PPSC Tehsildar & Board of Revenue Past Paper 2021 Solved Solved MCQs

Correct Answer: 31 December 2020

The UK officially left the EU on January 31, 2020, and the transition period ended on December 31, 2020.

Correct Answer: Israel

Shin Bet, also known as Shabak, is Israel's internal security service.

Correct Answer: None of these

Abid Ali from Pakistan is the only male cricketer to score a century on both Test and ODI debuts.

Correct Answer: Polo

Polo is a traditional equestrian sport where players on horseback use mallets to hit a ball into a goal.

Correct Answer: None of these

In Polo, teams change ends after every goal is scored to ensure weather conditions (like sun or wind) do not favor one side.

Correct Answer: 1258 AD

Hulagu Khan sacked Baghdad in 1258 AD, effectively ending the Abbasid Caliphate and the Islamic Golden Age.

Correct Answer: Mustafa Kamal Ataturk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, officially abolished the Ottoman Caliphate on March 3, 1924.

Correct Answer: USA

The United States has the highest number of airports in the world, totaling over 14,000.

Correct Answer: Francis

Pope Francis has been the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 2013.

Correct Answer: Oxford University

Oxford University is traditionally recognized as the oldest continuous seat of learning in the English-speaking world, though Bologna is considered the oldest university.

Correct Answer: 21 September

The United Nations International Day of Peace is observed annually on September 21st.

Correct Answer: Israel

Israel developed the 'Iron Beam', a directed-energy weapon air defense system utilizing lasers to intercept short-range threats.

Correct Answer: Gambia

The Gambia filed the genocide case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice in 2019.

Correct Answer: Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia took over the G20 presidency from Japan for the year 2020.

Correct Answer: Md. Golam Sarwar

Md. Golam Sarwar of Bangladesh assumed the office of Secretary General of SAARC in March 2023.

Correct Answer: Both David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian

David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian jointly won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.

Correct Answer: Argentina

Argentina showed strong interest and officially considered purchasing the JF-17 Thunder aircraft co-developed by Pakistan and China.

Correct Answer: 20 million

While it takes about 2 million flowers to make 1 pound of honey, bees must consume roughly 6-8 pounds of honey to secrete 1 pound of beeswax, scaling the flower requirement drastically.

Correct Answer: 11

A +1 charge indicates one fewer electron than protons. With 10 electrons, the neutral atom had 11, meaning it has 11 protons.

Correct Answer: Aluminum Oxide

Ruby is a variety of the mineral corundum, which is crystalline aluminum oxide (Al₂O₃), getting its red color from trace amounts of chromium.

Correct Answer: Newton

Sir Isaac Newton formulated the law of universal gravitation in his work Principia, published in 1687.

Correct Answer: same acceleration

In a vacuum where there is no air resistance, all objects fall with the same constant acceleration due to gravity (approx 9.8 m/s²).

Correct Answer: Water at 90°C

Sound travels faster in denser mediums (liquids over gases) and its speed increases with the temperature of the medium.

Correct Answer: Star

The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star situated at the center of our solar system.

Correct Answer: Neptune

Being the farthest known planet from the Sun in our solar system, Neptune has the longest orbital period (about 165 Earth years).

Correct Answer: Concave lens

Myopia, where distant objects appear blurry, is corrected using a diverging or concave lens to move the focal point back onto the retina.

Correct Answer: Pounds per square inch

Tire pressure is most commonly measured in PSI (Pounds per Square Inch) in many parts of the world.

Correct Answer: Cloves

Cloves are the aromatic dried flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae.

Correct Answer: E-Commerce

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) refers to the buying and selling of goods or services using the internet.

Correct Answer: Whole

The keyboard shortcut Ctrl+A is universally used to Select All text or items in an active window or document.

Correct Answer: Close

Ctrl+W is standard shortcut key used to quickly close the current active window or document in MS Office.

Correct Answer: Center

The shortcut key Ctrl+E aligns selected text to the center of the page or document in Microsoft Word.

Correct Answer: F7

Pressing the F7 key in MS Office applications brings up the Spelling and Grammar checking dialog box.

Correct Answer: None of these

The keyboard shortcut used to paste copied text is Ctrl+V, which is not listed in the options.

Correct Answer: CTRL+ Spacebar

Pressing Ctrl + Spacebar removes character-level formatting (like bold, italics, font changes) and resets the highlighted text to the default paragraph style.

Correct Answer: CTRL+=

The shortcut Ctrl + = is used to apply subscript formatting, placing characters slightly below the normal line of type.

Correct Answer: Hyperlink

A hyperlink is a clickable link embedded in digital text or images that connects users to another document or webpage.

Correct Answer: Spider

Search engines use automated bots called 'spiders' or 'crawlers' to browse the web and index website content.

Correct Answer: Application software

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program, which categorizes it under application software designed for end-user tasks.

