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All of you are requested to share only knowledge, past papers of SPSC and material for the test... Please

1. Our plan _____ to succeed.
(a) bid fair
(b) pass by
(c) boil down
(d) hand and galore

2. Which holy book of Allah is called the old testament?
(a) zabur
(b) torat
(c) injeel
(d) quran

3. The first railway line in Pakistan was laid between
(a) multan-lahore
(b) karachi-kotri
(c) sibi-quetta
(d) rawalpindi-peshawar

4. Was of independence was fought in
(a) 1757
(b) 1857
(c) 1858
(d) 1758

5. Number of permanent members of UN security council is
(a) three
(b) four
(c) five
(d) six

6. Satpara lake is in
(a) sindh
(b) balochistan
(c) gilgit baltistan
(d) punjab

7. Nothing must be allowed to _____ our search for the truth.
(a) interfered with
(b) interfered into
(c) interfered from
(d) interfered upon

8. Eid prayer is
(a) farz
(b) wajib
(c) sunat
(d) nafal

9. Currency of Germany is
(a) lira
(b) deutsche mark
(c) franc
(d) dollar

10. The largest island in the Indian ocean is
(a) Madagascar
(b) Maldives
(c) Sri Lanka
(d) Sumatra

11. The border dividing Pakistan and Afghanistan is
(a) mcmohan line
(b) line of control
(c) durand line
(d) cease fire line

12. Which of the following is nearly a complete food by itself
(a) cheese
(b) milk
(c) meat
(d) rice

13. I _____ an old friend in Empress market this morning
(a) came around
(b) came round
(c) came across
(d) came with

14. The most important achievement of Abraham Lincoln was
(a) the strengthening of democracy
(b) the abolition of slavery
(c) the establishment of supremacy of north over the south
(d) none of these

15. Harappa is located in the district of
(a) mianwali
(b) sahiwal
(c) hazrat
(d) multan

16. He was _____ salted food by the doctor
(a) abstained from
(b) abstained for
(c) abstained in
(d) abstained to

17. Radium was discovered by
(a) marconi
(b) madam curie marie
(c) edison
(d) newton

18. What is the length of the day on poles?
(a) 12 hours
(b) 6 months
(c) 3 months
(d) 24 hours

19. Taj mahal in Agra (india) was built by emperor
(a) jahangir
(b) akbar, the great
(c) shah jahan
(d) humayun

20. Roshan was able to get the job _____ his uncle's influence.
(a) odds and does
(b) by dint of
(c) big words
(d) all in all

21. The first country to recognize Pakistan on independence was
(a) USA
(b) iran
(c) saudi arabia
(c) iraq

22. Which of the following nations have not signed CTBT
(a) Australia and Brazil
(b) Japan and Britain
(c) Pakistan and India
(d) Peru and France

23. Who wrote the text of suleh hudebiya?
(a) hazrat umar
(b) hazarat usman
(c) hazrat ali
(d) hazrat hamza

24. You will soon get _____ the change of climate.
(a) accustomed to
(b) accustomed for
(c)accustomed in
(d) accustomed with

25. Who advised the holy prophet to dig the ditch at the time of battle of khandaq?
(a) hazrat usman
(b) hazrat salman farsi
(c) hazrat umar
(d) hazrat talha bin zubair

26. For how many years the British ruled over India?
(a) 90
(b) 110
(c) 100
(d) 85

27. Name the angel who writes good and bad deeds of human beings.
(a) munkar and nakeer
(b) haroot and maroot
(c) kiraman katibeen
(d) zabina

28. When amjad _____ the car, he took it out for a drive.
(a) has repaired
(b) had repaired
(c) was repairing
(d) repaired

29. The largest continent of the world is
(a) Africa
(b) Europe
(c) Asia
(d) Australia

30. Don't let go _____ tight.
(a) hang on
(b) hang in
(c) hang over
(d) hang at

31. In September 1958 Gawadar was bought by Pakistan for 40 lacs pounds sterling from
(a) Iran
(b) Oman
(c) China
(d) Uzbekistan

32. Which city is called city of canals?
(a) Venice (Italy)
(b) Rome (Italy)
(c) Paris (France)
(d) Lahore (Pakistan)

33. Famous Lucknow pact between indian national congrert and all india muslim league was signed in the year
(a) 1916
(b) 1933
(c) 1924
(d) 1930

34. Vienna is the capital of
(a) Australia
(b) Belgium
(c) Austria
(d) Germany

35. I an trying hard to _____ the differences between two of my friends.
(a) bridge over
(b) helter shelter
(c) knock about
(d) meddle with

36. Muslim women were allowed to take part in the battle of
(a) badar
(b) khandaq
(c) uhad
(d) khyber

37. The mausoleum of sheikh abdul qadir jilani is in
(a) Rome
(b) Baghdad
(c) Syria

38. Alexandria is the famous city and an important sea port of
(a) Libya
(b) Lebanon
(c) Greece
(d) Egypt

39. Radio was invented by
(a) faraday
(b) darwin
(c) marconi
(d) archimedes

40. He died _____ malaria.
(a) from
(b) due to
(c) of
(d) owing to

CHOOSE THE SYNONYMS:
41. enchanted
(a) fascinated
(b) fatigue
(c) repulse
(d) flatter

