Investigation Officer Past Paper 2012 Solved MCQs

Correct Answer: Egypt

Merneptah's (Mineptah's) mummy is housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt.

Correct Answer: Currency of Vietnam

The dong is the currency of Vietnam.

Correct Answer: Research and Analysis Wing

RAW stands for Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency.

Correct Answer: Capital

Fort-de-France is the capital of Martinique.

Correct Answer: Taiwan

Daily Air is a Taiwanese airline.

Correct Answer: New York

John F. Kennedy Airport is in New York.

Correct Answer: Ritzua

Denmark's news agency is Ritzau.

Correct Answer: Germany

The BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst) is Germany's foreign intelligence service.

Correct Answer: World Maritime day

World Maritime Day is observed in the last week of September, on the last Thursday of the month.

Correct Answer: Canada

Canada is the country known by the famous name Land of Lilies in this paper's key.

Correct Answer: Oil centre

Baku is important as an oil centre on the Caspian Sea.

Correct Answer: Magnolia

The People's Great Khural (printed Hural, Magnolia for Mongolia) is the parliament of Mongolia.

Correct Answer: 1947

Pakistan became a member of the International Labour Organization in 1947.

Correct Answer: Italy

Renaissance architecture first developed in Italy.

Correct Answer: France

The International Chamber of Commerce is headquartered in Paris, France.

Correct Answer: Panama

The Panama Canal has been under Panama's control since the transfer on 31 December 1999.

Correct Answer: Winston Churchill

Great Contemporaries was written by Winston Churchill.

Correct Answer: Abel Tasman

Abel Tasman was the first European to discover New Zealand, in 1642.

Correct Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev wrote Perestroika, and Glasnost was his policy of openness.

Correct Answer: Mao Tse Tung

The Red Book (Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung) was written by Mao Tse-tung.

Correct Answer: All of them

The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth and Othello were all written by Shakespeare.

Correct Answer: Canada

Among the bays offered, Hudson Bay in Canada is the largest; the Bay of Bengal, the largest bay overall, is not offered.

Correct Answer: North America with South America

The Panama Canal links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans across the isthmus between North and South America.

Correct Answer: North Sea and Baltic Sea

The Kiel Canal links the North Sea with the Baltic Sea.

Correct Answer: Norway

The Alta Dam is in Norway, on the Altaelva river.

Correct Answer: Brazil

The Itaipu Dam is on the Brazil-Paraguay border, in Brazil as offered.

Correct Answer: Broad-leaved

Broad-leaved forests account for the most total forest area in the world on the book's reckoning.

Correct Answer: Siberian

Coniferous forests are found in the Siberian (boreal/taiga) climate.

Correct Answer: Antarctica

Antarctica is the icy continent.

Correct Answer: Vitamin A

Cow milk is a rich source of vitamin A, among other nutrients.

Correct Answer: Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier is considered the founder of modern chemistry.

Correct Answer: Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen discovered X-rays.

Correct Answer: Virus

AIDS is caused by a virus, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Correct Answer: Heart

An ECG (electrocardiogram) is used to diagnose ailments of the heart.

Correct Answer: Thorium

Thorium is the radioactive metal offered; it is also weakly magnetic.

Correct Answer: Proteins

Muscles, tissues and blood are all made up chiefly of proteins.

Correct Answer: Haemoglobin

Haemoglobin makes the blood look red.

Correct Answer: Iron

Haemoglobin is a complex protein rich in iron.

Correct Answer: xylology

The study of wood is called xylology.

Correct Answer: zenography

The study of the planet Jupiter is called zenography.

Correct Answer: With the order of terms changed

Vice versa means with the order of terms changed, the other way round.

Correct Answer: See above

Vide supra means see above (vide infra means see below).

Correct Answer: sensitive

Susceptible means sensitive, easily affected.

Correct Answer: experimental

Tentative means experimental or provisional, not yet definite.

Correct Answer: escaping

Fugitive means escaping, fleeing.

Correct Answer: dupe

A hoax is a deception that dupes people.

Correct Answer: minute

Infinitesimal means minute, extremely small.

Correct Answer: stubborn

Obdurate means stubborn, refusing to change.

Correct Answer: on

He congratulated you on your promotion.

Correct Answer: on

The servant is attending on him, that is, serving him.

Correct Answer: 50 mtrs

The train's length is 50 metres: (22-2) km/h for 9 seconds and (22-4) km/h for 10 seconds both give 50 metres.

Correct Answer: 36

Working backwards from the 6 bananas left, the bunch had 36 bananas before Papa ate.

Correct Answer: 2:1

If the volumes of two cubes are in the ratio 8:1, their edges are in the ratio 2:1, the cube root of 8:1.

Correct Answer: 18

Five times a number minus three times the same number is twice the number, so 2x = 36 and x = 18.

Correct Answer: 8

Three times 8 plus 5 is 29, so the number is 8.

Correct Answer: 20

With a banker's gain of Re. 1 at 5% for one year, the true discount is Rs. 20.

Correct Answer: 7

The greatest number dividing 105, 1001 and 2436 is 7.

Correct Answer: 20%

Buying at Rs. 600 and selling at Rs. 720 gives a gain of Rs. 120, which is 20%.

Correct Answer: 50

A 2.5% difference in selling price equal to Rs. 1.25 means the cost price is Rs. 50.

