- How many layers does Earth’s atmosphere have?
Answer: 5 - Less than one percent of Earth’s water is fresh water, but the oceans contain ____ percent of Earth’s water.
Answer: 97% - Who among the following is the current president of Azad Jammu and Kashmir?
Answer: Sultan Mahmoud Chaudhary since August 25, 2021. - Katas Raj Temples are revered Hindu temples in Pakistan. In which district are the temples located?
Answer: Chakwal - Nawab Malik Amir Mohammad Khan, also known as Nawab of Kalabagh, was governor of West Pakistan in 1960. He was from?
Answer: Mianwali - Attock Fort was built during the reign of which Mughal Emperor?
Answer: Akbar - Binary unit is called?
Answer: Binary Digit - According to the World Bank, what was the growth rate of Pakistan in 2018?
Answer: 5.8% - Which of the following vitamins contains traces of Selenium?
Answer: Vitamin E - PROM chips are programmed by plugging them into?
Answer: PROM Programmer - Indus River System Authority (IRSA) was established for regulating and monitoring the distribution of water sources of Indus Rivers in?
Answer: 1992 - Sindh Sagar Doab is one of the five major doabs of the Punjab province. It is the tract of land between which rivers?
Answer: Indus and Jhelum - The five major Doabs of Pakistan, which are land tracts between two rivers in Punjab. Here are the five major Doabs:
- Sindh Sagar Doab – Between Indus River and Jhelum River
- Chaj Doab – Between Jhelum River and Chenab River
- Rachna Doab – Between Chenab River and Ravi River
- Bari Doab – Between Ravi River and Sutlej River
- Satluj-Sindh Doab (or Panjnad Doab) – Between Sutlej River and Indus River
- Who is the current Chief of Air Staff?
Answer: Zaheer Ahmed Babar Sidhu since March 2021. - International Mother Language Day is celebrated on?
Answer: 21 February - Which among the given options is the capital of Kazakhstan?
Answer: Astana - Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was established in?
Answer: 2001 - The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was officially established on June 15, 2001.However, its roots go back to 1996, when the Shanghai Five (China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan) was formed. Later, in 2001, Uzbekistan joined, and the group was renamed the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
- According to a report published by IMF, Pakistan has been ranked ____ in the world among countries facing acute water shortage.
Answer: 3rd - Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organization focused on Human Rights. It was founded in?
Answer: 1961. Amnesty International was founded on May 28, 1961, by Peter Benenson, a British lawyer and human rights activist.The organization was established to protect human rights worldwide, focusing on issues like freedom of speech, protection against torture, fair trials, and refugee rights. It operates independently of any government and is one of the most influential human rights organizations globally. - A mechanical stopwatch can measure time intervals to a minimum of?
Answer: 0.01 s - When in ICC Champions Trophy did Pakistan defeat India?
Answer: 18 June 2017 - Which among the following defines the event of a supernova?
Answer: Exploding Star - ‘King of Pop’ Michael Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer. He died in?
Answer: 25 June 2009 - Who among the following is known as the Poet of Beauty?
Answer: John Keats - In mathematics, a solution to an equation that emerges from the process of solving the problem but is not a valid solution to the problem is called?
Answer: Extraneous Solution - The number of elements in the power set {1,2,3} is?
Answer: 8 - How many subsets does an empty subset have?
Answer: 1 - When a triangle has two congruent sides, it is called?
Answer: Isosceles - The mean of the data is equal to the sum of all the values in the data divided by the number of values in the data. This is called?
Answer: Mean - A frequency distribution is best represented by which diagram?
Answer: Histogram - Which instrument is suitable to measure the internal diameter of a test tube?
Answer: Vernier Calipers - Crude oil is heated in the furnace up to?
Answer: 400°C - Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum is involved in the synthesis and storage of?
Answer: Lipids - World Food Program, an organization of the United Nations, was created at the behest of?
Answer: Dwight Eisenhower - Asabiyya, a concept of social solidarity with an emphasis on unity, was given by?
Answer: Ibn Khaldun - Muhammad Ibn e Zakaria Al-Razi was a polymath physician, alchemist, and philosopher from?
Answer: Iran - Al-Qanun fit-Tibb is an encyclopedia of medicine in five books written by?
Answer: Avicenna - Who among the following discovered sunspots?
Answer: Galileo - Which city was hit by the earthquake of 1935?
Answer: Quetta - In which country does the Batura Glacier lie?
Answer: Pakistan - Which province among the following has Uch Gas Field?
Answer: Balochistan - How many countries are there in Asia?
Answer: 49 - A horse runs around a ground twice and covers a distance of 8 km. The side of the square ground is?
Answer: 4 km - Who among the following invented bifocal spectacles and the lightning rod?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin - Which gas field among the following is the second largest gas field in Pakistan, operated by OGDCL?
Answer: Qadirpur Gas Field - Mars, the neighbor of Earth, has how many natural satellites?
Answer: Two - Max Planck won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 for the discovery of?
