PPSC Assistant Director Population Welfare (BS-17)Past Paper 2020

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Assistant Director Population Welfare (BS-17)Past Paper 2020
Past Paper 2020 PPSC Assistant Director Population Welfare (BS-17)

Questions

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

A) Strings


B) Vital Signs


C) Janoon


D) Fuzon



Which of the following agencies related to UNO was in existence before World War II?

A) WHO


B) FAO


C) ILO


D) IMF



From which country Pakistan purchased Gawadar?

A) Kuwait


B) Iran


C) Oman


D) Qatar



The importance of “Division of Work” was the first time highlighted in Das Capital. This book was written by:


A) Machiavelli


B) Thomas Hardy


C) Adam Smith


D) Karl Marx


What is the old name of Zhob?

A) Canton


B) Fort Sandman


C) Amir Kot


D) Suri Nagar






The first President of the Indian National Congress was?

A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale


B) Dadabhai Naorojee


C) Womesh Chandra Bannerjee


D) Dinshaw Edulji Wacha



What is called the reduction in the rate of currency?

A) Devolution


B) Devaluation


C) Price cap


D) Cut-rate



Babar Azam is famous in the field of?

A) Films


B) Singing


C) Cricket


D) Journalism



What is the meaning of “Ex-post facto”?

A) A comfortable thing as a fact


B) With retrospective action or force


C) A suitable environment to work


D) An unwelcome event



Bob Dylan got the Nobel Prize in the field of?

A) Medicine


B) Literature


C) Physics


D) None of these



Amir Khusro was a famous poet in the Court of?

A) Zaheer-U-Din Babar


B) Jalal-U-Din Akbar


C) Ibraheem Lodhi


D) Alauddin Khalji



Commonwealth Games 2018 was hosted by?

A) China


B) Canada


C) France


D) Australia



Which kind of Tax is a Federal subject?

A) Excise Tax


B) Property Tax


C) Zakat & Ushar


D) General Sales Tax



“Just good enough” (کافی بہتر) means?

A) Not sufficient time


B) An estimated criteria


C) Good for Circumstances


D) None of these



“Red Lake” is situated in?

A) Canada


B) Russia


C) America


D) France



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

A) Sindh Jamia High Scool


B) Darul-Aloom High Scool


C) Sindh Madrasa-tul-Islam


D) Mission Public School Karachi



Isotopes are atoms of the same element wit different number of?

A) Electrons


B) Protons


C) Neutrons


D) Positrons



When did Pakistan join International Labour Organization (ILO)?

A) 1945


B) 1947


C) 1949


D) 1950



Fill in the blank: A cat differs ….. a dog?

A) with


B) from


C) for


D) over



Physiotherapy is a curative method of ?

A) Heart Disease


B) Immobility of Joints


C) Cirrhosis of the liver


D) Drug addiction



“Mount Kinabalu” is located in?

A) Indonesia


B) Malaysia


C) Kenya


D) Botswana



What number comes in the series: 5, 4, 9, 13, 22, 35,?

A) 53


B) 57


C) 60


D) 63



A new Presentation can be created from?

A) Blank Presentation


B) From the existing Presentation


C) From the design template


D) All of the above



USA purchased “Louisiana” from which country?

A) Russia


B) France


C) Argentina


D) None of these



“The Lighthouse of Alexandria” is situated in which country?

A) Turkey


B) Egypt


C) Syria


D) Jordan






Pakistan is situated in?

A) Asia Minor


B) Far East Asia


C) South Asia


D) South East Asia



“Accolade”(تعریف کرنا) means?

A) To give up completely


B) Keenness of mind or insight


C) An Award or Salute


D) Sharp or Harsh in Language



A firm buys goods 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



Where is “Bridge of No Return” is located?

A) China


B) Japan


C) Korea


D) France



‘The Lessons of History’ is a famous book by?

A) Will Durant


B) Russell


C) Thomas Power


D) James Frazer



The Prime function of Accounting is to?

A) Record Economic Data


B) Provide the informational basis for action


C) Attain non-economic goals is and objectives


D) Classify & Record business transaction



Contraband (ناجائز مال کی تجارت ) means?

A) Economic Sanctions


B) Banned Goods


C) Family Planning Materials


D) Temporary stoppage of trade



Slump is?

A) An Economic term


B) Social Depression


C) Political Vendetta


D) Transfer of Criminal



Which of the following is a type of culture?

A) Material Culture


B) Non-material Culture


C) Both A & B


D) None of these



Who is the current President / CEO Google?

A) Larry Page


B) Satya Nadella


C) Sundar Pichai


D) Sergey Brin






In the process of galvanization an iron sheet is coated with?

A) Tin


B) Zinc


C) Aluminum


D) Galena



Which of the following gases is used in extinguish fire?

A) Oxygen


B) Hydrogen


C) Water Vapour


D) Carbon dioxide



Which of the following is a non-metallic mineral?

A) Bauxite


B) Gypsum


C) Magnesium


D) Manganese



World Wide Web (WWW) was invented by?

