Assistant Director Past Paper 2015 Solved MCQs

Correct Answer: General

Generic means general, not specific to one thing.

Correct Answer: Secretive

Cagey means reluctant to give information, that is, secretive.

Correct Answer: Luxurious

Sumptuous means lavish and luxurious.

Correct Answer: Uneasiness

A qualm is a feeling of uneasiness or misgiving.

Correct Answer: Road

As a plant is found in a forest, so a house stands by a road, in the book's pairing.

Correct Answer: Spectacles

Spectacles is another word for eyeglasses.

Correct Answer: Aspirin

A pharmacy sells aspirin, as a superstore sells cereal.

Correct Answer: Transportation

Arkansas is a state, and a train is a means of transportation.

Correct Answer: Sprightly

Sprightly is the opposite of exhausted, as early is the opposite of late.

Correct Answer: Cost

Cost is a noun, whereas quickly, slowly and carefully are adverbs.

Correct Answer: Adjective

Oatmeal describes the cookies, so it functions as an adjective here.

Correct Answer: Two Nation Theory

The book records that the Khilafat Movement strengthened the Two Nation Theory.

Correct Answer: Turks abolished Khilafat themselves

The Turks themselves abolished the Khilafat, ending the movement.

Correct Answer: Quaid-e-Azam

Quaid-e-Azam opposed the Congress's concept of nationalism.

Correct Answer: Quaid-e-Azam

Quaid-e-Azam rejected the theory of composite nationalism.

Correct Answer: Totally disapproved

Quaid-e-Azam totally disapproved of the Non-Cooperation Movement.

Correct Answer: 1930 Allahabad Meeting

Allama Iqbal put forward the demand for a separate homeland at the Allahabad Meeting in 1930.

Correct Answer: 75%

The Awami League secured about 75% of the polled votes in East Pakistan in 1970.

Correct Answer: 1962

Under the 1962 Constitution, ministers were neither members of parliament nor answerable to it.

Correct Answer: 1906

The All-India Muslim League was formed in 1906.

Correct Answer: Quaid-e-Azam

Quaid-e-Azam presided over the Constituent Assembly in 1947.

Correct Answer: Lahore

Emperor Jahangir's tomb is in Lahore.

Correct Answer: Peshawar

The Peshawar radio station already existed when Pakistan was created.

Correct Answer: Dissolved Automatically

Under Yahya's Legal Framework Order, the Assembly stood dissolved automatically if it failed to frame the constitution within 120 days.

Correct Answer: Faiz Ahmad Faiz

Poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz was convicted in the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case.

Correct Answer: Oman (Muscat)

Pakistan purchased Gwadar from Oman (Muscat).

Correct Answer: 28th July 1969

Swat was included in Pakistan on 28 July 1969.

Correct Answer: District

The district level of government is indirectly elected.

Correct Answer: Three Tier

Local government has three tiers.

Correct Answer: Governance

The local government system was introduced to improve governance.

Correct Answer: 73

The Muslim League won 73 seats in Punjab in the 1946 elections.

Correct Answer: May 1875

The Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College was founded in May 1875.

Correct Answer: Comrade, Hamdard

Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar issued Comrade and Hamdard; Al Hilal was Maulana Abul Kalam Azad's paper.

Correct Answer: Neptune

Neptune is the outermost planet of the solar system.

Correct Answer: Coulomb

The SI unit of electric charge is the coulomb.

Correct Answer: Pascal

The SI unit of pressure is the pascal.

Correct Answer: Shorter

Very High Frequency waves have shorter wavelengths.

Correct Answer: Convex

Long sight is corrected with a convex lens.

Correct Answer: Convex Lens

A camera uses a convex lens to form an image.

Correct Answer: Night Blindness

Deficiency of vitamin A causes night blindness.

Correct Answer: Rickets

Deficiency of vitamin D causes rickets.

Correct Answer: Increase

At constant temperature, decreasing the volume of a fixed mass of gas increases its pressure (Boyle's law).

Correct Answer: 120 days

Red blood cells live for about 120 days.

Correct Answer: 5 liters

An average adult has about 5 litres of blood.

Correct Answer: 10-15k

A human breathes in about 10,000 to 15,000 litres of air each day.

Correct Answer: Elbow

The 'funny bone' is the ulnar nerve at the elbow.

Correct Answer: 1 gm/cm3

The density of water is 1 gram per cubic centimetre.

Correct Answer: Henry Becquerel

Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity.

Correct Answer: Battery

A battery converts chemical energy into electrical energy.

Correct Answer: Hydrogen

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe.

Correct Answer: Oxygen

Oxygen is the most abundant element in the Earth's crust.

Correct Answer: Osmium

Osmium is the densest substance on Earth.

