PPSC Assistant Food Controller (BS-15) Past Paper 2023 Solved Solved MCQs

Correct Answer: China

Kashgar is an oasis city located in the Xinjiang region of Western China.

Correct Answer: Canada

Canada has the world's longest coastline, measuring approximately 243,042 kilometers.

Correct Answer: Belgium

Waterloo is a municipality in Belgium, famous for the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 where Napoleon was defeated.

Correct Answer: Afghanistan

Afghanistan has no direct access to an ocean, making it a landlocked country relying on neighbors for maritime trade.

Correct Answer: Agra

The Taj Mahal is an iconic marble mausoleum located on the right bank of the Yamuna River in Agra, India.

Correct Answer: Agra

The Taj Mahal is located in the city of Agra in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Correct Answer: None of these

Faisalabad is the third largest city of Pakistan by population, which is not listed in the standard options.

Correct Answer: 4.9%

According to traditional geographic data widely used in Pakistani exams, forests cover roughly 4.9% to 5% of Pakistan's total land area.

Correct Answer: Koh-e-Sulaiman

Takht-e-Sulaiman is the highest peak of the Sulaiman Mountains, located near the borders of Balochistan and KPK.

Correct Answer: Mount Damavand

Mount Damavand in Iran is a potentially active stratovolcano and the highest volcanic peak in Asia.

Correct Answer: Bosphorus Strait

The Bosphorus Strait in Turkey is globally recognized as the narrowest strait used for international navigation.

Correct Answer: Elysee Palace

The Élysée Palace in Paris has been the official residence of the President of the French Republic since 1848.

Correct Answer: Jeddah

The headquarters of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is permanently located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Correct Answer: 1945

While conceived at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944, the IMF formally came into existence on December 27, 1945.

Correct Answer: Astronomy

There is no specific Nobel Prize for Astronomy or Biology, but Astronomy is standardly cited in exams as the definitive excluded category.

Correct Answer: Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill

The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President FDR and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941.

Correct Answer: Tulip revolution

The Tulip Revolution refers to the political uprising in Kyrgyzstan in 2005 that led to the ousting of President Askar Akayev.

Correct Answer: 1757

The Battle of Plassey was fought on June 23, 1757, resulting in a decisive victory for the British East India Company.

Correct Answer: Fifth-generation warfare

Fifth-generation warfare involves non-kinetic military actions such as social engineering, misinformation, and cyberattacks.

Correct Answer: US

The United States has historically won the most overall medals and gold medals in the history of the modern Olympic Games.

Correct Answer: Sports Coach

A sports coach is primarily responsible for planning, organizing, and delivering sports strategies and training programs.

Correct Answer: Germany

The Bundestag is the directly elected lower house of the German federal parliament.

Correct Answer: Hunting

Hunting and gathering represent humanity's oldest and most primitive subsistence strategies.

Correct Answer: Novelist

Bushra Rehman was a renowned Pakistani novelist, politician, and writer who authored several popular Urdu novels.

Correct Answer: Punjab University

The University of the Punjab, established in 1882 in Lahore, is the oldest and largest public university in Pakistan.

Correct Answer: Saraiki poet

Shakir Shuja Abadi is a highly celebrated poet of the Saraiki language from Punjab, Pakistan.

Correct Answer: 22 seconds

Advanced automated systems like Tianyuan Garments' Sewbot can produce a finished t-shirt roughly every 22 seconds.

Correct Answer: Velocity

In physics, velocity is defined as a vector quantity that represents the rate of change of displacement over time.

Correct Answer: Ant

Formic acid gets its name from the Latin word for ant (formica), as it is naturally found in the venom of ants.

Correct Answer: Harvard step test

The Harvard step test is a classic cardiovascular fitness test that measures an individual's aerobic capacity.

Correct Answer: 1960s

Human coronaviruses were first discovered and systematically identified by scientists in the mid-1960s.

Correct Answer: Eyesight

Myopia, commonly known as nearsightedness, is a refractive error of the eye affecting clear vision of distant objects.

Correct Answer: India, Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan

The INSTC is a multi-mode network of ship, rail, and road routes connecting India, Iran, Azerbaijan, and Russia.

Correct Answer: Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman

Professor Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman was awarded China's highest state science and technology honor for international cooperation.

Correct Answer: Thatta

The Makli Necropolis, one of the largest funerary sites in the world, is located near Thatta, Sindh.

