PPSC Assistant Police Department Past Paper 2020 Solved Solved MCQs

Correct Answer: Suva

Suva is the capital and largest city of Fiji, located on the southeast coast of the island of Viti Levu.

Correct Answer: Bahrain

Manama is the capital and largest city of Bahrain, an island country in the Persian Gulf.

Correct Answer: Panama City

Panama City is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama, famously situated at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal.

Correct Answer: Japan

Japan is historically referred to as the 'Great Britain of the Pacific' due to its status as a highly industrialized island nation with a powerful maritime presence.

Correct Answer: Conduct of public business for private gain

Jobbery refers to the corrupt practice of using a public office or trust for private gain or partisan advantage.

Correct Answer: World Intellectual Property Organization

WIPO stands for the World Intellectual Property Organization, which is a specialized agency of the United Nations created to promote and protect intellectual property across the world.

Correct Answer: Egypt

The Pyramids of Giza, including the Great Pyramid built for Pharaoh Khufu, are located on the Giza Plateau near Cairo, Egypt.

Correct Answer: Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Stanley Wolpert was a renowned American historian who wrote the acclaimed biography 'Jinnah of Pakistan', which detailed the life and leadership of Quaid-e-Azam.

Correct Answer: Ambulance Service

The Edhi Foundation, established by Abdul Sattar Edhi in Pakistan, holds the Guinness World Record for running the world's largest volunteer ambulance organization.

Correct Answer: UAE

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) became the first Gulf state to officially recognize Israel under the Abraham Accords in 2020.

Correct Answer: Pakistan

Pakistan shares the longest border with Afghanistan and has deep historical, cultural, and geopolitical ties, making its cooperation crucial for Afghan peace.

Correct Answer: USA believed there was a bias against Israel

The Trump administration withdrew from the UNHRC in 2018, citing what it described as chronic bias against Israel and a lack of reform within the council.

Correct Answer: Azerbaijan

The 18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, bringing together leaders from developing nations.

Correct Answer: Usama Riaz

Dr. Usama Riaz was a young Pakistani physician in Gilgit-Baltistan who contracted COVID-19 while screening pilgrims returning from Iran and tragically died, earning him national honors.

Correct Answer: Germany

Angela Merkel served as the Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She was the head of the German government when this exam was conducted.

Correct Answer: South Africa

Jacob Zuma served as the President of South Africa from 2009 until his resignation in 2018. Cyril Ramaphosa is the current president.

Correct Answer: None of these

Saudi Arabia is the country that famously lifted its decades-long ban on women driving in June 2018, which is not listed among the explicit options.

Correct Answer: National Accountability Bureau

Justice (R) Javed Iqbal served as the Chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) of Pakistan from October 2017 to June 2022.

Correct Answer: Muhammad Naeem

Muhammad Naeem served as the Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) from 2015 to 2021. Dr. Raja Ali Raza Anwar is the current chairman.

Correct Answer: None of these

At the time of this question, Abdullah Abdullah held the title of Chief Executive, but the position was abolished in 2020. Currently, the Taliban heads the government.

Correct Answer: Free Trade

Free trade is an economic policy in which a government does not restrict imports from, or exports to, other countries through tariffs or quotas.

Correct Answer: Ghana

The Akosombo Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Volta River in southeastern Ghana, which created Lake Volta, the world's largest man-made lake by surface area.

Correct Answer: Indus

The Diamer-Bhasha Dam is a concreted-filled gravity dam currently under construction on the River Indus in Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Correct Answer: China

The Jinping-I Dam (often transliterated) is a major concrete arch dam on the Yalong River in Sichuan, China, known for being the tallest dam in the world.

Correct Answer: USA

Red Lake is a large natural lake located in Beltrami County in northern Minnesota, United States.

Correct Answer: Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal, situated in southern Siberia, Russia, is the deepest and oldest freshwater lake in the world, with a maximum depth of over 1,600 meters.

Correct Answer: Cairo

The River Nile famously flows directly through Cairo, the capital city of Egypt, before fanning out into the Nile Delta and emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.

Correct Answer: All of these

The Mackenzie, Nelson, and Fraser rivers are all major river systems located within Canada.

