Railway Police Inspector Past Paper 2015 Solved MCQs

Correct Answer: England

Courts of equity developed in England, under the Lord Chancellor and the Court of Chancery.

Correct Answer: Four months

Under Article 89, a presidential ordinance stands repealed after four months (120 days) from promulgation.

Correct Answer: Five years

A person must have been a judge of a high court for five years to be appointed a Supreme Court judge.

Correct Answer: 14 years

Under the National Accountability Bureau Ordinance, 1999, corruption is punishable with imprisonment up to 14 years.

Correct Answer: Criminal Procedure Code

Cr. P.C. stands for Criminal Procedure Code.

Correct Answer: Short trial before a magistrate

A summary trial is a short trial before a magistrate.

Correct Answer: One year

A second class magistrate can give a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.

Correct Answer: The State Vs. Dosso

State v. Dosso (1958) is the case in which Chief Justice Munir invoked Kelsen's theory of the doctrine of necessity.

Correct Answer: Probe in to the conduct of judges and preparation of report to this effect.

The Supreme Judicial Council probes into the conduct of judges of superior courts and prepares a report to that effect.

Correct Answer: Aristotle

Aristotle's Politics is the first systematic book on the art of government.

Correct Answer: Sir Lepel H. Griffin

The Punjab Chiefs was written by Sir Lepel H. Griffin.

Correct Answer: Badminton

The Thomas Cup is the men's world team badminton championship, so it is given for badminton.

Correct Answer: Oslo

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway.

Correct Answer: Robert Baden Powell

Robert Baden-Powell founded the Scout Movement.

Correct Answer: All are members

All the countries named in the offered groups are UN members — Dominica since 1978, San Marino since 1992 and Monaco since 1993 — so 'All are members' is the standard answer.

Correct Answer: 15 members

The UN Security Council consists of 15 members: 5 permanent and 10 non-permanent.

Correct Answer: Manila

The headquarters of the Asian Development Bank is at Manila.

Correct Answer: The exchange rate of currencies in the open market

The Kerb market is the open market in foreign currency dealings, so its rate is the open-market exchange rate.

Correct Answer: Plato

The view that justice is the interest of the stronger party is put by Thrasymachus in Plato's Republic.

Correct Answer: Archipelago

A group or chain of islands is called an archipelago.

Correct Answer: Television - John Logie Baird

Television paired with John Logie Baird is the correct invention-inventor pairing; the other pairings are mismatched.

Correct Answer: Italian Navigator

Christopher Columbus was an Italian navigator.

Correct Answer: Russia

Itar-Tass is the news agency of Russia.

Correct Answer: Ulster Unionists

The Ulster Unionists are the faction that wants to retain British rule in Northern Ireland.

Correct Answer: India

The Bofors scandal centred on India, over the Swedish Bofors guns deal.

Correct Answer: Airline

Cathay Pacific is an airline, the flag carrier of Hong Kong.

Correct Answer: Afghanistan

Ariana is the airline of Afghanistan.

Correct Answer: Mindanao

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front is struggling for independence in Mindanao, Philippines.

Correct Answer: Independent Power Producer

IPP stands for Independent Power Producer.

Correct Answer: Katmandu

The SAARC Secretariat is in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Correct Answer: Demography

The study or science of population is called demography.

Correct Answer: Offices of American Defense Ministry

The Pentagon houses the offices of the American Defense Ministry.

Correct Answer: Unitary

When a single government operates at the central level with no regional governments, the system is called unitary.

Correct Answer: Dagestanis are Christians living near Chechnya's neighborhood.

Dagestanis are predominantly Muslims, not Christians, so option B is the statement that is NOT true.

Correct Answer: Greece

Greece is the book's intended answer as the birthplace of democracy in Athens; the United States is the oldest modern democracy.

Correct Answer: Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is the textbook answer for the highest literacy rate among SAARC countries, although Maldives rates higher in some UNESCO data.