42. Acute
(a) keen
(b) bitter
(c) brisk
(d) genuine

43. Deuce
(a) diminish
(b) infer
(c) outline
(d) persuade

44. Collateral
(a) key
(b) secret agreement
(c) proposal
(d) security for a loan

45. Blatant
(a) conspicuous
(b) hidden
(c) ruthless
(d) faulty

CHOOSE THE ANTONYMS:

46. Magnanimous
(a) selfish
(b) naive
(c) generous
(d) small

47. Catholic
(a) rigid
(b) orthodox
(c) strict
(d) narrow minded

48. Tacit
(a) order
(b) written
(c) oral
(d) understanding

49. Repel
(a) attract
(b) concentrate
(c) attend
(d) continue

50. Offer
(a) beg
(b) barrow
(c) snatch
(d) request

lets prepare for current portion of the screening test

I am sharing some links and data. and expect in return the valuable contribution from members


nobel prizes 2014
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/year/

academy awards 86th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86th_Academy_Awards

India
COAS dilber singh suhag
president parnab muklerji
v president
m. Hamid Ansari
C just: H L Dattu
speaker : sumitra mahajin

find about ICC world T 20, 2014
won by srilanka defeating India by 6 wickets

FIFA world cup 2014, summer olympics, hockey world cup, ASEAN games
easy to find wiki link

foreign ministers of countries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...United_Nations
permanent representatives to UN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...eign_ministers

current heads of states
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...and_government

search in wiki
3013 events (world and pakistan)
2014 events (world and pakistan)

heads of following international organisations
UN, AL, ADB, EU, NATO, IAEA, OIC, OPEC, SAARC, IMF, WTO, ICC, FIFA etc

defence ministers of india, russia, USA, israel

Most of times you can find data on google

Request : I need data on current events in Sindh, specially

Please post more current affairs..

I have solved most of the questions, please solve the last remaining questions and also check my answers if there is mistakes then please poinnt them. Thanks and also post some more questions so that we can do practice.

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Mr. Nisar Ahmed Khuhro Senior Minister for Education & Literacy
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Mir Hazar Khan Bajarani Works & Services
3
Mr. Manzoor Hussain Wassan Prisons, Mines & Minerals Development; (Addl.) Enquiries & Anticorruption Establishment
4
Mr. Sharjeel Inaam Memon Information & Archives, (Addl.) Local Government Department
5
Syed Murad Ali Shah Finance & Energy
6
Dr. Sikandar Ali Mandhro Parliamentary Affairs and Environment
7
Makhdoom Jameel-ul-Zaman Revenue (excluding LU), Relief & Rehabilitation
8
Mr. Ali Nawaz Khan Alias Raja Khan Mahar Agriculture
9
Syed Ali Mardan Shah Population Welfare
10 Mr. Jam Mehtab Dahar Health
11 Mr. Gayan Chand Wildlife & Forest (Addl.) Minority Affairs and Excise & Taxation, (Addl.)
12 Mr. Mukesh Kumar Chawla Information Technology
13 Ms. Rubina Qaimkhani Women Development and Special Education
14 Mr. Dost Muhammad Rahimoon Zakat and Ushr
15 Mr. Javed Nagori Katchi Abadi & Spatial Development
16 Mr. Jam Khan Shoro Livestock & Fisheries
17 Mir Mumtaz Hussain Jakhrani Transport

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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

international atomic energy

Director-General - Yukiya Amano, Japan (2009–present)
International Civil Aviation Organization

President of the Council - Roberto Kobeh Gonzalez, Mexico (2006–present)



Secretary-General - Raymond Benjamin, France (2009–present)


International Labour Organization

Director-General - Guy Ryder, UK (2012–present)United Nations

Secretary-General - Ban Ki Moon, South Korea (2007–present
)
President of the General Assembly - Vuk Jeremic, Serbia (2012–2013)
John William Ashe, Antigua and Barbuda (2013-2014)

Security Council members - China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States (permanent members); Azerbaijan, Guatemala, Morocco, Pakistan, Togo (elected for 2012–2013); Argentina, Australia, Republic of Korea, Luxembourg, Rwanda (elected for 2013–2014)

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Executive Director - Anthony Lake, United States (2010–present)

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Director-General - Irina Bokova, Bulgaria (2009–present)

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

High Commissioner - Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad, Jordan (2014–present)

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
High Commissioner - António Guterres, Portugal (2005–present)

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Director-general - Kandeh Yumkella, Sierra Leone (2005–present)

World Food Programme (WFP)
Executive Director - Josette Sheeran, United States (2007–present)

World Health Organization (WHO)
Director-General - Margaret Chan, China (acting) (2007–present)

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
President - Alexander Bedritsky, Russia (2003–present)

Secretary-General - Michel Jarraud, France (2004–present)
World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

