PMS · PMS · 2023
Solved PMS 2023 high-yield general-knowledge practice set from Sir Adnan's one-liner booklet — Pakistan studies, world geography, science, UN, literature and computing — with verified answers and explanations. A practice set, not an official past paper.
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Sir Adnan's 'PMS 2023 HIGH YIELD' booklet (12 pp, header 'ONE-LINER (PPSC/FPSC NEW TREND 2025-26)') from the monster-data 'PMS SCREENING 2026 GK UPDATED' pack. 96 of 100 printed items published: printed Q61 (Sahara), Q63 (Babbage), Q72 (yen) and Q78 (Au) dropped as internal duplicates of earlier items in the same booklet; seven answers corrected to the standard answer with flags (flag designer to Amiruddin Kidwai, first Pakistani leader to visit China to Suhrawardy, border-count to 4, Literature 2021 to Gurnah, BCC to Blind Carbon Copy, largest population to India, first Muslim Nobel laureate to Sadat); note flags on the border length, Europe's deserts, the Nile, the Sahara, the San Francisco charter signing, the Great Wall and cricket's Olympic status.
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Correct Answer: Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, when he noticed that a Penicillium mould killed surrounding staphylococcus bacteria.
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Correct Answer: Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin
Khawaja Nazimuddin succeeded Muhammad Ali Jinnah as Governor-General in September 1948 and served until 1951, when he became Prime Minister.
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Correct Answer: 595 km
The Pakistan-China border runs through the Karakoram range; the booklet's figure is 595 km.
Correct Answer: 4
Pakistan shares land borders with four countries: Afghanistan, China, India and Iran.
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Correct Answer: Europe
Europe is conventionally the one continent with no true desert.
Correct Answer: Australia
Australia is the smallest continent by land area.
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Correct Answer: 10 January 1966
The Tashkent Declaration was signed on 10 January 1966 by President Ayub Khan and Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, ending the 1965 war.
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Correct Answer: Amiruddin Kidwai
The flag was designed by Syed Amiruddin Kidwai, based on the All-India Muslim League flag with a white stripe added, and adopted on 11 August 1947.
Correct Answer: Markhor
The markhor, a wild goat of the high mountains, is Pakistan's national animal.
Correct Answer: Jasmine
Jasmine is the national flower of Pakistan.
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Correct Answer: Waris Shah
Waris Shah's Heer Ranjha (1766) is the classic Punjabi rendition of the Heer-Ranjha romance.
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Correct Answer: 108
In the World Happiness Report 2023, Pakistan ranked 108th of 137 countries.
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Correct Answer: India
India won the 1983 Cricket World Cup, beating the West Indies in the final at Lord's.
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Correct Answer: Myanmar
Myanmar is not a SAARC member; SAARC's eight members are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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Correct Answer: Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage designed the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine in the 19th century, earning him the title of father of the computer.
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Correct Answer: Bangladesh
Bangladesh is not an ASEAN member; ASEAN's members are the ten Southeast Asian states, from Brunei to Vietnam.
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Correct Answer: Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 with fellow Harvard students.
Correct Answer: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTP, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, is the foundation protocol of the World Wide Web.
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Correct Answer: 17
The UN's 2030 Agenda sets 17 Sustainable Development Goals, adopted in 2015.
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Correct Answer: Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
Prime Minister Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy visited China in October 1956, the first Pakistani premier to do so; Zhou Enlai returned the visit that December.
Correct Answer: 30 September 1947
Pakistan joined the United Nations on 30 September 1947, weeks after independence.
Correct Answer: 1969
Pakistan was a founding member of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, established in 1969 after the Rabat summit.
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Correct Answer: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for his uncompromising penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee.
Correct Answer: Norway
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway, while the other Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden.
Correct Answer: Anwar Sadat
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize with Menachem Begin for the Camp David peace efforts, the first Nobel Prize won by a Muslim.
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Correct Answer: 1952
Natural gas was discovered at Sui, Balochistan, in 1952, and Sui gas began fuelling Pakistan's energy system soon after.
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Correct Answer: Goodness
Virtue means moral goodness, so goodness is its synonym.
