Model Paper PPSC 2019 PMS BPS-17

Total Questions: 99

1 - Who among the following is the current Secretary General of SAARC?

A ) Ahmad Saleem
B ) Amjad Hussain Sial ✅
C ) Arjun Bahadur Thappa
D ) Q. A. Rahim

2 - Who was the first governor general of the Stale Bank of Pakistan?

A ) Zahid Hussain ✅
B ) Abdul Qadir
C ) S. A Hasnie
D ) Mahbubur Rashid

6 - When Balouchistan was given the status of province?

A ) 1969
B ) 1970 ✅
C ) 1971
D ) 1972

7 - What is the length of Karakorum Highway?

A ) 810 miles ✅
B ) 910 miles
C ) 710 miles
D ) 610 miles

8 - Who among the following was the penultimate Viceroy of British India?

A ) Lord Mountbatten
B ) Lord Wavell ✅
C ) Lord Linlithgow
D ) Lord Willington

11 - How many layers does Earth's atmosphere have?

A ) 5 ✅
B ) 6
C ) 8
D ) None of these

Explanation:

Earth's atmosphere has five primary layers, listed from the surface upward:
1.  ✅ Troposphere: 0–12 km (0–7 miles), where weather occurs.
2. ✅  Stratosphere: 12–50 km (7–31 miles), contains the ozone layer.
3.  ✅ Mesosphere: 50–80 km (31–50 miles), where meteors burn up.
4.  ✅ Thermosphere: 80–700 km (50–440 miles), includes the ionosphere.
5. ✅  Exosphere: 700–10,000 km (440–6,200 miles), merges with space.
Sometimes, the ionosphere (overlapping thermosphere and exosphere) and magnetosphere (beyond exosphere) are considered additional regions due to their unique properties, but the five layers above are the standard classification.

13 - Who among the following is the current president of Azad and Jammu Kashmir?

A ) Raja Farooq Haider
B ) Ch Abdul Majid
C ) Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry ✅
D ) Yaqoob Khan

16 - Attack Fort was built during the reign of which Mughal?

A ) Akbar ✅
B ) Hamayun
C ) Shah Jahan
D ) Aurangzeb

17 - Bit is also called:

A ) Binary Unit
B ) Binary Digit ✅
C ) Binary System
D ) Digital System

19 - Which of the following Vitamin contains traces of Selenium?

A ) Vitamin A
B ) Vitamin E ✅
C ) Vitamin D
D ) Vitamin K

20 - PROM chips are programmed by plugging them into:

A ) Chip Kits
B ) ROM Burners
C ) PROM Programmer ✅
D ) PROM Reader

22 - Sindh Sagar Doab is one of the five major doabs of the Punjab province. It is the tract of land between the following rivers

A ) Indus and Chenab
B ) Chenab and Jhelum
C ) Indus and Jhelum ✅
D ) Jhelum and Ravi

Explanation:

Sindh Sagar Doab Connects:

The Sindh Sagar Doab is the land area between the Indus River and the Jhelum River in Punjab, Pakistan.

📍 Geographical Connection:

  • Western boundary: Indus River
  • Eastern boundary: Jhelum River
  • Sindh Sagar Doab connects the Indus and Jhelum rivers.
  • ✅Located in western Punjab
  • ✅Includes districts like: Mianwali, Bhakkar, Khushab, Attock, and parts of Dera Ghazi Khan
  • ✅It is the largest of the Punjab Doabs (land between two rivers)

23 - Who is the current Chief of Air Staff?

A ) Sohail Aman
B ) Tahir Rafiq Butt
C ) Mujahid Anwar ✅
D ) Zafar Mahmood

24 - International Mother Language is celebrated on:

A ) 21 February ✅
B ) 21 March
C ) 21 April
D ) 21 May

25 - Which among the given options is the capital of Kazakhstan?

A ) Tashkent
B ) Astana ✅
C ) Dushanbe
D ) Ashgabat

30 - When in ICC Champions Trophy did Pakistan defeat India?

A ) 18 June ✅
B ) 22 June
C ) 24 June
D ) 26 June

31 - Which among the following defines the event of supernova?