Correct Answer: Silicon

Silicon is a semiconductor, not a conductor like copper, aluminium or iron.

Correct Answer: Syria

Hazrat Abu Bakr (R.A.) first sent an expedition towards Syria.

Correct Answer: All of these

The Charter of Madina was signed to establish peace and cooperation between the communities of Madina.

Correct Answer: World

The Meesaq-e-Madina is regarded as the first written constitution of the world.

Correct Answer: 25 years

Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) married Hazrat Khadija at the age of 25.

Correct Answer: Hazrat Abu Bakar Siddique (R.A.)

When the Holy Prophet (PBUH) was ill, Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique (R.A.) led the prayer.

Correct Answer: Hazrat Umar (R.A.)

Before accepting Islam, Hazrat Umar (R.A.) set out to martyr the Prophet (PBUH).

Correct Answer: Ramzan

The Battle of Badr was fought in the month of Ramzan.

Correct Answer: Hazrat Dawood (A.S.)

The Zaboor was revealed to Hazrat Dawood (A.S.).

Correct Answer: Hazrat Abu Bakar Siddique

Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique advised taking ransom and freeing the prisoners of Badr.

Correct Answer: Makkah

The largest mosque, Masjid al-Haram, is in Makkah.

Correct Answer: 2008

India and the USA signed the nuclear agreement in 2008.

Correct Answer: 70

At the time of this paper, Pakistan had about 70 universities.

Correct Answer: 49

Pakistan and China signed 49 memorandums of understanding on that occasion.

Correct Answer: $46bn

The MoUs signed by China and Pakistan were worth $46 billion.

Correct Answer: Raza Rabbani

Raza Rabbani was the chairman of the Senate at the time of this paper.

Correct Answer: $550 Million

$550 million was reserved for the counter terrorism force.

Correct Answer: $20 billion

$20 billion was required to make electricity from air in Pakistan, as stated in the paper.

Correct Answer: All of these

The HEC should work towards innovation, economic growth and social cohesion.

Correct Answer: South America, Venezuela

Angel Falls, the world's highest waterfall, is in Venezuela, South America.

Correct Answer: India

India has the largest cattle population in the world.

Correct Answer: USA

The book gives the USA as the country with the largest number of telephones.

Correct Answer: Mawsynram, India

Mawsynram in India is the wettest place in the world.

Correct Answer: 8

The implication is false only for a number divisible by 8 but not by 6; 8 is the smallest such number.

Correct Answer: 32

32 is divisible by 8 but not by 6, so the claim fails for 32.

Correct Answer: 8

18 + 26 - 2 = 42 students take music or art, so 50 - 42 = 8 take neither.

Correct Answer: 8

18 + 26 - 2 = 42 students take music or art, so 50 - 42 = 8 take neither.

Correct Answer: The statement is true but its converse is false

Two right angles do have equal measure, so the statement is true, but equal angles need not be right angles, so its converse is false.

Correct Answer: If x+2>5, then x>4

The converse swaps the hypothesis and conclusion of the original statement.

Correct Answer: 25

The disjunction is false only for a number divisible by neither 2 nor 3; 25 is such a number, while 32, 12 and 18 all make it true.

Correct Answer: If Yoda can help Luke win the battle, then he can use a light saber

The contrapositive of 'if not A, then not B' is 'if B, then A'.

Correct Answer: If Amanda does not buy green inline skates, then Tom does not buy a red skateboard

The contrapositive negates and swaps the two parts of the original statement.

Correct Answer: If Matt plays hockey, then today is not Sunday

The contrapositive of 'if today is Sunday, Matt cannot play hockey' is 'if Matt plays hockey, then today is not Sunday'.

Correct Answer: If it is not snowing, then Skater does not wear a Sweater

The inverse negates both parts of the original conditional without swapping them.

Correct Answer: False

Since Shelly does not like John, the conjunction 'Shelly likes Mike and she likes John' is false.

Correct Answer: Y is not prime and y is odd

When y = 3, y is prime and odd, so 'y is not prime and y is odd' is false.

Correct Answer: False

Since Saima does not like Ali, the conjunction 'Saima likes Sam and Ali' is false.

Correct Answer: 6 Kangaroos

Each kangaroo eats one sack in six minutes, so 6 kangaroos eat 100 sacks in 100 minutes.

Correct Answer: 24

The greatest digit sum on a 24-hour clock is at 19:59, giving 1 + 9 + 5 + 9 = 24.

Correct Answer: Rectangle, Parallelogram

Rectangles and parallelograms both have opposite sides parallel.

Correct Answer: 1000

9 x 100 + 9 x 10 + 10 x 1 = 900 + 90 + 10 = 1000 euros.