FPSC Assistant Director NAB Solved Past Papers
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NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU (NAB)
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE PAPER 2012
FOR THE POSTS OF DEPUTY DIRECTOR NAB
1. Who is known as the father of English poetry?(A) Geoffrey Chaucer ✓
(B) John Milton
(C) John Keats
(D) None of these
2. Where the shrine of Khawaja Ghulam Fareed is located?
(A) Pakpattan
(B) Multan
(C) Mithankot ✓
(D) None of these
3. What is “Great Bear”?
(A) Waterfall
(B) Lake ✓
(C) Sea
(D) Animal
4. Which of the following countries is the world's largest producer of coal?
(A) Russia
(B) China ✓
(C) Pakistan
(D) U.S.A.
5. Who was Boris Yeltsin?
(A) President of Russia ✓
(B) President of Ukraine
(C) President of Belarus
(D) President of Estonia
6. The capital of Chechnya is:
(A) Colombo
(B) Islamabad
(C) Washington
(D) Grozny ✓
7. Chandra Gupta was also called
(A) Gupta Empire
(B) Mauryan Empire ✓
(C) Chandra Empire
(D) Ashoka Empire
8. 'Naxalite' movement is a pro communism movement started in:
(A) India ✓
(B) Nepal
(C) Bhutan
(D) Sri Lanka
9. First Ghazawa (Battle) took place between Muslims and Kuffar is
(A) Abawa ✓
(B) Badr
(C) Khundaq
(D) Tabook
10. How many mosques are mentioned in the Qur'an?
(A) 3
(B) 4 ✓
(C) 10
(D) 15
11. What is meant by “Petticoat Government"?
(A) A government is exile
(B) A government runs by a woman ✓
(C) A government without actual power
(D) A government runs by some feudal lord
12. Schwab Klaus was the founder of:
(A) Red Cross
(B) Amnesty international
(C) World Economic Forum ✓
(D) Human rights Watch
13. “IBM" is a computer company of:
(A) France
(B) Japan
(C) USA ✓
(D) China
14. Doctrine of Lapse is associated with
(A) Lord Dalhousie ✓
(B) Lord Cornwallis
(C) Lord Rippon
(D) None of these
15. Toot oil and natural gas field is located in:
(A) Punjab ✓
(B) Sindh
(C) NWFP
(D) Balochistan
16. Fear of foreigners is known as:
(A) Xenophobia
(B) Monophobia ✓
(C) Photophobia
(D) None of the above
17. When was the first Woman Bank established in Pakistan?
(A) Dec 1,1988
(B) Dec 1,1989 ✓
(C) Dec 1,1973
(D) August 14,1948
18. The Lodhi dynasty was established by
(A) Sikandar Lodhi
(B) Bahlol Lodhi ✓
(C) Ibrahim Lodhi
(D) None of these
19. What is the approximate length of the Great Wall of China?
(A) 2000 km
(B) 2500 km
(C) 3000 km
(D) 3460 km ✓
The total length of the Great Wall of China built in different dynasties is 21,196.18 kilometers (13,170.70 miles), announced by China's State Administration of Cultural Relics in 2012.20. Total strength of members in the National Security Council of Pakistan is
