PPSC Intelligence Officer and Assistant Past Paper 2024 Solved Solved MCQs

Correct Answer: Allow a Soviet missile base to be built in Cuba

During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, Fidel Castro allowed the Soviet Union to place nuclear missiles in Cuba, leading to a major Cold War confrontation.

Correct Answer: American Government

The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government for valor in action.

Correct Answer: UN General Assembly

The UN General Assembly's very first resolution, passed in 1946, established a commission to make proposals for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Correct Answer: 193

The United Nations currently has 193 member states.

Correct Answer: Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition of Muslim Countries

The IMCTC is a coalition of Muslim-majority countries formed to coordinate and unite efforts in the fight against terrorism.

Correct Answer: 1945

The Arab League was formed in Cairo on March 22, 1945, by six founding member states.

Correct Answer: Gen. Erwin Rommel

General Erwin Rommel, the German field marshal during WWII, was nicknamed the 'Desert Fox' for his military campaigns in North Africa.

Correct Answer: Last stand battle

The Battle of Saragarhi (1897) is famous as a heroic last stand where 21 Sikh soldiers defended their post against thousands of Afghan tribesmen.

Correct Answer: Canada and Mexico

NAFTA was a trade agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico that came into force in 1994.

Correct Answer: Traveler

Marco Polo was a famous Venetian merchant and explorer who traveled extensively in Asia.

Correct Answer: Ukraine

The Orange Revolution was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late 2004 to early 2005.

Correct Answer: 22 sports

The 2020 Summer Paralympics featured 22 sports.

Correct Answer: Second time

Sadiq Khan was re-elected as the Mayor of London in 2021, marking his second term.

Correct Answer: Hurdle Race

Hurdle races are classified as track events, while shot put, high jump, and javelin are field events.

Correct Answer: 1.067 m

The standard height for men's 110m hurdles is 1.067 meters.

Correct Answer: 5 times hotter

China's 'artificial sun' fusion reactor achieved temperatures approximately 5 times hotter than the core of the Sun.

Correct Answer: Iron, Nickel and Cobalt

Iron, nickel, and cobalt are ferromagnetic materials that are strongly attracted to magnets.

Correct Answer: Angstrom

An angstrom is a unit of length equal to 10⁻¹⁰ meters.

Correct Answer: Cerebrum

The cerebrum is the largest part of the human brain, responsible for higher brain functions such as thought and action.

Correct Answer: Ribosomes

Ribosomes are the cellular structures where protein synthesis occurs.

Correct Answer: Androecium

The androecium is the collective term for the stamens, which are the male reproductive parts of a flower.

Correct Answer: Cell

The cell is the basic structural and functional unit of all living organisms.

Correct Answer: Bronchiole

In the respiratory system, air travels from the trachea to the bronchi and then into the smaller bronchioles.

Correct Answer: Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, marking the beginning of the modern antibiotic era.

Correct Answer: Full Moon

A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon, which can only happen during a full moon.

Correct Answer: Vitamin D

The human body produces Vitamin D when the skin is exposed to sunlight.

Correct Answer: Light Bulb

Thomas Edison is credited with inventing the practical incandescent light bulb.

Correct Answer: Lord Mountbatten

Louis Mountbatten was the last Viceroy of India and oversaw the partition of British India in 1947.

Correct Answer: 101,741 sq. km.

The total area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is approximately 101,741 square kilometers.

Correct Answer: Muhammad Waseem

Professor Muhammad Waseem is the author of 'Politics and the State in Pakistan'.

Correct Answer: Mian Mansha

Mian Muhammad Mansha is a prominent Pakistani billionaire and the owner of the Nishat Group.

Correct Answer: 1929

Muhammad Ali Jinnah presented his Fourteen Points in 1929 in response to the Nehru Report.

Correct Answer: Dr. K.B. Hedgewar

The RSS was founded in 1925 by K.B. Hedgewar in Nagpur, India.

Correct Answer: 1907

Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk took charge as the Secretary of the Board of Trustees of Aligarh College in 1907.

Correct Answer: Shah Wali Ullah

Shah Wali Ullah Dehlavi was the first to translate the Holy Quran into Persian to make it accessible to the common people of his time.

