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Solved PMS 2026 GK Advanced practice set Q51–100: SUPARCO 1961, Badr-1, Tungsten W, Deodar, Richter scale, mycology, Saturn's rings, Abdus Salam, geo-economics, National Adaptation Plan, IEA World Energy Outlook, friend-shoring, Paris Agreement Global Stocktake, IAEA Vienna, Middle Corridor, Global Methane Pledge, candela, transpiration, smooth ER, ozone, O-negative donor, dispersion, vitamin K, becquerel, El Niño, coral bleaching, SF6, NDMA, glaciers, IoT, Moore's Law, NFC, DoS, Gini coefficient, Tarbela and WHO Geneva, with verified answers and explanations. A Sir Adnan practice set, not an official past paper.
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50
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50
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Subjects
5
Topics
40
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About this paper
Second and final chunk of Sir Adnan's 'PMS 2026 GK Advanced' booklet (26 pp, header 'ONE-LINER (PPSC/FPSC NEW TREND 2025-26)') from the monster-data 'PMS SCREENING 2026 GK UPDATED' pack: the booklet's Q51–100, covering the 'MIXED PMS SCREENING TRAPS' (Q51–60), current affairs and global issues (Q61–70), conceptual everyday science (Q71–80), environment and disaster science (Q81–85), science, IT and emerging technologies (Q86–90), economy, energy and development (Q91–95) and a final mixed traps set (Q96–100). All 50 printed items published (0 dropped, 0 corrections) with the booklet's printed options. 2 note flags: Q84 (NDMA first created by 2007 ordinance; the 2010 Act is its permanent statutory footing) and Q91 (gas is Pakistan's largest primary energy source overall at about 32.7 MTOE in FY2024-25, but gas is not among the options, so Oil is retained as the largest listed option). This completes the booklet; its extracted PDF is removed from work/pms-screening/ after conversion.
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Subject 1
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Correct Answer: 1961
SUPARCO (Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission) was established on 16 September 1961.
Correct Answer: Badr-1
Badr-1, launched in July 1990, was Pakistan’s first satellite; PakSat-1 came later (2002, leased) and PRSS-1 in 2018.
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Correct Answer: Deodar
The deodar cedar (Cedrus deodara) is Pakistan’s national tree.
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Correct Answer: Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics, Pakistan’s first Nobel laureate; Malala Yousafzai won the Peace Prize in 2014.
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Correct Answer: High imports of energy
Energy imports (oil and LNG) are the largest single driver of Pakistan’s import bill and hence of its trade deficit.
Correct Answer: Paris Club
Sovereign debt rescheduling and reprofiling talks are held with the Paris Club of official bilateral creditors.
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Correct Answer: Disaster Management Act 2010
The National Disaster Management Act 2010 is the statutory basis of Pakistan’s disaster-management system and of the NDMA.
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Correct Answer: Oil
Among the fuels listed, oil is the largest: in FY2024-25 oil supplied about 19.0 MTOE of primary energy, ahead of hydel at about 9.5 MTOE (coal and nuclear are smaller).
Correct Answer: Tarbela
Tarbela Dam (about 3,478 MW after expansion) is Pakistan’s largest operational hydropower project, ahead of Ghazi Barotha (1,450 MW) and Mangla (1,000 MW).
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Correct Answer: GMT +5
Pakistan Standard Time is UTC+5 (GMT+5).
Subject 2
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Correct Answer: Solar winds
Earth’s magnetosphere deflects the solar wind — the stream of charged particles from the Sun — around the planet.
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Correct Answer: W
Tungsten’s symbol is W, from its older name wolfram.
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Correct Answer: Logarithmic
The Richter scale is logarithmic: each whole-number step represents roughly a tenfold increase in wave amplitude.
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Correct Answer: Nucleus
In eukaryotic cells DNA replication takes place in the nucleus (mitochondrial DNA replicates separately inside mitochondria).
Correct Answer: Smooth ER
The smooth endoplasmic reticulum synthesises lipids and steroids; the rough ER (studded with ribosomes) makes proteins.
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Correct Answer: Mycology
Mycology is the study of fungi; botany covers plants and zoology covers animals.
Correct Answer: Genetics
Genetics is the study of heredity and variation in organisms.
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Correct Answer: Saturn
Saturn has by far the largest and most prominent ring system of any planet.
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Correct Answer: Candela
The candela (cd) is the SI base unit of luminous intensity; the lumen measures luminous flux and the lux measures illuminance.
Correct Answer: Becquerel
The becquerel (Bq, one decay per second) is the SI unit of radioactivity; the curie is the older non-SI unit, and the gray and sievert measure absorbed and equivalent dose.
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Correct Answer: Mercury
Mercury is the only metal liquid at ordinary room temperature (around 20–25 °C); gallium melts just above it, at about 29.8 °C.
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Correct Answer: Transpiration
Transpiration is the loss of water vapour from plants, mainly through leaf stomata.
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Correct Answer: 400–700 nm
Visible light spans roughly 400–700 nanometres, from violet to red.
