PMS Past Papers General Knowledge 2016 [ Solved Papers]

PMS Past Papers General Knowledge 2016 [ Solved Papers]

PROVINCIAL MANAGEENT SERVICES (PMS)

PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

WRITTEN TEST FOR RECRUITMENT TO THE POST OF

PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE. ETC. BS-17 2016

SUBJECT: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Acoustics is the science of:
(A) Light ✓
(B) Waves
(C) Sound
(D) Colours
[Acoustics is the branch of physics that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound.]
2. The art of breeding Silk Worm and production of Silk is called:
(A) Microbiology
(B) Sericulture ✓
(C) Biochemistry
(D) Horticulture
[Silk is a natural fiber that is produced by the silkworm--the caterpillar larva of the domesticated silkmoth Bombyx mori. The cultivation of silk from silkworms is a process known as silk farming, or sericulture. ... But having the right type of silkworm is only the first part of the process of sericulture.] Source Link
3. The science of celestial bodies is known as:
(A) Agronomy
(B) Coprology
(C) Astrology
(D) Astronomy ✓
[In more recent years, scientists have also begun to investigate the geology of the planets and other celestial bodies that make up our solar system. Planetary geology is the study of the solid matter that makes up celestial bodies, such as planets, moons, asteroids, and comets.Jun 19, 2014]
4. Telepathy is:
(A) Communication by sensory perceptions
(B) Communication between mind and heart
(C) Communication by means other than sensory perceptions ✓
(0) None of these

5. Pedagogy is the science of:
(A) Seeing
(B) Behaving
(C) Teaching ✓ 
(D) Learning
[As a result, education as a science – and its study – is 'still less a “science” and has little prestige (ibid.: 2). He continued, 'The dominant educational institutions of this country have had no concern with theory, its relation to practice, with pedagogy' (he defined pedagogy as the science of teaching).] & Wiki
6. Study of maps and features of the Universe is called:
(A) Metaphysics
(B) Cosmography
(C) Cosmology
(D) Cartography ✓
[Physical cosmology is the branch of physics and astrophysics that deals with the study of the physical origins and evolution of the Universe. It also includes the study of the nature of the Universe on a large scale. In its earliest form, it was what is now known as "celestial mechanics", the study of the heavens.]
7. Scientific study and measurement of behaviour is called:
(A) Psychiatry
(B) Psychology ✓
(C) Physiology
(D) Psycho-analysis
[Psychology is the scientific study of behavior, cognition, and emotion. Psychology is an academic and applied discipline involving the scientific study of mental processes and behavior.]
8. Etymology refers to the study of:
(A) insects
(B) Words ✓
(C) Medicines
(D) Reptiles
[The word etymology derives from the Greek word ἐτυμολογία (etumología), itself from ἔτυμον (étumon), meaning "true sense", and the suffix -logia, denoting "the study of". In linguistics, the term etymon refers to a word or morpheme (e.g., stem or root) from which a later word derives.]
9. Paediatrics is relevant to:
(A) Children ✓
(B) Pregnant women
(C) Old people
(D) bones
[Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. ... Pediatricians work both in hospitals, particularly those working in its subspecialties such as neonatology, and as primary care physicians.]
10. Shape of the Milky Way Galaxy is:
(A) Rectangular
(B) Spiral ✓
(C) Elliptical
(D) Circular
 [The spiral galaxies were characterized by disk shapes with spiral arms. It stood to reason that because the Milky Way was disk-shaped and because spiral galaxies were disk-shaped, the Milky Way was probably a spiral galaxy.]
11. Coldest planet of the Solar System is:
(A) Saturn
(B) Neptune ✓
(C) Earth
(D) Venus
 [It depends upon how you define "coldest." With Pluto out of the race, the farthest "real" planet from the Sun is Neptune. Neptune and its neighbor, Uranus, are known as the "ice giants," since they are composed of huge amounts of rock and water, ammonia, and methane ice crystals.]
12. Which of the following planets has the maximum number of Satellites:
(A) Venus
(B) Saturn
(C) Uranus
(D) Jupiter ✓
 
