Model Paper FPSC AD Fedral Secretariat BPS-17 2009

Total Questions: 100

1 - Education is a strong ____ of poverty status.

A ) requirement
B ) Predictor ✅
C ) discolor
D ) exposure

6 - Those were only crocodile tears.

A ) Pretended sadness ✅
B ) a weeping sign
C ) mild regret
D ) very gloomy

7 - He was murdered in cold blood.

A ) cooly
B ) deliberately
C ) unfeelingly ✅
D ) Thoughtless

8 - The students were in the blues when they heard that the examination would not be postponed after all

A ) Cheerless and depressed ✅
B ) violent and angry
C ) wearing blue badges
D ) singing sad Songs

9 - To give so much importance to this dispute is to make a mountain of a molehill.

A ) to take advantage
B ) to give great importance to trifles ✅
C ) to see a thing with prejudiced mind
D ) to get into trouble

10 - The captain played with determination because the honour of the team was at stake.

A ) at the top
B ) in danger ✅
C ) very low
D ) appropriate

11 - The inspector was caught red handed.

A ) quickly
B ) caught in the act of committing the crime ✅
C ) Caught with dirty hands
D ) found with hands tied

12 - She cut a sad figure in her first performance on the stage.

A ) made a sorry figure
B ) cut a sorry face
C ) did not do well ✅
D ) Performed a sad role

13 - I have a bone to pick with you in his matter,

A ) am angry ✅
B ) selfish motive
C ) selfless motive
D ) desire

15 - It is time that professors came down from their ivory towers and studied the real needs of present day student.

A ) expensive fee
B ) detachment and seclusion ✅
C ) Dreamlands
D ) a tower made of ivory

17 - To work on this project is like flogging a dead horse.

A ) harp upon a question that has been settled ✅
B ) dragging something too far
C ) Over-spending money
D ) none of these

18 - 2 big the question

A ) To refer to
B ) To take for granted ✅
C ) to raise objections
D ) to be discussed

19 - To keep one's timber

A ) To because angry ✅
B ) To be in a good mood
C ) to preserve one's energy
D ) to be aloof from

20 - Which is the longest river of Europe?

A ) Volga ✅
B ) Danube
C ) Amur
D ) None of these

21 - on June 21, the sun is vertically overhead the

A ) Tropic of Capricorn
B ) Equayor
C ) Position of the sun is not definite
D ) Tropic of cancer ✅

22 - Altnkaya Dam is located in:

A ) Turkey ✅
B ) Argentina
C ) Iran
D ) Ghana

23 - Which of the following countries is in the continent of Europe?

A ) Albania ✅
B ) Algeria
C ) Libya
D ) Venezuela

24 - Which is the smallest continent of the world area-wise?

A ) Antarctica
B ) Asia
C ) Australia ✅
D ) Europe

26 - When Ghauri missile was handed over to Pakistan Army for full operational use.

A ) January, 2003 ✅
B ) December, 2003
C ) March, 2003
D ) June, 2002

27 - In which type of ____ climate are coniferous forests found?

A ) Sayanna
B ) Mediterranean
C ) Siberian ✅
D ) Hot desert

28 - Which of the following is the icy continent?

A ) Greenland ✅
B ) Antarctica
C ) Australia
D ) None of these

29 - The length of the Suez Canal is approximately:

A ) 110 Km ✅
B ) 159 km
C ) 170 km
D ) 125 km

30 - Khojak Pass is located between:

A ) Quetta and D.I. Khan
B ) Quetta and Chaman ✅
C ) Jamrud and Landikotal
D ) Sibi and Machn

31 - Nearest part of atmosphere to earth is called:

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

32 - Colosseum an amphitheater was built in:

A ) Nepalese
B ) Rome ✅
C ) Milan
D ) Athens

33 - "Special theory relativity" was proposed by:

A ) Galilee
B ) Robert Hook
C ) Isaac Newton
D ) Albert Einstein ✅

34 - Issac Newton gave:

A ) Law of Geometry
B ) None
C ) Law of Planetary Motion
D ) Laws of Motion and laws of Gravitation ✅

35 - "Composition of Alchemy" is written by:

A ) Jabir Bin Hayyan ✅
B ) Ibh Al- Haitham
C ) Ibn Rushd
D ) Nasir Al Din

36 - The book Al Qanun Fi Tin is written by:

A ) Al Baltani
B ) Ibe-Rushd
C ) Al Biruni
D ) Abu Ali Sina ✅

37 - Chile has a longest shore along:

A ) Atlantic Ocean
B ) Black Sea
C ) Pacific Ocean ✅
D ) Mediterranean Sea

38 - Death valley is located in USA in?

A ) Mi chingan
B ) New York
C ) California ✅
D ) None

39 - Which is the largest mountain peak in the world?

