Under the Era of which personality,The Price Control System instituted?

A ) Alauddin Khalji ✅
B ) Akbar the Great
C ) Sher Shah Suri
D ) Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq

43 - River Tigris and River Euphrates belongs to:

A ) Harappan Civilization
B ) Sumerian Civilization
C ) Mesopotamian Civilization ✅
D ) Egyptian Civilization

44 - Antonym of "OPAQUE" is

A ) Misty
B ) Shiny
C ) Covered
D ) Transparent ✅

46 - Among whom was the Meesaq-e-Madina concluded?

A ) Muslims and Christians
B ) Muslims and Jews
C ) Muslims,Jews and Other Non-Muslims ✅
D ) Muslims and Non-Arabs

47 - Which of the following is a data base management system?

A ) Window
B ) Oracle ✅
C ) Dos
D ) None of these

48 - Which shortcut key is used to save document?

A ) Ctrl+A
B ) Ctrl+S ✅
C ) Ctrl+X
D ) None of these

Explanation:

 Tip for exams/interviews: Always remember

  • Ctrl + N, O, S, P → File operations
  • Ctrl + C, X, V, Z, Y → Editing
  • Ctrl + B, I, U, L, E, R, J → Formatting.

 Most Common MS Word Shortcut Keys

  • Ctrl + N → New Document
  • Ctrl + O → Open Document
  • Ctrl + S → Save Document
  • Ctrl + P → Print Document

     Editing Shortcuts

  • Ctrl + C → Copy
  • Ctrl + X → Cut
  • Ctrl + V → Paste
  • Ctrl + Z → Undo
  • Ctrl + Y → Redo

   Formatting Shortcuts

  • Ctrl + B → Bold
  • Ctrl + I → Italic
  • Ctrl + U → Underline
  • Ctrl + L → Align Left
  • Ctrl + E → Align Center
  • Ctrl + R → Align Right
  • Ctrl + J → Justify

 Navigation & Selection

  • Ctrl + A → Select All
  • Ctrl + F → Find
  • Ctrl + H → Replace
  • Ctrl + Home → Go to beginning of document
  • Ctrl + End → Go to end of document

    Other Important Shortcuts

  • Ctrl + K → Insert Hyperlink
  • Ctrl + W or Ctrl + F4 → Close Document
  • Ctrl + Shift + > → Increase Font Size
  • Ctrl + Shift + < → Decrease Font Size
  • Ctrl + Shift + L → Apply Bullets

49 - Ctrl+B Shortcut key is used in MS Word to:

A ) Search the selected text
B ) Paste the selected text
C ) Bold the selected text ✅
D ) Open the specified file

50 - Boshphours strait connects the Black Sea with:

A ) The Aegean Sea
B ) The Red Sea
C ) The Marmara Sea ✅
D ) The Arabian Sea

51 - When was the Gas discovered from Sui?

A ) 1950
B ) 1952 ✅
C ) 1954
D ) 1955

52 - Cripps Mission (a delegation headed by Stafford Cripps) came to India in:

A ) January 1941
B ) March 1942 ✅
C ) June 1942
D ) None of these

53 - What was the name of foster sister of the Holy Prophet (PBUH)?

A ) Hazrat Salma(R. A)
B ) Hazrat Ruqaiyyah(R. A)
C ) Hazrat Mariah(R. A)
D ) Hazrat Sheema (R. A) ✅

54 - What was the real(original) name of Hazrat Abu Bakar (R. A)?

A ) Abdullah bin Uthman
B ) Sulaiman bin Jaffer
C ) Abdul Rehman ibn Aouf ✅
D ) Saraqa bin jasham

55 - Synonym of "CORDIAL" is:

A ) Docile
B ) Plaque
C ) Pleasant ✅
D ) Hatred

56 - The largest glacier in the Southern Hemisphere outside Antarctic is:

A ) Upsala Glacier (South America)
B ) Lambert-Fisher Glacier (Antarctica)
C ) Fedchenko Glacier (Tajikistan)
D ) Bruggan Glacier (Chile) ✅

57 - Who prepared the "Nehru Report" and asked for "Delhi Proposal"?

