Inspector ASF Past Paper 2011 Solved MCQs

Correct Answer: Decomposers

Decomposers break down dead organisms and return their nutrients to the environment.

Correct Answer: An electric cell

An electric cell is a device, not a living cell, so it has no biological nucleus; human and plant cells do, and an atom has a central nucleus.

Correct Answer: Nerve cell

The nerve cell is the longest cell in the human body, the textbook answer for its largest cell.

Correct Answer: 206

An adult human skeleton has approximately 206 bones.

Correct Answer: Thoracic cavity

The lungs lie in the thoracic cavity of the chest.

Correct Answer: Insulin

The pancreas secretes insulin, which regulates blood sugar.

Correct Answer: Cortex

Memory is seated in the cerebral cortex, the outer layer of the brain.

Correct Answer: Epidermis

The epidermis is the outermost layer of the skin.

Correct Answer: Pigeons

Darwin bred fancy pigeons in his experiments on variation and selection.

Correct Answer: Leg

The tibia is the shin bone of the leg.

Correct Answer: Tissue taken from a living body

A biopsy examines tissue taken from a living body.

Correct Answer: Insects

Entomology is the science of insects.

Correct Answer: Ethology

Ethology is the study of animal behaviour.

Correct Answer: Aerodynamics

Aerodynamics studies the forces acting on bodies moving through the air.

Correct Answer: Whooping cough

The DPT triple antigen vaccine protects against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus.

Correct Answer: Anemia

Anemia reduces the blood's capacity to carry oxygen to the tissues; hemophilia is a clotting disorder, not an oxygen-delivery defect.

Correct Answer: Neeli-Ravi Buffalo

The Neeli-Ravi buffalo is a breed developed by hybridization and selective breeding.

Correct Answer: Pupa

The pupa is the inactive stage of an insect's life cycle, spent inside a covering.

Correct Answer: Carbon monoxide

Carbon monoxide is the most toxic of the gases offered because it binds haemoglobin far more strongly than oxygen does.

Correct Answer: Green

The common form of colour blindness confuses red with green.

Correct Answer: Theory of photoelectric effect

Einstein's Nobel Prize was awarded for his theory of the photoelectric effect, not for relativity.

Correct Answer: Faisalabad

Faisalabad, Pakistan's textile city, is called the Manchester of Pakistan.

Correct Answer: Lebanon

Khalde is the airport area serving Beirut, in Lebanon.

Correct Answer: Indus

The Indus is the longest river of Pakistan.

Correct Answer: China

The Saindak copper, silver and gold project was developed with Chinese help.

Correct Answer: Thar coal deposits

The Thar coalfield holds Pakistan's biggest coal deposits.

Correct Answer: Thar

The Thar Desert extends across Pakistan and India.

Correct Answer: Vietnam

The Paracel Islands are disputed between China and Vietnam.

Correct Answer: 3.6

The book puts Pakistan's forest cover at 3.6% of its total territorial area.

Correct Answer: Cockpit of Europe

Belgium is called the Cockpit of Europe because so many European battles were fought there.

Correct Answer: Germany

The Bundesrat is the upper house of Germany's parliament.

Correct Answer: Hong Kong

Cathay Pacific is the airline of Hong Kong.

Correct Answer: DPA

DPA (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) is Germany's news agency.

Correct Answer: Russia

Itar-Tass (TASS) is Russia's news agency.

Correct Answer: 1924

The first Winter Olympic Games were held at Chamonix in 1924.

Correct Answer: Sachin Tendulkar

At the 2011 exam date, Sachin Tendulkar's 200 not out (2010) was the highest individual ODI score.

Correct Answer: Lahore

The Lahore Museum is Pakistan's largest museum.

Correct Answer: Medicine-Physiology

The book keys Medicine-Physiology as the discipline in which the United States holds the largest Nobel tally.

Correct Answer: Britain

MI6 is Britain's Secret Intelligence Service.

Correct Answer: 15 October

White Cane Day is observed on 15 October every year.

Correct Answer: Zambia

Zambia was formerly Northern Rhodesia.

Correct Answer: Madagascar

Malagasy was the name of the Republic of Madagascar.

Correct Answer: Japan

Japan's Kimigayo has the world's oldest national anthem lyrics.

Correct Answer: Jordan

Petra, a New Seven Wonder, is located in Jordan.

Correct Answer: Moscow

The book keys Moscow as the world's largest subway system.

Correct Answer: Aero Asia Airline

Aero Asia, launched in 1993, is Pakistan's first private airline.

Correct Answer: India

India publishes the largest number of newspapers in the world.

Correct Answer: Traveler

Marco Polo was a famous traveller.

Correct Answer: China

China first introduced paper currency in the world, under the Song dynasty.

