PMS 2026 GK Mock 4 — Solved Mock Test with Answers Solved MCQs

Correct Answer: NaCl

Table salt is sodium chloride, NaCl.

Correct Answer: H2O

Water is H2O.

Correct Answer: Mercury

Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun.

Correct Answer: Jupiter

Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System.

Correct Answer: Saturn

Saturn is the conventional ringed-planet answer, with the Solar System's most prominent ring system.

Correct Answer: Barometer

A barometer measures atmospheric pressure.

Correct Answer: Hertz

The hertz (Hz) is the SI unit of frequency.

Correct Answer: Kelvin

The kelvin (K) is the SI unit of temperature.

Correct Answer: Ampere

The ampere (A) is the SI unit of electric current.

Correct Answer: Candela

The candela (cd) is the SI unit of luminous intensity.

Correct Answer: Newton

The newton (N) is the SI unit of force.

Correct Answer: Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide is the main anthropogenic greenhouse gas driving global warming.

Correct Answer: Pancreas

The pancreas produces insulin in the islets of Langerhans.

Correct Answer: Thorax

The human heart sits in the thorax (chest cavity).

Correct Answer: Aorta

The aorta is the largest artery in the human body.

Correct Answer: Liver

The liver is the largest gland in the human body.

Correct Answer: Atom

The atom is the smallest particle of an element that retains its chemical properties.

Correct Answer: 8

Oxygen's atomic number is 8.

Correct Answer: Einstein

Albert Einstein formulated the theory of relativity (special relativity 1905, general relativity 1915).

Correct Answer: Chloroplast

Photosynthesis takes place mainly in the chloroplasts of leaf cells.

Correct Answer: Transpiration

Transpiration is the release of water vapour from plants to the atmosphere.

Correct Answer: Au

Gold's symbol is Au, from Latin aurum.

Correct Answer: K

Potassium's symbol is K, from Latin kalium.

Correct Answer: Fe

Iron's symbol is Fe, from Latin ferrum.

Correct Answer: Earthquakes

Most tsunamis are caused by undersea earthquakes displacing large volumes of water.

Correct Answer: Lavoisier

Antoine Lavoisier is regarded as the father of modern chemistry.

Correct Answer: Stapes

The stapes, in the middle ear, is the smallest bone in the human body.

Correct Answer: 206 bones

The adult human skeleton has 206 bones.

Correct Answer: Methane

Natural gas is mainly methane.

Correct Answer: Dolly

Dolly the sheep (1996) was the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.

Correct Answer: 46

Humans have 46 chromosomes (23 pairs) in body cells.

Correct Answer: Ribosome

Ribosomes are the sites of protein synthesis in the cell.

Correct Answer: Energy production

Mitochondria produce most of the cell's energy (ATP).

Correct Answer: Protein synthesis

Ribosomes synthesise proteins.

Correct Answer: Meiosis

Meiosis is the cell division that produces gametes.

Correct Answer: Sublimation

Sublimation is the direct change from solid to gas.

Correct Answer: 1982

The first permanent artificial heart, the Jarvik-7, was implanted in Barney Clark in December 1982.

Correct Answer: Karl Landsteiner

Karl Landsteiner discovered the ABO blood groups in 1900–1901.

Correct Answer: O3

The ozone layer is made of ozone, O3.

Correct Answer: Plate tectonics

Most earthquakes are caused by the movement of tectonic plates.

Correct Answer: Paleontology

Paleontology is the study of fossils.

Correct Answer: Neurons

Neurons are the brain's functional signalling cells and its main component in the conventional answer.

Correct Answer: CFCs

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are the primary cause of ozone depletion.

Correct Answer: Nitrogen

Nitrogen makes up about 78% of Earth's atmosphere.

Correct Answer: Iron

Steel is mainly iron, with carbon as the key alloying element.

Correct Answer: Ocean currents & wind patterns

Cyclones form over warm oceans and are driven by ocean currents and wind patterns (with the Coriolis effect).

Correct Answer: Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus is regarded as the founder of modern taxonomy.

Correct Answer: Sunlight

Sunlight on skin is the primary source of vitamin D.

Correct Answer: Dr. AQ Khan

Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan is the conventional 'father of Pakistan's nuclear programme' in one-liner usage, for the uranium-enrichment weapons programme.

Correct Answer: PARR-I

PARR-I at PINSTECH, Nilore, which went critical in 1965, was Pakistan's first nuclear reactor; KANUPP at Karachi was the first commercial power plant.