(A) Ten
(B) Eleven
(C) Thirteen
(D) Fourteen ✓
21. Why Aberdeen city of England is an important city?
(A) Industrial city
(B) Seaport
(C) Famous as Granite City
(D) All of them ✓
22. Dome of Rock is located in
(A) Jerusalem ✓
(B) Lebanon
(C) Jordan
(D) Iraq
23. Bhutan is geographically called as:
(A) Land of rivers
(B) Land of pagoda
(C) Land of the flying fish
(D) Land of thunderbolt ✓
24. Which of the following is the most spoken language in the world?
(A) Chinese ✓
(B) English
(C) French
(D) Spanish
25. Who painted Mona Liza?
(A) Leonardo da Vinci ✓
(B) Michelangelo
(C) Pablo Picasso
(D) Vincent Van Gogh
26. A place where government records are kept is called
(A) Headquarter
(B) Aquarium
(C) Archives ✓
(D) Chalet
27. Symbol of which of the following is ‘White Flag’?
(A) Friendship
(B) Peace
(C) Truce ✓
(D) War
28. Tugela water fall is present in:
(A) Venezuela
(B) South Africa ✓
(C) Canada
(D) USA
29. Which country suffered the maximum in World War II?
(A) France
(B) Germany
(C) Japan ✓
(D) Russia
30 Name the person who presented 'Chenab Formula’ to resolve the Kashmir dispute
(A) Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan ✓
(B) Ali Shah Gilani
(C) Barrister Sultan Mahmood
(D) None of the above
31. When Pakistan won the Cricket World Cup?
(A) 1992 ✓
(B) 1996
(C) 1999
(D) 2003
32. Name the king who fell from the horse while playing Polo and died
(A) Akbar
(B) Muhammad Ghori
(C) Zaheer-ud-Din Babar
(D) Qutbuddin Aibak ✓
33. A fear of heights is known as:
(A) Agoraphobia ✓
(B) Acrophobia
(C) Xenophobia
(D) Height phobia
34. Who was Tran Due Luong?
(A) President of Laos
(B) President of Vietnam ✓
(C) President of Cambodia
(D) President of Thailand
35. Which river crosses the Equator twice?
(A) Amazon River
(B) Congo River ✓
(C) Nile River
(D) Indus River
36. Vitamins were discovered by
(A) Moseley
(B) Chadwick
(C) Frank Whittle
(D) Funk ✓
37. William Shakespeare is the greatest Playwright in European literature. In which category his plays fall?
(A) Comedies
(B) Tragedies
(C) History
(D) All of these ✓
38. Which of following strait joins the red sea and Persian Gulf?
(A) Bering Strait
(B) Bab-ul-Mandab Strait ✓
(C) Bosphorous Strait
(D) Davis Strait
39. Who was Walter Ulbricht?
(A) President of Switzerland
(B) President of West Germany
(C) President of East Germany ✓
(D) President of Austria
40. Which of the following countries is known as the Land of Midnight Sun?
(A) Belgium
(B) Holland
(C) Norway ✓
(D) Sweden
41. He is completely involved ____ his family affairs.
(A) in ✓
(B) on
(C) with
(D) over
42. I am indebted you for this kind favour
(A) with
(B) for
(C) to ✓
(D) in
43. You should not indulge idle talks.
(A) on
(B) over
(C) about
(D) in ✓
44. Substances which bring down the body temperature are known as?
(A) Antipyretics ✓
(B) Analgesics
(C) Antibiotics
(D) Formalin
45. Which of the following is called the study of food?
(A) bryology
(B) brontology
(C) bromatology ✓
(D) none of these
46. Which of the following is called the study of thunder?
(A) brontology ✓
(B) dactylology
(C) bromatology
(D) bryology
47. What is the meaning of Hue:
(A) colour ✓
(B) dew
(C) still
(D) pursuit
48. What is the meaning of Imperceptible.
(A) subtle ✓
(B) obvious
(C) mean
(D) humble
49. What is the meaning of Infringe:
(A) conserve
(B) violate ✓
(C) instill
(D) divert
50. What is the meaning of Jeer:
(A) scoff ✓
(B) magnanimity
(C) applaud
(D) avoid
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51. Two successive discounts of 20% and 20% are equivalent to a single discount of
(A) 42%
(B) 36% ✓
(C) 40%
(D) 34%
52. A number is increased by 10% and then decreased by 10%. The net change in the number is
(A) no increase or decrease
(B) 2% decrease
(C) 1% increase
(D) 1% decrease ✓
53. A seller marks his goods 30% above the cost price but allows a discount of 15% from the marked price. His percentage of profit is
(A) 10.5 ✓
(B) 15
(C) 9
(D) 8.5
54. The sum of a positive integer and its square is 2450. The positive integer is
(A) 45
(B) 48
(C) 49 ✓
(D) 50
55. If the cost price of 10 chairs be equal to selling price of 16 chairs, then the loss percentage will be
(A) 9.6
(B) 17.5
(C) 20
(D) 37.5 ✓
56. The perimeter of a rhombus is 68cm and one of its diagonal is 16cm. Find its Area?
(A) 260sqrcm ✓
(B) 240sqrcm
(C) 280sqrcm
(D) 220sqrcm
57. The diagonals of a rhombus are 15cm and 20cm.Find its area?
(A) 120sqcm
(B) 300sqcm
(C) 150sqcm ✓
(D) 480sqcm
58. P and Q started business with Rs.15000 and Rs.10000 respectively. Find the share of P in an annual profit of Rs. 25000.