Correct Answer: Data inadequate

The order is not fully determined between the groups, so the data are inadequate to name the third-highest scorer.

Correct Answer: All of the above

An unnatural offence can be committed with a man, a woman or an animal, so all of the above.

Correct Answer: Moveable

Under Pakistan Penal Code section 378, theft is of movable property.

Correct Answer: Intention & dishonesty

Theft under section 378 requires dishonest intention, that is, intention and dishonesty.

Correct Answer: Imprisonment extendable to 3 years or fine or both

The punishment for theft is imprisonment extendable to three years, or fine, or both.

Correct Answer: Cannot sue the defendant for the breach of such contract or part there-of

Under section 29 of the Specific Relief Act, a plaintiff whose suit for specific performance is dismissed cannot afterwards sue for breach of that contract or part thereof.

Correct Answer: Rectification of Instruments

Chapter III of the Specific Relief Act deals with rectification of instruments.

Correct Answer: Certiorari

Certiorari is the writ by which a higher court reviews a lower court's decision and proceedings for irregularities.

Correct Answer: Hearsay

Second-hand information a witness only heard about is called hearsay.

Correct Answer: Liquidated damages

The amount specified in a contract to be paid if the agreement is violated is liquidated damages.

Correct Answer: The originators of a class action suit

The plaintiffs are the originators of a class action suit.

Correct Answer: Res Ipsa Loquitur

Res ipsa loquitur is the principle that an accident of a sort that would not ordinarily occur without negligence speaks for itself.

Correct Answer: b & c are correct

A police officer may not arrest without a warrant in a non-cognizable offence.

Correct Answer: Offence

Any act or omission punishable by law for the time being in force is an offence.

Correct Answer: All of the above

Place includes a house, a building, and a tent and a vessel, so all of the above.

Correct Answer: Provincial Government

A police station is a post or place declared generally or specially by the Provincial Government to conduct investigation.

Correct Answer: Justice of the Peace

A Justice of the Peace is appointed by the Provincial Government by notification for a local area with the powers of a police officer for arrest.

Correct Answer: 25 years

Imprisonment for life is reckoned as equivalent to imprisonment for 25 years under Pakistan Penal Code section 57.

Correct Answer: Excessive

Where no sum is stated, a fine is unlimited but shall not be excessive.

Correct Answer: Subject to confirmation by the High Court

A sentence of death passed by a Sessions Judge or Additional Sessions Judge is subject to confirmation by the High Court.

Correct Answer: A sentence of death

An Assistant Sessions Judge may not pass a sentence of death; imprisonment exceeding seven years is also excepted, making this a defective single-answer item.

Correct Answer: All of the above

Sale of adulterated drugs is punishable with imprisonment up to six months and a fine up to one thousand rupees, or both.

Correct Answer: Imprisonment extendable to ten years, or with fine, or with both

Deliberately insulting a class's religion or religious beliefs is punishable under section 295-A with imprisonment up to ten years, or fine, or both.

Correct Answer: Law applicable to a particular subject

A special law is a law applicable to a particular subject; a law for a particular part of Pakistan is a local law.

Correct Answer: Capital offence

A crime punishable by death is termed a capital offence.

Correct Answer: Habeas corpus

Habeas corpus is the writ used to bring a prisoner before the court to test the legality of imprisonment.

Correct Answer: The Appellate Court

Where the courts having jurisdiction are subordinate to the same appellate court, the application lies to the Appellate Court.

Correct Answer: Two percent, above the prevailing bank rate

Where a suit was instituted to avoid public dues, the court may order interest at two percent above the prevailing bank rate.

Correct Answer: Pakistan

A letter of request may issue to examine a witness residing at a place not within Pakistan.

Correct Answer: Foreign judgment

Foreign judgment means the judgment of a foreign court.

Correct Answer: Government Pleader

Government Pleader includes an officer appointed by the Provincial Government to perform the Government Pleader's functions, and a pleader acting under his directions.

Correct Answer: Judge

Judge means the presiding officer of a civil court.

Correct Answer: a & b

No second appeal lies in the suits described, including small-cause suits where the subject matter does not exceed 25,000 rupees, as keyed with the 2,50,000-rupee condition.

Correct Answer: All of the above.

Under section 32 of the CPC the court may issue a warrant, impose a fine up to 2,000 rupees, or order security for appearance, so all of the above.

Correct Answer: Investigation

Proceedings for the collection of evidence by a police officer or a person other than a magistrate authorised by a magistrate are an investigation.

Correct Answer: a & b

Arsh is payable to the victim, or to the victim's heirs if the victim has died.

Correct Answer: Imprisonment extendable to five years or fine or both

The book keys five years for unlawfully compelling labour, although Pakistan Penal Code section 374 provides up to one year, which is not offered.

Correct Answer: Charge any person with liability

Under Article 48, entries in books of account regularly kept in the course of business are relevant, but alone they are not sufficient evidence to charge a person with liability.

Correct Answer: Bailiff

A bailiff is the court officer empowered to serve court documents and execute warrants.

Correct Answer: Common Law

Law established from judicial decisions and established within a community is common law.

Correct Answer: Imam Abu Hanifa

Abu Yusuf and Muhammad (al-Shaybani) were the chief disciples of Imam Abu Hanifa.