FPSC · FIA · 2008
Solved FPSC Deputy Director (FIA) past paper 2008 — 102 MCQs with verified answers and explanations. Free online practice for FPSC, PPSC, NTS and all one-paper exams. Covers Pakistan Studies, Geography, English.
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The FPSC Deputy Director (FIA) past paper from 2008 (Model Paper 28) contains 102 solved MCQs covering Pakistan Studies, Geography, English (antonyms and synonyms), Everyday Science, Mathematics, Current Affairs and History, with verified answers and a factual explanation for every question. Four printed key answers were corrected to the standard answer, including Sir Syed's knighthood year, the digit-6 count, the NPT expansion and the opposite of a superficial interpretation.
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Subject 1
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Correct Answer: Selenium
Selenium is a semiconductor, so unlike sulphur and phosphorus it is not simply a poor conductor of electricity.
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Correct Answer: Crookes glass
Crookes glass contains cerium oxide, which absorbs ultraviolet rays.
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Correct Answer: Cyclonite
RDX is also known as cyclonite, its chemical name cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine.
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Correct Answer: Leaf
In the pitcher plant the leaf lamina is modified into the pitcher.
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Correct Answer: Doppler Effect
A rise in pitch as a sound source approaches and a fall as it recedes is the Doppler Effect.
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Correct Answer: Laparoscopic surgery
By 2002 laparoscopic cholecystectomy was the most common gall bladder operation.
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Correct Answer: Mountain of ice in sea
An iceberg is a mountain of ice floating in the sea.
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Correct Answer: Oxygen
Haemoglobin in the blood carries and absorbs oxygen.
Subject 2
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Correct Answer: Ukraine
Ukraine is not a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization; Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are.
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Correct Answer: Pakistan
The Memogate scandal concerned Pakistan in 2011-2012.
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Correct Answer: Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin is the President of Russia named by the printed key; the question is era-dependent, since Dmitry Medvedev held the office from 2008 to 2012.
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Correct Answer: 25th January 2005
Hamas won the Palestinian legislative election on 25 January 2006; the printed key's 25 January 2005 has the right date but the wrong year.
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Correct Answer: 10th Sept. 1960
The UN General Assembly adopted the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty on 10 September 1996; none of the printed dates is correct.
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Correct Answer: July 1997
Britain handed Hong Kong over to China on 1 July 1997.
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Correct Answer: Pakistan
Pakistan was readmitted to the Commonwealth in 2008 after its 2007 suspension.
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Correct Answer: Non-Proliferation Treaty
NPT stands for the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the 1968 nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
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Correct Answer: CTBT
The printed key names the CTBT for the treaty offering a face-saving device to the P-5 and G-8 countries.
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Correct Answer: Jan 1, 2007
The printed key gives 1 January 2007 for Pakistan's entry to the IAEA Board of Governors.
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Correct Answer: 30 parties
The printed key gives 30 parties for the All Parties Hurriyat Conference alliance; published counts vary by source and date.
Subject 3
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Correct Answer: Pakistan and India
The Siachen glacier is claimed by both Pakistan and India.
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Correct Answer: Afghanistan
Afghanistan is landlocked; Iran, India and China all have sea coasts.
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Correct Answer: Daytona Beach
Daytona Beach is on Florida's Atlantic coast, not its Emerald Coast on the Gulf.
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Correct Answer: Queensland
The Sunshine Coast is in Queensland, Australia.
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Correct Answer: Barbary Coast
Barbary Coast names both the North African coast and the old San Francisco Bay district.
Correct Answer: Central America
The Mosquito Coast lies on the Caribbean coast of Central America.
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Correct Answer: Khartoum
Khartoum is the capital of Sudan.
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Correct Answer: Gourde
The currency of Haiti is the gourde.
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Correct Answer: Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
London, Lisbon and Accra share Greenwich Mean Time, while Addis Ababa is three hours ahead.
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Correct Answer: Nepal
Mount Everest stands on the Nepal-China border, with its summit in Nepal.
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Correct Answer: Himalaya
The Dhaulagiri range is in the Himalayas of Nepal.
Correct Answer: Himalaya
Nanga Parbat is in the Himalayas of Pakistan.