A ) Expanding Black Hole
B ) Exploding Star ✅
C ) Shining Comet
D ) Moving Asteroid

33 - Who among the following is known as the Poet of Beauty?

A ) William Wordsworth
B ) John Keats ✅
C ) Rudyard Kipling
D ) P. B. Shelley

37 - When a triangle has two congruent sides,it is called.... triangle.

A ) Isosceles ✅
B ) Equilateral
C ) Scalene
D ) Iso Scale

40 - Which instrument is suitable to measure the internal diameter of a test tube?

A ) Vernier Calliper ✅
B ) Screw Gauge
C ) Feeler Gauge
D ) Bore Gauge

41 - Crude Oil is heated in the furnace up to

A ) 300°C
B ) 350° C
C ) 400°C ✅
D ) 450°C

42 - Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum is involved in the synthesis and storage of

A ) Polysaccharides
B ) Proteins
C ) Lipids ✅
D ) DNA

43 - World Food Program an organization of the United Nations was created at the behest of

A ) U Thant
B ) Dweight Eisenhower ✅
C ) J. F Kennedy
D ) Kissinger

44 - Asabiyya, a concept of social solidarity with an emphasis on unity, was given by

A ) IBN e Khaldun ✅
B ) Al Farabi
C ) ABN e Hazm
D ) Jarir Al Tabari

46 - Al-Oanun fi at-tibb is an encyclopedia of medicine in five books written by

A ) Al Farabi
B ) Avicenna ✅
C ) Ibn e Hazm
D ) Jarir Al Tabari

47 - Who among the following discovered the sunspots?

A ) Johannes Kepler
B ) Einstein
C ) Galileo ✅
D ) Copernicus

48 - Which city was hit by the earthquake of 1935?

A ) Muzaffarabad
B ) Quetta ✅
C ) Attock
D ) Peshawar

49 - In which country does the Batura Glacier lie?

A ) Pakistan ✅
B ) China
C ) Nepal
D ) India

50 - Which province among the following Unch Gas Field?

A ) KPK
B ) Punjab
C ) Balouchistan ✅
D ) Sindh

51 - How many countries are there in Asia?

A ) 48 ✅
B ) 49
C ) 50
D ) 46

53 - Who among the following invented bifocal spectacles and lightning rod?

A ) Galileo
B ) Benjamin Franklin ✅
C ) Thomas Edison
D ) James Madison

Explanation:

Benjamin Franklin, due to his invention of the lightning rod, is known as the:

Father of Electricity

📚 Explanation :

  • ✅Benjamin Franklin conducted famous experiments with lightning and electricity using a kite during a thunderstorm.
  • ✅His invention of the lightning rod proved that lightning is a form of electricity.
  • ✅Because of his pioneering work in the study and practical use of electricity, he is often referred to as the Father of Electricity .

54 - Which gas among the following is the second largest gas field in Pakistan which is being operated by OCGDL?

A ) Bobi Gasfield
B ) Chachar gas field
C ) Qadirpur Gas field ✅
D ) Uch Gas field

56 - Max Planck won Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 for the discover of.....

A ) Time constant
B ) Energy Quantum ✅
C ) Heat Constant
D ) Wave Constant

58 - Parsec is a unit used to measure....

A ) Time
B ) Speed
C ) Distance ✅
D ) Force

59 - Solar eclipse occurs when:

A ) Earth comet between Sun and moon
B ) Moon comet between Sun and Earth ✅
C ) Sun comes between Earth and Moon
D ) Sun rays don't reach earth

60 - A camera uses convex lens to form an image which is:

A ) Real, inverted, magnified
B ) Real, inverted, diminished ✅
C ) Virtual, Inverted, diminished
D ) Real, Upright, diminished

61 - Stoma, found in the epidermis of leaves closes when guard cells ......

A ) Gain water
B ) Lose water ✅
C ) Exchange gas
D ) None of these

62 - Iron and steel structures are damaged by:

A ) Carbon Monoxide
B ) Sulphur dioxide ✅
C ) Carbon dioxide
D ) Methane

63 - Inflammation of liver is caused by

A ) Cholera
B ) Hepatitis ✅
C ) Typhoid
D ) Jaundice

64 - Paris Climate Agreement was adopted in:

A ) 2014
B ) 2015 ✅
C ) 2016
D ) 2017

66 - What is the speed of sound in air?