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Correct Answer: 1974
India's first nuclear test, Smiling Buddha at Pokhran, took place on 18 May 1974.
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Correct Answer: Muhammad bin Salman
Muhammad bin Salman has been Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia since June 2017.
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Correct Answer: Blind Carbon Copy
In email, BCC is the blind carbon copy field: recipients added there receive the message while their addresses stay hidden from the other recipients.
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Correct Answer: 10 December
Human Rights Day is observed on 10 December, the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
Correct Answer: 5 June
World Environment Day is observed every year on 5 June.
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Correct Answer: Blood
Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder in which the body produces abnormal haemoglobin, causing anaemia.
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Correct Answer: 1948
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948.
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Correct Answer: New York
The United Nations headquarters stands in New York City, on the East River in Manhattan.
Correct Answer: 1945
The United Nations was founded in 1945, when its Charter came into force on 24 October that year.
Correct Answer: Paris, France
UNESCO's headquarters is in Paris, France.
Correct Answer: San Francisco
The UN Charter was signed at San Francisco in June 1945, at the conference that founded the organisation.
Correct Answer: 5
The Security Council has five permanent members: China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Correct Answer: Rome, Italy
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is headquartered in Rome, Italy.
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Correct Answer: 1956
Pakistan became a republic on 23 March 1956, when its first constitution came into force.
Correct Answer: 1956
Pakistan's first constitution was enforced on 23 March 1956, the day the country became a republic.
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Correct Answer: Dhaka
Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh.
Correct Answer: Ankara
Ankara has been Turkey's capital since 1923; Istanbul is its largest city, not its capital.
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Correct Answer: Imran Khan
Pakistan: A Personal History (2011) is Imran Khan's memoir of his cricket career and political journey.
Correct Answer: Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time was published in 1988.
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Correct Answer: Smallpox
Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccine of 1796 was the first successful vaccine; smallpox was later declared eradicated in 1980.
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Correct Answer: Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean, covering more area than all the Earth's land combined.
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Correct Answer: Nile
The Nile, at about 6,650 km, is the conventionally cited longest river in the world.
Correct Answer: Amazon
The Amazon carries more water than any other river, discharging more than the next seven largest rivers combined.
Correct Answer: Tibet (Kailash Range)
The Indus rises near Mount Kailash in Tibet and flows through Ladakh and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea.
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Correct Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876 and made the first intelligible telephone call that year.
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Correct Answer: India
The Taj Mahal stands at Agra, in India, built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.
Correct Answer: China
The Great Wall stretches across northern China.
Correct Answer: Mongols
The Great Wall was built in successive phases to guard China's northern frontier against nomadic invaders from the steppe.
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Correct Answer: Evaporation
Evaporation is the process by which liquid water changes into water vapour.
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Correct Answer: Sahara
The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, covering much of North Africa.
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Correct Answer: Yen
The yen is the currency of Japan.
Correct Answer: Yuan (Renminbi)
The yuan, officially the renminbi, is China's currency.
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Correct Answer: Au
Au, from the Latin aurum, is the chemical symbol for gold.
Correct Answer: Sodium
Na, from the Latin natrium, is the chemical symbol for sodium.
Correct Answer: H₂O
A water molecule has two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom: H2O.
Correct Answer: Nitrous Oxide
Nitrous oxide is known as laughing gas for the euphoric effect it can produce when inhaled.
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Correct Answer: Elon Musk
Elon Musk is the chief executive of Tesla, the electric-vehicle company he joined in 2004.
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Correct Answer: India
India, with over 900 million eligible voters, is the world's largest democracy.
Correct Answer: India
India overtook China as the world's most populous country in 2023, according to United Nations estimates.
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Correct Answer: Genetics
Genetics is the study of heredity and variation in living organisms.
Correct Answer: Carbon Dioxide
Plants take in carbon dioxide for photosynthesis, using it with water and sunlight to make food and release oxygen.
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Correct Answer: Mount Everest
Mount Everest (8,849 m) on the Nepal-China border is the world's highest mountain above sea level.
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Correct Answer: William Shakespeare
Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, written around 1606.
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Correct Answer: Jupiter
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined.
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Correct Answer: Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EBCDIC, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code, is an 8-bit character encoding developed by IBM for mainframes.