A) Robert Cailliau


B) Adam Osborne


C) Tim Berners-Lee


D) Robert E. Kahn



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



The Karakorum Highway (N-35) starts from?

A) Haripur


B) Wah


C) Hassan Abdal


D) Taxila



Hyperlinks are?

A) Pictures


B) Drawing Objects


C) Text


D) All of these



“Cultural Relativism” was coined by?

A) James Wray Miller


B) P.E. Griffiths


C) Joseph le Doux


D) Russell and Fernendez-Dols



Hazrat Ali (R.A) martyred in?

A) 17 Rajab, 40 Hijri


B) 21 Shaban, 40 Hijri


C) 17 Ramazan, 40 Hijri


D) 21 Ramazan, 40 Hijri



The most important ore of Aluminum is?

A) Bauxite


B) Magnetite


C) Hematite


D) Monazite






Who introduced the conflict perspective in sociology?

A) Friedrich Engels


B) Ludwig Gumplowicz


C) Herbert Spencer


D) Karl Marx



Synonym of “Delete” is?

A) Strange


B) Efficient


C) Remove


D) Nasty



In 1948 UNCIP was established to investigate and mediate the lndo-Pakistan dispute on the future of Kashmir. UNCIP stands for United Nation ….. for India and Pakistan?

A) Ceasefire


B) Committee


C) Commission


D) Co-operation



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



The gas used in manufacturing of Banaspati ghee is?

A) Helium


B) Oxygen


C) Nitrogen


D) Hydrogen



Choose the correct Antonym of “Liberty”?

A) Freedom


B) Delivered


C) Slavery


D) Scrupulous



Abraham Lincoln was belonged to?

A) Cuba


B) America


C) Russia


D) none of these



Real name of Hazrat Abu Bakar R.A was?

A) Ahmad


B) Abdullah


C) Haris


D) none of these



Statistical calculations and preparation of tables and graphs can be done using?

A) Excel


B) PowerPoint


C) Notepad


D) Adob Photoshop



“Madness and Civilization” was written by?

A) David D. Burns


B) Michel Foucault


C) Jonathan Kellerman


D) Thomas Hale Jr.






“Jinnah of Pakistan” was written by?

A) Jaswant Singh


B) Stanley Wolpert


C) Bal Ram Nanda


D) I.H Qureshi



Gwadar became part of Pakistan in the year?

A). 1960


B) 1958


C) 1969


D) 1972



A culture within a culture is called as?

A) Mini-Culture


B) Norms


C) Society


D) Sub-Culture



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

A) Eradicate Poverty


B) Environment Stability


C) Reduce HIV


D) None of the above



A circle touch the triangle from inside is called?

A) Excircle or escribed Circle


B) Incircle or inscribed Circle


C) Tangent Line of a circle


D) Trigonometric Rules



Population Density is a measurement of?

A) Population per town


B) Population per unit Square


C) Population per district


D) Population per unit area



Bronze era started from which country?

A) Syria


B) Egypt


C) Turkey


D) Yemen



Complete the series: 1, 8, 27, 64, 125,__?

A) 144


B) 225


C) 256


D) 216



All Pakistan Women Association (APWA) established for?

A) Social Development of Women


B) Political Development of Women


C) Moral Development of Women


D) All of the above



The number of deaths occurring 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






The United Nations Convention on the Right of the Child (UNCRC) included in UN in?

A) 1989


B) 1992


C) 1993


D) 1995



MDGs stand for?

A) Million Development Goals


B) Millennium Development Goals


C) Maximum Development Goals


D) Minimum Development Goals



UNODC (United Nation Offices of Drugs and Crime) established in?

A) 1991


B) 1993


C) 1997


D) 1999



European Union suspended Military Alliance to Turkey in 2019 due to attack on?

A) Iraq


B) Iran


C) Yemen


D) Syria



Complete the series: 3, 5, 10, 12, 24, 26, …..?

A) 52


B) 30


C) 28


D) 48



Cabinet Mission was sent to India in?

A) March 1946


B) April 1946


C) May 1946


D) August 1946



World’s Population day is observed every year on?

A) 11 June


B) 11 July


C) 27 July


D) 29 July



United Nations agency with the mandate to protect refugees?

A) UNICEF


B) UNFPA


C) UNESCO


D) UNHCR



Nobel Prize winner Anwar Sadaat belonged to?

A) Turkey


B) Syria


C) Egypt


D) Palestine



“Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence” was written by?

A) Hector Bolitho


B) Jaswant Singh


C) Stanley Wolpert


D) Dr. Ayesha Jalal






The study of age, aged and aging is called as?

A) Histology


B) Cosmology


C) Gerontology


D) none of these



Idiom ‘Burn the midnight oil’ (دير تک مطالعہ کرنا ) means?

A) Counting yours days earning in the night


B) Heat up a place to make a comfortable


C) Stay awake or study late into the night


D) Finish all the resources available



Who is investigating Russian involvement in USA Elections 2016?

A) Alexander Bastrykin


B) Nyrkov Yuri Mikchailovich


C) Robert Mueller


D) None of these



Who broke Shahid Afridi’s record of most sixes in international cricket?