13. Which planet takes the longest time to go once around the Sun?
(A) Neptune ✓
(B) Mars
(C) Jupiter
(D) Earth
 
14. The first artificial satellite was launched by:
(A) Japan
(B) Russia ✓
(C) America
(D) France
 
15. The first Canadian woman in space was:
(A) Roberta Bonder ✓
(B1 Dirk Fremont
(C) Tamayo Mendez
(D) Marc Garneau
 
16. The first astronaut to set foot on moon was:
(A) Yuri Gagarin
(B) Edmund Hailey
(C) Tamayo Mendez
(D) Neil Armstrong ✓
 
17. The theory stating that new matter is always created to fill the space left by the Universe is called:
(A) Big Bang
(B) Steady State ✓
(C) Hubble’s Theory
(D) Black Hole
 
18. The velocity of sound in air at sea level’ is:
(A) 881 meters per second
(B) 771 meters per second
(C) 661 meters per second
(D) 561 meters per second
Complete Reference Guide of Sound
[This is not a good answer, because someoneto forgot to tell us the important temperature, and the given atmospheric pressure "at sea level" makes really no sense. In SI units with dry air at 20°C (68°F), the speed of sound c is 343 meters per second (m/s).]

19. Acceleration caused by gravity is:
(A) 23 feet per second2
(B) 32 feet per second2 ✓
(C) 42 feet per second2
(D) 52 feet per second2
 
20. A rocket needs the speed of to escape from earth's gravity.
(A) 22 miles per second
(B) 15 miles per second
(C) 12 miles per second
(D) 7 miles per second ✓
 
21. Sunlight is composed of:
(A) 6 colours
(B) 7 colours ✓
(C) 8 colours
(D) 9 colours
 
22. The rarest gas in air Is:
(A) Neon ✓
(B) Carbon Dioxide
(C) Helium
(D) Oxygen
 
23. Minor objects in Irregular shapes orbiting the sun are called:
(A) Vessel
(B) Asteroid ✓
(C) Meteors
(D) Comet
 
24. The lowest zone of atmosphere containing about seventy five percent of total mass of atmosphere and ninety percent of its water vapour is called:
(A) Troposphere ✓
(B) Lonosphere
(C) Aerosphere
(D) Stratosphere
 
25. The theory about the beginning of the Universe by a huge explosion is called:
(A) Binary
(B) Black Hole
(C) Big Bang ✓
(D) Steady State
 
26. Constellation is:
(A) Classification of stars satellites
(B) Classification of stars
(C) Patterns or groups of stars in the sky ✓
(D) Patterns or groups of satellites In the sky
 
27. The sun takes years to travel around the galaxy.
(A) One hundred years
(B) One millions years
(C) 225 million years ✓
(D) 225 years
 
28. Days and nights are equal throughout the year at:
(A) North America
(B) South Africa
(C) Equator ✓
(D) North Pole
 
29. Celestial body that affects tides of oceans is:
(A) Sun
(B) Moon ✓
(C) Galaxy
(D) Meteorite
 
30. Huge cloud of gas and dust in universe is called:
(A) Constellation
(B) Satellite
(C) Meteorite
(D) Nebula ✓
 
31. Outer surface of the sun is called:
(A) Chromosphere
(B) Photosphere
(C) Corona ✓
(D) lonosphere
[The atmosphere of the sun is composed of several layers, mainly the photosphere, the chromosphere and the corona. It's in these outer layers that the sun's energy, which has bubbled up from the sun's interior layers, is detected as sunlight. The lowest layer of the sun's atmosphere is the photosphere.]
32. Sun’s diameter is:
(A) 3 million Km
(B) 2.5 million Km
(C) 1.4 million Km ✓ [1.391016 million Km]
(D) 1 million Km
 [The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, with internal convective motion that generates a magnetic field via a dynamo process. It is by far the most important source of energy for life on Earth.]
33. The largest planet is:
(A) Venus
(B) Jupiter ✓
(C) Mercury
(D) Mars
 [Largest Planet: Jupiter. The largest planet in our solar system by far is Jupiter, which beats out all the other planets in both mass and volume. Jupiter's mass is more than 300 times that of Earth, and its diameter, at 140,000 km, is about 11 times Earth's diameter.]
34. The continuous movement of continents is called Ccntinental:
(A) Shakes
(B) Drift ✓
(C) Motion
(D) Move
 
