General Knowledge Solved Paper For PPSC, NTS Test
1. What is the capital of Zimbabwe?
ANSWER: Harare
2. In which country Al-Tehrir square is
located?
ANSWER: Egypt (Cairo)
3. Canton is city of which coAuntry?
ANSWER: China
4. What is the origin of Lake Nile?
ANSWER: Lake Tana in Ethiopia …( Lake
Victoria,)
5 .Which country has the largest Hydro (hydel)
Power generating plant?
ANSWER: China
6 .Which Country Christopher Columbus belonged
to?
ANSWER: Italy
7 Pythagoras belonged to which country?
ANSWER: Greece
8. Isaac Newton belonged to which country?
ANSWER: England
9. When did railway service start in India?
ANSWER: 1857
10 Mount Everest was named after Which Colonel?
ANSWER: George Everest (surveyor general of
india)
11. what is the meaning of de-facto?
ANSWER: In reality or fact; actually
12 What is the meaning of faux pas?
ANSWER: It is a French word meaning a social
blunder or indiscretion.
13 what is the meaning of carte blanche?
ANSWER: from French: blank paper
14 which is coldest planet?
ANSWER: Until it lost its planetary status in
2006, Pluto was the coldest, but now is Uranus has an outer temperature of -224
degrees Celsius
15 What is the name of planet with shortest
day?
ANSWER: Jupiter.
16 Which book was written by Tolstoy?
ANSWER: War and peace
17 In which month Russian revolution was
started?
ANSWER: February,1917
18 Russia launched its space mission to moon in
1957. Tell the date?
ANSWER: 4th October
19 Secretary General of UNO belongs to which
country?
ANSWER: South Korea
20 International Court of Justice sits in?
ANSWER: The Hauge
21 What is the circumference of earth?
ANSWER: Earth’s Circumference at the Equator:
24901.55 miles (40075.16 km)
22 What is the name of deepest point of Pacific
Ocean?
ANSWER: Mariana Trench
23 What was the name of captain of Pakistan’s
cricket team which beat England in 1954?
ANSWER: Abdul Hafeez Kardar
24 What is the name of book of Allama Iqbal
which was trANSWERlated in Urdu from Persian on its great demand?
ANSWER: Bang -e- Dra
25 Which is a landlocked country? a. Kenya b.
Sri lank c. Uganda,
ANSWER: Uganda,
26 To which country the father of Obama belongs
to?
ANSWER: kenya
27 Chile shares longest coastal border with?
ANSWER: pacific (not verified)
28 Who gave the theory of special relativity?
ANSWER: It was introduced by Einstein’s in
1905.
29 Who gave the law of heredity?
ANSWER: Darwin (Not Verified)
30 Which theory was given by Isaac Newton?
ANSWER: law of Motion
31 What is the name of strait between Malaysia
and Indonesia?
ANSWER: strait of Mallaca
32 which strait separates Spain and Morocco?
ANSWER: Strait of Gibraliar
33 Turnips is a kind of root?
ANSWER: blub root (Not verified)
34 What is the meaning of pediatrics?
ANSWER: Care of Children
35 In which continent longest river is located?
ANSWER: Nile in africa
36 lowari pass joins?
ANSWER: Dir and Chitral
37 In which country mountain Kilimanjaro in
located?
ANSWER: Tanzania
38 when was first international flight from
Pakistan?
ANSWER: 1955
39 WHO and IMF came into being in result of
which agreement?
ANSWER: Bretton Woods conference
40 which is the device when pressed keys encode
word on screen?
ANSWER: keyboard
41 which company has more cash than USA?
ANSWER: Apple
42 What is the GDP growth rate of Pakistan?
ANSWER: 2% (2.3%)
43 How much part of agriculture in GDP of
Pakistan?
ANSWER: 21%
44 Swiss canals join Which Seas?
ANSWER: River Nile with the Red Sea
45 What is the name of parliament of Israel?
ANSWER: Knesset
46 When did Pakistan won first Olympic medal?
ANSWER: 1960 in Hockey
47 When did Abdus salam received noble prize?
ANSWER: October 15th 1979
48 who invented dynamite?
ANSWER: Alfred Nobel in1867
49 Who is the father of modern science?
ANSWER:Galilio
50 in which country which country the garden of
Babylon found in current?
ANSWER: Iraq
51What was the Old name if Myanmar?
ANSWER: Barma
52 How many Muslims were died in Ghazwa Badr?
ANSWER: 14
53 Which atmosphere layer is nearest to the
earth?
ANSWER: Troposphere
54 Which is brightest planet?
ANSWER: Venus
55 What is the shape of Milky Way?
ANSWER: spiral
56 Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb was written by?
ANSWER: Bu ali sina
57 alkemia was written by?
ANSWER: Jabbar bin hayan (not verified)
58 Where is the head quarter of WTO located?
ANSWER: Geneva, Switzerland
59 The times which computer takes to reach its
data is called?
ANSWER: access time
60 Who wrote book Indian Muslims?
ANSWER: William Hunter
61 Who was the prime minister at the time when
General Ayub took over in 1958?
ANSWER: Malik feroz khan noon the 7th Prime
minister of Pakistan.
62 The distance between earth and sun is
smallest in the month of?
ANSWER: September
63. 38th parallel is a border between which
countries?
ANSWER: South and North Korea.
64 which river has blind dolphin?
ANSWER: The Ganges river
65. Who is special envoy of USA to Afghanistan
n Pakistan?
ANSWER: Mark Grossman
66. Bashar al Asad of Syria belongs to which
sect?
ANSWER: shia
67 What was the codename of Indian’s 1st atomic
operation?
ANSWER: Smiling Buddha
68 Asian drama was written by?
ANSWER: Gunnar Myrdal
69. koljik pass connects which cities?
ANSWER: Quetta and Chaman
70 What is the cheapest source of energy?
ANSWER: hydel
71 Which player twice won grand slam?
ANSWER: Rod laver
72 Which point farthest from karachi on coastal
highway?
ANSWER: Gwadar
73 What is the highest rank in air force?
(check)
ANSWER: Air Chief Marshal
74 when did Pakistan sent sputnik-1 in space.
ANSWER: 1957
75 Biman airways belong to which country?
ANSWER: Bangladesh
76 What is the percentage of oxygen in earth’s
atmosphere?
ANSWER: 20% (20.946%)
77 What is the Name of process of sun heating
the earth?
ANSWER: insulation (not verified)
78 What is the time taken by sun light to reach
earth?
ANSWER: 8 minutes
79 Mixtures of metals is called what?
ANSWER: Alloys
80 Which organism produces Insulin in body?
ANSWER: Pancreas
81 Which is a brightest planet..?
ANSWER: Venus
82 Benghazi is city of which country?
ANSWER: Libya
83 What is meant by fifth pillar?
ANSWER: Treachery
84 When did ChristiANSWER conquest
Granada?
ANSWER:1492
85 Penicillin was invented by?
ANSWER: Sir Alexander Fleming
86 smallest piece of silicon having electrical
diagram in computer is called?
ANSWER: Chip
87. Which part of computer saves the
instruction and time?
ANSWER: CPU