FPSC · Anf · 2006
Solved FPSC Inspector ANF past paper 2006 — 100 MCQs with verified answers and explanations. Free online practice for FPSC, PPSC, NTS and all one-paper exams. Covers English, Everyday Science, Mathematics.
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This is the FPSC Inspector Anti-Narcotics Force (Narcotics Division) past paper from 2006. It contains 100 solved MCQs covering English, Everyday Science, Mathematics, with verified answers and an explanation for every question. Eleven printed answer-key entries were corrected against standard sources, and several defective, era and print-defect items are flagged in the notes.
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Correct Answer: The leader of the party walked out, and his followers followed suit.
Only option (A) has the article, the verb form and the idiom 'followed suit' all correct.
Correct Answer: The whole system is corroded with corruption from top to bottom.
The idiom is 'from top to bottom', without articles, as in option (B).
Correct Answer: A great many students who are at home in other subjects fail because of their poor performance in English.
Option (D) is correct: 'a great many students' with 'fail' and 'performance in English', without 'the' before English.
Correct Answer: The desire for wealth often tempts a man to do evil.
Option (C) is correct: 'tempts a man to do evil' — 'an evil' and 'the wealth' are both wrong here.
Correct Answer: He displayed wisdom and patience would have done credit to Solomon.
Option (A) is the best of the options: the idiom is 'do credit to Solomon', and 'a credit' in the other options is unidiomatic.
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Correct Answer: to suggest vaguely
To adumbrate is to suggest vaguely or outline in faint terms.
Correct Answer: pertaining to dress
Sartorial means pertaining to dress or tailoring.
Correct Answer: worldly
Mundane means worldly, ordinary, of this world.
Correct Answer: fitful
Spasmodic means occurring in fits, fitful and irregular.
Correct Answer: native
Indigenous means native to a place.
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Correct Answer: on
The book keys 'on' for this item, though no offered preposition gives the idiom 'beyond your capacity'.
Correct Answer: to
The idiom is 'averse to' something.
Correct Answer: off
Dust is wiped 'off' a table.
Correct Answer: of
One is reminded 'of' something.
Correct Answer: at
To 'jump at' a suggestion is to accept it eagerly.
Correct Answer: on
The idiom is 'consequent on' a failure.
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Correct Answer: separate
To amalgamate is to combine; its opposite is to separate.
Correct Answer: decrease
To amplify is to enlarge; its opposite is to decrease.
Correct Answer: inappropriate
Apposite means apt and suitable; its opposite is inappropriate.
Correct Answer: signed
Anonymous means unsigned; its opposite is signed.
Correct Answer: unfriendly
Amicable means friendly; its opposite is unfriendly.
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Correct Answer: Shelley
'Our sweetest songs are those that tell us of saddest thoughts' is from Shelley's 'To a Skylark'.
Subject 2
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Correct Answer: 7/8
Reducing by 12.5 percent leaves 87.5 percent, which is 7/8 of the number.
Correct Answer: 2500
At a 0.08 percent rejection rate, 2 rejected instruments come from 2 divided by 0.0008, which is 2500 examined.
Correct Answer: 1000
The book keys 1000, the figure that follows if the rate is read as 6.25 percent; 25 percent of 250 is 62.5.
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Correct Answer: Rs. 28880
A 5 percent fall each year compounds: 32000 times 0.95 times 0.95 equals Rs. 28880.
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Correct Answer: 70
If 40 percent of the number added to 42 gives the number itself, 60 percent of it is 42, so the number is 70.
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Correct Answer: 40,000
The book keys Rs. 40,000 for this item, though its printed stem omits the wife's share fraction.
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Correct Answer: 211
The book keys 211 for this item, though 13 plus 18 is 31, which is not among the options.
Correct Answer: 2984
1002 divided by 20.04 is 50, and 3034 minus 50 is 2984.
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Correct Answer: None
29 times 49 is 1421, which is none of the numbers offered, so the answer is None.
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Correct Answer: 10
25 boys play at least one game (30 minus 5), so both games are played by 18 plus 17 minus 25, which is 10 boys.
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Correct Answer: .003
3 divided by 1000 is 0.003.
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Correct Answer: 4030
The pattern joins 5 times the second number to 5 times the first: 5 times 7 is 35 and 5 times 9 is 45, so 6 times 8 gives 40 and 30, or 4030.
Correct Answer: 79
The book keys 79 for this item.
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Correct Answer: 25
The book keys the first option for this garbled powers item.
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Correct Answer: 72 degrees
The book keys 72 degrees, the exterior (central) angle of a regular pentagon; the interior angles average 108 degrees.
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Correct Answer: 49
4 plus 3 is 7, and 7 squared is 49.
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Correct Answer: 12 years
The book keys 12 years for this item, though its printed stem states no further condition.
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Correct Answer: 5 weeks
The plant must grow 17.5 cm more, at 3.5 cm a week, which takes 5 weeks.
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Correct Answer: 1+b/a
(a + b) divided by a equals 1 plus b/a.
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Correct Answer: 55.5
From (0.4)(y) = 5, y is 12.5, and 4.44 times 12.5 is 55.5.
Subject 3
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Correct Answer: the first man-made transmutations
Rutherford performed the first artificial (man-made) nuclear transmutation in 1919.
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Correct Answer: Newton's Third Law of Motion
Equal and opposite reaction is Newton's Third Law of Motion.
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Correct Answer: carbon
Carbon is present in proteins, fats and carbohydrates alike; nitrogen is not present in fats or carbohydrates.
Correct Answer: Amino acids
Proteins are made of amino acids.