35. The layer of atmosphere* in which we live is called:
(A) Stratosphere
(B) Photosphere
(C) Lithosphere
(D) lonosphere

[* All options are wrong. The troposphere is the lowest layer of the atmosphere. This is the layer where we live and where weather happens. Temperature in this layer generally decreases with height. The boundary between the stratosphere and the troposphere is called the tropopause. The atmosphere has 4 layers: the troposphere that we live in near the surface of the earth; the stratosphere that houses the ozone layer; the mesosphere, a colder and lower density layer with about 0.1% of the atmosphere; and the thermosphere, the top layer, where the air is hot but very thin. ]
 
36. Study of fingerprints is called:
(A) Genetics
(B) Dactylography ✓
(C) Hematology
(D) Histology
37. Which rocks make the earth’s surface or crust?
(A) Sedimentary
(B) Igneous
(C) Metamorphic
(D) All of these ✓
 
38. Area in a desert where there is sufficient water for plants is called:
(A) Island
(B) Oasis ✓
(C) Green desert
(D) Greenland

39. Plate tectonics theory explains the movements of:
(A) Rockets
(B) Rivers
(C) Oceans
(D) Continents ✓
 
40. Silicon is also called:
(A) Stone Maker
(B) Ocean Maker
(C) Earth Maker ✓
(D) Mountain Maker

41. Days and nights are equal all the year at:
(A) New York
(B) Nairobi ✓
(C) Oslo
(D) Brussels

42. When Magma reaches the surface it is called:
(A) Moller magma
(B) Volcano
(C) Lava ✓
(D) Igneous lava

43. Which star is known as the Constant Star*?
(A) Sirius
(B) Canopus star
(C) North star ✓
(D) The sun

44. Which area is known as World's earthquake belt?
(A) Pacific ring of fire ✓
(B) Andes Range
(C) Sharm-el-Sneikh, Egypt
(D) Central and Atlantic Ridge *

’ A pole star is a visible star, preferably a prominent one, that is approximately aligned with the Earth's axis of rotation; that Is, a star whose apparent position is close to one of the celestial poles, and which lies approximately directly overhead when viewed from the Earth's North Pole or South Pole. A similar concept also applies to planets other than the Earth. In practice, the term pole star usually refers to Polaris, which is the current northern pole star, also known as the North Star.


45. Which of the following is the physics law of moments?
(A) The product of clockwise moments is equal to the product of anti-clockwise moments
(B) The sum of clockwise moments is equal to the sum of anticlockwise moments ✓
(C) The product of clockwise moments is equal to the value of anti-clockwise moments
(D) The sum of clockwise moments equal to the value of anti-clockwise moments.

46. Which chemical element has properties of a metal and non-metals?
(A) Metalloid ✓
(B) Lanthanoid
(C) Actanoid
(D) Graphite

47. Which tube extends from mouth to anus?
(A) Alimentary canal ✓
(B) Root canal
(C) Basic canal
(D) Back canal

48. Where is the bile stored and intermittently released into the small intestine to aid digestion?
(A) Kidney
(B) Liver
(C) Gall Bladder ✓
(D) Pancreas

