Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attended the Climate Change Summit Conference held in Paris in December 2015. This conference is popularly known as COP21. What does COP stand for?
- (a) Comprehensive Ozone Protection
- (b) Conference of Parties
- (c) Conference of Ozone Polluter
- (d) Conference on Pollution
- (b) Conference of Parties
How many countries, so far, are members of the European Union?
- (b) 28
- (a) 15
- (d) 32
- (c) 27
- (c) 27
The South African Cricket Team is known by the name “Protease”. What exactly is “Protease”?
- (a) An animal native to Southern Africa
- (b) National song of South Africa
- (c) National Flower of South Africa
- (d) Color green in Zulu language
- (c) National Flower of South Africa
Wallis Mathias was a test cricketer from 1955 to 1962. Which country did he play for?
- (a) Australia
- (b) West Indies
- (c) India
- (d) Pakistan
- (d) Pakistan
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. These words are associated with which personality?
- (a) Lord Acton
- (b) Winston Churchill
- (c) Abraham Lincoln
- (d) Aristotle
- (a) Lord Acton
The “Statue of Liberty” is located in New York, USA. It was gifted to the USA by:
- (a) Great Britain
- (b) Italy
- (c) France
- (d) Spain
- (c) France
Who said, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs”?
- (a) Karl Marx
- (b) M.K. Gandhi
- (c) Adam Smith
- (d) Plato
- (a) Karl Marx
“Ornithology” is the study of:
- (a) Bones
- (b) Smells
- (c) Birds
- (d) Oceans
- (c) Birds
Which disease is caused by iodine deficiency?
- (a) Gout
- (b) Goiter
- (c) Rickets
- (d) Scurvy
- (b) Goiter
“Dialysis” is used for treatment of:
- (a) Kidney failure
- (b) Meningitis
- (c) Cholera
- (d) Parkinson
- (a) Kidney failure