FPSC General Knowledge Questions with Answers

  • Taliban office opened in Qatar in? 2013

  • Most recent leap year when February had 29 days? 2020

  • National flower of USA? Rose

  • Country called “the tear drop of India”? Sri Lanka

  • Muhammad bin Qasim was born in? 695 AD

  • Year Imran Khan married Jemima Goldsmith? 1995

  • Father of Geometry? Euclid

  • Muhammad bin Qasim died on? 18 July 715 AD

  • International Women’s Day is celebrated on? 8 March

  • First country with free public transport? Luxembourg

  • Second largest cricket ground in the world? Melbourne Cricket Ground

  • Most wickets in Cricket World Cup history? Glenn McGrath (Australia)

  • Tafseer al-Qur’an al-Azeem written by? Ibn Kathir (not Ibn al-Athir)

  • Biography of Holy Prophet (SAW) Sirat Rasul Allah written by? Ibn Ishaq

  • Ibn Sina was born near Bukhara, died in? Hamadan, Iran

  • Abul Qasim Ferdowsi was a Persian by profession? Poet

  • Pink City of India? Jaipur

  • Headquarters of ICAO? Montreal, Canada

  • Famous person offered to be first President of Israel? Albert Einstein

  • Country called “Land of a Thousand Elephants”? Laos

  • Currency of Mongolia? Tögrög (spelled Togrog in English)

  • Firdous al-Hikmat was written on? Medicine

  • Granada fell in the year? 1492 AD

  • Salahuddin Ayyubi belonged to which ethnic group? Kurd

  • Country called “Land of Poets”? Chile

  • World’s biggest cricket stadium? Narendra Modi Stadium (Motera), Ahmedabad, India

  • Petra, one of the New Seven Wonders, is in? Jordan

  • Year European Crusaders captured Palestine from Muslims? 1099

  • Ikebana is? Japanese art of flower arrangement

  • Country called “Land of Hope and Glory”? England

  • Hazrat Umar (RA) embraced Islam after hearing which Surah? Surah Taha

  • Old name of Hungary? Magyar

  • Country called “Land of Opportunities”? USA

  • ICC founded in? 1909 (as Imperial Cricket Conference)

  • Old name of Libya? Tripolitania (Tripoli was the capital; Tripolitania was the region’s name)

  • Tanger Med seaport is in? Morocco

  • Algeciras seaport is in? Spain

  • Port of Kobe is in? Japan

  • Darren Sammy was born in? Saint Lucia

  • World’s oldest living man (as of early 2020) from Japan? Chitetsu Watanabe

  • Name of storm that hit UK in February 2020? Storm Dennis

  • VRT is a news channel of? Belgium

  • Meaning of Surah Al-Ikhlas? The Purity

  • Fatimid Caliphate ended in? 1171 AD

  • Last Fatimid Caliph? Al-Adid

  • Imam Ghazali’s origin? Persian

  • National day of Sudan? 1 January

  • Heisman Trophy is awarded in which sport? American football

  • Number of different jelly bean flavors? 50

  • Golfer whose first name means “victory” in Hindi? Vijay Singh

  • Teams in 2020 Kabaddi World Cup? 10

  • Red Lake is in? USA

  • Old name of Switzerland? Helvetia

  • Algeria became independent in? 1962

  • Iraq granted independence by the __________ in 1932? League of Nations

  • National song of India? Vande Mataram

  • First FIFA World Cup winner (1930)? Uruguay

  • Only animals that can’t jump? Elephants

  • Shuttlecock is used in? Badminton

  • U.S. state where Area 51 is located? Nevada

  • Barack Obama was born in? Hawaii

  • French name for Santa Claus? Père Noël

  • Disputed island between India and Bangladesh? New Moore Island

  • Longest recorded point in tennis history lasted? 29 minutes

  • First African country to qualify for FIFA World Cup? Egypt

  • Muhammad Ali’s first professional boxing loss was in? 1971

  • Touchdown is worth how many points? Six

  • Old name of Egypt? United Arab Republic (1958–1971 union with Syria)

  • Name for camel meat? Camel (no special term)

  • Country called “Land of Blue Sky”? Mongolia

  • First season of PSL began on? 4 February 2016

  • Winner of 2020 Kabaddi World Cup? Pakistan

  • Old name of Zambia? Northern Rhodesia

  • Capital of Serbia? Belgrade

  • Capital of Scotland? Edinburgh

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