Correct Answer: He stood against the British customs, practices and way of life

Titu Mir led resistance against British rule and the British-backed zamindar order in Bengal; the other options misplace him, confuse him with the Faraizi movement, or state no recognised contribution.

Correct Answer: Legislative Councils Act, 1861

The Legislative Councils Act of 1861 first included Indians in the Governor-General's Council.

Correct Answer: Lucknow Pact

The Lucknow Pact of 1916 envisaged provincial legislative councils with four-fifths elected members.

Correct Answer: Arabia

The Arabian Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the world.

Correct Answer: 2400 km

The book's intended answer is 2400 km, the old textbook figure; modern surveys put the Great Wall's total length at about 21,196 km.

Correct Answer: 180° Longitude

The International Date Line is located on 180 degrees longitude.

Correct Answer: Mediterranean and the Red Sea

The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

Correct Answer: the Palk Strait

The Palk Strait separates India from Sri Lanka.

Correct Answer: Iron ore

Kalabagh is famous for its iron ore deposits.

Correct Answer: All of the above

Salt is found in Warcha, Khewra and Kohat, so 'All of the above' is the answer.

Correct Answer: All of the above

Natural gas is found in Mari, Uch and Khairpur, so 'All of the above' is the answer.

Correct Answer: Karakoram Range

K-2, Pakistan's highest mountain peak, is located in the Karakoram Range.

Correct Answer: Natural Forests

Dir is famous for its natural forests.

Correct Answer: Sugarcane

Sugarcane is a Kharif crop, while wheat and barley are Rabi crops.

Correct Answer: Uganda, Austria, Hungary, Laos

Uganda, Austria, Hungary and Laos are all landlocked countries, while every country in the other options has a coastline.

Correct Answer: Greenland

Greenland is the world's largest island.

Correct Answer: Pacific

The Mariana Trench, the world's deepest ocean trench, lies in the Pacific Ocean.

Correct Answer: 25.8%

Punjab covers 25.8 percent of Pakistan's total land mass (about 205,344 of 796,095 square kilometres).

Correct Answer: Siachen

Siachen, at about 76 kilometres, is the longest glacier of Pakistan.

Correct Answer: Potohar Plateau

The Soan and the Haro are the two rivers of the Potohar Plateau.

Correct Answer: Kabul

Warsak Dam has been built on the Kabul River.

Correct Answer: Chitral and Gilgit

The Shandur Pass, at 12,205 feet, connects Chitral and Gilgit.

Correct Answer: Bari Doab

The area lying between the Beas and the Ravi is called the Bari Doab.

Correct Answer: Changa Manga

Changa Manga is the part of Punjab famous for Shisham timber forests.

Correct Answer: Liver

The liver is the largest gland in the human body.

Correct Answer: 46

Humans have 46 chromosomes, in 23 pairs, including the X and Y sex chromosomes.

Correct Answer: Tuberculosis

Per WHO, tuberculosis is the infectious disease causing the maximum number of casualties in the world, ahead of HIV/AIDS.

Correct Answer: All of these

The book's intended answer is 'All of these'; strictly, earthquakes are caused mainly by tectonic plate movement, which is not among the options.

Correct Answer: Mercury

Mercury is the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun.

Correct Answer: Sir Zafarullah Khan

Sir Zafarullah Khan was the first Pakistani to become a judge of the International Court of Justice.

Correct Answer: With two-third majority of both the houses of parliament.

The 1973 Constitution can be amended with a two-thirds majority of both houses of parliament.

Correct Answer: Rabi crop of 1982-83

In Pakistan, Ushr began to be collected from the Rabi crop of 1982-83.

Correct Answer: Rice

After cotton, rice is Pakistan's second highest foreign exchange earning crop.

Correct Answer: Hatf-I

Hatf-I is Pakistan's first surface-to-surface missile; Shaheen-I came later.