A ) 1347 km/h
B ) 1235 km/h ✅
C ) 1290 km/h
D ) 1495 km/h

67 - Enzymes are basically made up of:

A ) Fats
B ) Nucleic Acids
C ) Vitamins
D ) Proteins ✅

68 - What is the life of red blood cells?

A ) 110 days
B ) 140 days
C ) 120 days ✅
D ) 170 days

71 - Parthenocarpy is the production of fruit which makes the fruit

A ) Full of seeds
B ) Seedless ✅
C ) Bitter
D ) Waterless

72 - Parthenocarpy is the production of fruit which makes the fruit

A ) Full of seeds
B ) Seedless ✅
C ) Bitter
D ) Waterless

74 - A normal CD-ROM usually can store up to data?

A ) 650 mb
B ) 680 mb ✅
C ) 720 mb
D ) 820 mb

75 - Dengue is caused by which type of mosquito:

A ) Culex
B ) Marsh
C ) Aedes ✅
D ) Mayaro

76 - Which tube among the following joins kidneys and bladder?

A ) Urethra
B ) Ureter ✅
C ) Infenor Vena Cava
D ) Suprapubic Tube

78 - The Pancreatic juice which aids digestion is secreted into?

A ) Liver
B ) Duodenum ✅
C ) Stomach
D ) Ileum

79 - Who among the following transmitted first radio signal through air?

A ) Faraday
B ) Marconi ✅
C ) Graham Bell
D ) Tesla

80 - High-tech exports of Pakistan stand at

A ) 0.7%
B ) 0.8%
C ) 0.9%
D ) None of these

81 - Who among the following Prime Minister of Pakistan secured Gwadar from Oman?

A ) Feroz Khan Noon ✅
B ) I. I. Chundrigar
C ) Ch. Muhammad Ali
D ) M. Ali Bogra

82 - Villi are small finger like structures in the:

A ) Large intestine
B ) Small intestine ✅
C ) Stomach
D ) Esophagus

83 - Yeast is essential in making of bread because it produces

A ) Carbon dioxide ✅
B ) Bacteria
C ) Oxygen
D ) Sugar

84 - Kartarpur Corridor links which Gurdwara to India:

A ) Panja Sahib
B ) Darbar Sahib ✅
C ) Sacha Sauda
D ) Rohri Sahib

86 - After fertilization, a fruit develops from which part of the plant?

A ) Ovule plant
B ) Anther
C ) Ovary ✅
D ) Sepals

87 - Which disease is caused by the deficiency of Vitamin D:

A ) Scurvy
B ) Rickets ✅
C ) Night blindness
D ) All of these

88 - The largest famine hit Ethiopia in:

A ) 1980
B ) 1983 ✅
C ) 1990
D ) 1993

89 - Who among the following was the longest serving chairman of Senate?

A ) Mian Muhammad Soomro
B ) Wasim Sajjad ✅
C ) G. I Khan
D ) Habibullah Marwat

90 - Which among the following is responsible for the clotting of the blood?

A ) Erythrocytes
B ) Platelets ✅
C ) Basophils
D ) White Blood cells

91 - Mastication is called the process of:

A ) Digestion
B ) Grinding
C ) Chewing ✅
D ) Swallowing

92 - At which temperature does bacteria die?

A ) 102 F ✅
B ) 106 F
C ) 110 F
D ) 120 F

93 - What is the colour of Oxyhemoglobin?

A ) Red
B ) Bright Red ✅
C ) Dark Red
D ) Pale Yellow

94 - Pepsinogen is converted into stomachbin

A ) HCl
B ) Gastrin
C ) Bicarbonate
D ) Pepsin ✅

97 - Circumference of earth is around

A ) 20,000 km
B ) 30,000 km
C ) 40075 km ✅
D ) 50,000 km

98 - Indian Railway started operation:

A ) 1813
B ) 1847
C ) 1853 ✅
D ) 1863

99 - What is the title of Hazrat Ibrahim (A. S)?

A ) Khalil Ullah ✅
B ) Kalim Ullah
C ) Saif Ullah
D ) Jad-ul-Anbia