Correct Answer: Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary is the standard textbook answer as the first comprehensive English dictionary.

Correct Answer: Jane Taylor

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star was written by Jane Taylor.

Correct Answer: Stamp collection

Philately is the collection and study of stamps.

Correct Answer: Ron Suskind

The Way of the World (2008) was written by Ron Suskind.

Correct Answer: Sheikh Saadi

Sheikh Saadi wrote the Bustan and the Gulistan.

Correct Answer: bone : rib

An organ's example is the kidney, just as a bone's example is the rib.

Correct Answer: verify : doubtfulness

To purify is to remove imperfection, just as to verify is to remove doubtfulness.

Correct Answer: colander : drain

A centrifuge separates, just as a colander drains.

Correct Answer: referee : whistle

A judge uses a gavel, just as a referee uses a whistle.

Correct Answer: sawdust : woodcutting

Soot is the by-product of combustion, just as sawdust is the by-product of woodcutting.

Correct Answer: taunt : challenge

To mock is a derisive form of imitation, just as to taunt is a challenging form.

Correct Answer: glib : profundity

Maladroit means lacking skill, just as glib means lacking profundity.

Correct Answer: platitude : banal

Equivocation is ambiguous speech, just as a platitude is banal speech.

Correct Answer: ready : wit

A volatile temper is quick to change, just as ready wit is quick in expression.

Correct Answer: firm

The opposite of limp is firm.

Correct Answer: local

The opposite of global is local.

Correct Answer: reduction in substance caused by erosion

Accretion is growth by accumulation, whose opposite is reduction in substance caused by erosion.

Correct Answer: earn

To cadge is to beg, whose opposite is to earn.

Correct Answer: espouse

To abjure is to renounce, whose opposite is to espouse.

Correct Answer: inconstancy

The opposite of stability is inconstancy.

Correct Answer: attribute guilt

To exculpate is to clear of blame, whose opposite is to attribute guilt.

Correct Answer: narrow

The opposite of dilate is narrow.

Correct Answer: aggravate grief

To console is to comfort grief, whose opposite is to aggravate grief.

Correct Answer: valid

Specious means plausible but false, whose opposite is valid.

Correct Answer: extraordinary

Quotidian means daily and ordinary, whose opposite is extraordinary.

Correct Answer: public

Civil relates to citizens and the public.

Correct Answer: fellow

A peer is a fellow, an equal.

Correct Answer: disaster

A fiasco is a disaster, a complete failure.

Correct Answer: gorge

A chasm is a gorge, a deep fissure.

Correct Answer: mastery

Expertise is mastery of a subject.

Correct Answer: absurd

Outlandish means bizarre, or absurd.

Correct Answer: crave

To pine is to crave, to long for something.

Correct Answer: feat

An exploit is a feat, a notable deed.

Correct Answer: 2011

Under the Status of Forces Agreement, the United States completed its troop withdrawal from Iraq by the end of 2011.

Correct Answer: Twelve years

Yasser Arafat headed the Palestinian Authority from the mid-1990s until 2004, the period the book counts as almost twelve years.

Correct Answer: 1979

Dr Abdus Salam received the Nobel Prize in 1979.

Correct Answer: Physics

Dr Abdus Salam shared the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Correct Answer: Punjab University

The University of the Punjab is Pakistan's largest university.

Correct Answer: 113

In the 1945-46 elections the Bengal Muslim League won 113 of the 119 Muslim seats.

Correct Answer: 1935

Sindh was separated from Bombay under the Government of India Act 1935, taking effect in 1936.

Correct Answer: 10th August 1947

The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan first met on 10 August 1947.

Correct Answer: 1947

The book keys 1947 for the creation of the Pakistan Fund.

Correct Answer: June 1948

On 20 February 1947 Attlee announced that power would be transferred by June 1948.

Correct Answer: Sarwar

Captain Muhammad Sarwar was the first recipient of the Nishan-e-Haider.

Correct Answer: 1955

The One Unit integration of West Pakistan was made in 1955.

Correct Answer: Hafiz Jalandhri

Hafiz Jalandhari wrote the lyrics of Pakistan's national anthem.

Correct Answer: Ch. Muhammad Ali

Chaudhry Muhammad Ali was Prime Minister when the 1956 Constitution was framed.

Correct Answer: Zia ul Haq

The book keys Zia ul Haq as the Pakistani leader selected by the Muslim world to address the United Nations.

Correct Answer: December 1947

India decided in December 1947 to refer the Kashmir dispute to the United Nations, filing its complaint on 1 January 1948.

Correct Answer: Al Mutasim Billah

The book keys Al Mutasim Billah as the caliph whose death ended the glory of the Abbasids.

Correct Answer: Hazrat Salih (AS)

The nation of Samood (Thamud) was preached to by Hazrat Salih (AS).