Inspector ASF Past Paper 2009 Solved MCQs

Correct Answer: one-sided, shortcomings

A report that praises the plan's strengths but omits its shortcomings is one-sided, and the omitted points are its shortcomings.

Correct Answer: Deliberating

Deliberating on a point means discussing it at length, which fits a speaker spending his time on one point alone.

Correct Answer: Intractable

Mounting unemployment is a serious and intractable problem, meaning one that is hard to solve.

Correct Answer: Despotic

Despotic fits the parallel list of faults in a government described as corrupt and feudal.

Correct Answer: Indispensable

Manpower is indispensable, meaning essential, for converting other resources to mankind's use.

Correct Answer: out

The correct phrasal verb is 'deal out', as in dealing out equal justice to all subordinates.

Correct Answer: for

The correct preposition is 'zealous for', as in being zealous for the popularity of games.

Correct Answer: into

The correct phrasal verb is 'look into', meaning to investigate the matter personally.

Correct Answer: of

The correct phrase is 'divest of', as in divesting one's mind of fear.

Correct Answer: from

The correct phrase is 'prohibited from', as in being prohibited from entering the house.

Correct Answer: art for art's sake

'Art for art's sake' is the slogan of the late-nineteenth-century aesthetic movement.

Correct Answer: pronoun

'One' in 'this is one of the best sellers' is a pronoun standing for a book.

Correct Answer: pronoun

'Who' is a relative pronoun introducing the clause describing the girl.

Correct Answer: verb

'Was circling' is a verb phrase describing what the helicopter was doing.

Correct Answer: adjective

'Famous' is an adjective describing the player Wasim Akram.

Correct Answer: scarcity

Paucity means scarcity, a smallness of supply.

Correct Answer: touchy

Petulant means touchy, easily annoyed.

Correct Answer: powerful

Potent means powerful, having great effect.

Correct Answer: foolish

Quixotic means foolishly idealistic, after Don Quixote.

Correct Answer: release

Emancipate means to release or set free.

Correct Answer: Hilal-i-Imtiaz

Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan was awarded the Hilal-i-Imtiaz by the Government of Pakistan.

Correct Answer: 1979

Abdus Salam won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his work on the unification of forces.

Correct Answer: higher

By the Doppler effect, the pitch of an approaching train's whistle sounds higher.

Correct Answer: Uzair (A.S)

Uzair (A.S) slept for a hundred years and then woke up, as told in the Quran.

Correct Answer: Faiz Ahmad Faiz

Faiz Ahmad Faiz is the Pakistani poet who won the Lenin Peace Prize, in 1962.

Correct Answer: Magna Carta

Magna Carta is called the Bible of the English Constitution in this MCQ tradition.

Correct Answer: Italy

Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy, though he sailed for Spain.

Correct Answer: California

California has the largest number of Electoral College members of any US state.

Correct Answer: North Korea and South Korea

The 38th Parallel is the boundary line between North Korea and South Korea.

Correct Answer: Bajour Agency

Bajaur Agency was the largest agency of FATA by population.

Correct Answer: All of the above

NAM has no constitution, no permanent secretariat, and its Coordinating Bureau is based at the United Nations, so all three statements are true.

Correct Answer: Bandung (Indonesia)

The Non-Aligned Movement traces its origin to the Asia-Africa Conference at Bandung, Indonesia, in 1955.

Correct Answer: Three years

Non-Aligned Movement summits are held every three years.

Correct Answer: Both the above

SOS is popularly expanded as both 'Save Our Ship' and 'Save Our Soul', though it is a distress signal, not an acronym.

Correct Answer: Compressed Natural Gas

CNG stands for Compressed Natural Gas.

Correct Answer: Audit Bureau of Circulations

ABC stands for Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Correct Answer: England and Australia

The Ashes is the cricket trophy contested between England and Australia.

Correct Answer: Imran Khan

Pakistan won the 1992 Cricket World Cup under the captaincy of Imran Khan.

Correct Answer: Yachting

The America Cup is a yachting trophy.

Correct Answer: Golf

The Walker Cup is a golf trophy.

Correct Answer: Sri Lanka and India

Adam's Bridge is the chain of tiny islands between India and Sri Lanka.

Correct Answer: Holland

The States General is the parliament of the Netherlands (Holland).

Correct Answer: Oxus river

The Oxus (Amu Darya) river separates Afghanistan from Central Asia.

Correct Answer: 0.026 cubic meter

The book keys 0.026 cubic metres as Pakistan's per capita consumption of wood.

Correct Answer: Salman Khurshid

'Beyond Terrorism: New Hope for Kashmir' was written by Salman Khurshid.

Correct Answer: 60%

The book keys a literacy rate of 60% for Pakistan at the paper's time.

Correct Answer: Karachi and Kotri

Pakistan's first railway track was established between Karachi and Kotri.

Correct Answer: Potohar Pleatue

The Soan and Haro rivers are located on the Potohar Plateau.

Correct Answer: Maryland

Camp David, the US presidential summer resort, is situated in Maryland.

Correct Answer: Jerusalem

Al-Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem.

Correct Answer: 24

With each side divided into 4, the cubes with exactly one face painted are 6 x (4-2)^2 = 24.

Correct Answer: 1 km

With perimeter 6 km, length plus breadth is 3 km, and with area 2 sq km the sides are 2 km and 1 km, a difference of 1 km.

Correct Answer: Rs.525

The fan's cost price is 475 / 0.95 = Rs. 500, so a 5% gain gives a selling price of Rs. 525.

Correct Answer: Rs.650

If Rs. 585 is 90% of the bill, the bill is 585 / 0.90 = Rs. 650.

