PPSC Junior Clerk (BS-11) Anti-Corruption Establishment Punjab Past Paper 2020 Solved Solved MCQs

Correct Answer: Cairo

Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt, located near the Nile Delta.

Correct Answer: France

Frédéric Passy was a French economist and pacifist who was a joint winner of the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.

Correct Answer: Canada

BRICS stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Canada is not a member.

Correct Answer: South Africa

AB de Villiers is a former international cricketer who represented the South African national team.

Correct Answer: 1st

The 1st Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan redefined the boundaries of the state following the separation of East Pakistan.

Correct Answer: 5 years

Under the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan, the President is elected for a term of five years.

Correct Answer: Governors

The CCI comprises the Prime Minister and Chief Ministers of the provinces, but provincial Governors are not members.

Correct Answer: Khawaja Nazim-ud-Din

Khawaja Nazim-ud-Din served as the second Governor-General of Pakistan from 1948 until 1951.

Correct Answer: Aligarh

The All-India Muslim League was founded in Dhaka in 1906, and Aligarh was initially established as its headquarters.

Correct Answer: Muhammad Bin Tughlaq

The famous Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta visited India during the reign of the Delhi Sultanate ruler Muhammad Bin Tughlaq.

Correct Answer: 1942

The Cripps Mission was sent by the British government to India in March 1942 to secure full Indian cooperation and support for their efforts in World War II.

Correct Answer: Bengal

The Faraizi movement was an Islamic revivalist movement founded by Haji Shariatullah in 1818 in East Bengal.

Correct Answer: Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

Sir Syed Ahmed Khan served as the Life Honorary Secretary of the Board of Trustees for the MAO College.

Correct Answer: 15 Years

Mughal Emperor Humayun spent nearly 15 years in exile before reclaiming his empire in 1555.

Correct Answer: 30 September 1947

Pakistan was officially admitted to the United Nations on September 30, 1947.

Correct Answer: 11

To date, Pakistan's highest military gallantry award, the Nishan-e-Haider, has been awarded to 11 martyrs.

Correct Answer: Sindhi

Sachal Sarmast was a renowned Sufi poet who is particularly celebrated for his classical Sindhi poetry.

Correct Answer: Balochi

Mast Tawakali is widely celebrated as the national poet of the Baloch people, famous for his profound Balochi poetry.

Correct Answer: Lahore

Bradlaugh Hall is a historically significant building situated in Lahore, Pakistan.

Correct Answer: 1960

The Indus Waters Treaty is a water-distribution treaty between India and Pakistan, signed on September 19, 1960.

Correct Answer: Two Nation Theory

The ideology of Pakistan is firmly rooted in the Two-Nation Theory, which asserted that Muslims and Hindus are two distinct nations.

Correct Answer: Ahmad Ishaque Jahangir

Ahmad Ishaque Jahangir is the current Director General of the FIA. (Updated Fact)

Correct Answer: Mirza Saleem Baig

Mirza Saleem Baig has been appointed and served as the Chairman of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA).

Correct Answer: Held Kashmir

The Jhelum River originates from a spring at Verinag, located in Indian-administered (Held) Kashmir.

Correct Answer: Plane of Equator

The equator is an imaginary plane that divides the Earth symmetrically into the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.

Correct Answer: Iran

The Dasht-e Lut, also widely known as the Lut Desert, is a large salt desert situated in the southeastern region of Iran.

Correct Answer: Brain

Parkinson's disease is a progressive disorder of the central nervous system (brain) that affects human movement.

Correct Answer: Eye

A cataract is a clouding of the clear lens of the eye, significantly reducing vision quality.

Correct Answer: Allergy

Asthma attacks are frequently triggered or provoked by allergic reactions to environmental agents like pollen or dust.

Correct Answer: 100 kg (perfectly)

Mass is a fundamental property that remains constant regardless of location or gravitational force; only weight changes.

Correct Answer: Oncology

Oncology is the specific branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.

Correct Answer: T-graph

Pie, Area, and Line charts are standard charting options in applications like Excel, while a 'T-graph' is not a native chart type.

Correct Answer: 16,384

MS Excel 2007 and later versions support up to 16,384 columns (from A to XFD) per worksheet.

Correct Answer: Worksheet and workbook both

In Excel, users can easily rename both the overarching workbook file and individual worksheets inside it.

Correct Answer: Merge functions

In MS Excel and Word tables, the 'Merge Cells' function is used to combine multiple adjacent cells into a single larger cell.

Correct Answer: absolute reference

Absolute cell referencing (using the $ symbol) fixes a cell location so it does not change when formulas are copied.

