Assistant Statistics Division Past Paper 2006 Solved MCQs

Correct Answer: 480 km

Mecca and Medina are about 450 km apart, so 480 km is the closest offered figure.

Correct Answer: 613 A.D

The Holy Prophet (PBUH) began preaching Islam publicly in 613 AD, after three years of private preaching from 610 AD.

Correct Answer: 630A.D

The Muslims conquered Mecca in 630 AD, in the year of the Conquest of Mecca.

Correct Answer: Mamun-ur-Rashid

Baghdad was actually founded by Caliph al-Mansur, who is not offered; the book's key answer is retained as printed.

Correct Answer: Arabs

Sindh was invaded in 712 AD by the Arab general Muhammad bin Qasim.

Correct Answer: Banu Addi

Hazrat Umar bin Khattab (RA) belonged to the Banu Adi tribe of the Quraish.

Correct Answer: Baghdad

After Damascus, Baghdad became the capital of the Muslim caliphate under the Abbasids.

Correct Answer: Hazrat Saad bin Abbi Waqas

Iran (Persia) was conquered under the command of Hazrat Saad bin Abi Waqas (RA), victor of Qadisiyyah.

Correct Answer: Ottoman

Suleiman the Magnificent was a sultan of the Ottoman dynasty.

Correct Answer: Yazid bin Muawiya

Yazid bin Muawiya was the second Umayyad caliph, succeeding Muawiya I.

Correct Answer: Uhad

The second battle between the Muslims of Medina and the Quraish of Mecca was Uhud, fought after Badr.

Correct Answer: 711 A.D

The Muslims invaded Spain in 711 AD under Tariq bin Ziyad.

Correct Answer: Battle of Zab

The Umayyad Caliphate was overthrown after the Battle of Zab in 750 AD, leading to Abbasid rule from 751 AD.

Correct Answer: Abd AR Rehman AD-Dakhil

Abd al-Rahman al-Dakhil was the first Muslim ruler (emir) of Muslim Spain.

Correct Answer: Diwan-ul-Kharaj

The Diwan-ul-Kharaj was the Umayyad department that administered revenue affairs.

Correct Answer: Syed Ameer Ali

A Short History of the Saracens was written by Syed Ameer Ali.

Correct Answer: Martin Lings

Martin Lings is the renowned biographer of the Holy Prophet (PBUH), author of Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources.

Correct Answer: Mathematician

Al-Khwarizmi was an outstanding Muslim mathematician, the father of algebra.

Correct Answer: 1857A.D

The Mughal Empire in India was formally abolished in 1857, after the War of Independence.

Correct Answer: Hazrat MuJadid Ailf Sani

Hazrat Mujaddid Alf Sani (Sheikh Ahmad Sirhindi) was the most significant Muslim saint of 17th-century Mughal India.

Correct Answer: Urdu-Hindi Controversy

The Urdu-Hindi controversy of 1867 laid the foundation of the Two-Nation Theory in India.

Correct Answer: Muhammadan Educational Conference

Sir Syed Ahmed Khan founded the Muhammadan Educational Conference in 1886.

Correct Answer: Lord Curzon

Lord Curzon was Governor-General of India at the time of Bengal's partition in 1905.

Correct Answer: Sir Agha Khan

Sir Agha Khan led the Simla Deputation that met Lord Minto in 1906.

Correct Answer: Lucknow Pact

The year 1916 is significant for the Lucknow Pact between the Congress and the Muslim League.

Correct Answer: Khilafat Movement

Gandhi emerged as a top leader in India after the Khilafat Movement.

Correct Answer: 1919

The Montague-Chelmsford Reforms were announced in 1919.

Correct Answer: Allama Iqbal

Allama Iqbal presided over the Allahabad Session of the Muslim League in 1930.

Correct Answer: Lord Wavell

Lord Wavell was Governor-General of India immediately before Lord Mountbatten.

Correct Answer: Cripps Mission

The Cripps Mission arrived in India in 1942.

Correct Answer: Ch. Muhammad Ali

Chaudhry Muhammad Ali is considered the chief architect of the 1956 Constitution of Pakistan.

Correct Answer: Finance Minister

Before becoming Governor-General in 1951, Ghulam Muhammad was Pakistan's Finance Minister.

Correct Answer: four-tier

Ayub Khan's Basic Democracies system had a four-tier hierarchical structure.

Correct Answer: Z.A. Bhutto

Z.A. Bhutto was Pakistan's Foreign Minister during the 1965 war.

Correct Answer: 1968

The Agartala Conspiracy Case was launched in 1968.

Correct Answer: Pakistan People's Party

The Pakistan People's Party was established on 30 November 1967.

Correct Answer: Z.A. Bhutto

Z.A. Bhutto became President of Pakistan on 20 December 1971.

Correct Answer: 150 acres

Under the 1972 Land Reforms, ownership of irrigated land was restricted to 150 acres.

Correct Answer: Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan

Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan is the title of Stanley Wolpert's famous book on Z.A. Bhutto.

Correct Answer: Air Marshall (Reid) Asghar Khan

Air Marshal (Retd.) Asghar Khan was President of the PNA during the 1977 anti-government movement.

Correct Answer: egoistic

Haughty means proud and arrogant, so egoistic is its synonym.

Correct Answer: sympathetic

Humane means kind and compassionate, so sympathetic is its synonym.

Correct Answer: gentle

Benign means kind and gentle, so gentle is its synonym.

Correct Answer: shallow

Superficial means shallow, not deep, so shallow is its synonym.

Correct Answer: artificial

Synthetic means artificially made, so artificial is its synonym.