A ) Kangchenjunga ✅
B ) Cho oyo
C ) Lhotse
D ) None

40 - The earth is more closer to Sun in

A ) January ✅
B ) June
C ) July
D ) September

41 - The required for a computer to locate and transfer data is called:

A ) Basic time
B ) Starting time
C ) Access time ✅
D ) Analogue time

42 - A device which encodes character by the depression of keys is known as:

A ) Keyboard ✅
B ) Mouse
C ) Hard Drive
D ) Printer

43 - Mixture of two metals is called:

A ) Substance
B ) Metal
C ) Alloy ✅
D ) Nonmetal

46 - The time taken by light to reach earth from the Sun is

A ) 10 minutes 20 seconds
B ) 12 minutes 30
C ) 4 minutes 30 seconds
D ) 8 minutes 20 seconds ✅

47 - The shape of our milky way galaxy is:

A ) Elliptic
B ) Rectangular
C ) Irregular
D ) Spiral ✅

48 - The oldest planet of Solar System is:

A ) Neptune ✅
B ) Saturn
C ) Mars
D ) Jupiter

49 - BIMIN is the airline of:

A ) Cambodia
B ) Afghanistan
C ) Bangladesh ✅
D ) Sri Lanka

56 - The percent of twenty plus twenty per cent of the equals

A ) 10 per cent of 20
B ) 20 per cent of 20
C ) 1 per cent of 200
D ) 2 per cent of 200 ✅

63 - If A = x² - y². B = 20 and x+ y = 10, then

A ) A is greater than B
B ) B is a greater than A
C ) A is equal to B
D ) It is not possible to compare A and B as that data provided is inadequate ✅

64 - 6.26 ÷ 100 =?

A ) 0.0026 ✅
B ) 0.026
C ) 26
D ) 00026

65 - 5448 rounded off the nearest 100 is

A ) 6000
B ) 5400
C ) 5000 ✅
D ) 4500

70 - Of the following human bones which one is of arm:

A ) Radius ✅
B ) Semum
C ) Femur
D ) Patella

72 - Who developed the first digital computer?

A ) George Scheutz
B ) Joseph Henry
C ) H.H Aiken ✅
D ) J. P. Eckert

73 - Of the following human muscles, tell which one is of thigh:

A ) Deltoid
B ) Trapezius
C ) Vastus externus
D ) Biceps ✅

74 - An analgesic is taken to relieve oneself of:

A ) Cough
B ) Indigestion
C ) Pain ✅
D ) Fever

75 - Which one of the following is the key function of the kidneys?

A ) Removal of excess carbon dioxide from blood
B ) Pumping blood to the heart
C ) Removal of urea and nitrogenous wastes from blood ✅
D ) Removal of excess water from blood

77 - Of the following human bones, tell which one is of neck:

A ) Tibia
B ) Atlas ✅
C ) Skull
D ) Sacrum

79 - Which one of the following is not a function of, of the liver?

A ) Regulation of blood sugar
B ) Storage of blood
C ) Detoxification
D ) Reproduction ✅

80 - OJRI Camp was

A ) A Summer Camp
B ) Scouts Camp
C ) Prisoners Camp
D ) An Ammunition Depot ✅

81 - Which report rejected the demand of separate electorate?

A ) Pirpur Report
B ) Nehru Report ✅
C ) Simmon Report
D ) Cripps Report

83 - Who is the author of the book " The Last Days of Quaid -e-Azam"?

A ) Sir Muhammad Shafi
B ) Hector Bolitho
C ) G. Allama
D ) Col. Elhi Bakhsh ✅

84 - The oldest regional language of Pakistan is

A ) Pushto
B ) Punjabi
C ) Baluchi
D ) Sindhi ✅

85 - Humayun reigned from:

A ) 1530-1536
B ) 1536-1560
C ) 1530-1550
D ) 1530-1556 ✅

86 - Which religious gave the fatwa of"jahad''in 1857?

A ) Maulvi Ahmed Saeed
B ) Maulana fazal Haq Khairabadi
C ) Maulvi Muhammad Baqar
D ) Both (A)&(B) ✅

91 - Amount of Zakat cannot be used in ____

A ) Madrassah
B ) Mosque ✅
C ) Hospital
D ) None

92 - What is Sahihain:

A ) Mishkat
B ) Bukhari
C ) Bukhari and Muslim ✅
D ) Ibne Majah

93 - Jahad becomes mandatory in ____Hijra:

A ) 1 AH
B ) 2 AH ✅
C ) 3 AH
D ) 4 AH

94 - Which one is called Masha'ar-ul-Haram:

A ) Mina valley
B ) Muzdalifa valley ✅
C ) Arafat
D ) None

95 - Who was the martyre in Islam in the following:

A ) Hazrat Hamza (RA)
B ) Hazrat Yasir (RA)
C ) Hazrat Sumaya (RA) ✅
D ) Hazrat Ayesha (RA)

96 - Who first embraced Islam among women:

A ) Hazrat Fatima (RA)
B ) Hazrat Zainab (RA)
C ) Hazrat Khadija (RA) ✅
D ) Hazrat Ayesha (RA)

97 - What is Istlam:

A ) Salam to kaaba
B ) Salam to Haijre Aswad
C ) Kissing Hajre Aswad ✅
D ) Preying at Muqam-e-Ibrahim

98 - Who collected Quranic verses in one place:

A ) Hazrat Omar (RA)
B ) Hazrat Abdullah ibn-e-Abbas (RA)
C ) Hazrat Abdullah ibne Masud (RA) ✅
D ) Hazrat Usman (RA)

99 - How much Surah the Quran contains:

A ) 124
B ) 109
C ) 114 ✅
D ) 220

100 - He never wanted to keep her under his thumb and so he let her do what she liked,

A ) below his thumb
B ) restricted
C ) unduly under control ✅
D ) in his presence all the time