Patrol Officer Motorways Police Past Paper 2010 Solved MCQs

Correct Answer: 10 A.H.

The Holy Prophet (PBUH) performed Hajj in 10 A.H., the Farewell Pilgrimage.

Correct Answer: Al Tauba

Surah Al-Tauba (At-Tawbah) is the only surah that does not begin with Bismillah.

Correct Answer: 27

The total number of Ghazwas, battles led by the Prophet himself, is 27 in the standard count.

Correct Answer: 622 AD.

The migration to Madina took place in 622 A.D.

Correct Answer: 3 A.H.

The Battle of Uhud took place in 3 A.H.

Correct Answer: 100 or more Ayahs

Al-Maeen (Al-Mi'in) are the surahs with 100 or more Ayahs.

Correct Answer: 40 Ahadith

Arbaeen is the book of Hadith containing 40 Ahadith.

Correct Answer: Fiqh Hanafi

Fatawa Qadi Khan is a Hanafi fiqh work, so the Fatwa belongs to Fiqh Hanafi.

Correct Answer: Fay

The Fadak garden was bestowed to the Holy Prophet as Fay, property acquired without fighting.

Correct Answer: Surah Al-Taubah

The Quba Mosque is mentioned in Surah Al-Taubah, in the verse about the mosque founded on piety.

Correct Answer: 1905

The partition of Bengal took place in 1905.

Correct Answer: Lord Canning

Lord Canning was the first Viceroy of India, taking office after the 1857 revolt.

Correct Answer: Lord Mountbatten

Lord Mountbatten was the last Viceroy of India.

Correct Answer: Lord Irwin

Lord Irwin was the Viceroy of India when the Simon Commission visited in 1928.

Correct Answer: 1928

The Simon Commission came to India in 1928.

Correct Answer: Maulana Zafar Ali Khan

Maulana Zafar Ali Khan was the editor of the daily Zamindar.

Correct Answer: Abul Kalam Azad

Abul Kalam Azad wrote India Wins Freedom.

Correct Answer: Sir Aga Khan

Sir Aga Khan was the first president of the All India Muslim League.

Correct Answer: December 1930

Allama Iqbal delivered the Allahabad Address in December 1930.

Correct Answer: Liaqat Ali Khan

Liaquat Ali Khan presented the poor man's budget in 1946.

Correct Answer: China

The greatest and biggest wall in the world is the Great Wall of China.

Correct Answer: Italy

The Leaning Tower of Pisa is in Italy.

Correct Answer: Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy wrote the novel War and Peace.

Correct Answer: 50

The United States has 50 states.

Correct Answer: Mediterranean and Red Sea

The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

Correct Answer: 28

The European Union had 27 members in 2010, and 28 only after Croatia joined in 2013; 27 is not offered, so the item is retained at the book's key (28) with this note.

Correct Answer: 1995

The World Trade Organization was formed in 1995.

Correct Answer: Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 2010, serving from 2007 to 2010.

Correct Answer: Illinois

Barack Obama comes from Illinois, the state he represented as a senator.

Correct Answer: Hague

The International Court of Justice is headquartered at The Hague.

Correct Answer: North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Correct Answer: Myanmar

Aung San Suu Kyi comes from Myanmar.

Correct Answer: Ayub Khan

Ayub Khan authored Friends Not Masters.

Correct Answer: 805 km

The Karakoram Highway's textbook length in Pakistan is quoted as 805 km; the full highway is about 1,300 km, so the figure depends on the segment meant.

Correct Answer: Pratibha Patil

Pratibha Patil was President of India in 2010; Pranab Mukherjee took office only in July 2012.

Correct Answer: Samuel P. Huntington

Samuel P. Huntington wrote The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order.

Correct Answer: South Korea

The Secretary-General of the UNO at the paper's time, Ban Ki-moon, belongs to South Korea.

Correct Answer: 1953

The first successful expedition to Mount Everest was made in 1953, by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.

Correct Answer: Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar holds the world record for maximum runs in Test cricket; Brian Lara holds the highest individual Test score, not the total-runs record.

Correct Answer: 0.31 km per sq. km

The road density of Pakistan is quoted in the book's sources as 0.31 km per sq. km; the figure varies with the year and the roads counted.

Correct Answer: Darwin

Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species.

Correct Answer: 24th October 1945

The United Nations was formed on 24th October 1945.

Correct Answer: 53

The Commonwealth had 54 members after Rwanda joined in 2009, but 54 is not offered, so the key's 53 is retained as the closest offered option.

Correct Answer: 1969

The OIC was established in 1969.

Correct Answer: Katmandu

The headquarters of SAARC is in Kathmandu.

Correct Answer: All of the above

The Habeas Corpus Act 1679 protected personal liberty against imprisonment without charge, gave prisoners a route to speedy trial or release on bail, and guarded against arbitrary imprisonment by the king's orders, so all of the above is correct.

Correct Answer: the ultraviolet rays convert skin oil into Vitamin D

Exposure to sunlight helps health because the ultraviolet rays convert skin oil into Vitamin D.

Correct Answer: 243 km

The Faisalabad-Multan (M4) Motorway is quoted at 243 km in the book's sources; published lengths vary slightly by section.

Correct Answer: 1839

The First Afghan War took place in 1839.

Correct Answer: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates

The Gulf Cooperation Council was originally formed by Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates; options (B)-(D) as printed do not belong to this stem.

Correct Answer: grotesque

The statue was so grotesque that people stared at it in horror.