Correct Answer: doubtful

Dubious means doubtful, so doubtful is its synonym.

Correct Answer: happiness

Felicity means happiness, so happiness is its synonym.

Correct Answer: merry

Jovial means cheerful and merry, so merry is its synonym.

Correct Answer: faultless

Impeccable means faultless, without any flaw.

Correct Answer: contradiction (deny)

A paradox is a statement that looks false but is actually correct, which is a contradiction in appearance.

Correct Answer: eternal

Ephemeral means short-lived, so its antonym is eternal.

Correct Answer: imbalance

Equilibrium means balance, so its antonym is imbalance.

Correct Answer: mellifluous (smooth sounding)

Raucous means noisy and harsh, so its antonym is mellifluous, meaning sweet-sounding.

Correct Answer: unrecover

Recuperate means to recover, so its antonym is unrecover.

Correct Answer: honest

Venal means dishonest and corrupt, so its antonym is honest.

Correct Answer: cover

Bare means uncovered, so its antonym is cover.

Correct Answer: smooth

Coarse means rough in texture, so its antonym is smooth.

Correct Answer: agreement

Dissent means disagreement with an opinion, so its antonym is agreement.

Correct Answer: clean

Illicit means unlawful, so under the Antonyms heading the closest offered opposite is clean; lawful itself is not offered.

Correct Answer: useless

Efficacious means effective and useful, so its antonym is useless.

Correct Answer: 7 : 3

Solving f - 10 = 3(s - 10) and f + 10 = 2(s + 10) gives father 70 and son 30, a ratio of 7 : 3.

Correct Answer: 24

With present ages 5x and 4x, (5x + 3) / (4x + 3) = 11 / 9 gives x = 6, so Ali's present age is 24 years.

Correct Answer: 24

24 has digits whose product is 8, and 24 + 18 = 42, the digits reversed.

Correct Answer: None

Digits summing to 15 and differing by 3 are 9 and 6, giving 96 or 69, neither of which is offered, so None is correct.

Correct Answer: 84

A 1 mm diameter wire has radius 0.05 cm; 66 cubic cm divided by its cross-section gives about 84 metres.

Correct Answer: 2

Between 100 and 300, only 154 and 231 are divisible by both 7 and 11, that is by 77, so there are 2 such numbers.

Correct Answer: 35

The series falls by 21, 19, 17 and then 15, so the next fall is 13 and the next term is 48 - 13 = 35.

Correct Answer: 10202

Each term is the square of the previous term plus 1, so after 101 comes 101 squared plus 1, which is 10202.

Correct Answer: 9

From 4x + 12 = 36, x = 6, so x + 3 = 9.

Correct Answer: 24

From 7x + 10 = 44, 7x = 34, so 7x - 10 = 24.

Correct Answer: Albert Einstein

The Theory of Relativity was presented by Albert Einstein.

Correct Answer: 206

An adult human being has 206 bones in the skeleton.

Correct Answer: 5 liters

A healthy adult male body contains approximately 5 litres of blood.

Correct Answer: 3

The brain is mainly divided into three regions: cerebrum, cerebellum and brainstem.

Correct Answer: Virus

Chicken pox is caused by a virus, the varicella-zoster virus.

Correct Answer: Louis Pastear

The book's answer is Louis Pasteur, whose early cholera-vaccine work is the offered basis; the human cholera vaccine is credited to Haffkine, who is not offered.

Correct Answer: iron

Anaemia is caused by deficiency of iron.

Correct Answer: Alexander Fleming

Penicillin, the first antibiotic, was discovered by Alexander Fleming.

Correct Answer: Ampere

The unit for measuring electric current is the ampere.

Correct Answer: Ascorbic acid

Citrus fruit is best known as a natural source of vitamin C, whose chemical name is ascorbic acid.

Correct Answer: Close friend

An alter ego is a close friend, a second self.

Correct Answer: Confess

To make a clean breast of something is to confess it fully.

Correct Answer: Carefully

He took time over the draft because he wanted to go through it carefully.

Correct Answer: Surmounted

Obstacles in life are to be surmounted, not boggled at.

Correct Answer: Member of labor class

A proletarian is a member of the labouring (working) class.

Correct Answer: Optimistic

A person who looks at the brighter side of things is an optimist.

Correct Answer: Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice was written by Jane Austen.

Correct Answer: The return of the native

The Return of the Native was written by Thomas Hardy, not by Shakespeare.

Correct Answer: M1

The Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway is called the M1.

Correct Answer: Baluchistan

Gwadar Port is being constructed in Baluchistan province.

Correct Answer: Junpur

The book's answer for the oldest forest of Pakistan is Junpur; the claim could not be independently verified.

Correct Answer: Sindh

After Punjab, Sindh is the second most populous province of Pakistan.

Correct Answer: 1955

Pakistan International Airlines was established in 1955.

Correct Answer: Afghanistan

Pakistan has given transit trade facilities to its neighbouring country Afghanistan.

Correct Answer: 80 km

Hatf-1 has an estimated range of 80 km.

Correct Answer: January, 2003

The Ghauri missile was handed over to the Pakistan Army for full operational use in January 2003.

Correct Answer: 800 km

The item is circular as printed — the stem states 800 km and option (D) repeats it — and the book's key answer is retained as printed.

Correct Answer: Hatf II

Hatf-II was among the missiles successfully tested by Pakistan in February 1989.

Correct Answer: 1861

The first railway track in present-day Pakistan, Karachi to Kotri, was laid down in 1861.

Correct Answer: 28 May, 1998

Pakistan conducted its first nuclear explosion at Chagai on 28 May 1998.