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Solved PMS 2026 GK general-knowledge practice set from Sir Adnan's 'PMS 2026 GK 5' booklet — railways, planets, SAARC, UN, Pakistan geography, world history, books and vocabulary — with verified answers and explanations. A practice set, not an official past paper.
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Sir Adnan's 'PMS 2026 GK 5' booklet (7 pp, header 'ONE-LINER (PPSC/FPSC NEW TREND 2025-26)') from the monster-data 'PMS SCREENING 2026 GK UPDATED' pack. 79 of 80 printed items published: printed Q8 (a Pakistani scientist who 'worked under Einstein') dropped because Salam met Einstein casually at Princeton but did not work under him (his doctoral advisor was Nicholas Kemmer); printed Q14 corrected to British Open (Jahangir Khan's ten British Open titles beat his six World Opens) and printed Q17 corrected to Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi (Kapas Ka Phool is his collection, not Khadija Mastoor's); note flags on the 9th Amendment item (the bill lapsed and never came into force) and the Sahara item (largest hot desert; the Antarctic desert is larger by area).
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Subject 1
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Correct Answer: 1853
Indian Railways began operations in 1853, with the first passenger train running from Bombay to Thane on 16 April 1853.
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Correct Answer: SAARC
SAPTA, the SAARC Preferential Trading Arrangement, is a trade agreement among the SAARC member states.
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Correct Answer: 15
The UN Security Council has 15 members: 5 permanent members with veto power and 10 non-permanent members elected for two-year terms.
Correct Answer: António Guterres
António Guterres of Portugal has been UN Secretary-General since 1 January 2017.
Correct Answer: New York
The United Nations is headquartered in New York City.
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Correct Answer: 70%
India holds roughly 70% of South Asia's population, with about 1.45 billion people out of the region's roughly 2 billion.
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Correct Answer: Droupadi Murmu
Droupadi Murmu has been President of India since July 2022, succeeding Ram Nath Kovind.
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Correct Answer: 22 March
World Water Day is observed every year on 22 March, as designated by the United Nations.
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Correct Answer: Fourth time
Angela Merkel was sworn in for her fourth term as German Chancellor in March 2018, having first taken office in 2005.
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Correct Answer: British Open
Jahangir Khan won the British Open a record ten times (1982-1991), against six World Open titles, so the British Open is the championship he won most often.
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Correct Answer: 1917
The Bolshevik Revolution (October Revolution) took place in Russia in 1917, bringing Lenin's Bolsheviks to power.
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Correct Answer: Venezuela
Hugo Chávez was President of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013.
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Correct Answer: Hague
The International Court of Justice sits at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands.
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Correct Answer: Libya
Benghazi is Libya's second-largest city, on the Mediterranean coast of eastern Libya.
Correct Answer: London (UK)
Greenwich, home of the prime meridian, is a borough in south-east London.
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Correct Answer: Africa
The Nile flows north through north-eastern Africa to the Mediterranean Sea.
Correct Answer: Nile River
The Nile, at about 6,650 km, is the standard one-liner answer for the world's longest river.
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Correct Answer: Bretton Woods Institutions
The IMF and the World Bank are the Bretton Woods Institutions, created at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference.
Correct Answer: Vienna
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
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Correct Answer: China
The world's largest hydroelectric power station by capacity, the Three Gorges Dam, is in China.
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Correct Answer: Italian
Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy, and sailed for Spain in 1492.
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Correct Answer: India
Mount Everest is named after Sir George Everest, a former Surveyor General of India.
Correct Answer: Mount Everest
Mount Everest (8,849 m) on the Nepal-China border is the world's highest peak.
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Correct Answer: Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea
The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea across Egypt.
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Correct Answer: North & South Korea
The 38th parallel roughly marks the boundary between North Korea and South Korea.
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Correct Answer: Geneva
The World Trade Organization is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Correct Answer: December 1991
The Soviet Union dissolved in December 1991, and the Russian Federation succeeded it as the continuing state.
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Correct Answer: Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and led its independence movement.
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Correct Answer: India
India has the world's longest written constitution, with 448 articles in its original form.
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Correct Answer: Gunnar Myrdal
Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations was written by Gunnar Myrdal, published in 1968.
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Correct Answer: Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace was written by Leo Tolstoy and published between 1865 and 1869.
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Correct Answer: Keyboard
A keyboard encodes characters into a computer by pressing keys.
Correct Answer: Chip
The extremely small silicon piece at the heart of an integrated circuit is called a chip.
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Correct Answer: Greece
Pythagoras was an ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician from the island of Samos.
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Correct Answer: Sweden
Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist, patented dynamite in 1867.
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Correct Answer: Antarctica
The coldest place on Earth is in Antarctica, where temperatures below -89 °C have been recorded at Vostok Station.
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Correct Answer: Sahara Desert
The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert, covering about 9.2 million square kilometres in North Africa.
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Correct Answer: Yen
The yen is the currency of Japan.
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Correct Answer: Bill Gates
Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975.
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Correct Answer: Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the Moon, on 20 July 1969 during Apollo 11.
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Correct Answer: Asia
Asia is the largest continent by area, covering about 44.6 million square kilometres.
Correct Answer: Australia
Australia is the smallest continent by area, at about 7.7 million square kilometres.