Correct Answer: Basic Input/Output System
BIOS, Basic Input/Output System, is the firmware that starts a computer's hardware before the operating system loads.
Correct Answer: Direct Memory Access
DMA, Direct Memory Access, lets hardware access a computer's memory directly without going through the processor.
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Correct Answer: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
The WTO, established in 1995, replaced the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which had governed world trade since 1948.
Correct Answer: North American Free Trade Agreement
NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada, Mexico and the United States, operated from 1994 until it was replaced by the USMCA in 2020.
Correct Answer: 1995
The World Trade Organization was established on 1 January 1995, succeeding GATT.
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Correct Answer: Iskander Mirza
Iskander Mirza became Pakistan's first President on 23 March 1956, when the country became a republic.
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Correct Answer: Washington D.C.
The International Monetary Fund is headquartered in Washington, D.C.
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Correct Answer: Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan
Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, who led Pakistan's uranium-enrichment programme, is known as the father of Pakistan's nuclear programme.
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Correct Answer: Wilhelm Röntgen
Wilhelm Röntgen won the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for the discovery of X-rays.
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Correct Answer: Karachi
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was born in Karachi on 25 December 1876.
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Correct Answer: Faisal Mosque
The Faisal Mosque in Islamabad is the largest mosque in Pakistan.
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Correct Answer: Zahid Hussain
Zahid Hussain was the first Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, serving from 1948 to 1953.
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Correct Answer: Nitrogen
Nitrogen makes up about 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
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Correct Answer: USA and USSR
The Cold War (1947-1991) was the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective blocs.
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Correct Answer: 10 Downing Street
10 Downing Street in London has been the official residence of the British Prime Minister since 1735.
Correct Answer: Australia
The Great Barrier Reef lies off the coast of Queensland, Australia.
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Correct Answer: 1949
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded on 4 April 1949 with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty.
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Correct Answer: Cricket
Cricket is not part of the regular modern Olympic programme as the booklet's era understands it.
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Correct Answer: New York
New York City is nicknamed the Big Apple.
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Correct Answer: Journalism
The Pulitzer Prizes honour outstanding work in journalism and the arts; journalism is the category this item asks about.
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Correct Answer: Egypt
Alexandria is Egypt's main Mediterranean seaport.
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Correct Answer: Cuba
Fidel Castro led Cuba from 1959, serving as prime minister and then president until 2008.
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Correct Answer: A.K. Fazlul Huq
A. K. Fazlul Huq moved the Lahore Resolution at the Muslim League session on 23 March 1940.
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Correct Answer: Demography
Demography is the statistical study of human populations, their size, structure and distribution.
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No. It is Sir Adnan's 'PMS 2023 HIGH YIELD' one-liner booklet from the monster-data 'PMS SCREENING 2026 GK UPDATED' pack, published as paperType 'practice', never as a past paper. The year 2023 is the booklet's label, not a claimed exam session.
Printed Q61 (largest desert, Sahara), Q63 (father of the computer, Babbage), Q72 (currency of Japan, yen) and Q78 (chemical symbol for gold, Au) each repeat an earlier item in the same booklet, so they were dropped as internal duplicates and cross-linked to the first occurrence, not re-extracted.
Seven: the flag's designer is Amiruddin Kidwai (the booklet names the anthem's composer, Chagla); the first Pakistani premier to visit China was Suhrawardy in 1956; Pakistan has four land neighbours, not five; the 2021 Literature Nobel went to Abdulrazak Gurnah (Glück won in 2020); BCC is Blind Carbon Copy; India, not China, is now the most populous country (UN, 2023); and the first Muslim Nobel laureate was Anwar Sadat (Peace, 1978), with Abdus Salam the first Muslim science laureate (1979). Each correction is flagged in the question's keyFlag field.
They record honest qualifications without changing the standard answer: the Pakistan-China border is often cited as 596 km against the booklet's 595 km; Europe's desert-free status, the Nile's longest-river title, the Sahara's largest-desert title, the San Francisco charter signing, the Great Wall's opponents and cricket's Olympic status all carry the usual textbook caveats, stated in the flag.
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