FPSC 100 Most Repeated Solved MCQs
For SST Test:
01. Which Shakespeare play was set in Ellsinore
Castle, Denmark?
Ans: Hamlet.
02. Who said: ‘Genius is 1% inspiration and 99%
perspiration’?
Ans: Edison.
03. The Kikuyu Island chain lies between which
two countries?
Ans: Japan & Taiwan.
04. Which fibrous protein is the major
constituent of hair, nails, feathers,
beaks and claws?
Ans: Keratin.
05. Of which fruit is morello a variety?
Ans: Cherry.
06. Which explorer discovered Victories Falls in
Africa?
Ans: David Livingstone.
07. Who was the last king of Egypt?
Ans: Farouk.
08. What is the literal meaning of the word
mafia?
Ans: Barging.
09. Which war lasted 16 years longer than its
name implies?
Ans: The Hundred Year’s War.
10. What is the national sport of Malaysia and
Indonesia?
Ans: Badminton.
11. Which is the shallowest of the Great Lakes?
Ans: Lake Erie.
12. What name is given to minute or microscopic animals and plants that live
in the upper layers of fresh and salt water?
Ans: Plankton.
13. Which country was originally named Cathay?
Ans: China.
14. Sinhalese is a language spoken in which
country?
Ans: Sri Lanka.
15. The Sao Francisco river flows through which
country?
Ans: Brazil.
16. In which sport do teams compete for the
Dunhill Cup?
Ans: Golf.
17. Which Shakespeare character’s last words are:
‘The rest is silence’?
Ans: Hamlet.
18. In economics, whose law states that: ‘bad
money drives out good money’?
Ans: Gresham’s
19. Who made the first navigation of the globe in
the vessel Victoria?
Ans: Magellan.
20. Which mountaineer on being asked why he
wanted to climb Everest said:
‘Because it’s
there’?
Ans: George Mallory.
21. What was the former name for Sri Lanka?
Ans: Ceylon.
22. Of which Middle east, country is Baghdad the
capital?
Ans: Iraq.
23. How many arms does a squid have?
Ans: Ten.
24. Which indoor game is played with a
shuttlecock?
Ans: Badminton.
25. Do stalactites grow upwards or downwards?
Ans: Downwards.
26. What food is
also called garbanzo?
Ans: Chick-pea.
27. What is the quality rating for diesel fuel,
similar to the octane number for
Petrol?
Ans: Catane number.
28. Which German city and port is at the
confluence of the rivers Nectar and
Rhine?
Ans: Mannheim.
29. Where in Europe are the only wild apes to be
found?
Ans: Gibraltar.
30. The Brabanconne is the national anthem of
which country?
Ans: Belgium.
31. In which country is the River Spay?
Ans: Switzerland.
32. Which international environmental pressure
group was founded in 1971?
Ans: Greenpeace.
33. What is the capital of Morocco?
Ans: Rabat.
34. How many balls are on the table at the start
of a game of pool?
Ans: Sixteen (16).
35. In which country is the volcano Mount Aso?
Ans: Japan.
36. What name is given to inflammation of one or
more joints, causing pain,
Swelling and
restriction of movement?
Ans: Arthritis.
37. Which mineral is the main source of mercury?
Ans: Cinnabar.
38. What A is the national airline of Russia,
code name SU?
Ans: Aeroflot.
39. What would be kept in a quiver?
Ans: Arrows.
40. What ‘ology’ is concerned with the study of
unidentified flying objects?
Ans: Ufology.
41. Coal and long tailed are types of which bird
family?
Ans: Tit.
42. In the game of darts, what is the value of
the outer bull?
Ans: 25.
43. In which part of the human body is the
cochlea?
Ans: Ear.
44. What is the modern name of the rocky fortress
which the Moors named
Gabel-al-Tarik
(the Rock of Tarik)?
Ans: Gibraltar.
45. What was the name of German terrorist Andreas
Baader’s female
Partner?
Ans: Ulrike Meinhof.
46. And what was the name of the urban guerrilla
organization they headed?
Ans: The Red Army Faction.
47. Which German bacteriologist discovered
Salvarsan, a compound used in
the treatment of
syphilis, before the introduction of antibiotics?
Ans: Paul Ehrlich.
48. Which ancient Roman satirist wrote the 16
Satires?
Ans: Juvenal.
49. Who became the Queen of Netherlands in 1980?
Ans: Beatrix.