Correct Answer: Balouchistan

The Bara Bagh Cemetery is an ancient royal necropolis located in the Lasbela District of Balochistan.

Correct Answer: October 1972

The Constitutional Accord, which laid the foundation for the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan, was signed on October 20, 1972.

Correct Answer: Ch. Muhammad Ali

Former Prime Minister Chaudhry Muhammad Ali wrote 'The Emergence of Pakistan', a firsthand account of the partition.

Correct Answer: K. K. Aziz

Khursheed Kamal (K.K.) Aziz, a prominent Pakistani historian, authored 'The Making of Pakistan'.

Correct Answer: 1948

India officially brought the Kashmir dispute to the United Nations Security Council on January 1, 1948.

Correct Answer: 428

The All India Muslim League won 428 out of 492 reserved Muslim seats in the 1945-1946 provincial elections.

Correct Answer: Dhaka

The All India Muslim League was officially founded in December 1906 at Dhaka during the Muhammadan Educational Conference.

Correct Answer: Liaqat Ali Khan

The 1951 Rawalpindi Conspiracy was an aborted coup attempt led by Major General Akbar Khan against Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan.

Correct Answer: Habib Ullah Khan

Habibullah Khan served as the very first Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977.

Correct Answer: Abul Aala Maududi

Syed Abul A'la Maududi founded Jamaat-e-Islami, a highly influential Islamic political party, in 1941.

Correct Answer: Prime Minister

Shaukat Aziz served as the 15th Prime Minister of Pakistan from 2004 to 2007.

Correct Answer: India

Pakistan withdrew from SEATO after the 1971 Indo-Pak war because the alliance failed to offer substantial military aid.

Correct Answer: Pakistan

The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) are premier agencies of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Correct Answer: organize data

MS Excel is a powerful spreadsheet application used for data organization, calculation, and analysis.

Correct Answer: Automatically adds range of cell values

AutoSum is an Excel function that rapidly inserts a formula to compute the total sum of adjacent cells.

Correct Answer: Ctrl+A

Ctrl+A is the universal shortcut in most text editors and word processors to 'Select All' content.

Correct Answer: LASER

Optical storage media like CDs use highly focused laser beams to read and write digital data on the disk surface.

Correct Answer: World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (WWW) is an information system where documents and web resources are identified by URLs.

Correct Answer: Public Domain Software

Software placed in the public domain has no ownership or copyright and can be used and modified freely.

Correct Answer: All of these

Cyber technology encompasses multiple domains including defensive networking, cyber espionage, and digital warfare tactics.

Correct Answer: 1.5

Pressing Ctrl+5 in MS Word automatically changes the line spacing of the selected paragraph to 1.5 lines.

Correct Answer: 7 cm by 9.8 cm

New length = 5 * (7/5) = 7 cm. New width = 7 * (7/5) = 9.8 cm.

Correct Answer: 4:5

Let the 3rd number be 100. The two numbers are 120 and 150. Their ratio is 120:150 = 4:5.

Correct Answer: 51

Area of floor = 17 * 12 = 204 sq ft. Area of one tile = 2 * 2 = 4 sq ft. Total tiles = 204 / 4 = 51.

Correct Answer: 1/2

Substituting x=7, y=3: (21) / (49 - 9 + 2) = 21 / 42 = 1/2.

Correct Answer: 54

(1/3) * (1/4) * x = 15 implies x = 180. Three-tenths of 180 is (3/10) * 180 = 54.

Correct Answer: 4

The prime numbers between 64 and 81 are 67, 71, 73, and 79 (total 4).

Correct Answer: 18°, 63°, 99°

Sum of ratios = 20. Multiplier = 180/20 = 9. Angles are 2*9 = 18, 7*9 = 63, 11*9 = 99.

Correct Answer: Perimeter

Perimeter is the continuous line forming the boundary of a closed geometric figure.

Correct Answer: 2

3^(x+3) = 243. Since 3^5 = 243, we set x+3 = 5, which means x = 2.

Correct Answer: 5

2 liters = 67.6 ounces. 67.6 / 12 = 5.63. So, it can completely fill exactly 5 cups.

Correct Answer: Opaque

Transparent means allowing light to pass through so objects behind can be seen; opaque means not able to be seen through.

Correct Answer: Ugliness

Pulchritude is a formal word for physical beauty, so its direct antonym is ugliness.

Correct Answer: Lure

Entice means to attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage, closely synonymous with lure.