Correct Answer: Lambert-Fisher Glacier

The Lambert Glacier (often grouped with the Fisher Glacier) in East Antarctica is officially recognized as the largest and longest glacier in the world.

Correct Answer: Nepal

Nepal is a landlocked country located in South Asia, bordered by China to the north and India to the south, east, and west, meaning it has no direct coastline to the ocean.

Correct Answer: Now or Never

The name 'Pakistan' was coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali and published in his famous 1933 pamphlet titled 'Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?'.

Correct Answer: Radd ul Fasad

Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad was launched by the Pakistan Armed Forces in February 2017 to eliminate residual terrorist threats following Operation Zarb-e-Azb.

Correct Answer: Sindh

Sindh is the second most populous province of Pakistan, following Punjab, which holds the majority of the nation's population.

Correct Answer: Article 251

Article 251 of the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan designates Urdu as the national language and outlines provisions for its implementation.

Correct Answer: August 11, 1947

Muhammad Ali Jinnah was unanimously elected as the President of Pakistan's first Constituent Assembly on August 11, 1947, where he delivered his famous visionary speech.

Correct Answer: Provisional Constitutional Order

A Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) is an extra-constitutional directive, usually issued by a military dictator in Pakistan, temporarily suspending the existing constitution.

Correct Answer: 1920

Muhammad Ali Jinnah resigned from the Indian National Congress in 1920 because he disagreed with Mahatma Gandhi's policy of non-cooperation and civil disobedience.

Correct Answer: King George V

The controversial Partition of Bengal, originally enacted in 1905, was annulled by King George V during the Delhi Durbar in 1911 due to immense political protests.

Correct Answer: Sister

Gulbadan Begum was a Mughal princess, the daughter of Emperor Babur, and the half-sister of Emperor Humayun. She is best known for authoring the 'Humayun-Nama'.

Correct Answer: Arya Samaj

Lala Lajpat Rai was a prominent Indian independence activist who was deeply influenced by and associated with the Hindu reformist movement known as Arya Samaj.

Correct Answer: 23 hours 56 minutes and 4.9 seconds

The Earth's actual rotation period relative to the fixed stars, known as a sidereal day, is exactly 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4.09 seconds.

Correct Answer: Mercury

Mercury is a chemical element and the only typical metal that is completely liquid at standard temperature and pressure.

Correct Answer: Volatile

Volatile liquids have a high vapor pressure at normal room temperature, which means they evaporate readily into a gas (e.g., alcohol, gasoline).

Correct Answer: Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner, an English physician, pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first successful vaccine, in 1796.

Correct Answer: Ozone

Ozone (O3) in the Earth's stratosphere is responsible for absorbing the majority of the sun's harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation, protecting life on the planet.

Correct Answer: Rain gauge

A rain gauge is a meteorological instrument used to gather and measure the amount of liquid precipitation over an area in a predefined period.

Correct Answer: Hepatitis

SGOT (also known as AST) is an enzyme primarily found in the liver and heart. Highly elevated levels typically indicate liver damage or inflammation, such as Hepatitis.

Correct Answer: Lithotripsy

Lithotripsy is a non-invasive medical procedure that uses focused shock waves to break down kidney stones, gallstones, or stones in the ureter into small pieces that can be excreted.

Correct Answer: Arachnology

Arachnology is the scientific study of spiders and related animals such as scorpions, pseudoscorpions, and harvestmen.

Correct Answer: Condensation

Condensation is the physical phase change of matter from a gaseous state into a liquid state, typically occurring when gas cools.

Correct Answer: Reduces the nutrition value of food

Prolonged exposure to heat during over-cooking breaks down and destroys essential water-soluble vitamins and other sensitive nutrients present in the food.

Correct Answer: To perform arithmetic and logic operations

The Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) is the component of a computer's central processing unit that carries out both arithmetic operations and logical operations.

Correct Answer: Output devices

Output devices, such as monitors, projectors, and printers, are hardware components designed to receive data from a computer and display it in a human-readable format.

Correct Answer: Microprocessor

The Microprocessor (CPU) acts as the brain and heart of the computer, processing instructions and controlling all computing operations.

Correct Answer: Orientation View

Microsoft PowerPoint features views like Normal View, Slide Sorter View, and Slide Show View. 'Orientation View' is not an actual view setting in the application.