(A) Rs.8000
(B) Rs.6000
(C) Rs.10000
(D) Rs.15000 ✓
59. Find the gain percentage if cost price is Rs.400 and selling price is Rs.500.
(A) 20%
(B) 15%
(C) 25% ✓
(D) 10%
60. The percentage of 210 in 420 is ?
(A) 27
(B) 28
(C) 29
(D) 50 ✓
61. Kidnapping includes:
(A) Kidnapping from Pakistan.
(B) Kidnapping from lawful guardianship.
(C) Kidnapping from Pakistan and lawful guardianship ✓
(D) Non from above mentioned.
62. Wali means a person:
(A) Whom Court considers to be Wali
(B) Who is entitled to claim Qisas ✓
(C) Who is appointed by the deceased in his life
63. Unlawful assembly compnses of:
(A) At-least 2 persons
(B) At-least 4 persons
(C) At-least 5 persons ✓
(D) At-least 8 persons
64. Punishment for being a member of unlawful assembly shall be:
(A) Rigorous imprisonment extendable to 2 months
(B) Imprisonment extendable to 3 months with fine,
(C) Imprisonment extendable to 6 months, or fine, or both ✓
(D) None of the above
65. Affray is:
(A) Disturbance of public peace by one person
(B) Disturbance of public peace by two persons by speaking loudly
(C) Disturbance of public peace by two persons by fighting ✓
(D) All of the above
66. The essential of section 11 is:
(A) The defendant is not the owner of the movable property and holds possession of the particular article claimed
(B) The plaintiff is entitled to the immediate possession of movable property
(C) The articles claimed by Plaintiff is held by Defendant as plaintiffs agent or trustee etc
(D) None of above ✓
67. The Specific Performance of any contract, may in the discretion of the court the enforced
when:
(A) The act agreed to be done is in the performance wholly or partly, of a trust
(B) There exists no standard for ascertaining the actual damage caused by non¬performance of the act agreed to be done
(C) The act agreed to be done is such that pecuniary compensation for it's nonperformance would not afford adequate relief, or it is probable that pecuniary compensation cannot be got for the non-performance of the act agreed to be done
(D) All of the above ✓
68. Assets of offender which he has got from narcotic shall also be liable to forfeiture to the
(A) Provincial Government
(B) District Government
(C) Federal Government ✓
(D) None of these
69. No one shall organize, manage, traffic in, or finance the import, transport, manufacturing or trafficking of, narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or controlled substances
(A) True ✓
(B) False
(C) Both
(D) None of these
70. Any one organize, manage, traffic in, or finance the import, transport, manufacturing or trafficking of, narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or controlled substances, shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to
(A) two years, or with fine, or with both ✓
(B) Three years, or with fine, or with both
(C) Four years, or with fine, or with both
(D) Five years, or with fine, or with both
71. Which of the following is a declaration of a person's intentions to distribute his/her estate and assets?
(A) Will ✓
(B) Bond
(C) Indemnity
(D) Affidavit
72. Every suit shall be instituted by the presentation of a or in such other manner as may be prescribed
(A) plaint ✓
(B) plaintiff
(C) Summons
(D) order
73. Where a _____ has been duly instituted, a summons may defendants, be issued to the defendant to appear and answer the claim and may be served in manner prescribed
(A) plaint
(B) plaintiff
(C) Summons
(D) suit ✓
74. The suit property is in danger of being wasted, the injunction to restrain such waste can be
obtained alone by the-
(A) Plaintiff filing the suit
(B) By any party to the suit including the defendant ✓
(C) By a person not yet party to the suit
75. In the suit issues are framed by the court trying the suit, the same court:
(A) Can amend any issue already framed ✓
(B) Cannot amend the issue before recording of evidence.
(C) An appeal will have to be filed for amendment of issue
76. A document produced in the suit:
(A) Will not be returned to him even after disposal of suit.
(B) Cannot be obtained back before the disposal of the appeal
(C) Can be returned earlier to the person producing on delivery of the certified copy of the original and undertaking given to produce the original gain if so requested ✓
77. Which term is used for spoken words which have a damaging effect on a person’s reputation?
(A) Slander ✓
(B) Libel
(C) Contempt
(D) Defamation
78. The members of the legal profession are chiefly concerned with advising clients and preparing their cases and representing them In courts. What this member is called?