Correct Answer: 1998

Pakistan conducted its nuclear tests (Chagai-I, 28 May, and Chagai-II, 30 May) in 1998.

Correct Answer: Dr. Abdus Salam

Dr Abdus Salam, as chief scientific adviser, founded Pakistan's atomic energy programme in the late 1950s; the PAEC science base grew under him.

Correct Answer: India

The Pakistan-India border (about 3,323 km) is longer than the Pakistan-Afghanistan border (about 2,670 km).

Correct Answer: Thar

The Thar Desert, mostly in Sindh, is Pakistan's largest desert.

Correct Answer: Afghanistan & Iran

Pakistan's western neighbours are Afghanistan and Iran.

Correct Answer: K2

K2 (8,611 m) is Pakistan's highest peak and the world's second highest.

Correct Answer: China

The Karakoram Highway links Pakistan with China through the Khunjerab Pass.

Correct Answer: Hydropower

Hydropower is Pakistan's largest renewable electricity source.

Correct Answer: Urdu & Persian

Allama Iqbal wrote principally in Urdu and Persian.

Correct Answer: 1990

Pakistan's first satellite, Badr-1, was launched on 16 July 1990.

Correct Answer: Dr. Abdus Salam

Dr Abdus Salam founded Pakistan's space programme, chairing the Space and Upper Atmosphere Committee from 1961 that became SUPARCO.

Correct Answer: 1990

Badr-1 (Badr-A) was launched on 16 July 1990.

Correct Answer: SUPARCO & China

Badr-1 was launched in 1990 by SUPARCO with Chinese launch support from Xichang.

Correct Answer: Dr. Abdus Salam

Dr Abdus Salam founded SUPARCO, chairing the Space and Upper Atmosphere Committee from 1961.

Correct Answer: Liaquat Ali Khan

Liaquat Ali Khan was Pakistan's first prime minister (1947–1951).

Correct Answer: Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto (1988) was Pakistan's first woman prime minister and the first woman to head a Muslim-majority country.

Correct Answer: Chukar

The chukar partridge is Pakistan's national bird; the shaheen is a Pakistan Air Force emblem, not the national bird.

Correct Answer: Mango

The mango is Pakistan's national fruit.

Correct Answer: Markhor

The markhor is Pakistan's national animal.

Correct Answer: Deodar

The deodar cedar is Pakistan's national tree.

Correct Answer: None of the above

The Pakistan Meteorological Department was established by the government in 1947, inheriting 15 observatories from the Central Meteorological Organisation; it has no single named founder.

Correct Answer: Punjab University

The University of the Punjab, Lahore, was established in 1882.

Correct Answer: 1951

Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated in Rawalpindi on 16 October 1951.

Correct Answer: Dr. Abdus Salam

Dr Abdus Salam won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics, the first Pakistani and first Muslim physics laureate.

Correct Answer: Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong was the first human to step on the Moon (Apollo 11, July 1969).

Correct Answer: Sputnik-1

Sputnik 1, launched by the USSR in 1957, was the world's first artificial satellite.

Correct Answer: Valentina Tereshkova

Valentina Tereshkova (Vostok 6, 1963) was the first woman in space.

Correct Answer: Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin (Vostok 1, 1961) was the first human to orbit the Earth.

Correct Answer: Nile

The Nile (about 6,650 km) is the conventional longest-river answer.

Correct Answer: Australia

The Great Barrier Reef off Australia is the world's largest coral reef system.

Correct Answer: Pacific

The Pacific Ocean is the world's largest ocean.

Correct Answer: Lake Superior

Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake by surface area.

Correct Answer: Australia

Australia is the smallest continent by area.

Correct Answer: USA

The United States has been the world's largest crude-oil producer since 2018.

Correct Answer: 1945

The first man-made nuclear explosion was the Trinity test in New Mexico in July 1945.

Correct Answer: 1901

The first Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in 1901, to Wilhelm Röntgen.

Correct Answer: Shirin Ebadi

Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, the first Muslim woman Nobel laureate; Malala Yousafzai followed in 2014.

Correct Answer: Mauna Loa

Mauna Loa in Hawaii is the world's largest volcano by volume.

Correct Answer: Sahara

The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert.

Correct Answer: None of the above

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics went to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier for attosecond-pulse experiments, none of the three named fields.