Correct Answer: غزوہ بدر

غزوہ بدر کے موقع پر اللہ تعالیٰ نے مسلمانوں پر سکون کے لیے نیند طاری فرمائی اور مدد کے لیے بارش نازل کی۔

Correct Answer: حضرت سعد بن ابی وقاص

جنگِ قادسیہ میں اسلامی افواج کی قیادت حضرت سعد بن ابی وقاص کر رہے تھے۔

Correct Answer: 13

فتحِ مکہ ایک پرامن فتح تھی جس میں بہت کم جانی نقصان ہوا، کچھ روایات کے مطابق 13 افراد مارے گئے۔

Correct Answer: فاروقی

حضرت عمر فاروق (رض) کے دورِ خلافت میں شراب نوشی کی سزا اسی کوڑے مقرر کی گئی۔

Correct Answer: پلٹ جانا

ارتداد کا لغوی مطلب ہے واپس پلٹ جانا (دین سے پھر جانا)۔

Correct Answer: قوم موسی

سبت (ہفتہ کا دن) اور رفعِ طور (کوہِ طور کا اٹھایا جانا) حضرت موسیٰ (علیہ السلام) کی قوم کے واقعات ہیں۔

Correct Answer: Sahara

The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world and occupies most of North Africa.

Correct Answer: Afghanistan

The Durand Line is the international border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Correct Answer: Salt Range

Tilla Jogian is a mountain peak located in the Salt Range of Punjab, Pakistan.

Correct Answer: Karakoram

Godwin-Austen, also known as K2, is the second-highest peak in the world and is located in the Karakoram range.

Correct Answer: Manchar Lake

Manchar Lake, located in the Dadu District, is one of the largest freshwater lakes in Pakistan.

Correct Answer: China

The Karakoram Highway, often associated with the modern Silk Road, connects Pakistan to China.

Correct Answer: Transition

The option to advance slides 'on mouse click' is found under the Transitions tab in MS PowerPoint.

Correct Answer: Placeholders

Placeholders are the pre-formatted containers on PowerPoint slides used to hold text, images, or other content.

Correct Answer: Powerpnt.exe

The executable file for Microsoft PowerPoint is powerpnt.exe.

Correct Answer: Worksheets and Charts

A Microsoft Excel workbook is a file containing one or more worksheets, which can also include charts.

Correct Answer: xlsx

The default file extension for modern Microsoft Excel workbooks is .xlsx.

Correct Answer: F11

Pressing F11 in Excel creates a new chart sheet based on the selected data range.

Correct Answer: All of these

Various formula structures, including nested functions and complex combinations, are used for advanced calculations in spreadsheet software.

Correct Answer: Automatically adds a range of cell values

The AutoSum feature in Excel automatically creates a SUM formula for a selected range of cells.

Correct Answer: Centered

In MS Word's font settings, 'Normal', 'Raised', and 'Lowered' refer to the text baseline position, while 'Centered' is a paragraph alignment setting.

Correct Answer: Move the cursor one screen down

Pressing the Page Down key in MS Word scrolls the document view down by one screen length.

Correct Answer: Super fields

While 'Word fields', 'Unique fields', and 'Primary fields' may relate to data handling, 'Super fields' is not a standard term used in MS Word's mail merge process.

Correct Answer: Vertical Microinstruction

In microprogramming, vertical microinstructions use encoded fields, necessitating a decoder to translate these signals.

Correct Answer: Increases

Larger page sizes lead to increased internal fragmentation because more memory space is wasted within the last page of a process.

Correct Answer: Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Windows is an operating system developed by Microsoft Corporation.

Correct Answer: To make the most efficient use of the computer hardware.

The fundamental goal of an operating system is to manage hardware resources efficiently to support application programs.

Correct Answer: Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

EEPROM is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers to store small amounts of data that must be saved when power is removed.

Correct Answer: Resilience

Resilience is the capacity of a system to continue functioning or recover quickly in the face of faults or failures.

Correct Answer: NAND

A NAND gate is a logic gate which produces an output of 0 only when all inputs are 1.

Correct Answer: Internet protocol suite

The Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) is the conceptual model and set of communications protocols used for the internet.

Correct Answer: Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989.