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Correct Answer: Grand Central Terminal, New York
Grand Central Terminal in New York is the world's largest railway station by number of platforms.
Correct Answer: New York
The world's largest railway station, Grand Central Terminal, is in New York.
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Correct Answer: Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is the smallest of the seas offered, smaller than the Red Sea, the North Sea and the Mediterranean.
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Correct Answer: Tallest mountains
The printed key gives tallest mountains for the stem's 'Session Mountains' term, retained as printed.
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Correct Answer: United Arab Emirates
The Trucial Coast is the former name of the United Arab Emirates' territory, the Trucial States.
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Correct Answer: Germany
Germany originally colonized Namibia as German South West Africa.
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Correct Answer: Crescent City
New Orleans is commonly nicknamed the Crescent City, from the crescent bend of the Mississippi.
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Correct Answer: Baluchistan
The Dasht River is in Balochistan, flowing through Kech district.
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Correct Answer: Pamir Plateau (Tibat)
The printed key names the Pamir Plateau for the world's highest plateau; the Tibetan Plateau is the standard answer, and the option itself conflates the two.
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Correct Answer: Jacobabad
PAF Base Shahbaz is at Jacobabad in Sindh.
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Correct Answer: 1888
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan was knighted in 1888, not 1885 as the printed key has it.
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Correct Answer: Sir Sayyed Ahmad Khan
Loyal Mohammedans of India was written by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan.
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Correct Answer: 1875
Sir Syed founded the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental High School at Aligarh in 1875.
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Correct Answer: Chenab
The Baglihar Dam is built on the Chenab river in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.
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Correct Answer: Aurangzeb
The printed key names Sardar Aurangzeb Khan among the supporters of the Lahore Resolution.
Correct Answer: Balochistan
Qazi Muhammad Isa, who supported the Lahore Resolution, came from Balochistan.
Correct Answer: Sir Abdullah Haroon
Sir Abdullah Haroon was the Sindhi leader who supported the Pakistan Resolution from Sindh.
Correct Answer: Punjab
Maulana Zafar Ali Khan, who supported the Pakistan Resolution, came from Punjab.
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Correct Answer: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
Shabbir Ahmad Usmani founded the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam in 1945.
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Correct Answer: Boundary Commission
The printed key names the Boundary Commission for Jinnah's demand for three British Law Lords as members.
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Correct Answer: 895 Km
The printed key gives 895 km for the Gwadar Motorway, retained here as a key-only figure.
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Correct Answer: 325 MW
Chashma Nuclear Power Plant I, built with Chinese help, produces 325 MW.
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Correct Answer: 10
The printed key gives 10 Muslim-majority districts out of the 14 districts of Jammu and Kashmir as then counted.
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Correct Answer: 80%
The printed key gives 80% for the Muslim share in Jammu and Kashmir, retained as an era figure; the 2011 census share for the former state was about 68%.
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Correct Answer: Omer Abdullah
Omar Abdullah was chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 2009 to 2015.
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Correct Answer: 1951
The first general polls in Kashmir were held in 1951, for the Jammu and Kashmir Constituent Assembly.
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Correct Answer: April 1993
The All Parties Hurriyat Conference was founded in Kashmir in 1993.
Correct Answer: Syed Ali Geelani
Syed Ali Geelani chaired the Geelani faction of the APHC after its 2003 split.
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Correct Answer: 27th Oct
Kashmir Black Day is observed on 27 October, marking the 1947 landing of Indian troops in Kashmir.
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Correct Answer: Feb 5
Kashmir Solidarity Day is observed on 5 February every year.
Subject 5
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Correct Answer: Prime Minister of Finland
Paavo Lipponen was Prime Minister of Finland from 1995 to 2003.
Correct Answer: Prime Minister of Poland
Leszek Miller was Prime Minister of Poland from 2001 to 2004.
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Correct Answer: Order of Al Rafidhain
The Order of Al Rafidhain (Order of the Two Rivers) is Iraq's highest military award.
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Correct Answer: 1789
The French Revolution began in 1789, with the storming of the Bastille on 14 July.
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Correct Answer: July 4
The United States celebrates Independence Day on 4 July every year.
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Correct Answer: Mu'awiya (RA)
Mu'awiya (RA) founded the Umayyad dynasty in 661.
