Intelligence Bureau Past Paper 2009 Solved MCQs

Correct Answer: California

Death Valley lies in eastern California, in the Mojave Desert near the Nevada border.

Correct Answer: Kanchenjunga

After Everest and K2, Kangchenjunga is the world's third highest peak.

Correct Answer: January

The Earth is nearest the Sun, at perihelion, in early January.

Correct Answer: Volga

The Volga is the longest river in Europe.

Correct Answer: Tropic of Cancer

On 21 June the Sun is vertically overhead the Tropic of Cancer.

Correct Answer: Turkey

The Altinkaya dam stands in Turkey, on the Kizilirmak river.

Correct Answer: Albania

Albania lies in south-eastern Europe, on the Balkan peninsula.

Correct Answer: Australia

Australia is the smallest continent by area.

Correct Answer: Antarctica

Antarctica is the icy continent, almost entirely covered by ice.

Correct Answer: Siberian

Coniferous forests are found in the Siberian type of climate, cold with long winters.

Correct Answer: 170 km

The Suez Canal's classic length is about 170 km; after the 2015 expansion it is about 193 km.

Correct Answer: Quetta and Chaman

The Khojak Pass lies between Quetta and Chaman, on the road to the Afghan border.

Correct Answer: Pacific Ocean

Chile has its long shore along the Pacific Ocean, on South America's west coast.

Correct Answer: Access time

Access time is the time a computer takes to locate and transfer data.

Correct Answer: Keyboard

A keyboard encodes characters by the depression of its keys.

Correct Answer: Memory

Memory is the area inside a computer where data and instructions are stored for use.

Correct Answer: Chip

A chip is an extremely small piece of silicon carrying integrated circuits.

Correct Answer: H.H. Aiken

Howard H. Aiken developed the Harvard Mark I, an early digital computer.

Correct Answer: Brain

The printed answer names Brain for the first-generation computer, retained as a key-only item.

Correct Answer: Alloy

An alloy is a mixture of two or more metals, such as brass or bronze.

Correct Answer: 8 min 15 sec

Sunlight takes about 8 minutes to travel from the Sun to the Earth.

Correct Answer: Spiral

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, with arms winding around its centre.

Correct Answer: Pluto

Pluto was the coldest planet of the solar system as classified in 2009; today Neptune holds that place among the planets.

Correct Answer: Troposphere

The troposphere is the lowest layer of the atmosphere, nearest the Earth.

Correct Answer: Laws of motion and Gravitation

Isaac Newton gave the laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation.

Correct Answer: Radius

The radius is a bone of the forearm, in the arm.

Correct Answer: Atlas

The atlas is the first cervical vertebra, the bone of the neck that supports the skull.

Correct Answer: Brain

The printed answer names the brain as least susceptible to harmful radiations, retained as a key-only item.

Correct Answer: Biceps

The biceps femoris is a muscle of the thigh, so biceps is the thigh muscle here.

Correct Answer: Pain

An analgesic is taken to relieve pain.

Correct Answer: Removal of urea and other nitrogenous wastes from blood

The kidneys' key function is removing urea and other nitrogenous wastes from the blood.

Correct Answer: 46

A human body cell contains 46 chromosomes, in 23 pairs.

Correct Answer: 46

A human body cell contains 46 chromosomes, as in item 67.

Correct Answer: Bangladesh

BIMAN is the national airline of Bangladesh.

Correct Answer: Rome

The Colosseum, the great Roman amphitheatre, was built in Rome.

Correct Answer: Jabir bin Hayyan

Jabir bin Hayyan wrote on alchemy, and is called the father of chemistry.

Correct Answer: Abu Ali Sina

Al Qanun Fi Tib, the Canon of Medicine, was written by Abu Ali Sina (Avicenna).

Correct Answer: 22 years

If the son is x, then x + 26 = 2(x + 2), so x = 22 years.

Correct Answer: 18 years

Six years ago Sadaf was 12 and Khalid 10, so Sadaf is 18 now and will be 22 in four years against Khalid's 20, a ratio of 11:10.

Correct Answer: 20 years

Six years ago the son was 8 and the father 40, five times 8; today the son is 14, so after six years he will be 20.

Correct Answer: Rs.1123.60

Rs.1000 at 12 percent compounded half-yearly becomes 1000 x 1.06 x 1.06 = Rs.1123.60 after one year.

