Multiple Choice Questions

General Knowledge

Q: Who wrote "Jinnah: India, Pakistan, Independence"?
A) Jawsant Singh
B) Ian Talbot
C) Lawrence Ziring
D) Keith B. Collard
Q: Who wrote "The Murder of History"?
A) K. K. Aziz
B) Ayesha Jalal
C) Hafeez Malik
D) None of these
Q: "The Indus Saga and the making of Pakistan" is written by:
A) Aitzaz Ahsan
B) K. K. Aziz
C) Mian Ata Rabbani
D) Ayesha Jalal
Q: "Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic identify: the search for Saladin" is written by:
A) Aitzaz Ahsan
B) Akbar S. Ahmed
C) Mian Ata Rabbani
D) Ayesha Jalal
Q: "Who wrote "Pakistan: Eye of the Storm"?
A) Lawrence Ziring
B) John Walton
C) Ian Talbot
D) Owen Bennett-Jones
Q: "Pakistan: A Hard County" is written by:
A) Anatol Lieven
B) John Walton
C) Ian Talbot
D) Owen Bennett-Jones
Q: "Breaking the Curfew: A Political Journey through Pakistan" is written by
A) Anatol Lieven
B) Emma Duncan
C) Ian Talbot
D) Owen Bennett-Jones
Q: Who wrote "The Struggle for Pakistan"?
A) Aitzaz Ahsan
B) Akbar S. Ahmed
C) Mian Ata Rabbani
D) Ayesha Jalal
Q: Twelve constellations referred to as zodiac, are:
A) Signs of Roman gods
B) Imaginary region that encompasses the path of the planets
C) A group of starts
D) None of these
Q: Which of the following planets is known as "Morning Star"?
A) Mercury
B) Venus
C) Mars
D) Saturn
Q: Comets are celestial bodies moving around the solor system in:
A) Elliptical or hyperbolical orbits, usually accompanied by a shining tail
B) Elliptical orbits usually accompanied by long shining tail
C) Hyperbolic orbit always accompanied by a shining head
D) Hyperbolic orbit without projecting any tail
Q: The temperature of sun's outer surface is:
A) 600 ˚C
B) 6000˚C
C) 500˚C
D) 5000˚C
Q: Which planet of the solar system spins on its axis at the fastest rate?
A) Mercury
B) Earth
C) Jupiter
D) Saturn
Q: Which among the following four planets is the biggest in size?
A) Venus
B) Mercury
C) Earth
D) Mars
Q: Which of the following planet is dropped from the list of planets in 2006?
A) Neptune
B) Mercury
C) Pluto
D) Jupiter
Q: The term meteor is applied to an interplanetary body:
A) After it enters the atmosphere of the earth
B) After it enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes in the mid air as a ball of fire
C) After it enters the earth's atmosphere and lands on the surface of the earth without explding in mid air
D) Before it enters the earth's atmosphere
Q: Among the panets of the solar system, the one which has the longest period of rotation is:
A) Mars
B) Venus
C) Saturn
D) None of these
Q: Which one of the following statement regarding shooting stars is incorrect?
A) They are meteros
B) They are debris
C) They emit light
D) They are kind of stars
Q: Which planet is known as watery planet?
A) Mercury
B) Earth
C) Mars
D) Jupiter
Q: Solar system was discovered by:
A) Kepler
B) Galileo
C) Copernicus
D) Plato
Q: Huge congregation of stars that are held together by the force of gravity are known as:
A) Constellations
B) Galaxies
C) Comets
D) Solar system
Q: The unit of measuring distances between the stars is known as:
A) Galactic unit
B) Light year
C) Cosmic kilometre
D) None of these
Q: Which planet looks reddish in the night sky?
A) Mercury
B) Mars
C) Jupiter
D) Saturn
Q: They planets are kept in motion in their respective orbits by:
A) Gravitation and centrifugal force
B) The rotation and density
C) Their great size
D) Rotation of sun on its axis
Q: The study of heavenly bodies is known as:
A) Astrology
B) Astrophysics
C) Astronomy
D) Geophysics
Q: Supernova is:
A) An asteriod
B) A dying star
C) A comet
D) A black hole