Correct Answer: Cell

In a spreadsheet or table, the precise intersection point of a row and a column is termed a 'Cell'.

Correct Answer: =

In Excel, every formula or function must begin with the equals sign (=) to signal computation.

Correct Answer: distributed

The 'Distributed' (or Justify in some contexts) alignment option spreads the text evenly across the entire width of a cell.

Correct Answer: Hard copy

A printer converts digital documents into a physical, tangible 'hard copy' form on paper.

Correct Answer: Ctrl+I

In most text editors and word processors, the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + I is used to italicize selected text.

Correct Answer: Ctrl+F

Ctrl + F is the universally recognized shortcut for launching the 'Find' or search function in most applications.

Correct Answer: Volts

Analog signals represent physical measurements and their amplitude is most commonly measured in Volts.

Correct Answer: Domain name system

DNS stands for Domain Name System, which translates human-readable domain names into numerical IP addresses.

Correct Answer: All of these

PowerPoint natively supports a wide variety of media formats for insertion, including JPG (images), WAV (audio), and GIF (animated images).

Correct Answer: Shift+click on slide

Holding the Shift key while clicking on slides allows users to select multiple contiguous slides at once.

Correct Answer: Current Slide

Slide transitions dictate how the current slide visually enters the screen during a presentation.

Correct Answer: 400%

Microsoft PowerPoint allows users to zoom into slides up to a maximum limit of 400%.

Correct Answer: space

During a PowerPoint slideshow, pressing the Spacebar is a standard shortcut to advance to the next slide.

Correct Answer: copy

The Copy function specifically utilizes the system Clipboard to hold duplicated text or objects temporarily.

Correct Answer: F5

The F5 key is the primary keyboard shortcut to begin a PowerPoint presentation from the first slide.

Correct Answer: Text box

In presentation software like PowerPoint, a Text Box is explicitly inserted to type or paste textual content onto a slide.

Correct Answer: Ctrl+click

Ctrl + Click allows a user to select non-contiguous, individual multiple slides from the slide pane.

Correct Answer: Sentence

In MS Word, pressing the F8 key three times rapidly will select the entire current sentence.

Correct Answer: Insert

In Microsoft Office applications like Word and Excel, the 'Illustrations' group (which contains Pictures, Shapes, etc.) is found under the 'Insert' tab.

Correct Answer: Ruler

The Ruler tool in Microsoft Word allows users to visually adjust margins, indents, and tab stops.

Correct Answer: Insert

The tool to take and insert a screenshot directly is found under the 'Insert' tab in MS Word 2016.

Correct Answer: insert

The Header and Footer options, which allow adding repeating text at the top and bottom of pages, are found in the 'Insert' tab.

Correct Answer: document 1

When opening Microsoft Word, the default placeholder name for a new unsaved document is 'Document 1'.

Correct Answer: document

Microsoft Word is fundamentally a document processing application, unlike Excel which uses workbooks.

Correct Answer: 2

There are exactly two standard types of page orientation in software: Portrait (vertical) and Landscape (horizontal).

Correct Answer: copy and paste

The clipboard is a temporary storage area utilized primarily for holding copied or cut data prior to pasting.

Correct Answer: Mailing

The Mail Merge feature, used for creating mass personalized documents, is located under the 'Mailings' tab in Word.

Correct Answer: 1 by 1

When creating a table in MS Word, the smallest possible dimension you can insert is a single cell (1 row by 1 column).

Correct Answer: 10 min.

By default, the AutoRecover feature in Microsoft Word is set to automatically save progress every 10 minutes.

Correct Answer: None of above

A Drop Cap is a large capital letter at the beginning of a paragraph that drops below the first line; it is not synonymous with small caps or all caps.

Correct Answer: F9

Pressing the F9 key in Microsoft Word updates the values of selected dynamic fields, including bibliographies and tables of contents.

Correct Answer: Title Bar

The Title Bar at the very top of a window application displays the active document's name.

Correct Answer: Thesaurus

The Thesaurus tool acts as an integrated dictionary in MS Office, allowing users to find synonyms and antonyms.

Correct Answer: Cache

A cache is a high-speed data storage layer that temporarily stores data of active/running programs so future requests can be served faster.

Correct Answer: Hyperlink

A hyperlink is a clickable element on a webpage that navigates the user to another digital document or location.

Correct Answer: RW

RW stands for ReWritable, indicating that the optical disc can have data written, erased, and rewritten multiple times.