Correct Answer: COUNT

The COUNT function in MS Excel counts the number of cells within a specified range that contain numerical values.

Correct Answer: View > window > split

To divide the active Excel sheet into distinct panes that scroll independently, a user must navigate to the View tab, go to the Window group, and click 'Split'.

Correct Answer: 500

In Microsoft Excel, the maximum allowed zoom magnification scale is 400%. Therefore, 500% is invalid.

Correct Answer: Windows 8

Microsoft famously removed the traditional Start button from the taskbar in the initial release of Windows 8, replacing it with a full-screen Start screen.

Correct Answer: Excel

Microsoft Excel is the premier spreadsheet application used to organize data in rows and columns and execute complex mathematical and statistical calculations.

Correct Answer: CTRL + Y

In most Microsoft Windows applications, including PowerPoint, CTRL + Z undoes an action, while CTRL + Y is the shortcut used to redo the reversed action.

Correct Answer: 76 kg

Total weight increase = 8 persons * 2.5 kg = 20 kg. To cause this increase, the new man must weigh 20 kg more than the person he replaced (56 kg). So, 56 + 20 = 76 kg.

Correct Answer: 60 days

Using the formula Men1 * Days1 = Men2 * Days2, we get 60 * 40 = 40 * x. Thus, x = 60 days.

Correct Answer: 1000000

1 kilometer is equal to 1,000 meters. Therefore, 1 square kilometer is (1,000 m * 1,000 m), which equals 1,000,000 square meters.

Correct Answer: 7

Simplify the equation: 3x - 21 = 0 -> 3x = 21 -> x = 21 / 3 -> x = 7.

Correct Answer: 173, 177

Let the parts be x and x+4. Then x + x + 4 = 350 -> 2x = 346 -> x = 173. The two parts are 173 and 177.

Correct Answer: 400

Total parts = 2 + 3 = 5. Rabail's share is 2 out of 5 parts. (2/5) * 1000 = Rs. 400.

Correct Answer: 36

Oranges represent 2 ratio units. Since 2 units = 8 oranges, 1 unit = 4 items. Total units = 2+3+4 = 9 units. Total items = 9 * 4 = 36.

Correct Answer: 80

A square has 4 sides. 4 * 21 = 84 tiles. However, the 4 corner tiles are counted twice in this method. So, subtract 4 to get 80 actual tiles.

Correct Answer: 15

The series alternates by adding 1, then adding 3. (3+1=4, 4+3=7, 7+1=8, 8+3=11, 11+1=12). The next step is 12+3 = 15.

Correct Answer: 28

The pattern is a constant subtraction of 6. 34 - 6 = 28.

Correct Answer: Have they been laughed at by you?

In the passive voice, the object 'them' becomes the subject 'they', and the present perfect tense 'have laughed' turns into 'have been laughed'.

Correct Answer: Is my father known to you?

When changing to passive voice, interrogative present tense 'Do you know' becomes 'Is [subject] known to you'.

Correct Answer: I have been working

When an action starts in the past and continues to the present (indicated by 'since morning'), the present perfect continuous tense 'have been working' must be used.

Correct Answer: The old lady asked her son if it was not his duty to help her in her old age.

In indirect speech, interrogative sentences change 'said' to 'asked', replace inverted commas with 'if/whether', and shift the present tense to past tense ('is' becomes 'was').

Correct Answer: To do something contrary to conventional order

This classic idiom implies doing things out of their proper, logical, or chronological sequence.

Correct Answer: To benefit from other people's troubles

The idiom 'fishing in troubled waters' means to try to capitalize on or profit from a chaotic, difficult, or dangerous situation.

Correct Answer: On rare occasions

A 'blue moon' is a rare astronomical phenomenon, so the idiom describes something that happens very infrequently or rarely.

Correct Answer: Dearth: Surplus

'Encourage' and 'Restrict' are antonyms (opposites). Similarly, 'Dearth' (scarcity) and 'Surplus' (excess) are antonyms.

Correct Answer: By

The preposition 'by' is used to show a deadline or that an action will happen no later than a certain point in time.