Correct Answer: 12

The printed answer is 12, retained with a note because the stem's constraints do not determine a unique number.

Correct Answer: 342

The series falls by 42, then 40, so the next fall is 38, giving 380 - 38 = 342, then 306.

Correct Answer: 4

Ten percent of 20 is 2 and twenty percent of 10 is 2, so the total is 4.

Correct Answer: 84.5

Outer lateral area 40pi plus inner lateral area 25pi plus the two annulus ends 19.5pi gives 84.5pi, so k is 84.5.

Correct Answer: 20

Thirty children in 16 columns make 480 children, and 480 divided by 24 gives 20 columns.

Correct Answer: 46

For the number 46, the digits differ by 2, and 10 x 46 = 460 exceeds 5 x (64 + 10) = 370 by 90.

Correct Answer: 32

If each sex numbered 16, then after 8 girls left, 16 boys stood against 8 girls, twice as many, so the initial total was 32.

Correct Answer: 5 cm

With a perimeter of 30 cm, length plus width is 15 cm, so the width is 15 - 10 = 5 cm.

Correct Answer: 114

With a perimeter of 50 m, length plus breadth is 25 m, so the breadth is 6 m and the length 19 m, giving an area of 114 square metres.

Correct Answer: 48 cm²

A rectangle 16 cm by 3 cm has an area of 48 square centimetres.

Correct Answer: It is not possible to compare A and B as the data provided is inadequate

The printed conclusion is retained: the garbled data are inadequate to compare A and B.

Correct Answer: 5000

5448 rounded to the nearest thousand is 5000, since 448 is below 500.

Correct Answer: 0.0026

Dividing 0.26 by 100 moves the decimal point two places left, giving 0.0026.

Correct Answer: 7/1339

From two packs there are 8 Jacks in 104 cards, so the probability of two Jacks in succession is (8/104) x (7/103) = 7/1339.

Correct Answer: 250 Km

Q and P are 500 km apart by Pythagoras (300-400-500), so the midpoint R is 250 km from Q.

Correct Answer: Ammunition Depot

The OJRI Camp at Rawalpindi was an ammunition depot, destroyed in the 1988 explosion.

Correct Answer: 32.5 percent

According to the 1998 census, 32.5 percent of Pakistan's population lived in urban areas.

Correct Answer: January, 2003

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

Correct Answer: Hazrat Usman (RA)

Hazrat Usman (RA) had the Quranic verses collected into one standard volume, the Mushaf.

Correct Answer: 114

The Holy Quran contains 114 Surahs.

Correct Answer: Predictor

Education is a strong predictor of poverty status: higher attainment predicts a lower chance of poverty.

Correct Answer: Revealed

The study revealed that the largest group of street children in Karachi work as coolies.

Correct Answer: Maintain

The Earth maintains a balance between the energy it receives from the Sun and the energy it radiates back to space.

Correct Answer: Impacts

Climate change is already having impacts on animal and plant species across the United States.

Correct Answer: Associated

Higher educational attainment of the household head is associated with a lower probability of entering poverty.

Correct Answer: Pretended sadness

Crocodile tears are pretended sadness, not real grief.

Correct Answer: Unfeelingly

To do something in cold blood is to do it unfeelingly, without pity.

Correct Answer: Cheerless and depressed

To be in the blues is to be cheerless and depressed.

Correct Answer: To give great importance to trifles

To make a mountain of a molehill is to give great importance to trifles.

Correct Answer: In danger

When honour is at stake, it is in danger.

Correct Answer: Caught in the act of committing the crime

To be caught red handed is to be caught in the act of committing the crime.

Correct Answer: Performed a sad role

To cut a sad figure is to perform a sad role, making a poor impression.

Correct Answer: Unduly under control

To keep someone under your thumb is to keep them unduly under control.

Correct Answer: I am angry

To have a bone to pick with someone is to have a grievance against them, here rendered as being angry.

Correct Answer: Cheated

To wipe someone's nose is to cheat them.

Correct Answer: Detachment and seclusion

An ivory tower stands for detachment and seclusion from real life.

Correct Answer: Perplexed

To be at sea is to be perplexed, not knowing what course to take.

Correct Answer: Dragging something too far

Flogging a dead horse means dragging something too far, past any useful point.

Correct Answer: To take for granted

To beg the question is to take for granted the very point that needs proving.

Correct Answer: To be in a good mood

To keep one's temper is to stay in a good mood, remaining calm.