A ) Jawaharlal Nehru
B ) Motilal Nehru ✅
C ) Mahatma Gandhi
D ) Quaid-e-Azam

Explanation:
  1. The Nehru Report was presented by Motilal Nehru in 1928.The two Muslims who contributed to writing the Nehru Report in 1928 were Sir Ali Imam and Shoaib Qureshi were Muslim members of Nehru Report.
  2. Muhammad Ali Jinnah proposed three key amendments to the Nehru Report during the All Parties Conference in 1928.  The Three Amendments Proposed by Jinnah to the Nehru Report:(1.)Separate Electorates( 2)One-Third Representation for Muslims in All Legislatures(3 )Protection of Muslim Rights in Religion, Culture, and Education:
  3. Reject Report Muhammad Ali Jinnah (  Rejected between late 1928 and early 1929 by most major political and communal groups.)The Indian National Congress officially endorsed the Nehru Report at its Lucknow Session in 1928, though not all members agreed with every clause.After the Nehru Report was published in 1928,  Jinnah presented them on 28 March 1929 at the All India Muslim League session in Delhi. The Fourteen Points later became the cornerstone of Muslim political thinking in British India.
  4. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah proposed several amendments to the Nehru Report (1928) in an attempt to make it acceptable to Indian Muslims. These were presented during the All Parties Conference and are known as his "Delhi Proposals" (1927), which later formed the basis for his Fourteen Points (1929).
  5. The Nehru Report committee was chaired by Motilal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru's father. The committee was formed to outline a constitutional framework for India.These Fourteen Points, presented in 1929, summarized the political, cultural, and religious rights that Muslims in India demanded to be safeguarded in any future constitutional arrangement. They were a response to the Nehru Report (1928), which Jinnah and the Muslim League felt did not provide adequate protection for Muslim interests.
  6. The "Nehru Report" was prepared by: Motilal Nehru (not Jawaharlal Nehru),as the chairman of the All Parties Conference Committee in 1928.Nehru Report was prepared by Motilal Nehru (1928) Lucknow,  in British India.
  7. In the Nehru Report (1928), Hindustani was suggested as the National Language of India.
  8. Delhi Proposals were presented by Muslim League leaders, especially Muhammad Ali Jinnah (March1927 in Delhi)

58 - The silver coin 'tanka' was introduced by:

A ) Qutub-ud-din
B ) Balban
C ) Iltutmish ✅
D ) Bairam Khan

59 - How is population Density measured?

A ) Per square mile
B ) Per square foot
C ) Per square kilometer ✅
D ) Per square meter

60 - Name the companion who got the title "Zou-shadatian". Hazrat Muhammad (S. A. W) said about his testimony equal to two persons?

A ) Hazrat Huzaifa Bin yamani(R. A)
B ) Hazrat Khuzima Bin Sabit (R. A)
C ) Hazrat Ammar Bin Yasir(R. A) ✅
D ) Hazrat Ubayy Bin Ka'ab(R. A)

62 - Word's first country to make all public transport free from 2020 is:

A ) Netherlands
B ) Sweden ✅
C ) Luxembourg
D ) Belgium

63 - Who was appointed first secretary of the Board of Trustee of Aligarh College?

A ) Hakeem Ajmal Khan
B ) Sir Syed Ahmad khan ✅
C ) Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulik
D ) Raja Ghazanfar Ali Khan

64 - The historic garden of Lahore "Shalimar Bagh" was built by:

A ) Akbar
B ) Jahangir
C ) Shah Jahan ✅
D ) Zaib-U-Nissa

65 - Through which one of the folowing groups of countries does the Equator pass?

A ) Brazil,Zambia and Malaysia
B ) Colombia,Kenya and Indonesia ✅
C ) Brazil,Sudan and Malaysia
D ) Venezuela, Ethiopia and Indonesia

66 - The Suez Canal connects Mediterranean Sea with:

A ) Red Sea ✅
B ) Black Sea
C ) Dead Sea
D ) Aral Sea

67 - Complete the idiom: "Hell hath no fury like....."

A ) A women scorned ✅
B ) A burned women
C ) A women forgotten
D ) A devil's advocate

69 - In which view background color will not be visible?

A ) Print Layout View
B ) Web Layout View
C ) Reading View
D ) Print Preview ✅

70 - Most of the ozone in the atmosphere is concentrated in the:

A ) Mesosphere
B ) Troposphere
C ) Stratosphere ✅
D ) Ionosphere

72 - The number,whose 7% is 42, is:

A ) 300
B ) 400
C ) 500
D ) 600 ✅

74 - "Bai al-Sarf" is a contract of exchange of....:

A ) Goods to goods
B ) Goods to money
C ) Money to records
D ) Money to money ✅

78 - What is the indirect sentence of this. He said, "I cannot drive them home".