Correct Answer: Bhatta & Kiln industry

Bonded labour is mostly prevalent in the bhatta (brick kiln) industry.

Correct Answer: CENTO

The Baghdad Pact of 1955 came to be known as CENTO, the Central Treaty Organization.

Correct Answer: Sitara-i-Basalat

Sitara-i-Basalat is the highest non-operational award of the Pakistan Armed Forces.

Correct Answer: Risalpur

The Aeronautical Engineering College of the PAF is at Risalpur.

Correct Answer: Iran, Iraq, Turkey

Besides Pakistan, the Baghdad Pact/CENTO members in 1955 included Iran, Iraq and Turkey (and the United Kingdom, which is not in the offered option).

Correct Answer: Held in abeyance

During the martial law period of 1977-85, the 1973 Constitution was held in abeyance.

Correct Answer: Consider all disputes relating to distribution of revenues between the federal and provincial governments.

The Council of Common Interests considers disputes relating to the distribution of revenues between the federal and provincial governments; it also handles water-resource disputes.

Correct Answer: World Bank

The World Bank supervised (brokered) the Indus Basin Treaty of 1960 between Pakistan and India.

Correct Answer: Bilateralism

From 1971 to 1976, Pakistan's foreign policy under Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was based on bilateralism.

Correct Answer: Binary system

A digital computer operates on the binary system.

Correct Answer: Collection of Programmes

In computer technology, software is a collection of programmes.

Correct Answer: All of these

The internet connects one computer to another and performs all the functions listed, so 'All of these' is the answer.

Correct Answer: Howard Aiken

Howard Aiken built the first digital computer, the Mark I, in the textbook account.

Correct Answer: The web cannot be used on a local area network

The web can be used on a local area network (as an intranet), so option D is the statement that is NOT true.

Correct Answer: All of these

Disarmament means the reduction or abolition of armaments, so 'All of these' is the book's intended best reading.

Correct Answer: Teaching

Pedagogy is the science of teaching.

Correct Answer: Existing stockpiles of fissile material should be included in the purview of the treaty.

Pakistan's standpoint on the FMCT is that existing fissile-material stockpiles must be included in the treaty's purview.

Correct Answer: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine

Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine were the three ex-Soviet nuclear weapons states that signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Correct Answer: To eliminate quota system and promote free competition in trade

The main objective of the World Trade Organization is to eliminate the quota system and promote free competition in trade.

Correct Answer: Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is OPEC's largest oil producing country.

Correct Answer: Palestinians will be provided safe passage between West Bank and Gaza strip

The Sharm-el-Sheikh Agreement provided safe passage for Palestinians between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Correct Answer: Russia

After the USA, Russia is the second biggest arms seller in the world in the paper's era.

Correct Answer: Russian oil pipelines run through it

Chechnya is important to Russia because Russian oil pipelines run through it.

Correct Answer: To make foreign exchange resources available for those countries facing balance of payments difficulties.

The main function of the IMF is to make foreign exchange resources available to countries facing balance of payments difficulties.

Correct Answer: Sri Lanka

Among the SAARC countries offered, Sri Lanka has the highest per capita income in the paper's era.

Correct Answer: Burning of Al-Aqsa Mosque by the Jews

The Organization of Islamic Conference came into being in 1969 as a result of the burning of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Correct Answer: Abu Yousaf bin Ibrahim

Kitab al-Kharaj, the famous book on Ushr, was written by Abu Yusuf bin Ibrahim.

Correct Answer: 16

With the last-three average read as 16, the last three sum to 48; with the last number 19, the middle two sum to 29, so the first number is 45 minus 29, which is 16.

Correct Answer: 55

The daughter is 5 now (8 in three years' time), so the wife is ten times that, 50, and the man, five years older, is 55.

Correct Answer: 20.8%

Forty percent of women are voters and women are 52 percent of the population, so women voters are 40 percent of 52 percent, which is 20.8 percent of the population.