Correct Answer: refute

He was caught red handed and could not refute the charges.

Correct Answer: vociferously

Unhappy about the treatment meted out to her, she vociferously demanded justice.

Correct Answer: indiscriminately

They sprayed tear gas indiscriminately on the protesters.

Correct Answer: acknowledge

We are happy to acknowledge the receipt of your order.

Correct Answer: irrespective

All jobs are respectable irrespective of their nature.

Correct Answer: welcome

The antonym of ostracize is welcome.

Correct Answer: sparse

The antonym of dense is sparse.

Correct Answer: extravagant

The antonym of parsimonious is extravagant.

Correct Answer: liberate

The antonym of fetter is liberate.

Correct Answer: strife

The antonym of harmony is strife.

Correct Answer: disgusting

This item sits in the Antonyms block, but disgusting is a synonym of obnoxious, not an antonym, and no true antonym is offered, so it is retained at the book's key (disgusting) with this note.

Correct Answer: irregularly

On the fits-and-starts reading, the synonym is irregularly, describing work done in irregular bursts.

Correct Answer: generalised statement

A sweeping statement is a generalised statement.

Correct Answer: puzzled

He was all at sea, meaning puzzled, when he began his new job.

Correct Answer: veteran

A person with a long experience of any occupation is a veteran.

Correct Answer: epitaph

Words written on a tomb are an epitaph.

Correct Answer: surreptitious

Stealthily done means surreptitious.

Correct Answer: obsolete

Something no longer in use is obsolete.

Correct Answer: amoral

One not concerned with right or wrong is amoral.

Correct Answer: Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin.

Correct Answer: Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking wrote A Brief History of Time.

Correct Answer: 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds

The rotation period of the Earth is 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds, the sidereal day.

Correct Answer: Chromium and nickel

Stainless steel is an alloy of iron with chromium, usually also nickel; zinc and nickel contain neither iron nor chromium.

Correct Answer: Carbon and Oxygen

Exhaled air contains more carbon dioxide than inhaled air, which the options name as Carbon and Oxygen.

Correct Answer: Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein gave the theory of relativity.

Correct Answer: 7

A spectrum has 7 colours.

Correct Answer: 1979

Dr. Abdus Salam was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979.

Correct Answer: Hypothetical region of the space

A black hole is a hypothetical region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.

Correct Answer: Central Processing Unit

CPU stands for Central Processing Unit.

Correct Answer: 95

With the numbers in proportion 1:5:2:6, the total value is 20 units, so one unit is Rs. 95, and the number of five-rupee coins is 95.

Correct Answer: 23

The stem as printed gives no usable girls' count, so no fraction can be computed; the item is retained at the book's key (23) with this note.

Correct Answer: 17 m

The longest pole in a 12 m by 9 m by 8 m room is the space diagonal, the square root of 144 + 81 + 64, which is 17 m.

Correct Answer: 10

Stoppage time per hour is (54 - 45) / 54 x 60 = 10 minutes.

Correct Answer: 5 km

The car gains on the bus at 50 - 30 = 20 km per hour, so in 15 minutes it covers 20 x 0.25 = 5 km, the distance they were apart.

Correct Answer: 3/4

The product of two dice is odd only when both dice are odd, with probability 1/4, so the probability that the product is even is 3/4.

Correct Answer: 1/5

For ten particles the probability that all ten lie in the same half is 2 x (1/2)^10 = 1/512, which is not offered, so the item is retained at the book's key (1/5) with this note.

Correct Answer: 47 1/2 degrees

At 3:25 the hour hand is at 102.5 degrees and the minute hand at 150 degrees, so the acute angle between them is 47.5 degrees.

Correct Answer: 11.00 a.m.

The least common multiple of 9, 12 and 15 is 180 minutes, which is 3 hours, so the bells first toll together again at 11.00 a.m.

Correct Answer: 54

The series follows +19, -8 throughout (13, 32, 24, 43, 35, 54, 46, 65, 57, 76), so 54 is the term the pattern requires where the print shows 7.

Correct Answer: 530

The printed product expression is unintelligible as printed and no derivation yields an offered option, so the item is retained at the book's key (530) with this note.

Correct Answer: 5 cm

A rectangle with length 10 cm and perimeter 30 cm has width (30 - 2 x 10) / 2 = 5 cm.

Correct Answer: 48 cm2

A rectangle 16 cm by 3 cm has area 16 x 3 = 48 cm2.

Correct Answer: 1000

If 45% failed, 55% passed, so 550 successful students imply a total of 550 / 0.55 = 1000 students.

Correct Answer: 70

If 40% did not go and that 40% is 28 employees, the total is 28 / 0.40 = 70 employees.

Correct Answer: 48%

A book sold for Rs. 76 at a 52% gain cost Rs. 50, so sold for Rs. 74 the gain is 24 / 50 = 48%.

Correct Answer: six days

Six women equal nine girls, so eight women and three girls equal fifteen girls, who do in 9 x 10 / 15 = 6 days what nine girls do in 10 days.

Correct Answer: 10 hrs

Working 8 hours a day for 5 days is 40 hours of work, so finishing in 4 days needs 40 / 4 = 10 hours a day.

Correct Answer: 103 millimeter

One metre is 1000 millimetres, which is not among the printed options (102-105 mm), so the item is retained at the book's key (103 millimetres) with this note.

Correct Answer: 7

There are 10 groups of 3 from 5 boys, and 3 of them contain both C and D, so the maximum number without C and D together is 10 - 3 = 7.