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Correct Answer: Venus
Venus is the brightest planet in the night sky, outshining all other planets because of its thick, highly reflective cloud cover.
Correct Answer: Jupiter
Jupiter has the shortest day of any planet, rotating once in about 9 hours 55 minutes.
Correct Answer: Uranus
Uranus holds the record for the coldest planetary atmosphere, measured at about -224 °C, and is the standard one-liner answer.
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Correct Answer: 71%
Oceans cover about 71% of the Earth's surface, with the Pacific alone accounting for roughly a third of the planet's surface.
Correct Answer: Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean, covering more area than all of Earth's land combined.
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Correct Answer: Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel discovered the laws of heredity through his pea-plant experiments in the 1860s.
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Correct Answer: Troposphere
The troposphere is the lowest layer of the atmosphere, extending from the Earth's surface to about 12 km up.
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Correct Answer: 21%
Oxygen makes up about 21% of the Earth's atmosphere, with nitrogen accounting for about 78%.
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Correct Answer: Spiral
The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy.
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Correct Answer: Alloy
A mixture of two or more metals (or a metal with a non-metal) is called an alloy, such as brass or steel.
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Correct Answer: Radiation
The sun's heat reaches Earth by radiation, travelling through the vacuum of space as electromagnetic waves.
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Correct Answer: 40,075 km
The Earth's equatorial circumference is about 40,075 km.
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Correct Answer: Seismology
Seismology is the scientific study of earthquakes and the propagation of seismic waves.
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Correct Answer: Diamond
Diamond is the hardest naturally occurring substance, ranking 10 on the Mohs hardness scale.
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Correct Answer: 300,000 km/s
The speed of light in a vacuum is approximately 300,000 kilometres per second.
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Correct Answer: Barometer
A barometer measures atmospheric pressure.
Subject 3
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Correct Answer: 1952
Natural gas was discovered at Sui in Balochistan in 1952, and the field became the backbone of Pakistan's gas supply.
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Correct Answer: Abdul Hassan Isphani
Mirza Abul Hassan Ispahani was Pakistan's first Ambassador to the United States, serving from 1947 to 1952.
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Correct Answer: 9th Amendment
The Constitution (Ninth Amendment) Bill, 1985 proposed adding to Article 2 that the injunctions of Islam as laid down in the Holy Quran and Sunnah shall be the supreme law.
Correct Answer: 1956
Pakistan's first constitution was enforced on 23 March 1956, making Pakistan a republic.
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Correct Answer: 140 MAF
The Indus River System's annual average flow is commonly cited at about 140 million acre-feet (MAF).
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Correct Answer: Chaman
The Khojak Pass connects Qila Abdullah with Chaman on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Balochistan.
Correct Answer: Chitral
The Lowari Pass connects Dir with Chitral in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Correct Answer: Gwadar
The Makran Coastal Highway runs from Karachi to Gwadar, making Gwadar its farthest point from Karachi.
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Correct Answer: South Waziristan
South Waziristan was the largest of the former FATA agencies by area.
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Correct Answer: Canada
KANUPP, Pakistan's first nuclear power plant, was built with Canadian assistance and commissioned in 1972.
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Correct Answer: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
The 1963 Pakistan-China boundary agreement was signed by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Pakistan's Foreign Minister.
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Correct Answer: Jasmine
The jasmine is Pakistan's national flower.
Correct Answer: Markhor
The markhor, a wild goat of the Himalayas, is Pakistan's national animal.
Subject 4
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Correct Answer: Chemist
Jabir ibn Hayyan (Geber) is regarded as a father of chemistry for his pioneering work on distillation, acids and laboratory method.
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Correct Answer: Ibn-e-Sina
Al-Qanoon fi al-Tibb (The Canon of Medicine) was written by Ibn Sina (Avicenna).
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Correct Answer: Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
Kapas Ka Phool is a short-story collection by Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi; its title story deals with the 1965 India-Pakistan war.
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Correct Answer: Palestine issue
The 'Deal of the Century' was the 2020 United States peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Correct Answer: Full discretionary powers
Carte blanche means full discretionary power to act as one chooses.
Correct Answer: An embarrassing or incorrect act
A faux pas is an embarrassing social blunder or tactless act.
Correct Answer: Things to be corrected
A corrigendum is a list of errors with their corrections, literally 'things to be corrected'.
Correct Answer: The King
Rex is Latin for 'the King', used in legal and royal contexts (as Regina is for the Queen).
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Questions
No. It is Sir Adnan's 'PMS 2026 GK 5' one-liner 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.
Printed Q8 asked for the Pakistani scientist who 'worked under Albert Einstein'. Abdus Salam met Einstein casually at Princeton, but his doctoral advisor was Nicholas Kemmer at Cambridge — he did not work under Einstein, so the item as printed has no standard answer and was dropped rather than rewritten.
Jahangir Khan's most-won squash championship is the British Open (ten titles, against six World Opens), and Kapas Ka Phool is by Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi, not Khadija Mastoor. Both corrections are flagged in the questions' keyFlag fields.
The 9th Amendment bill would have made the Quran and Sunnah the supreme law, but it passed only the Senate in 1986 and lapsed when the National Assembly was dissolved, so it never came into force. The booklet's answer names the bill.
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