Correct Answer: 15 litres

Price times consumption is constant at 90, so at Rs. 6.0 per litre the consumption is 90 / 6 = 15 litres.

Correct Answer: 12:11

Equal totals give basic pays in the ratio 1.80 : 1.65, which simplifies to 12 : 11.

Correct Answer: 336

The series follows n^3 - n: 3^3-3, 4^3-4, 5^3-5, 6^3-6, so the next term is 7^3-7 = 336.

Correct Answer: 7/3

Filling 3/7 of the vessel in 1 minute means the whole vessel takes 7/3 minutes.

Correct Answer: 17%

Twenty commercials of 30 seconds total 600 seconds, or 10 minutes, which is about 17% of an hour.

Correct Answer: y = 1/x

The book keys the reciprocal curve y = 1/x for the given curve.

Correct Answer: 37

The series is triangular numbers 0, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36, 45, so 37 does not fit and should be 36.

Correct Answer: Rs. 200

At 10% profit on cost, cost price = 220 / 1.10 = Rs. 200.

Correct Answer: 22 days

Ten men in 20 days is 200 man-days, so 9 men take 200 / 9 = 22.22 days, closest to 22 days among the options.

Correct Answer: 1 unit

The inradius of an equilateral triangle is side x root 3 / 6, so for side 2 root 3 it is 1 unit.

Correct Answer: 2/50 x 1/49

After two aces are removed, 2 aces remain among 50 cards, so the probability the next two are aces is (2/50) x (1/49).

Correct Answer: 15

Between -11 and 11 there are 21 integers, of which 6 are divisible by neither 2 nor 3, leaving 15 terrific numbers.

Correct Answer: 24

18 is 75% of 24, since 24 x 0.75 = 18.

Correct Answer: 3 m

The longest pole that fits in a cube is its space diagonal, side x root 3, which for side root 3 m is 3 m.

Correct Answer: 48 kmph

Average speed for equal halves at 40 and 60 km/h is 2 x 40 x 60 / (40 + 60) = 48 km/h.

Correct Answer: 2x10-3 mm

Slit spacing is 1 / 500 mm, which equals 2 x 10^-3 mm.

Correct Answer: Tetanus

Lock-jaw is the common name for tetanus.

Correct Answer: Teeth

Pyorrhoea is a disease of the teeth and gums.

Correct Answer: Ring worm infestation

Ringworm infestation is caused by a fungus, unlike the viral and parasitic diseases offered.

Correct Answer: Tularemia

The book keys tularemia for the disease that is not water-borne; cholera and typhoid are water-borne.

Correct Answer: Bronchitis

Bronchitis is a respiratory disease caused by air pollution among the options.

Correct Answer: Heart attack

Myocardial infarction is a heart attack.

Correct Answer: Rabies

The book keys rabies for the disease that is not vector-borne; malaria and sleeping sickness are insect-vector-borne.

Correct Answer: Embolism

Blockage of a blood vessel by a blood clot is an embolism.

Correct Answer: Leukemia

Leukemia is the disease of the bone marrow and the blood-forming tissues.

Correct Answer: Epilepsy

Epilepsy concerns the brain, not the lungs, unlike respiration, pneumonia and pulmonary tuberculosis.

Correct Answer: 1846

The British sold Kashmir to Gulab Singh in 1846 under the Treaty of Amritsar.

Correct Answer: Humayun

Humayun, the Mughal emperor, died after a sudden fall from a staircase.

Correct Answer: 1849

The East India Company occupied Punjab in 1849, after the Second Anglo-Sikh War.

Correct Answer: 1707 A. D.

Aurangzeb ruled from 1659 A.D. until his death in 1707 A.D.

Correct Answer: Vanisttart

Henry Vansittart was Governor of Bengal from 1760 to 1765.

Correct Answer: 1498

Vasco da Gama reached India in 1498.

Correct Answer: Sher Shah Suri

The rupia coin was first issued by Sher Shah Suri.

Correct Answer: 1582

Akbar founded Din-e-Ilahi in 1582.

Correct Answer: 1600

The East India Company was established in 1600.

Correct Answer: Jahangir

Jahangir was the first Mughal emperor to allow the British to establish trade links with India.

Correct Answer: Hazrat Abdullah bin Ariqat (R.A)

Abdullah bin Ariqat was the guide appointed for the Hijrat-e-Madinah.

Correct Answer: Abdur Rehman Ibni Khaldoon

Ibn Khaldun (Abdur Rehman Ibn Khaldoon) was a historian, jurist, philosopher and politician.

Correct Answer: Four Hijree

The book keys four Hijri for the revelation of the law of inheritance.

Correct Answer: Hazrat Khalid bin Waleed (R.A)

Khalid bin Walid (R.A) was the last commander in chief at Ghazwa-e-Mautah, taking command after the earlier commanders were martyred.

Correct Answer: Imam Malik

Imam Dar ul Hijrat, the Imam of the abode of migration, is the title of Imam Malik.

Correct Answer: Four times

The name Muhammad is mentioned four times in the Quran.

Correct Answer: Hazrat Shoaib (AS)

Khateeb-ul-Anbia, the orator of the prophets, is the title of Hazrat Shoaib (AS).

Correct Answer: Abdullah bin Masud (RA)

The book keys Abdullah bin Masud (RA) as the custodian of Bait-ul-Mal appointed under Hazrat Umar (RA).

Correct Answer: Poverty

An effective Zakat system can ensure the elimination of poverty.

Correct Answer: Hazrat Zaid (RA)

Hazrat Zaid (RA) is the only companion named in a verse of the Holy Quran.