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PPSC INTELLIGENCE OFFICER (BS-14)
Solved Past Paper MCQs | 25 August 2024 | Morning Session
- 1
Which desert stretches across North Africa?
- A) Sahara ✓
- B) Kalahari
- C) Gobi
- D) Thar
- 2
The largest part of the human brain is:
- A) Cerebellum
- B) Medulla
- C) Cerebrum ✓
- D) Pons
- 3
Protein synthesis takes place on:
- A) Lysosomes
- B) Ribosomes ✓
- C) Golgi bodies
- D) Mitochondria
- 4
The male reproductive whorl of a flower is:
- A) Gynoecium
- B) Androecium ✓
- C) Calyx
- D) Corolla
- 5
Who discovered penicillin?
- A) Louis Pasteur
- B) Alexander Fleming ✓
- C) Robert Koch
- D) Edward Jenner
- 6
A lunar eclipse occurs during a:
- A) New moon
- B) First quarter
- C) Full moon ✓
- D) Last quarter
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Which vitamin can the body synthesize with sunlight exposure?
- A) Vitamin A
- B) Vitamin C
- C) Vitamin D ✓
- D) Vitamin K
- 8
Thomas Edison is widely associated with the practical development of the:
- A) Telephone
- B) Incandescent light bulb ✓
- C) Radio
- D) Television
- 9
The basic structural unit of plants and animals is the:
- A) Tissue
- B) Organ
- C) Cell ✓
- D) Nucleus
- 10
Which is a unit of length?
- A) Pascal
- B) Angstrom ✓
- C) Joule
- D) Watt
- 11
The Durand Line separates Pakistan from:
- A) Iran
- B) India
- C) China
- D) Afghanistan ✓
- 12
Tilla Jogian is located in the:
- A) Salt Range ✓
- B) Himalayas
- C) Sulaiman Range
- D) Kirthar Range
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K2 (Godwin-Austen) is in the:
- A) Himalayas
- B) Hindu Kush
- C) Karakoram ✓
- D) Salt Range
- 14
Which is commonly cited as Pakistan's largest natural freshwater lake?
- A) Saif-ul-Malook
- B) Manchar Lake ✓
- C) Hanna Lake
- D) Keenjhar Lake
- 15
The Karakoram Highway connects Pakistan with:
- A) Iran
- B) Afghanistan
- C) China ✓
- D) India
- 16
The Arab League was established in:
- A) 1935
- B) 1945 ✓
- C) 1955
- D) 1965
- 17
A Chinese experimental fusion reactor was reported in the supplied paper as reaching temperatures about how many times hotter than the Sun's core?
- A) Two
- B) Three
- C) Five ✓
- D) Ten
- 18
During the Cold War, Fidel Castro allowed the Soviet Union to:
- A) Build missile installations in Cuba ✓
- B) Join NATO
- C) Occupy Florida
- D) Control Panama
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The Medal of Honor is the highest US military decoration awarded in the name of the:
- A) British Crown
- B) US Congress
- C) US President ✓
- D) United Nations
- 20
Which UN body adopted its first resolution in 1946 calling for the elimination of atomic weapons from national armaments?
- A) Security Council
- B) General Assembly ✓
- C) UNESCO
- D) International Court of Justice
- 21
NAFTA originally involved the United States, Canada and:
- A) Brazil
- B) Mexico ✓
- C) Cuba
- D) Argentina
- 22
Marco Polo was a famous:
- A) Astronomer
- B) Traveller ✓
- C) Painter
- D) Physician
- 23
How many member states does the United Nations have?
- A) 191
- B) 192
- C) 193 ✓
- D) 195
- 24
The Orange Revolution is associated with:
- A) Georgia
- B) Ukraine ✓
- C) Belarus
- D) Poland
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How many sports were contested at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games?
- A) 20
- B) 21
- C) 22 ✓
- D) 24
- 26
Which of these is NOT a field event in athletics?
- A) Long jump
- B) Shot put
- C) Hurdle race ✓
- D) Discus throw
- 27
The height of men's 110 m hurdles is approximately:
- A) 0.914 m
- B) 1.067 m ✓
- C) 1.220 m
- D) 0.762 m
- 28
Who was nicknamed the Desert Fox?
- A) Erwin Rommel ✓
- B) Bernard Montgomery
- C) Dwight Eisenhower
- D) George Patton
- 29
The Battle of Saragarhi is remembered as a famous:
- A) Naval battle
- B) Last stand ✓
- C) Air battle
- D) Siege of Delhi
- 30
Who was Viceroy of India at Partition in 1947?