Correct Answer: Shift+F2

In Microsoft Excel, Shift + F2 opens a comment box for the selected cell.

Correct Answer: Address

The Name Box, located next to the formula bar in Excel, displays the cell reference or address of the currently active cell.

Correct Answer: Data, sort

To arrange data alphabetically or numerically in Excel, you go to the Data tab and use the Sort command.

Correct Answer: None of these

The correct feature is 'Mail Merge', which allows users to generate multiple customized documents from a single template.

Correct Answer: None of these

The standard default page orientation in word processors like MS Word is 'Portrait'.

Correct Answer: Document1

When you launch MS Word and create a blank file, it is temporarily named Document1 until you save and rename it.

Correct Answer: Save as

Using 'Save As' allows a user to select a different file format, such as PDF, to export their Word document.

Correct Answer: All of these

MS Word provides several types of section breaks under layout options, including Next Page, Continuous, Even Page, and Odd Page.

Correct Answer: End

Unlike footnotes which appear at the bottom of the page, endnotes are collected and placed at the very end of a document or section.

Correct Answer: Mailbox

A mailbox is the designated storage area on a mail server or client where emails are saved and organized.

Correct Answer: Both A & B

The Internet is indeed a global network of interconnected computers that communicate using the standard TCP/IP protocol suite.

Correct Answer: Network of networks around the world

The internet is accurately defined as a global 'network of networks' linking billions of devices worldwide.

Correct Answer: You@website.info

A valid email address requires the '@' symbol separating the username and the domain name.

Correct Answer: Internet Protocol

IP stands for Internet Protocol, which is the principal set of rules governing the routing and addressing of data packets over networks.

Correct Answer: FTP

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is traditionally used to transfer files between computers over a network.

Correct Answer: MS PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program designed to create slide-based visual presentations.

Correct Answer: Animation scheme

Animation schemes (or custom animations) dictate the motion and entry/exit effects for specific text or objects on a PowerPoint slide.

Correct Answer: Word Art

Word Art is inserted via the ribbon as an object styling tool; it does not have a dedicated structural 'pane' like Clip Art or Search.

Correct Answer: PowerPoint

Files with a .ppt extension are legacy Microsoft PowerPoint presentation files.

Correct Answer: Macros

A macro is a recorded sequence of commands and instructions grouped together as a single command to automate repetitive tasks.

Correct Answer: None of these

Ahmad Shah Durrani (Abdali) defeated the Marathas in the Third Battle of Panipat in 1761.

Correct Answer: 1993

Benazir Bhutto assumed office as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for her second term on October 19, 1993.

Correct Answer: None of these

Muhammad Ali Bogra served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1953 to 1955.

Correct Answer: 1921-1937

Diarchy was introduced by the Government of India Act 1919 and remained in operation from 1921 until the implementation of provincial autonomy under the 1935 Act in 1937.

Correct Answer: Quaid-e-Azam

Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah considered the 1942 Quit India Movement a coercive tactic by the Congress to force the British to hand over power to Hindus.

Correct Answer: None of these

The Indian National Congress was founded in 1885 by Allan Octavian Hume, a retired British civil servant.

Correct Answer: More than 71 years

Born on December 25, 1876, and dying on September 11, 1948, Quaid-e-Azam was 71 years and approximately 8.5 months old.

Correct Answer: 1951

The first demographic census in the newly independent state of Pakistan was conducted in 1951.

Correct Answer: Chief Secretary

The Chief Secretary is the highest-ranking civil servant and the administrative head of a provincial government in Pakistan.

Correct Answer: Montgomery

Sahiwal was formerly known as Montgomery, named after Sir Robert Montgomery, a Lieutenant Governor of Punjab.

Correct Answer: Babar

Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur founded the Mughal Empire in 1526 after defeating Ibrahim Lodi in the First Battle of Panipat.

Correct Answer: Lahore

Chauburji, a Mughal-era monument famous for its four minarets, is situated in Lahore, Pakistan.

Correct Answer: Cotton

Cotton is the primary cash crop of Pakistan, significantly contributing to foreign exchange earnings and the textile sector.

Correct Answer: Chaj Doab

The land between the Chenab and Jhelum rivers is named Chaj Doab, derived from the first letters of both rivers.

Correct Answer: Pacific and Atlantic oceans

The Panama Canal is an artificial 82 km waterway that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean across the Isthmus of Panama.

Correct Answer: Amazon

While the Nile is traditionally the longest, the Amazon River is the largest in the world by the volume of water discharged.

Correct Answer: None of these

Afghanistan is a South Asian/Central Asian nation that lies outside the typical monsoon rain belt.

Correct Answer: China

The Khunjerab Pass is a high mountain pass in the Karakoram Mountains marking the strategic border between Pakistan and China.

Correct Answer: Qutb-ud-din

Shah Waliullah's real name was Qutb-ud-Din Ahmad, and he was a prominent Islamic scholar and reformer.