49. Blood circulates in which parts of the body?
(A) Veins
(B) Arteries
(C) Capillaries
(D) All of these ✓

50. Which blood group is a Universal Donor?
(A) Group A
(B) Group B
(C) Group AB
(D) Group O Negative ✓ 

51. Which part of the brain contains centers for the control of respiration, heart-beat and blood pressure?
(A) Medulla oblongata
(B) Medulla ✓
(C) Cerebellum
(D) Cerebrum

52. The structure in a cell which contains the genes is called:
(A) Genetics
(B) Saliva
(C) Marrow
(D) Chromosome ✓

53. Who coined the term gene?
(A) John Dalton
(B) Dalton Gene
(C) Wilhelm Johannes ✓
(D) Andrew Fleming

[Herold Georg Wilhelm Johannes Schweickerdt (28 February 1903, Schmie, Baden-Württemberg – 21 February 1977, Pretoria) was a German botanist.]

54. Vitamin A is essential for:
(A) Skeletal growth
(B) Preventing night blindness ✓
(C) Healthy epithelia tissue
(D) All of these

55. Which vitamin prevents hemorrhaging?
(A) B1
(B) B12
(C) E
(D) K ✓

56. How much blood does a normal adult person have in the body?
(A) About 6 to 7 litres
(B) About 2 to 3 litres
(C) About 4 to 5 litres ✓
(D) About 3 to 4 litres

57. Hydrochloric acid is necessary for easy digestion of:
(A) Fats
(B) Carbohydrates
(C) Enzymes
(D) Proteins ✓

58. Which vitamin is provided by sunlight of the human body?
(A) Vitamin D ✓
(B) Vitamin C
(C) Vitamin E
(D) Vitamin A

59. When was HIV identified?
(A) 1987
(B) 1985
(C) 1983 ✓
(D) 1980

60. Which disease causes difficulty in breathing?
(A) Asthma ✓
(B) Anemia
(C) Astigmatism
(D) Autism

61. Which of the following is the most common form of color blindness, usually found in males?
(A) Difficulty in distinguishing red from green ✓
(B) Difficulty in distinguishing red from blue
(C) Difficulty in distinguishing red from orange
(D) Difficulty in distinguishing blue from black

62. Disease which travels itself from place to place is called:
(A) Endemic
(B) Epidemic
(C) Infection ✓
(D) Airborne

63. What is H5N1?
(A) Fungi
(B) Vaccine
(C) Virus ✓
(D) Bacteria

64. Objects having the same size, shape and measurement are:
(A) Similar
(B) Congruent ✓
(C) Symmetrical
(D) Variant

65. A line passing through a circle away from its centre is called:
(A) Radius
(B) Diameter
(C) Segment
(D) Chord ✓

66. The sum of the angles in a triangle is:
(A) 360°
(B) 180° ✓
(C) 280°
(D) 90°

67. According to the Pythagoras Theorem (When the hypotenuse is C):
(A) a2- b2 = c2
(B) a2 + b2 + c2 = 0
(C) a2 + b2 = c
(D) a2 + b2 = c2 ✓

68. Two polygons are similar if:
(A) All corresponding sides are proportional
(B) All corresponding angles are equal
(C) Both A and B ✓
(D) None of these

69. The area of a trapezium is:
(A) 1/2 x base x height
(B) 1/2 x base area x height
(C) 1/2 x sum of parallel sides x height ✓
(D) 1/2 x sum of parallel sides

70. The volume of a sphere is:
(A)  4/3 πr^3  ✓
(B) 2/3 πr^3
(C) πr^3
(D) 2πr

71. Mid-term breaking is applied to:
(A) Quadratic equations ✓
(B) Linear equations
(C) Perfect squares
(D) Polynomial functions

72. What is the next term for the sequence 486,162, 54,18, 6....
(A) 3
(B) 2 ✓
(C) 1
(D) 4

73. What is 0.004 x Q.5?
(A) 0.2
(B) 0.02
(C) 0.002 ✓
(D) 0.0002

74. In the equation of a straight line, what does the letter ‘C‘ represents?
(A) Gradient
(B) x Intercept
(C) Intercept ✓
(D) y Coordinate