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Correct Answer: World War I
The USA, UK, France, Italy and Japan were the five great powers of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference after World War I.
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Correct Answer: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The quotation is properly attributed to Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, who is not among the options, so the key's answer is retained with this note.
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Correct Answer: Wimbledon
Wimbledon is the tennis tournament played on natural grass courts.
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Correct Answer: France
France, under Ferdinand de Lesseps, started construction of the Panama Canal in 1881.
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Correct Answer: Peter Hurkos
Peter Hurkos claimed his psychic abilities began after a head injury from falling off a ladder.
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Correct Answer: A pair of Aces and Eights
A Dead Man's Hand in poker is a pair of aces and a pair of eights, the hand Wild Bill Hickok held when killed.
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Correct Answer: Real Estate
Donald Trump's father Fred Trump made his fortune in real estate.
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Correct Answer: a type of sauce
Bearnaise is a French sauce made with clarified butter, egg yolks, tarragon and shallots.
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Correct Answer: Phineas Taylor
P.T. Barnum's initials stand for Phineas Taylor.
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Correct Answer: The Rubicon
Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC, starting the Roman civil war.
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Correct Answer: Ford Motor Company
Robert McNamara was president of the Ford Motor Company before becoming US Secretary of Defense.
Subject 6
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Correct Answer: 10 days
400 children for 12 days is 4,800 child-days, which lasts 480 children 10 days.
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Correct Answer: 28
27 + 28 = 55, so the larger of the two consecutive numbers is 28.
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Correct Answer: 6 Km
12 km north and 18 km south net to 6 km south, while 15 km east and 15 km west cancel, so the traveller is 6 km from the start.
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Correct Answer: 140
Counting every occurrence of the digit 6 from 501 to 700 gives 100 in the hundreds place, 20 in the tens place and 20 in the units place, 140 in all.
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Correct Answer: Rs.70
Selling for Rs. 370 what cost Rs. 300 gives a profit of Rs. 70.
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Correct Answer: 49
XLIX in Roman numerals is 49: 50 minus 10 plus 9.
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Correct Answer: Macbeth
Banquo and Fleance are characters in Shakespeare's Macbeth.
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Correct Answer: profound
The opposite of superficial knowledge is profound knowledge.
Correct Answer: succinct
The opposite of a verbose style of writing is a succinct one.
Correct Answer: gruff
The opposite of smooth manners is gruff manners, as the key records; rough is also plausible.
Correct Answer: frugal
The opposite of a lavish party is a frugal one.
Correct Answer: profound
The opposite of a superficial interpretation is a profound one, not a difficult one as the key has it.
Correct Answer: withhold
The opposite of communicating a date to everyone is withholding it.
Correct Answer: unattractive
The opposite of a comely young girl is an unattractive one.
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Correct Answer: crafty
Vulpine means fox-like, hence crafty.
Correct Answer: futile
An abortive attempt is a futile one, ending in failure.
Correct Answer: dependable
A reliable friend is a dependable one.
Correct Answer: quickening
Nimble movements are quick, quickening movements, as the key records; lively is also close.
Correct Answer: confusion
A welter of knowledge is a confused mass of it.
Correct Answer: strange
An eerie situation is a strange, unsettling one.
Correct Answer: unavoidable
Inevitable means unavoidable, certain to happen.
Correct Answer: contaminated
Tainted food is contaminated food.
Correct Answer: flippantly humorous
Facetious remarks are flippantly humorous ones, not to be taken seriously.
Correct Answer: disappointed
To be chagrined is to be disappointed, as the key records; annoyed is also close.
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Verified from the official paper / published solved paper — every answer rechecked before publishing.
Questions
102 questions, each with a verified answer and a factual explanation. The paper prints two numbers twice (43 and 55), so its 102 items are renumbered sequentially.
Pakistan Studies (including Kashmir affairs), Geography, English (antonyms and synonyms), Everyday Science, Mathematics, Current Affairs, General Knowledge and History.
Yes. Every answer was checked against the book's printed Answer Key on page 118 and the standard fact. Four printed answers were corrected to the standard answer (Sir Syed's knighthood in 1888, the digit-6 count of 140, NPT as the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and profound as the opposite of superficial) and 21 further items are retained at the printed answer with a note.
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