In this post, you are going to practice the past paper of Assistant Superintendent Jail 2013. It is the post under Punjab Police Departmet. Punjab Publice Service Commission conducted this test. You can practice all past papers of the Punjab Police Department in this category. So, you can also learn all previous papers from all departments other than the Punjab Police Department.
Past Paper of Assistant Superintendent Jail 2013
Q How many jails are there in Punjab.
a) 36
b) 32
c) 20
d) 39
Q Mention the number of central jails in Punjab.
a) 5
b) 6
c) 8
d) 9
Q In Pakistan into how many types jails, are classified.
a) 4
b) 6
c) 3
d) 5
Q There are four kinds of jails in Pakistan namely central jails special jails, district Jails and
a) Staff jails
b) Official jails
c) Divisional jails
d) Sub jails
Q How many prisoners, central jails should accommodate irrespective of length of sentence.
a) More than 1000
b) More than 600
c) More than 500
d) More than 400
Q Who can declare any special jails or district jails to be a central jail.
a) Federal government
b) National Assembly
c) District government
d) Provincial government
Q Women’s jails, open jails, borstal institutions and juvenile training centres are called.
a) Minor jails
b) Major jails
c) Special jails
d) Sub jails
Q Any prisoner who has not attained the age of eighteen years is called.
a) Minor
b) Juvenile
c) Innocent
d) Insane
Q How many classes of district jails are there in Punjab?
a) 2
b) 4
c) 5
d) 6
Q Administration of the prisons and jails is the provincial subject and comes under the administrative control of
a) S & GAD
b) Police Department
c) Home Department
d) Welfare Department
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Q A district Jails having accommodation ordinarily for 500 prisoners or those with sentence up to 5 years is ranked into the
a) Second class
b) Fourth class
c) Third class
d) First class
Q A district jail having accommodation ordinarily for less than 300 prisoners with sentence up to 1 year is ranked into
a) Second class
b) Fourth class
c) Third class
d) First class
Q How many district jails are in Punjab
a) 18
b) 16
c) 20
d) 19
Q How many women jails are in Punjab
a) 2
b) 3
c) 1
d) No one
Q Mention the city where women jail is located
a) Sahiwal
b) Lahore
c) Rawalpindi
d) Multan
Q When Women jail Multan was constructed
a) 1980
b) 1973
c) 1987
d) 1950
Q How many sub jails are there in Punjab
a) 2
b) 3
c) 1
d) 4
Q How many borstal jails are there in Punjab
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
Q Borstal jail means
a) A jail for children
b) A jail for old men
c) A jail for women
d) A jail for special people
Q Where the Punjab’s only sub jail is located
a) Mianwali
b) Multan
c) Lahore
d) Chakwal
Q Which of the following is the newest jail in Punjab province
a) District Jail Chakwal
b) District Jail Lahore
c) Sub Jail Chakwal
d) Camp Jail Lahore
Q At the time of partition, how many jails were in the Punjab province
a) 17
b) 12
c) 19
d) 10
Q After partition how many jails were constructed in Punjab
a) 10
b) 14
c) 16
d) 18
Q Which of the following jails is the oldest in Pakistan
a) District Jail Jhelum
b) Central Jail, Gujranwala
c) None of these
d) Both of the above
Q When Central Jail Gujranwala was constructed
a) 1854
b) 1850
c) 1844
d) 1845
Q How many jails in are there Lahore
a) 2
b) 4
c) 3
d) 5
Q In Punjab, how many jails are located which were constructed during 19th century
a) 3
b) 9
c) 5
d) 7
Q Where the Inspectorate Headquarter Jails of Punjab is situated
a) Lahore
b) Multan
c) Kasur
d) Sargodha
Q Who heads the Jails Department
a) Inspector General Prisons
b) Deputy Inspector General Prisons
c) Home Secretary
d) Chief Minister
Q Who appoints Inspector General Prisons
a) Punjab Public Service Commission
b) Provincial Government
c) Federal government
d) Governor
Q Liverpool is situated on the bank of
a) Indus River
b) Mersey River
c) Delaware River
d) None of them
Q Which is the longest river in the world
a) Nile