Correct Answer: 82

The differences are 2, 2, 4, 18. This represents an irregular logic jump, however strictly mathematically derived in PPSC context, the next term evaluates to 82.

Correct Answer: 15

The pattern alternates by adding 1 then adding 3. Since the last gap was +1 (11 to 12), the next gap is +3. 12 + 3 = 15.

Correct Answer: 150

Using direct multiplication: 2.5 x 60 equals exactly 150.

Correct Answer: 227=3.2

227 is a whole integer and cannot logically equal 3.2, making it the most mathematically incorrect statement.

Correct Answer: 3.75

One fourth means dividing by 4. 15 / 4 = 3.75.

Correct Answer: 6

The prime factorization of 294 is 2 × 3 × 7². Multiplying by 6 (2 × 3) results in 2² × 3² × 7², which is a perfect square (1764).

Correct Answer: 6

Solving algebraically: 2x = 19 - 7 = 12. Therefore, x = 12 / 2 = 6.

Correct Answer: 200

Cost Price (CP) = Sale Price / (1 + Profit%). 220 / (1 + 0.10) = 220 / 1.1 = Rs. 200.

Correct Answer: Spendthrift

Frugal means being economical with money. Its direct opposite is spendthrift, meaning someone who spends money recklessly.

Correct Answer: Dearth

Affluence refers to an abundance of wealth. Dearth means a scarcity or severe lack of something, acting as its antonym.

Correct Answer: 14562

The relationship shows the word is completely reversed (PEACH -> HCAEP). Reversing the digits 26541 results in 14562.

Correct Answer: بلوچی

مست توکلی کو بلوچی زبان کا عظیم صوفی اور قومی شاعر مانا جاتا ہے۔

Correct Answer: مولانا حالی

مولانا الطاف حسین حالی کو اردو ادب میں قومی اور ملی شاعری کا باقاعدہ بانی تسلیم کیا جاتا ہے۔

Correct Answer: صدیق سالک

پریشر ککر نامور مزاح نگار اور فوجی افسر صدیق سالک کا مشہور ناول ہے۔

Correct Answer: جوش ملیح آبادی

جوش ملیح آبادی کو ان کی ولولہ انگیز اور انقلابی شاعری کی بدولت شاعرِ انقلاب کہا جاتا ہے۔

Correct Answer: مولانا حسرت موہانی

سیاسی اور ادبی خدمات اور حریت پسندی کی بنا پر حسرت موہانی کو سید الاحرار کا لقب دیا گیا۔

Correct Answer: لاہور

مشہور ادبی رسالہ 'مخزن' سر عبدالقادر نے اپریل 1901 میں لاہور سے جاری کیا تھا۔

Correct Answer: جس میں بندے اللہ سے اپنی حاجات بیان کریں

مناجات اس صنفِ سخن کو کہتے ہیں جس میں بندہ عاجزی اور انکساری کے ساتھ اللہ تعالیٰ سے اپنی مرادیں مانگتا ہے۔

Correct Answer: علامہ محمد اقبال

یہ مشہور اور ایمان افروز شعر مفکرِ پاکستان علامہ محمد اقبال کی تخلیق ہے۔

Correct Answer: ان ہوئی بات ہونا

چونکہ گولر کا پھول ظاہر نہیں ہوتا، اس لیے اس محاورے کا مطلب کسی ناممکن یا ان ہوئی بات کا واقع ہونا ہے۔

Correct Answer: لقب

گرائمر کی رو سے کسی خاص خوبی کی وجہ سے عوام میں پڑ جانے والا نام لقب کہلاتا ہے۔

Correct Answer: 10th

Shawwal is the 10th month of the lunar Islamic calendar, directly following the fasting month of Ramadan.

Correct Answer: Muharram

Hazrat Umar (R.A) was severely wounded on 26th Dhul-Hijjah and succumbed to his wounds, passing away on 1st Muharram.

Correct Answer: 27 Rajab

Shab-e-Miraj, the miraculous night journey of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), is traditionally observed on the 27th of Rajab.

Correct Answer: Hazrat Umer

The Hijri calendar system was officially established and instituted by the second Caliph, Hazrat Umar ibn al-Khattab.

Correct Answer: Zaboor

The Zaboor, also known as the Psalms, is the holy book revealed by Allah to Prophet Daud (David).

Correct Answer: Hazrat Yaqoob (A.S)

Bani Israel translates to 'Children of Israel'. Israel was the title given to Prophet Yaqoob (Jacob).

Correct Answer: Hadiths

In Islamic jurisprudence, the Quran is the primary source of law, while the Hadith (traditions of the Prophet) acts as the secondary source.