Answer: Energy Quantum - Which instrument is used to measure the amount of liquid precipitation (rain) over a set period of time?
Answer: Rain Gauge - Parsec is a unit used to measure?
Answer: Distance. 1 parsec (pc) = 3.26 light-years. Parsec (pc) is a unit of distance used in astronomy to measure vast distances between celestial objects. - A solar eclipse occurs when?
Answer: The Moon comes between the Sun and Earth. - Which lens is used to form an image that is real and inverted?
Answer: Convex Lens - When NaHCO₃ is heated, it produces?
Answer: CO₂ - Stoma, found in the epidermis of leaves, closes when guard cells?
Answer: Lose water - Iron and steel structures are damaged by?
Answer: Sulphur Dioxide and Sulphur Dioxide. - Inflammation of the liver is caused by?
Answer: Hepatitis - The Paris Climate Agreement was adopted in?
Answer: 12 December 2015 - The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Rio Summit, was held in?
Answer: 1992 - What is the speed of sound in air?
Answer: 1235 km/h - Speed of sound in air is 343 m/s ≈1.235 km/s.
- Enzymes are basically made up of?
Answer: Proteins - What is the lifespan of red blood cells?
Answer: 120 days - What is the percentage of water present in our brain?
Answer: 75% to 80 percent. - Bacteria that help make Nitrogen available to primary producers in an ecosystem fix it in the form of?
Answer: Ammonia - Parthenocarpy is the production of fruit which makes the fruit?
Answer: Seedless - The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is observed on?
Answer: 17 June - A normal CD-ROM usually can store up to?
Answer: 680 MB - A normal CD-ROM can store up to 700 MB of data (80 minutes of audio). Older versions held 650 MB.
- Dengue is caused by which type of mosquito?
Answer: Aedes - Which tube among the following joins kidneys and bladder?
Answer: Ureter - Edward Jenner successfully developed the world’s first vaccine in?
Answer: 1796.The first vaccine was for smallpox, developed by Edward Jenner in 1796. - The pancreatic juice which aids digestion is secreted into?
Answer: Duodenum - Who among the following transmitted the first radio signal through air?
Answer: Marconi - High-tech exports of Pakistan stand at?
Answer: 1.43 percent in 2022 and 1.49 percent in 2021. - Which Prime Minister of Pakistan secured Gwadar from Oman?
Answer: Feroz Khan Noon. Pakistan purchased Gwadar from Oman in 1958 for £3 million (British pounds sterling), not euros. At that time, Pakistan used the Pakistani rupee, but the transaction was made in British pounds since Oman was historically linked to the British monetary system. - Villi are small finger-like structures in the?
Answer: Small intestine - Yeast is essential in making bread because it produces?
Answer: Carbon dioxide - Kartarpur Corridor links which Gurdwara to India?
Answer: Darbar Sahib. Inaugurated on November 9, 2019. It is a visa-free border crossing between India and Pakistan, allowing Sikh pilgrims to visit the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib. - Pakistan, being an Alma Ata 1978 signatory, launched the National Program for Family Planning and Primary Health in?
Answer: 1994 - After fertilization, a fruit develops from which part of the plant?
Answer: Ovary - Which disease is caused by the deficiency of Vitamin D?
Answer: Rickets - The largest famine hit Ethiopia in?
Answer: 1983. One million people got killed. - The medians of a triangle cut each other in the ratio?
Answer: 2:1 - 24 December 1988 – 20 March 1997
- 9 July 1997 – 12 October 1999Who among the following was the longest-serving chairman of the Senate?
Answer: Wasim Sajjad.The longest-serving Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan is Wasim Sajjad, who held the position for about 12 years in two terms.
- Which among the following is responsible for the clotting of blood?
Answer: Platelets - Mastication is called the process of?
Answer: Chewing - At which temperature does bacteria die?
Answer: 212°F = 100 Degree Celcius. - What is the color of Oxyhemoglobin?
Answer: Bright red.Oxyhemoglobin is bright red in color when hemoglobin binds with oxygen. When oxygen binds to hemoglobin in red blood cells, it changes the structure, making it appear bright red.Deoxyhemoglobin (without oxygen) appears dark red or bluish in veins. - Pepsinogen is converted into pepsin in the stomach by?
Answer: HCl - The literacy rate in the Christian world is 100%, so compared to that, the literacy rate in the Muslim world is?
Answer: The average literacy rate in Muslim-majority countries is around 73%, while in Christian-majority countries, it generally exceeds 90%. Literacy rates depend on economic and educational factors, not just religion.
Current Affairs Questions
Pakistan comes in at 109 among the 147 surveyed countries, and is second only to Nepal (91st) in terms of the happiness quotient in South Asian countries.
India ranks nine rungs below Pakistan at the 118th spot, Sri Lanka is at 133 while Bangladesh comes in at 134.
Afghanistan, plagued by a humanitarian catastrophe, once again ranks as the unhappiest.
While Finland has retained its title as the happiest country for the eighth year in a row, the new report sees the United States plunge to 24th place, its lowest rank ever.
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