Pakistan Airforce Test General Knowledge Questions with Answers

  • First Pakistani to win Pulitzer Prize? Adrees Latif

  • Pulitzer Prize founded in? 1917

  • The Parliament of Pakistan: A History of Institution-Building and (Un)Democratic Practices author? Mahboob Hussain

  • Zambia was formerly called? Northern Rhodesia

  • Supreme Court building in Islamabad designed by? Japanese architect (Kenzo Tange)

  • Player who played cricket for both India and Pakistan? Abdul Hafeez Kardar

  • Arachnophobia is fear of? Spiders

  • Country with no words in national anthem? Spain

  • Country with longest national anthem? Greece (also Uruguay — by duration; Greece by number of verses)

  • Country with shortest national anthem? Japan

  • Country with no national anthem? Cyprus (uses Greek and Turkish anthems instead)

  • Countries with two national anthems? New Zealand and Denmark

  • Atlas Mountains are in? Morocco (also Algeria and Tunisia)

  • Women first competed in Olympic Games in? 1900

  • First commercial cellphone service started in 1984 in? Chicago (USA)

  • Train to Pakistan author? Khushwant Singh

  • North Korea first tested nuclear weapons in? 2006

  • Shahid Beheshti Port is in? Iran

  • OPCW deals with? Chemical weapons

  • Ufa is a city in? Russia

  • Article 51 of UN Charter deals with? Right to self-defence

  • City named Shahjahanabad? Delhi

  • Modern globalization origins credited to? Bretton Woods Conference

  • Isthmus is? Narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas

  • Duckworth–Lewis method introduced after 1992 Cricket World Cup by? Both A & B (Frank Duckworth & Tony Lewis)

  • Keeping of birds is called? Aviculture

  • First cloned animal? Sheep (Dolly)

  • Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque is in? Delhi

  • World’s 5th largest country (by area)? Brazil

  • “The Desert Fox” was? Gen. Erwin Rommel

  • Bo-Kaap is a historic area in? South Africa

  • Number of NATO members? 30 (as of 2020; now 32 in 2024)

  • Vincent van Gogh was a? Painter

  • Chop shot in table tennis is? Backhand

  • Stick used to hit golf ball? Club

  • Bathsheba Beach is in? Barbados

  • Continent known as the Dark Continent? Africa

  • First Secretary-General of Pakistan? Chaudhry Muhammad Ali

  • Smallest republic in the world? Nauru

  • Father of Slave dynasty? Qutb al-Din Aibak

  • Spratly Islands are disputed between China and? All of these (Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Taiwan)

  • “Folketing” is parliament of? Denmark

  • Canton is a city in? China (modern name: Guangzhou)

  • Benghazi is a city in? Libya

  • A Farewell to Arms author? Ernest Hemingway

  • KGB was the national security agency of? Soviet Union

  • Chronometer measures? Time

  • Who discovered the heliocentric solar system? Nicolaus Copernicus

  • Capital of Tajikistan? Dushanbe

  • Old name of squash? Rackets

  • Hantavirus transmitted how? All of the above

  • Animals spreading hantavirus? All of the above (rodents, especially deer mice)

  • Higher risk of severe COVID-19? II and III (60+ years old; underlying medical conditions)

  • First European to land on Indian subcontinent? Vasco da Gama

  • Capital of Cyprus? Nicosia

  • Capital of Comoros? Moroni

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