50. Who was the last British king to appear in
battle?
Ans: George II.
51. What is the art of preparing, stuffing and
mounting the skins of animals to
make lifelike
models called?
Ans: Taxidermy.
52. What is the Beaufort scale used to measure?
Ans: Wind speed.
53. What is the technical name for abnormally
high blood pressure?
Ans: Hypertension.
54. What part of eye is responsible for its
color?
Ans: The iris.
55. Ice-cream was first produced in which country in the 17th century?
Ans: Italy.
56. The letter RF on a stamp would indicate it is
from which country?
Ans: France.
57. What is the meaning of the musical term
cantabile?
Ans: In a singing style.
58. San Juan is the capital of which island in
the West Indies?
Ans: Puerto Rico.
59. Which profession gets its name from the Latin
word for lead?
Ans: Plumbing.
60. On which part of the body do grasshoppers
have their ears?
Ans: Hind legs.
61.
Who wrote children’s stories about the land of Narnia?
Ans: C.S. Lewis.
62. What is the second planet from the sun?
Ans: Venus.
63. What is the highest mountain in the Alps?
Ans: Mont Blanc.
64. Of which Caribbean country is Port-au-Prince
the capital?
Ans: Haiti.
65. Which German city is associated with the
legend of the Pied Piper?
Ans: Hameln, or Hamelin.
66. What name is given to the wind pattern that
brings heavy rain to South
Asia from April
to September?
Ans: Monsoon.
67. What is the first book of the New Testament?
Ans: The Gospel according to Saint Matthew.
68. What name is given to the time taken for half
the atoms in a sample of a
Radioactive
isotope to decay?
Ans: Half-life.
69. Who was president of Kenya from 1964 to 1978?
Ans: Jomo Kenyatta.
70. Which German author wrote the Anti-war novel
All Quiet on the Western
Front?
Ans: Erich Maria Remarque.
71. Which country had a police force called the Tinton
Mahouts?
Ans: Haiti.
72. What would you find in formicary?
Ans: Ants.
73. Who was the first British sovereign to make
regular use of Buckingham
Palace when in
residence in London?
Ans: Queen Victoria.
74. Of where is Sofia the capital?
Ans: Bulgaria.
75. What is meant by the musical term andante?
Ans: At a moderate tempo.
76. In a bullfight, what is the mounted man with
a lance called?
Ans: A picador.
77. Which team has a soccer team called Ajax?
Ans: Amsterdam.
78. Which Dutch explorer discovered New Zealand?
Ans: Abel Tasman.
79. Who became first black world heavyweight
boxing champion in 1918?
Ans: Jack Johnson.
80. The name of which city in South America means
Vale of Paradise?
Ans: Valparaiso.
81. Which gas used in advertising signs has the
symbol Ne?
Ans: Neon.
82. Which branch of mathematics uses symbols to
represent unknown
Quantities?
Ans: Algebra.
83. What does the abbreviation RAF stand for?
Ans: Royal Air Force.
84. What name is given to the use of live animals
in the experiments?
Ans: Vivisection.
85. Vitim Levu is the largest island of which
country?
Ans: Fiji.
86. The Golden Arrow was a famous train that ran
from Paris to which
Destination?
Ans: Monte Carlo.
87. Which country fought on both sides during
World War II?
Ans: Italy.
88. What centigrade temperature is gas mark 6
equal to?
Ans: 200 degrees C.
89. In the game of chess, which piece is called
Springer in Germany?
Ans: Knight.
90. What is the meaning of the Russian word ‘Mir’?
Ans: Peace.
91. Who, in World War II, were Axis Power?
Ans: Germany, Italy. Japan.
92. Which scientist used kites to conduct
electrical experiments?
Ans: Benjamin Franklin.
93. What is the longest river in France?
Ans: Loire.
94. Which inventor had a research laboratory at
Menlo Park?
Ans: Edison.
95. Which birds fly in groups called skeins?
Ans: Geese.
96. In medicine, which is the most widespread
parasitic infection?
Ans: Malaria.
97. What nationality was the explorer Ferdinand
Magellan?
Ans: Portuguese.
98. Which Italian city is called Firenze in Italian?
Ans: Florence
99. What is Australia’s largest city?
Ans: Sydney.
100. Which term meaning ‘lightning war’ was used
to describe military tactics
Used by Germany
in World War II?
Ans: Blitzkrieg
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