Correct Answer: نظیر اکبر آبادی

نظیر اکبر آبادی کو اردو کا پہلا عوامی اور نظم کا باقاعدہ شاعر تسلیم کیا جاتا ہے۔

Correct Answer: جون ایلیا

'شاید' مشہور اور منفرد لب و لہجے کے شاعر جون ایلیا کا پہلا شعری مجموعہ ہے جو 1990 میں شائع ہوا۔

Correct Answer: استعارہ

اگرچہ اس شعر میں حضرت موسیٰ علیہ السلام کے واقعے کی طرف اشارہ (تلمیح) ہے، مگر دیے گئے متبادلات میں سے استعارے کا استعمال نمایاں ہے۔

Correct Answer: بدھ

فارسی الاصل لفظ 'چہار شنبہ' سے مراد ہفتے کا چوتھا دن یعنی بدھ ہے۔

Correct Answer: نحو

علمِ نحو قواعد کا وہ حصہ ہے جس میں الفاظ کے مجموعے، جملوں کی ساخت اور ان کی ترتیب سے بحث کی جاتی ہے۔

Correct Answer: براہ مہربانی کل ضرور آئیں

اردو املا اور قواعد کی رو سے 'براہِ مہربانی' (مہربانی کی راہ سے) درست ترکیب ہے۔

Correct Answer: اول خویش بعد درویش

یہ ایک مشہور ضرب المثل ہے جس کا مطلب ہے کہ صدقہ و خیرات اور ہمدردی کا آغاز اپنے قریبی رشتہ داروں سے کرنا چاہیے۔

Correct Answer: غم سے

مرزا غالب کا مشہور شعر ہے: قیدِ حیات و بندِ غم، اصل میں دونوں ایک ہیں / موت سے پہلے آدمی غم سے نجات پائے کیوں؟

Correct Answer: تذکرہ نگاری

ڈاکٹر فرمان فتح پوری کی مشہور تنقیدی و تحقیقی کتاب کا نام 'اردو شعرا کے تذکرے اور تذکرہ نگاری' ہے۔

Correct Answer: بہت خوش ہونا

'باغ باغ ہونا' یا 'دل باغ باغ ہونا' اردو کا عام محاورہ ہے جس کے معنی انتہائی خوش اور مسرور ہونے کے ہیں۔

Correct Answer: Four times

The name 'Muhammad' is explicitly mentioned four times in the Holy Quran (in Surah Al-Imran, Al-Ahzab, Muhammad, and Al-Fath).

Correct Answer: Hazrat Eesa (A.S)

Hazrat Eesa (Jesus) A.S. was raised to the heavens by Allah at a relatively young age (commonly believed to be around 33 years old), making his earthly age the minimum among these major prophets.

Correct Answer: Idolatrous

Before the advent of Islam, the Arabian Peninsula was predominantly steeped in polytheism and idolatry (worshipping multiple idols).

Correct Answer: Uhud

The events, lessons, and sacrifices of the Battle of Uhud are deeply discussed in the verses of Surah Al-Imran.

Correct Answer: Tawrat

The Tawrat (Torah), revealed to Prophet Musa (Moses) A.S., is the oldest of the four major recognized divine books in Islam.

Correct Answer: Jalal al-Din Suyuti

'Al-Itqan fi Uloom al-Quran' is a monumental, encyclopedic work on the Quranic sciences authored by the renowned Islamic scholar Imam Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti.

Correct Answer: Hazrat Bilal (R.A)

Hazrat Bilal ibn Rabah (R.A) was personally appointed by the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as the first Mu'adhin (caller to prayer) due to his beautiful and resonant voice.

Correct Answer: Battle of Siffin

The Kharijites (Khawaarij) emerged as a distinct, rebellious faction during and immediately after the Battle of Siffin when they opposed the arbitration between Hazrat Ali (R.A) and Muawiyah (R.A).

Correct Answer: Black

In Arabic, 'Hajr' means stone, and 'Aswad' translates to black. Therefore, Hajr-e-Aswad literally means 'The Black Stone'.

Correct Answer: Lunar eclipse

In Islamic tradition, Salat-e-Khusoof is the special prayer performed during a lunar eclipse, whereas Salat-e-Kusoof is prayed during a solar eclipse.