PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE, ETC. (PMS) / COMBINED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION (BS-17) 2014

Which article of the 1973 Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan prohibits all forms of slavery, forced labour and child labour?

  • (a) 37
  • (b) 11
  • (c) 25
  • (d) 18
Check Answer
  • (b) 11

Under the Factories Act, 1934 no adult employee, defined as a worker who has completed his or her 18th year of age can be required or permitted to work in any establishment in excess of________ hours a day and _________ hours a week.

  • (a) 7, 42
  • (b) 8, 48
  • (c) 9, 48
  • (d) 8, 56
Check Answer
  • (c) 9, 48

Servile is the opposite of:

  • (a) Puerile
  • (b) Futile
  • (c) Haughty
  • (d) Foul
Check Answer
  • (c) Haughty

In the election of the President of the United States of America, the largest number of members of the ‘Electoral College’ are elected from the state of:

  • (a) New York
  • (b) Texas
  • (c) California
  • (d) Florida
Check Answer
  • (c) California

Out of the following, the largest ethnic group by population without having a state of its own is:

  • (a) Kurdish
  • (b) Welsh
  • (c) Uighurs
  • (d) Sikhs
Check Answer
  • (a) Kurdish

The first President of Palestinian Authority Yasir Arafat died on:

  • (a) 11th September, 2006
  • (c) 9th November, 2001
  • (b) 12th December, 2007
  • (d) 11th November, 2004
Check Answer
  • (d) 11th November, 2004

Which vitamin is provided by sunlight to the body?

  • (a) Vitamin A
  • (b) Vitamin B
  • (c) Vitamin C
  • (d) Vitamin D
Check Answer
  • (d) Vitamin D

The imaginary line of zero degree longitude which passes through Greenwich is called:

  • (a) Meridian
  • (b) Equator
  • (c) Tropic of Cancer
  • (d) Tropic of Capricorn
Check Answer
  • (a) Meridian

The famous book “East of Eden” ‘is the work of:

  • (a) John Steinbeck
  • (b) R.W. Emerson
  • (c) Bertrand Russell
  • (d) Earnest Hemingway
Check Answer
  • (a) John Steinbeck

Bastille Day is the commemoration of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison which was seen as a symbol of the revolutionary uprising in:

  • (a) Canada
  • (b) Belgium
  • (c) USA
  • (d) France
Check Answer
  • (d) France

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