Correct Answer: Proud

Haughty means arrogantly superior and disdainful, which aligns closely with being overly proud.

Correct Answer: Courage : Timorous

Guile (slyness) and Ingenious (clever) represent antonymous traits conceptually, much like Courage and Timorous (fearful).

Correct Answer: Overlook : Aberration

Just as one condones (forgives/ignores) an offence, one overlooks an aberration (deviation from normal).

Correct Answer: has

Since 'friend and benefactor' refers to a single person, a singular helping verb ('has') is required.

Correct Answer: He asked me if I would accompany him.

For an interrogative sentence, 'said to' becomes 'asked' and 'will' changes to 'would' in indirect speech.

Correct Answer: The Captain commanded his men to stand at ease.

In indirect speech for military orders, 'said to' is replaced with 'commanded' or 'ordered'.

Correct Answer: To fell something

To 'knock down' literally means to strike something or someone to the ground (to fell something).

Correct Answer: Its/his

The possessive pronoun 'its' is used for the lizard, and 'his' is used for the boy's hand.

Correct Answer: None of these

The proper passive structure would be 'You are said to have done it' or 'It is said that you did it'.

Correct Answer: Noun

The preposition 'along' establishes a spatial relationship with 'the roads', which is a noun phrase.

Correct Answer: no one / all

The logical phrasing based on exam conventions is 'As no one is ready to help me, I have to do all myself.'

Correct Answer: Bite

'Barking dogs seldom bite' is a famous English proverb meaning those who make threats rarely act on them.

Correct Answer: نظیر اکبر آبادی

Nazeer Akbarabadi, an 18th-century Indian poet, was originally named Wali Muhammad.

Correct Answer: الطاف حسین حالی

Altaf Hussain Hali is considered the critical bridge (confluence) between classical and modern Urdu poetry.

Correct Answer: جمیل جالبی

'Arastu Se Eliot Tak' is a famous literary criticism book authored by prominent scholar Jameel Jalibi.

Correct Answer: سید وقار عظیم

Syed Waqar Azeem contributed heavily to the literary analysis of Iqbal during the Progressive Movement.

Correct Answer: شوکت صدیقی

Shaukat Siddiqui is the legendary author behind the highly acclaimed Urdu novels 'Khuda Ki Basti' and 'Jangloos'.

Correct Answer: سوز وطن

'Soz-e-Watan' was Munshi Premchand's collection of short stories that the British government confiscated for its patriotic tone.

Correct Answer: اپنی اپنی ڈفلی اپنا اپنا راگ

This idiom means everyone blowing their own trumpet or acting independently without coordination.

Correct Answer: خطوط

Oud-e-Hindi is a famous collection of personal letters written by Mirza Ghalib.

Correct Answer: اخبار

The traditional Arabic-derived plural for 'Khabar' (news) is 'Akhbaar'.

Correct Answer: ذوق و شوق

A Murakkab-e-Atfi incorporates a conjunction like 'waw' (و) to connect two words, such as in Zouq-o-Shouq.

Correct Answer: حضرت عثمان

Hazrat Uthman (R.A) purchased the Well of Ruma from a Jew and dedicated it to the Muslims in Madinah.

Correct Answer: حضرت عثمان

Hazrat Uthman (R.A) is called Zun-Noorain (Possessor of Two Lights) because he married two daughters of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

Correct Answer: فتح مکہ کے وقت

Abu Quhafa, the father of Hazrat Abu Bakr (R.A), embraced Islam during the momentous Conquest of Makkah.

Correct Answer: بیعت رضوان

Bait-e-Rizwan was the historic pledge of allegiance taken by Muslims beneath a tree prior to the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah.

Correct Answer: سورہ نور

The legal punishments (Hudood) regarding false accusations (Qazf) and adultery (Zina) are distinctly outlined in Surah An-Noor.

Correct Answer: نماز مغرب

The last prayer that Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) formally led in the mosque before his passing was the Maghrib prayer.

Correct Answer: بنو ہوازن

Hazrat Halima Sadia, the Prophet's foster mother, belonged to the Banu Sa'd branch of the greater Banu Hawazin tribe.

Correct Answer: حضرت علی

Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) left Hazrat Ali (R.A) behind in Madinah as his trusted deputy during the expedition of Tabuk.

Correct Answer: گائے کی

According to Quranic tradition, the golden calf forged by Samiri for the Israelites made a lowing sound similar to a cow.