(A) Lawyer
(B) Solicitor
(C) Barrister
(D) All of them ✓
79. What is called the legal proceedings that are commenced by petition?
(A) Case
(B) Suit ✓
(C) Law suite
(D) Trial
80. What is called an order to appear or to produce evidence to a court?
(A) Call
(B) Production
(C) Summons ✓
(D) Court orders
81. There is a civil wrong that is committed against a person for which compensation may be sought through a civil court, e g. Personal injury, negligent driving, libel etc. What this wrong is called?
(A) Tort ✓
(B) Damage
(C) Special wrong
(D) Minor wrong
82. What is called a person who holds or administers property in a trust for another or others?
(A) Appointee
(B) Receiver
(C) Liquidator
(D) Trustee ✓
83. means any person against whom a decree has been passed or an order capable of execution has been made
(A) Government Pleader
(B) Judge
(C) Judgment
(D) Judgment-debtor ✓
84. Under first proviso of Section 497 Cr. P.C., the Court may grant bail to any person under age of:
(A) 16 years ✓
(B) 17 years
(C) 18 years
(D) 19 years
85. Section 190 of the Criminal Procedure code deals with the:
(A) First information report.
(B) A report Under Section 173, Cr. P.C
(C) Private complaint to the Magistrate ✓
86. Section 249-A of the code of Criminal Procedure given powers to acquit the accused at any stage of the proceeding by:
(A) The High Court
(B) The Supreme Court
(C) The Magistrate ✓
(D) The Civil Judge
87. Electoral right means the right of a person:
(A) To stand as a candidate
(B) Not to stand as candidate
(C) Do note/not to note in an election
(D) All of the above ✓
88. A Voluntarily bums a valuable security belonging to Z intending to cause wrongful loss to Z. A has committed:
(A) Theft
(B) Dacoity
(C) Mischief ✓
(D) Cheating
89. A person is said to commit house breaking by night when he commits house breaking:
(A) After 2 pm before 4 am.
(B) After sunset and before sunrise ✓
(C) After 7 pm and before sunrise.
(D) After sunset and before 4 am.
90. means a person who in law represents the estate of a deceased person, and includes any person who intermeddles with the estate of the deceased and where a party sues or is sued in a representative character the person on whom the estate devolves on the death of the party so suing or sued
(A) Legal representative ✓
(B) Mesne profits
(C) Movable property
(D) Order
91. of property means those profits which the person in wrongful profession of such property actually received or might with ordinary diligence have received therefrom, together with interest on such profits but shall
not include profits due to improvements made by the person in wrongful possession
(A) Legal representative
(B) Mesne profits ✓
(C) Movable property
(D) Order
92. means the formal expression of any decision of a civil Court which is not a decree
(A) Legal representative
(B) Mesne profits
(C) Movable property
(D) Order ✓
93. Chapter XVII of Cr.P.C. is:
(A) Of the commencement of proceedings before courts ✓
(B) Of inquiry into cases tri-able by the court of session or High Court
(C) Of the trial of cases by Magistrate
(D) Of the trial of warrant-cases by magistrates
94. In case where accused or any of the accused
does not adduce any evidence in his defence, the Court shall, on the close of the prosecution case call upon the to sum up his case in the first instance:
(A) Accused ✓
(B) Prosecutor
(C) Defence counsel
95. Offence of Qatl-e-Amad can be compounded by the:
(A) Heirs of the victim ✓
(B) Complainant.
(C) Witnesses.
96. A court of Additional Session Judge passed a sentence of 20 days. The convict may file appeal before:
(A) Session Judge
(B) High Court
(C) None of the said Courts ✓
97. A person aggrieved by order of acquittal passed by any court other than High Court may file an appeal against the said order within:
(A) 20 days
(B) 30 days ✓
(C) 90 days
98. Where no sum is expressed to which a fine may extend, the amount of fine to which, the offender is liable:
(A) Under 50,000
(B) Unlimited
(C) Unlimited but shall not be excessive ✓
(D) Settled between parties.
99. Attempt to commit suicide is:
(A) Not punishable at all.
(B) Is punishable with simple imprisonment of 3 months or with fine or with both.
(C) Is punishable with imprisonment of 6 months or with fine or with both.
(D) Is punishable with imprisonment of one year or with fine or with both ✓
100. Which of these is not the kind of Shajjah:
(A) Mudihah
(B) Manaqillah
(C) Badiah ✓
(D) Ammah
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