Q: The milky was extends through a distance of:
A) One light-year
B) 10⁵ light-years
C) 8 light-years
D) 10¹˚ light-years
Q: The altitudes of heavenly bodies appear to be greater than they actually are. This is due to:
A) Atmospheric refraction
B) Motions of the earth
C) These are visible
D) Vertical motions
Q: The period of one revolution of sun around the centre of galaxy is called:
A) Cosmic year
B) Astronomical year
C) Light year
D) Parsec
Q: Which of the following is concerned with the descripotion and mapping of the main features of the universe?
A) Cosmology
B) Cosmography
C) Astronomy
D) None of these
Q: The same side of the moon always faces the earth because:
A) Moon and earth have gravitational force
B) Moon connot change its position
C) The period of rotation of the moon on its axis and period of revolution around the earth is almost the same
D) None of these
Q: The light coming form stars gives the idea of their:
A) Size
B) Temperature
C) Mass
D) Density
Q: The constellation of stars appears at different positions in the sky at different times dusring night mainly:
A) Because earth rotates about its axis
B) Because earth revolves arround the sum
C) Because of optical illusion
D) Because celestial bodies are changing their position
Q: The sunspots cause:
A) Aurora australis and aurora borealis
B) Magnetic storms on the surface of the sum
C) Polar auroras
D) All of these
Q: "Parsec" is the unit of measurement of :
A) Density of stars
B) Orbital velocity of giant stars
C) Astronomical distance
D) None of these
Q: The distance of the nearest star besides the sum from the earth is:
A) 3 light-years
B) 4.24 light-years
C) 5 light-years
D) 6 light-years
Q: Lunar eclipse does not occur every month because:
A) The sun's orbit is not always in the same plane as the moon
B) The moon's orbit is not all the time in the same plane as the earth
C) The moon revolves at a slower speed than the earth
D) None of these
Q: Which of the following celestial bodies bear, 'The sea of Tranquillity' and 'The Ocean od Stroms'?
A) Mars
B) Venus
C) Moon
D) Sun
Q: The time required by moonlight to reach the earth is:
A) One second
B) 1.3 second
C) 2 seconds
D) 3 seconds
Q: The brightest star in the sky is:
A) Hayes
B) Praesepe
C) Sirius
D) Sun
Q: Lunar Sea refers to:
A) A small sea on the moon
B) A sea on earth which experiences high tides due to gravitational attraction of the moon
C) A dark plain on the moon
D) A large water body illuminated by moonlight
Q: Lunar eclipse is caused when the:
A) Moon comes between the sun and the earth
B) Earth comes between the sun and the moon
C) Sun comes between the earth and the moon
D) None of these
Q: The 'Solar Corona' mainly consists of:
A) Cosmic rays
B) Molten rays
C) Molten Lava
D) Gases
Q: Which two planets of the solar system have no satellites?
A) Mercury and Venus
B) Venus and Mars
C) Venus and Neptune
D) None of these
Q: Which of the following gases is most predominant in the sun?
A) Helium
B) Hydrogen
C) Nitrogen
D) Ozone
Q: The smallest planet is:
A) Venus
B) Mercury
C) Neptune
D) Uranus
Q: If there is no sun, the colour of the sky would be:
A) Orange
B) Blue
C) Yellow
D) None of these
Q: Which of the following planets is at the farthest distance from the earth?
A) Neptune
B) Mercury
C) Mars
D) None of these
Q: The solar wind is composed of:
A) Outward stream of protons on the sun surface
B) Ionized gas
C) Plasma
D) All of these
Q: Solar eclipse occurs when:
A) Earth comes between sun and moon
B) Moon is at right angle to earth
C) Moon comes between sun and earth
D) Sun comes between moon and earth

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