21. Former Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, who died recently, had also served as the special Representative
of the UN Secretary General for:
(A) Timor Leste
(B) Rwanda
(C) Kosovo
(D) Western Sahara
22. Pablo Picasso was one of the most famous painters of the world. He was from:
(A) Portugal
(B) Spain
(C) Italy
(D) Argentina
23. Constantinople is the old name of:
(A) Baghdad
(B) Ankara
(C) Damascus
(D) Istanbul
24.”Golden Temple” in India is a sacred place for which religion?
(A) Sikhism
(C) Jainism
(B) Buddhists
(D) Taoism
25. Which President of the USA was Involved in the “Watergate Scandal”?
(A) John F. Kennedy
(B) Bill Clinton
(C) Richard Nixon
(D) Lyndon Baines Johnson
26. Which mammal lays eggs?
(A) Whales
(B) Platypus
(C) Penguins
(D) Kiwis
27. Before the re-unification of Germany what was the capital of West Germany?
(A) Frankfurt
(B) Bonn
(C) Berlin
(D) Hamburg
28. “Cape of Good Hope” is located in which country?
(A) Argentina
(B) Namibia
(C) South Africa
(D) USA
29. To which island was Napoleon exiled to, in 1815, where he eventually died?
(A) Saint Helena
(B) Elba
(C) Corsica
(D) Sardinia
30. In which country is the world’s highest waterfall (Angel Falls) located?
(A) Zambia
(B) Canada
(C) Venezuela
(D) Auystria
31. Recently Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attended the Climate Change Summit, conference hold in Paris in December 2015. The conference is popularly known as COP21. What does COP stand for?
(A) Comprehensive Ozone Protection
(B) Conference of Parties
(C) Conference of Ozone Polluters
(D) None of these
32. How many countries, so far, are members of the European Union?
(A) 28
(B) 15
(C) 32
(D) 26
33. The South African Cricket team is known by the name “Proteas”. What exactly is “Proteas”?
(A) An animal native to Southern Africa
(B) National song of South Africa
(C) National Flower of South Africa
(D) Colour green in Zulu language
34. Wallis Mathias was a test cricketers from 1955 to 1962. Which country did he play for?
(A) Australia
(B) West Indies
(C) India
(D) Pakistan
35. “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
36. 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
37. 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
38. “Ornithology” is the study of:
(A) Bones
(B) Smells
(C) Birds
(D) Oceans
39. Which disease is caused by iodine deficiency?
(A) Gout
(B) Goitre
(C) Ricketts
(D) Scurvy
40. “Dialysis” is used for treatment of:
(A) Kidney failure
(B) Meningitis
(C) Cholera
(D) Parkinson Disease