A) Harshal Gibbs


B) Yuvraj Singh


C) Chris Gayle


D) None of these



Human eye is sensitive to which colour (light)?

A) Red


B) Green


C) Blue


D) none of these



Monsoons are names of?

A) Rains


B) Winds


C) Climate


D) Weather



MS-Excel is a?

A) Workbook


B) Design format


C) Spreadsheet


D) none of these



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

A) Two


B) Four


C) Six


D) None of these



Fill In the blank with a suitable preposition: There’s an eraser…….the end of my pencil?

A) in


B) on


C) at


D) to



Battery was Invented by?

A) Volta


B) Excide


C) Fermi


D) Maiman






Wind energy is an example of?

A) Potential Energy


B) Transverse Energy


C) Kinetic Energy


D) Chemical Energy



The Reko Diq mine is located near Reko Diq town in Chagai District, Province of?

A) Punjab


B) Sindh


C) Baluchistan


D) None of these



Which gas is predominantly responsible for global warming?

A) Nitrogen peroxide


B) Carbon dioxide


C) Nitrous monoxide


D) Carbon monoxide



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

A) Germany


B) France


C) Australia


D) South Africa



“Anorexia Nervosa” is a disease of?

A) Sleeping sickness


B) Nervous disorder


C) Eating disorder


D) Loss of memory



طلسم خیال”ناول کس نے لکھا؟ “

A) اکرم بریلوی


B) طارق اسماعیل


C) وہاب الخیر


D) کرشن چندر



خان بہادر”قواعد کی رو سے کیا ہے؟ “

A) عرف


B) لقب


C) خطاب


D) کنیت



یادوں کی بارات” کس کی آ پ بیتی ہے؟ “

A) شوکت صدیقی


B) افضل حق


C) صلاح الدین


D) جوش ملیح آبادی



اداس نسلیں” کس کی تخلیق ہے؟ “

A) ممتاز مفتی


B) رضیہ بٹ


C) عبداللہ حسین


D) جمیلہ ہاشمی



یہ مشہور شعر کس شاعر کا ہے؟


اس زلف پہ پھبتی شب دیجور کی سوجھی


اندھے کو اندھیرے میں بڑی دور کی سوجھی

A) جوش


B) فیض احمد


C) انشاء


D) احمد فراز



دو یا دو سے زیادہ الفاظ جو روزمرہ مجازی معنوں میں استعمال ہوتے ہیں کہلاتے ہیں؟

A) روزمرہ


B) کہاوت


C) محاورہ


D) خاموش تماشائی



عزیمت کے کیا معنی ہیں؟

A) طلسمی دعا


B) ارادہ


C) مقصد


D) تمام درست ہیں



خدا بخشے بہت سی خوبیاں تھیں مرنے والے میں۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔ اکبر الہ آ بادی نےکس کی خوبیوں کا اعتراف کیا ہے؟

A) محسن الملک


B) سر سید احمد


C) مولوی سمیع اللہ


D) وقار الملک



خامہ بگوش” کس ادیب کا قلمی نام ہے؟ “

A) مظفر علی سید


B) مشفق خواجہ


C) جمیل جالبی


D) حیدر علی آ تش



گھر کی مرغی”اس تصنیف کا مصنف کون ہے؟ “

A) شبلی نعمانی


B) کرنل محمد خان


C) جعفر احمد جعفری


D) اثر کلیم


ANSWERS



B) Vital Signs

C) ILO

B) Iran

D) Karl Marx

B) Fort Sandman

C) Womesh Chandra Bannerjee

B) Devaluation

C) Cricket

B) With retrospective action or force

B) Literature

B) Jalal-U-Din Akbar

D) Australia

D) General Sales Tax

C) Good for Circumstances

A) Canada

C) Sindh Madrasa-tul-Islam

C) Neutrons

C) 1949

B) from

B) Immobility of Joints

B) Malaysia

A) 53

A) Blank Presentation

B) France

B) Egypt

C) South Asia

C) An Award or Salute

B) Purchase Invoice

C) Korea

A) Will Durant

B) Provide the informational basis for action

B) Banned Goods

A) An Economic term

C) Both A & B

C) Sundar Pichai

B) Zinc

D) Carbon dioxide

B) Gypsum

C) Tim Berners-Lee

D) Shift+Ctrl+D

C) Hassan Abdal

C) Text

B) P.E. Griffiths

C) 17 Ramazan, 40 Hijri

A) Bauxite

D) Karl Marx

C) Remove

C) Commission

B) As tall, if not

D) Hydrogen

C) Slavery

B) America

B) Abdullah

A) Excel

B) Michel Foucault

B) Stanley Wolpert

A) 1960

D) Sub-Culture

D) None of the above

B) As tall as, if not

C) Nitrogen

C) Gerontology

C) Stay awake or study late into the night

C) Robert Mueller

A) Harshal Gibbs

A) Red

B) Winds

C) Spreadsheet

B) Four

B) on

A) Volta

C) Kinetic Energy

C) Baluchistan

B) Carbon dioxide

C) Australia