Correct Answer: None of these

In Islam, absolute sovereignty over the universe and all its affairs belongs exclusively to Allah Almighty.

Correct Answer: 28

Out of the 114 Surahs in the Holy Quran, 86 are classified as Makki and 28 are classified as Madni.

Correct Answer: Al-Ikhlaas

According to Hadith, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) declared that reciting Surah Al-Ikhlas is equivalent in reward and theological weight to reading one-third of the Quran.

Correct Answer: Hazrat Zaid bin Haris RA

Hazrat Zaid bin Haris (RA) is the only companion of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) whose name is explicitly mentioned in the Quran (Surah Al-Ahzab).

Correct Answer: Waqoof-e-Arafat

Waqoof-e-Arafat (standing in the plains of Arafat) on the 9th of Dhul-Hijjah is the central and most obligatory pillar (Fard) of Hajj.

Correct Answer: Hazrat Yaqoob AS

Prophet Yaqoob (Jacob) AS was bestowed with the title 'Israel', which means the servant of Allah. His descendants are called Bani Israel.

Correct Answer: Hazrat Musa AS

Prophet Musa (Moses) AS is known as Kaleem Ullah, which translates to 'The one who spoke directly to Allah'.

Correct Answer: Battle of Badr

The Battle of Badr is referred to as 'Yawm Al-Furqan' (The Day of the Criterion) in the Quran because it clearly distinguished right from wrong.

Correct Answer: All of these

Linguistically, the root of the word Islam means peace, safety, submission, and total obedience to God.

Correct Answer: 60

Initial milk = 40L, water = 20L. To make ratio 1:2, water should be twice milk (40*2 = 80L). So, 80L - 20L = 60L water needs to be added.

Correct Answer: امام بخش ناسخ

یہ مشہور شعر اردو کے معروف شاعر امام بخش ناسخ کا ہے، جو لکھنؤ دبستان کے نمائندہ شاعر تھے۔

Correct Answer: نہایت خوش ہونا

جامے میں پھولا نہ سمانا ایک مشہور اردو محاورہ ہے جس کا مطلب حد سے زیادہ خوش ہونا یا بے انتہا مسرت کا اظہار کرنا ہے۔

Correct Answer: بے کار چیز

اردو محاورے میں 'جاڑے کی چاندنی' سے مراد ایسی چیز ہے جو بظاہر خوبصورت ہو لیکن وقت پر فائدہ نہ دے (بے کار چیز)، کیونکہ سردی میں چاندنی کا مزہ نہیں لیا جا سکتا۔

Correct Answer: مشکل کام سر انجام دینا

جوئے شیر لانا (دودھ کی نہر نکالنا) فرہاد اور شیریں کی داستان سے ماخوذ ہے، اور اس کا مطلب کوئی انتہائی ناممکن یا مشکل کام کر گزرنا ہے۔

Correct Answer: مصیبت آنا

آسمان ٹوٹنا کا مطلب ہے اچانک کوئی بڑی آفت، بلا یا مصیبت نازل ہونا۔

Correct Answer: مستنصر حسین تارڑ

یہ تمام مشہور سفرنامے پاکستان کے نامور سفرنامہ نگار اور ادیب مستنصر حسین تارڑ نے تحریر کیے ہیں۔

Correct Answer: لان جائنس

علویت (Sublimity) کا نظریہ مشہور یونانی نقاد لان جائنس (Longinus) نے اپنے مقالے "On the Sublime" میں پیش کیا تھا۔

Correct Answer: مہمل

قواعد کی رو سے ایسا لفظ جس کے اپنے کوئی معنی نہ ہوں مگر وہ بامعنی لفظ (کلمہ) کے ساتھ استعمال ہو، 'مہمل' کہلاتا ہے (جیسے وانی، ووٹی)۔

Correct Answer: چار بار

اس شعر میں پتا، بوٹا، گل اور باغ کو استعاراتی معنوں میں استعمال کیا گیا ہے، جس میں گل سے مراد محبوب اور باغ سے مراد دنیا یا معاشرہ ہے۔

Correct Answer: مصدر

مصدر وہ کلمہ ہے جو خود تو کسی لفظ سے نہ نکلا ہو مگر اس سے دوسرے افعال اور اسم مشتق بن سکتے ہوں۔ اس کی علامت 'نا' ہے۔

Correct Answer: اپنے تئیں گنوا کے در در مانگی بھیک

یہ درست ضرب المثل ہے جس کا مطلب ہے اپنی اصل حیثیت یا سرمایہ گنوا کر دوسروں کا محتاج ہو جانا۔

Correct Answer: بکرے کی ماں کب تک خیر منائے گی

یہ ایک مشہور ضرب المثل ہے جس کا مطلب ہے کہ کوئی شخص آفت یا سزا سے عارضی طور پر بچ سکتا ہے، مستقل طور پر نہیں۔