Secretary-General - Taleb Rifai, Jordan (2010–presen

African Development Bank -
President - Donald Kaberuka, Rwanda (2005–present)

Asian Development Bank -
President - Takehiko Nakao, Japan (2013–present)

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
President - Suma Chakrabarti, India (2012–present)

Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
President - Luis Alberto Moreno, Colombia (2005–present)

International Monetary Fund
Managing Director - Christine Lagarde, France (2011–present)

Islamic Development Bank (IDB)
President - Ahmad Mohamed Ali, Saudi Arabia (1975–present)

World Bank
President - Jim Yong Kim, Korea (2012–present)

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African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) -
Secretary-General - Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Ghana (2010–pres

Arab League -
Secretary-General - Nabil Elaraby, Egypt (2011–present)

Arab Maghreb Union
Secretary-General - Habib Ben Yahia, Tunisia (2006–present)

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
Executive Director - Muhamad Noor, Malaysia (2010–present)

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) -
Secretary-General - Le Luong Minh, Vietnam (2013–present)

Caribbean Community -
Secretary-General - Lolita Applewhaite, Barbados (2011–present)

Central American Parliament -
President - Dorindo Cortéz, Panama (2010–present)

Common Market of East and Southern Africa (COMESA) -
Secretary-General - Sindiso Ngwenya, Zimbabwe (2008–present)

Commonwealth of Nations -
Head - Queen Elizabeth II (1952–present)

Secretary-General - Kamalesh Sharma, India (2008–present)
Commonwealth of Independent States

Executive Secretary - Sergei Lebedev, Russia (2007–present)

Council of Europe
Secretary General - Thorbjørn Jagland, Norway (2009–present)

President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) - Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Turkey (2010–present)

President of the European Court of Human Rights - Jean-Paul Costa, France (2007–present)

East African Community -
Secretary-General - Richard Sezibera, Rwanda (2011–present)

Economic Community of West African States
President of the Commission - Victor Gbeho, Ghana (2010–present)

Chairman - Alassane Ouattara, Côte d'Ivoire (2012–present)
Eurasian Economic Community
Secretary-General - Tair Mansurov, Khazakstan (2007–present)
Chairman of the Interstate Council - Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan (2001–present)

European Free Trade Association
Secretary-General - Kristinn Árnason, Iceland (2012–present)

European Union (EU)
Presidency of the European Council - Herman Van Rompuy (2009–present)

Presidency of the European Union Council
Ireland (2013)
President of the European Commission - José Manuel Barroso, Portugal (2004–present)

President of the European Parliament - Jerzy Buzek, Poland (2010–present)
Secretary-General of the Council and High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy - Catherine Ashton, United Kingdom (2009–present)

President of the European Central Bank - Mario Draghi, Italy (2011–present)
European Ombudsman - Nikiforos Diamandouros, Greece (2003–present)

President of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) - Peter Straub, Germany (2004–present)

President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) - Werner Hoyer, Germany (2012–present)
President of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) - Vassilios Skouris, Greece (2003–present)

President of the European Court of Auditors - Hubert Weber, Austria (2005–present)
President of the Economic and Social Committee (ESC) - Anne-Marie Sigmund, Austria (2004–present)

Group of Eight (G8)
President (informal) - David Cameron, United Kingdom (2013)

Gulf Cooperation Council
Secretary-General - Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Bahrain (2011–present
)
Ibero-American Secretariat (Segib)
Secretary-General - Enrique V. Iglesias, Uruguay (2005–present)

Indian Ocean Commission
Secretary-General - Monique Andreas Esoavekomandroso, Madagascar (2004–present)

Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
Chairman -
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran (2012–2013)
Hassan Rouhani, Iran (2013–present)

Nordic Council
Secretary-General - Jan-Erik Enestam, Finland (2007–2013)

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
Secretary-General - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Denmark (2009–present)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Secretary-General - José Ángel Gurría, Mexico (2006–present)

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
Secretary-General - Lamberto Zannier, Italy (2011–present)

Chairman-in-Office - Audronius Ažubalis, Lithuania (2011–present)
High Commissioner on National Minorities - Knut Vollebæk, Norway (2007–present)
Organization of American States
Secretary-General - José Miguel Insulza, Chile (2005–present)

Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
Director-General - Len Ishmael, Saint Lucia (2003–present)

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
Secretary-General - Iyad bin Amin Madani, Saudi Arabia (2014–present)
Pacific Community
Director-General - Jimmie Rodgers, Solomon Islands (2006–present)

Pacific Islands Forum
Secretary-General - Tuiloma Neroni Slade, Samoa (2008–present)

Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
Secretary-General - Bolat Nurgaliyev, Kazakhstan (2007–present)

South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
Secretary-General - Ahmed Saleem, Maldives (2012–present)

Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur)
Director of the Executive Secretariat - Agustín Colombo Sierra, Argentina (2009–present)

Southern African Development Community
Executive Secretary -
Tomaz Salomão, Mozambique (2005–2013)
Stergomena Tax, Tanzania (2013–pr

World Trade Organization (WTO)
Director-General - Roberto Azevêdo, Brazil (2013–present)