Correct Answer: Dispersion
Dispersion splits white light into its spectrum because different wavelengths refract by different amounts.
Correct Answer: 3×10⁸ m/s
The speed of light in vacuum is 299,792,458 m/s, conventionally quoted as 3×10⁸ m/s.
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Correct Answer: O₃
Ozone is a molecule of three oxygen atoms, O₃.
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Correct Answer: O⁻
O-negative red cells carry no A, B or Rh antigens, so O⁻ is the universal red-cell donor group (O⁺ plasma still carries anti-A and anti-B).
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Correct Answer: Vitamin K
Vitamin K is essential for synthesising clotting factors in the liver; its deficiency causes bleeding disorders.
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Correct Answer: Warming of central & eastern Pacific
El Niño is the warm phase of ENSO: unusually warm surface waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific.
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Correct Answer: Rising sea temperature
Coral bleaching is triggered mainly by heat stress: rising sea temperatures cause corals to expel their symbiotic algae.
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Correct Answer: SF₆
Sulphur hexafluoride (SF₆) has a 100-year global warming potential of about 23,500 times CO₂, far above N₂O (about 273) and methane.
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Correct Answer: Glaciers & ice caps
About two-thirds of Earth’s freshwater is locked in glaciers and ice caps, ahead of groundwater at roughly one-third.
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Correct Answer: Seismology
Seismology is the study of earthquakes and seismic waves.
Subject 3
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Correct Answer: Economic tools for strategic goals
Geo-economics is the use of economic instruments — trade, investment, sanctions, supply chains — to pursue strategic and geopolitical goals.
Correct Answer: Trade with trusted partners
Friend-shoring means shifting supply chains and trade towards allied or trusted partner countries rather than geopolitical rivals.
Correct Answer: Inflation measurement
Base effects arise in inflation measurement when the year-ago base was unusually high or low, distorting the year-on-year rate.
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Correct Answer: IEA
The World Energy Outlook is the International Energy Agency’s flagship annual publication (not to be confused with the IMF’s World Economic Outlook).
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Correct Answer: Austria
The International Atomic Energy Agency is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
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Correct Answer: Cap and trade emissions
A carbon market caps total emissions and lets emitters trade allowances, putting a price on carbon to cut emissions at lowest cost.
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Correct Answer: Gini coefficient
The Gini coefficient (0 = perfect equality, 1 = maximum inequality) is the standard measure of income inequality; the CPI tracks prices and the HDI tracks overall development.
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Correct Answer: Geneva
The World Health Organization is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland (New York hosts the UN headquarters).
Subject 4
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Correct Answer: Climate change resilience
Pakistan’s National Adaptation Plan (2023) sets out how the country adapts to climate change and builds resilience to its impacts.
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Correct Answer: Paris Agreement
The Global Stocktake, first completed at COP28 in 2023, is the Paris Agreement’s five-yearly review of collective climate progress.
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Correct Answer: China–Central Asia–Europe
The Middle Corridor (Trans-Caspian route) links China through Central Asia and across the Caspian to Europe, bypassing Russia.
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Correct Answer: 30% by 2030
Launched at COP26 in 2021, the Global Methane Pledge aims to cut global methane emissions by at least 30% from 2020 levels by 2030.
Subject 5
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Correct Answer: Network of interconnected devices
The Internet of Things is the network of physical devices embedded with sensors and connectivity that exchange data over the internet.
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Correct Answer: Transistor density
Moore’s Law (Gordon Moore, 1965) observes that the number of transistors on a chip roughly doubles about every two years.
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Correct Answer: Confidential communication
End-to-end encryption ensures only the communicating parties can read a message — not intermediaries or the service provider.
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Correct Answer: RFID/NFC
Contactless cards and phones use near-field communication (NFC), a form of RFID, to exchange payment data at close range.
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Correct Answer: System availability
A denial-of-service attack overwhelms a system with traffic so legitimate users cannot access it — it attacks availability, one leg of the CIA triad.
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Questions
No. It is Sir Adnan's 'PMS 2026 GK Advanced' practice booklet from the monster-data 'PMS SCREENING 2026 GK UPDATED' pack, published as paperType 'practice', never as a past paper. The year 2026 is the booklet's label, not a claimed exam session.
50 questions (printed Q51–100, all published, none dropped). Together with the Q1–50 file (49 published), the booklet contributes 99 published questions of its 100 printed items.
Both are correct on their own terms: gas is Pakistan's largest primary energy source overall (about 32.7 MTOE in FY2024-25), but gas is not among Q91's options (Coal, Hydel, Oil, Nuclear), and oil (about 19.0 MTOE) is the largest of the listed options. Q91 carries a note flag stating this.
Yes. Every answer was checked as a standard fact against the booklet's marked answer; none needed correction, and two carry note flags (Q84 on the NDMA's 2007 creation versus its 2010 statutory footing, and Q91 on the gas-versus-oil reading). The booklet prints (A)–(D) options with a marked answer, so optionsSource is 'printed'.
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