Correct Answer: Eight bits

A byte is a standard unit of digital information storage consisting of eight bits.

Correct Answer: 24,000

If 25% of the total profit is 8,000, the total profit is 32,000. Waleed keeps 75%, which is 24,000.

Correct Answer: 23,040

Discount = 20% of 28,800 = 5,760. Selling Price = 28,800 - 5,760 = 23,040.

Correct Answer: 56%

New area = 1.3L × 1.2W = 1.56LW. The increase is 0.56, or 56%.

Correct Answer: 100/11%

If Sajjad = 100, Ali = 110. The difference is 10. Percentage less = (10 / 110) × 100 = 100/11%.

Correct Answer: 88 cm³

Volume = π × r² × h = (22/7) × 2² × 7 = 22 × 4 = 88 cm³.

Correct Answer: 36

Given x² + y² = 97 and (x - y)² = 25, then x² - 2xy + y² = 25. Substituting, 97 - 2xy = 25, so 2xy = 72, and xy = 36.

Correct Answer: 20

Using the formula (W1 × D1 × H1) / U1 = (W2 × D2 × H2) / U2: (24×30×7)/4000 = (30×D×8)/3500. D = 18.375, which rounds to approximately 20.

Correct Answer: 18

The hands form 2 right angles every hour. Over a 9-hour period (from 1 to 10), they form 18 right angles.

Correct Answer: Are

The sentence requires the verb 'Are' to correctly form the present continuous question.

Correct Answer: None of these

The sentence 'He has ten heads of cattle' is already grammatically correct as written.

Correct Answer: Both

The conjunction 'Both' is used to link two items together with the following 'and'.

Correct Answer: Adverb

Fluently is an adverb because it modifies the verb 'speak'.

Correct Answer: too

The structure 'too [adjective] for [someone] to [verb]' is used here.

Correct Answer: Is going

The present continuous is used to describe a planned future arrangement.

Correct Answer: Have someone wash your car.

The causative verb 'have' is followed by the object and the base form of the verb when instructing someone else to perform an action.

Correct Answer: He was elected Mayor by the people.

In passive voice, the object 'him' becomes the subject 'He', and the verb 'elected' becomes 'was elected'.

Correct Answer: Accuse

To arraign means to call or bring someone before a court to answer a criminal charge, similar to 'accuse'.

Correct Answer: Disgusting

Grisly means causing horror or disgust.

Correct Answer: Bibliophile

A bibliophile is a person who loves or collects books.

Correct Answer: Fading

Blooming signifies growth and vitality, while fading signifies loss of these qualities.

Correct Answer: He remarked that it was very cruel of him.

In indirect speech, the exclamation is converted into a statement using 'remarked that' and the tense shifts to past.

Correct Answer: He will say that he did not know it.

Since the reporting verb is in the future tense ('will say'), the tense of the direct speech does not shift.

Correct Answer: Downpour: Flood

Germs cause infection, just as a downpour can cause a flood (causal relationship).

Correct Answer: Puzzled

Being 'at sea' is an idiom meaning to be confused, lost, or puzzled.

Correct Answer: قوسین

بریکٹ (قوسین) کا استعمال جملہ معترضہ کی وضاحت کے لیے کیا جاتا ہے۔

Correct Answer: مشبہ بہ

اردو قواعد میں جس چیز سے تشبیہ دی جائے اسے مشبہ بہ کہتے ہیں۔

Correct Answer: دوہرا فائدہ

یہ ضرب المثل ایسے موقع پر بولی جاتی ہے جہاں ایک ہی کام سے دوہرے فائدے حاصل ہوں۔

Correct Answer: السلام علیکم

درست طریقہ تحریر 'السلام علیکم' ہے۔

Correct Answer: کراچی

رسالہ 'دنیا زاد' کراچی سے شائع ہوتا تھا۔

Correct Answer: کلکتہ

جامِ جہاں نما پہلا اردو اخبار تھا جو کلکتہ سے جاری ہوا۔

Correct Answer: ظفر علی خان

مولانا ظفر علی خان روزنامہ زمیندار کے مشہور مدیر تھے۔

Correct Answer: خاکہ نگاری

یہ دونوں معروف اردو خاکے ہیں۔