75. When 73 is added to 89 and the amount is doubled, it gives the same result as the square of 18. What is the answer:
(A) 164
(B) 162 ✓
(C) 160
(D) 163

76. What devices accept data from outside the computer and transfer it into the CPU?
(A) Analogue to digital converters
(B) Sensors
(C) Input devices ✓
(D) Digital devices

77. Which short cut key is used to insert a new slide in power point presentation?
(A) Ctrl + S
(B) Ctrl + M ✓
(C) Ctrt + N
(D) Ctrl + B

78. Spam or fraudulent e-mails are also called:
(A) Phishing scams
(B) Junk mail ✓
(C) Pharming scams
(D) Malware viruses

79. Who was the inventor of Mouse?
(A) Douglas Engiebart ✓
(B) Ada Lovelace
(C) Charles Babbage
(D) None of these

80. Which is the largest hardware company of computers?
(A) Microsoft
(B) Dell
(C) HP ✓
(D) My Space

81. Which of the following is a conventional designation of pre-released software?
(A) Alpha
(B) Omega
(C) Raw
(D) Beta ✓

82. Temporary storage place for information in a computer is called:
(A) Back up
(B) Buffer ✓
(C) Binary file
(D) Data recorder

83. The Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act was passed in Pakistan in the year:
(A) 2013
(B) 2014
(C) 2015
(D) 2016 ✓

84. When was the last census held In Pakistan?
(A) 1972
(B) 1981
(C) 1998 ✓
(D) 2001

85. Maiakand Pass connects Peshawar with:
(A) Gilgit
(B) Swat
(C) Dir
(D) Chitral ✓

86. Headquarters of Arab League is located at:
(A) Tehran
(B) Cairo ✓
(C) Riyadh
(D) Tunis

87. Judicial Body of UN is called:
(A) International Court of Justice ✓
(B) General Assembly
(C) Security Council
(D) International Criminal Court

88. COP 22, the 22nd Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, was held in 2016 in:
(A) Paris
(B) Marrakesh ✓
(C) New York
(D) Moscow

89. Which country has the largest resources of crude oil?
(A) Russia
(B) USA
(C) Kuwait
(D) Saudi Arabia ✓

90. The highest battlefield in the world is:
(A) Tibet
(B) Siachen Glacier ✓
(C) Jafna
(D) Kashmir
 
91. Summer Olympics for the year 2020 will be held in:
(A) Tokyo ✓
(B) Beijing
(C) Athens
(D) Hanoi
 
92. A country’s total financial obligations to the rest of the world are known as:
(A) Total burden
(B) Total debt
(C) National liabilities
(D) External debt ✓

93. Brexit referendum was held on:
(A) October 23 2016
(B) August 23, 2016
(C) June 23, 2016 ✓
(D) April 23, 2016
 
94. Which political party does US President Elect belong to:
(A) Labour
(B) Liberals
(C) Democratic
(D) Republicans ✓
 
95. The term Track-II Diplomacy is used for:
(A) Managing relations between two countries using official channels
(B) Managing relations between two countries using unofficial channels ✓
(C) Diplomacy by diplomats during war
(D) None of above

96. The first of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals relates to:
(A) Climate Action
(B) Quality Education
(C) Poverty Alleviation ✓
(D) Marine Life

97. The largest producer of solar energy in the world is:
(A) Germany
(B) USA ✓
(C) Russia
(D) Holland

98.One barrel of Petroleum is equal to:
(A) 34.97 UK gallons
(B) 42 US gallons ✓
(C) 0.159 cubic metre
(D) None of these

99.First woman to win Nobel Prize was:
(A) Aung San Suu Kyi
(B) Mother Teresa
(C) Marie Currie (1903) in Physics  ✓
(D) Florence Nightingale

100. Hydrometer is used to measure:
(A) Acidity of water
(B) Specific gravity of a liquid ✓
(C) Pollution in water
(D) Gravity of milk