- A) Lord Curzon
- B) Lord Wavell
- C) Lord Mountbatten ✓
- D) Lord Linlithgow
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The area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after the merger of former FATA is approximately:
- A) 74,521 sq km
- B) 101,741 sq km ✓
- C) 88,000 sq km
- D) 120,000 sq km
- 32
Who authored 'Politics and the State in Pakistan'?
- A) Ayesha Jalal
- B) Muhammad Waseem ✓
- C) Hamza Alavi
- D) Ian Talbot
- 33
Who is prominently associated with ownership and leadership of the Nishat Group?
- A) Mian Mansha ✓
- B) Abdul Sattar Edhi
- C) Shahid Khan
- D) Malik Riaz
- 34
Sadiq Khan won the London mayoral election in 2021 for the:
- A) First time
- B) Second time ✓
- C) Third time
- D) Fourth time
- 35
Quaid-e-Azam presented his Fourteen Points in:
- A) 1927
- B) 1928
- C) 1929 ✓
- D) 1930
- 36
Who founded the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Nagpur in 1925?
- A) M. S. Golwalkar
- B) K. B. Hedgewar ✓
- C) V. D. Savarkar
- D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk became secretary of the Aligarh Board of Trustees in:
- A) 1905
- B) 1906
- C) 1907 ✓
- D) 1909
- 38
Who is commonly credited in Pakistan GK books with translating the Quran into Persian?
- A) Shah Waliullah ✓
- B) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
- C) Allama Iqbal
- D) Maulana Shibli Nomani
- 39
Which set consists of ferromagnetic metals?
- A) Copper, silver, gold
- B) Iron, nickel, cobalt ✓
- C) Zinc, lead, tin
- D) Aluminium, copper, zinc
- 40
In PowerPoint, slide advancement by clicking is controlled through:
- A) Transitions > On Mouse Click ✓
- B) Review > Translate
- C) Insert > Shapes
- D) Design > Themes
- 41
Objects on a PowerPoint slide that hold text or other content are called:
- A) Macros
- B) Placeholders ✓
- C) Queries
- D) Formulas
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An Excel workbook can contain:
- A) Only a single cell
- B) Worksheets and chart sheets ✓
- C) Only charts
- D) Only text documents
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The default file extension for a modern Excel workbook is:
- A) .docx
- B) .pptx
- C) .xlsx ✓
- D) .accdb
- 44
Which is NOT a font position/effect setting in MS Word?
- A) Superscript
- B) Subscript
- C) Centered ✓
- D) Raised
- 45
In MS Word, the Page Down key generally moves the view/caret:
- A) One screen down ✓
- B) One word left
- C) To the document start
- D) One line up
- 46
Which microinstruction format typically requires decoding of encoded control fields?
- A) Horizontal
- B) Vertical ✓
- C) Direct
- D) Unencoded
- 47
As page size increases, internal fragmentation generally:
- A) Decreases to zero
- B) Increases ✓
- C) Remains fixed
- D) Becomes external fragmentation
- 48
EEPROM stands for:
- A) Electronically Enabled Program Memory
- B) Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory ✓
- C) Extended Erasable Primary ROM
- D) Electric Embedded Program ROM
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Which gate outputs 0 only when all inputs are 1?
- A) OR
- B) NOR
- C) NAND ✓
- D) XOR
- 50
Which protocol family enables communication across the Internet?
- A) Bluetooth only
- B) TCP/IP suite ✓
- C) HDMI
- D) USB
- 51
Which key creates a chart on a separate chart sheet in Excel?
- A) F1
- B) F5
- C) F11 ✓
- D) F12
- 52
Who began developing the World Wide Web in 1989?
- A) Bill Gates
- B) Steve Jobs
- C) Tim Berners-Lee ✓
- D) Alan Turing
- 53
Which executable launches Microsoft PowerPoint on Windows?
- A) winword.exe
- B) excel.exe
- C) powerpnt.exe ✓
- D) outlook.exe
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Which item is NOT a standard requirement for mail merge?
- A) Main document
- B) Data source
- C) Merge fields
- D) Super fields ✓
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An Excel formula can contain:
- A) Only one operator
- B) Nested calculations ✓
- C) No cell references
- D) Only text
- 56
A primary purpose of an operating system is to:
- A) Manage hardware resources efficiently ✓
- B) Replace the CPU
- C) Print only documents
- D) Prevent all software execution
- 57
Excel AutoSum is used to:
- A) Automatically add a range of cell values ✓
- B) Encrypt cells
- C) Insert an image
- D) Sort alphabetically
- 58
A byte consists of:
- A) 4 bits
- B) 8 bits ✓
- C) 16 bits
- D) 32 bits