A ) He said that he cannot drive them home.
B ) He said to that he couldn't drive them home. ✅
C ) He said that he couldn't drive them home.
D ) He asked you couldn't drive them home.

79 - Complete the proverb."An early bird catches the....."

A ) Worn
B ) Fly
C ) Worm ✅
D ) Victim

81 - Who was the first leader of opposition in the first National Assembly constituted under the 1962 constitution of Pakistan?

A ) Mumtaz Daultana
B ) Sardar Bahadur Khan ✅
C ) Sardar Sabir Khan
D ) Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto

83 - Complete the Idiom: "Too many cooks spoil the.....:

A ) Meat
B ) Broth ✅
C ) Food
D ) Curry

84 - "From Memory" is the autobiography of:

A ) Ch. Muhammad Ali
B ) Sir Firoz Khan Noon ✅
C ) Muhammad Ali Bogra
D ) Hussain Shaheed Suharwardy

85 - Who was the opposition leader of National Assembly of Pakistan from 1972 to 1974?

A ) Maulana Mufti Mehmood
B ) Khan Abdul Wali Khan ✅
C ) Sardar Bahadur Khan
D ) Shareef-U-Din Peerzada

86 - The first Pakistani Prime Minister to visit Russia was:

A ) Liaquat Ali Khan ✅
B ) Z. A Bhutto
C ) Noor-ul-Ameen
D ) None of these

87 - Who became the first ever non Muslim (Hindu Delta) woman elected to Pakistan's senate?

A ) Sonakshi Kumari
B ) Krishna Kumari ✅
C ) Sonia Kumari
D ) PayPal Shivani

89 - Instagram introduced which App for the information of Coronavirus (COVID-19)?

A ) Insta Care ✅
B ) Insta Covid
C ) Insta Health
D ) None of these

90 - جملہ مکمل کیجے:یک نہ شد۔۔۔۔۔۔

A ) صفر شد
B ) ایک شد
C ) دو شد ✅
D ) تین شد

91 - مرزا ظاہر دار بیگ" کس ناول نگار کا مشہور کردار ہے ؟"

A ) بانو قدسیہ
B ) ڈپٹی نذیر احمد ✅
C ) مرزا ہادی رسوا
D ) عبدالحیلم شرر

92 - مضمون "کتے" کس مزاح نگار کا شاہکار ہے

A ) مشتاق احمد یوسفی
B ) ابن انشاء
C ) رتن ناتھ سر شار
D ) پطرس بخاری ✅

93 - اینٹ سے اینٹ بجانا" محاورہ ہے اس کا کیا مطلب ہے ؟"

A ) امید پوری ہونا
B ) تباہ و برباد کرنا ✅
C ) بے عزت کرنا
D ) بہت زیادہ شور کرنا

94 - غزل کا کونسا شعر مطلع کہلاتاہے ؟

A ) پہلا ✅
B ) دوسرا
C ) تیسرا
D ) آخری

95 - دشت سوس" کس کا ناول ہے؟"

A ) کشور ناہید
B ) خدیجہ مستور
C ) جمیلہ ہاشمی ✅
D ) بانو قدسیہ

96 - مندرجہ ذیل میں سے "حروف انبساط" کی نشاندہی کریں ؟

A ) ہاۓ ہاۓ
B ) واہ واہ ✅
C ) حیف صد حیف
D ) ان میں سے کوئی نہیں

97 - صنف نظم "منقبت" سے کیا مراد ہے ؟

A ) جس میں خدا تعالیٰ کی تعریف ہو
B ) ایسی نظم جس میں بندہ اللّٰہ سے کچھ طلب کرے
C ) جس میں رسول پاک صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم کی شان بیان کی گئی ہو
D ) جس میں اولیاء اللہ اور بزرگان دین کی تعریف ہو ✅

98 - ہاتھ کنگن آر سی کیا" عام ضرب الامثل ہے اس کا مفہوم کیا ہے ؟"

A ) زیور نقدی کا ہی دوسرا نام ہے
B ) نازک مزاج کو بھاری بوجھ اٹھانے کی کیا ضرورت ہے
C ) جو کچھ ظاہر اور عیاں ہے اس کا بیان کرنا فضول ہے ✅
D ) صلح صفائی سے بات بنتی ہے تو جھگڑنے کی کیا پڑی ہے

99 - اردو کے پہلے صاحب دیوان شاعر کون ہیں ؟

A ) ولی دکنی
B ) قلی قطب شاہ ✅
C ) سعد سلیمان
D ) امیر خسرو