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Correct Answer: pathogenic
A disease-producing micro-organism is described as pathogenic.
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Correct Answer: Archimedes principle
The upward thrust equal to the weight of displaced liquid is Archimedes' principle.
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Correct Answer: a negative charge
Electrons carry a negative charge.
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Correct Answer: naturally activated
Radium is naturally radioactive, or naturally activated in the book's wording.
Correct Answer: Both a, b & c
Radium gives off alpha, beta and gamma rays — all three.
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Correct Answer: 7
Sunlight is made up of seven colours.
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Correct Answer: rises
The speed of sound rises as the temperature rises.
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Correct Answer: burning
Combustion is another name for burning.
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Correct Answer: both real and virtual images
A concave mirror forms real images of distant objects and a virtual image of a near object — both real and virtual.
Correct Answer: Convex mirror
A car's rear-view mirror is a convex mirror, giving a wider field of view.
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Correct Answer: mental and physical state of mankind
Anthropology is the study of the mental and physical state of mankind, in the book's wording.
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Correct Answer: Uncontrolled fusion
A hydrogen bomb is based on uncontrolled nuclear fusion.
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Correct Answer: magnetic field on the tape
A tape recorder records sound as a magnetic field (pattern) on the tape.
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Correct Answer: from hotter to colder bodies
Heat energy passes from hotter bodies to colder bodies.
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Correct Answer: 21
Air contains about 21 percent oxygen.
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Correct Answer: oxygen
Oxygen forms about half of the earth's crust and over one-fifth of the air, and life cannot survive minutes without it.
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Correct Answer: Skull
Flat bones are found in the skull, among the options offered.
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Correct Answer: Black
Without an atmosphere there would be no scattering of sunlight, so the sky would appear black.
Subject 4
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Correct Answer: Phnom Penh
The capital city of Cambodia is Phnom Penh.
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Correct Answer: Salman
The book's 'current' King of Saudi Arabia is Salman, king at the time of compilation.
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Correct Answer: Iraq
Mesopotamia is the ancient name of Iraq.
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Correct Answer: Sindh
The Sindh Assembly was the first Provincial Assembly to pass a resolution for a separate state for the Muslims of India.
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Correct Answer: Swim across the English Channel
Brojen Das was the first Pakistani to swim across the English Channel.
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Correct Answer: 1937
The Punjab Public Service Commission was founded in 1937.
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Correct Answer: November 1964
The first PTV programme was broadcast in November 1964.
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Correct Answer: Gilgit-Baltistan
Astore District is located in Gilgit-Baltistan.
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Correct Answer: Bibi Jawindi
Uch Sharif's most famous monument is the tomb of Bibi Jawindi.
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Correct Answer: Abdul Jabbar Khan
Dr. Khan Sahib's full name was Abdul Jabbar Khan.
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Correct Answer: Medal for valour
Italy's highest military award is the Medal for Valour.
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Correct Answer: Palestine
Gaza City is in Palestine.
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Correct Answer: Bram Stoker
The character of Dracula was created by Bram Stoker.
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Correct Answer: Durable consumption goods
'White goods' are durable consumption goods such as refrigerators and washing machines.
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Correct Answer: Yachting
The America's Cup is associated with yachting.
Subject 5
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Correct Answer: 5374
5374 ahadith are attributed to Abu Huraira.
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Correct Answer: 111 Hijrah
The book keys 111 Hijrah for the second era of hadith compilation.
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Correct Answer: 3
The book keys three kinds of mujtahid.
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Correct Answer: 571 AD
The Prophet (SAW) was born in 571 AD.
Correct Answer: 15 years
The Prophet (SAW) was 15 years old at the time of Harb Fijar.
Correct Answer: 20
The book keys 20 camels given to Khadija (R.A).
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Correct Answer: 2 Hijrah
The Battle of Badr took place in 2 Hijrah.
Correct Answer: 3 Hijrah
The Battle of Uhud occurred in 3 Hijrah.
Correct Answer: 5 Hijrah
The Battle of Khandaq occurred in 5 Hijrah.
Correct Answer: 8 Hijrah
The Battle of Hunain took place in 8 Hijrah.
Subject 6
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Correct Answer: Kabul
Warsak dam is on the Kabul river.
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Correct Answer: 2252 Km
The book gives the length of the Durand Line as 2252 km.
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Correct Answer: Thar
The largest desert of Pakistan is the Thar desert.
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Correct Answer: Balochistan
The Toba Kakar range is in Balochistan.
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Correct Answer: 1988
General Zia died in an air crash in 1988.
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Correct Answer: Peshawar
The Pakistan Forest Institute is in Peshawar.
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Correct Answer: 805 Km
The book gives the Karakorum Highway length as 805 km, the Pakistan section.
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Correct Answer: 1995
The book keys 1995 for the establishment of the Pak-China Business Council.
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Correct Answer: 796,096 sq Km
The area of Pakistan is 796,096 square kilometres.
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Correct Answer: Kaghan
Lake Saif-ul-Maluk is in Kaghan.
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Correct Answer: Equal height
Contours are lines connecting places having equal height.
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Questions
The paper contains 100 MCQs with verified answers and explanations.
It covers English, Everyday Science, Mathematics, plus Pakistan Studies, Islamic Studies, General Knowledge and Geography.
Yes. Every answer was reconciled three ways — the book's printed answer key, the book's own material, and the standard fact — and eleven key entries were corrected where the key was wrong.
Its general-knowledge, English and mathematics content is shared across FPSC, PPSC, NTS and CSS MPT one-paper exams, so it is useful preparation for all of them.
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