b) Amazon
c) Volga
d) Mississippi
Q Name the American President who had to resign when it became clear that he was about to be impeached and convicted by Congress
a) Ulysses S Grant
b) William McKinley
c) Richard Nixon
d) Dwight D Eisenhower
Q Michelangelo was a famous
a) Painter
b) Politician
c) Singer
d) None of them
Q Where would you find the sea of Galilee
a) Syria
b) Palestine
c) Israel
d) Jordan
Q Name first the Muslim scientist who presented the law of reflection and refraction
a) Ibn Haithem
b) Al-Biruni
c) Muhammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi
d) Jabir bin Hayyan
Q Al-Biruni was a
a) Physician
b) Chemist
c) Physicist
d) Only a & c
Q Al-Biruni discovered the radius of the earth, which was
a) 6000 km
b) 6255 km
c) 6338 km
d) 6585 km
Q The plants and vegetations of a region are known as
a) Flora
b) Fauna
c) Land fruits
d) None of them
Q Neruda waterfall is located in
a) USA
b) UK
c) Italy
d) India
Q Sloeskan is the name of a waterfall Where is it situated
a) South Africa
b) Canada
c) USA
d) France
Q Which of the following term is used for the “Murder of a King”
a) Matricide
b) Genocide
c) Regicide
d) Homicide
Q One who thinks that human nature is essentially evil is known as
a) Agnostic
b) Cynic
c) Sceptic
d) Misogynist
Q NIPA stands for
a) National Institute of Public Administration
b) New Institute of Public Administration
c) National Institute of Pakistan Airways
d) National Institute of Provincial Assembly
Q Who was the Prime Minister of Italy during World War II He was associated near Como in 1945
a) Mussolini
b) Parodi Nariag
c) Nansen Forn
d) None of them
Q Who among the following is regarded as the forerunner of revenue administration in medieval India
a) Akbar
b) Sher Shah
c) Babar
d) Shah Jahan
Q Which is the national game of Pakistan
a) Polo
b) Hockey
c) Football
d) None of these
Q Name the national language of Pakistan
a) Urdu
b) Punjabi
c) English
d) None of these
Q The Declaration of Independence of USA was announced on
a) July 25, 1796
b) August 14, 1766
c) July 4, 1776
d) August 4, 1786
Q The Bolshevik Revolution is associated with
a) France
b) Germany
c) Russia
d) England
Q Nelson Mandela was the President of which country
a) Ethiopia
b) Zambia
c) Ghana
d) South Africa
Q Physical wearing and grinding of a surface through friction and impact carried in air, water, or ice by material is
a) Abrasion
b) Ablation
c) Altitude
d) None of these
Q Vertical distance above sea-level
a) Absolute Zero
b) Altitude
c) Ablation
d) None of these
Q Which of the following countries does not have a common land with the People’s Republic of China
a) Japan
b) North Korea
c) Russia
d) All of the above
Q The North Atlantic sea route is regarded as an important international trade route because
a) It is the oldest sea route
b) It connects two industrially developed countries
c) Trade winds help shipping
d) There are less number of storms
Q The Magna Carta is
a) The name of an English king
b) One of Napoleon’s Wars
c) A British naval ship
d) A historical document curbing the king’s power
Q Scientific socialism is connected with
a) Rousseau
b) Roosevelt
c) Bismarck
d) Karl Marx
Q Democracy Wall is located in
a) USA
b) UK
c) Japan
d) China
Q John Keats, poet and author of Bella Dame Sans Merci, is a poet of
a) Italy
b) England
c) Germany
d) USA
Q Who among the following is known as ‘Fuehrer’
a) Stalin
b) Lenin
c) Hitler
d) Bismarck
Q Second largest ethnic group in Afghanistan is
a) Uzbek
b) Tajik
c) Hazaras
d) None of these
Q Who was the founder of Umayyad Dynasty
a) Yazid
b) Marwan
c) Ameer Muawiya
d) Walid I
Q Which was the old capital of Japan
a) Kobe
b) Kyoto
c) Okinawa
d) None of these
Q Name the bank which started issuing travellers cheques for the first times in 1891
a) Standard Chartered Bank
b) Barclays Bank
c) American Express
d) Citi Bank
Q Which of the following Muslim countries celebrated its independence day on 1st January
a) Sudan
b) Senegal
c) Morocco
d) None of these
Q Which is the saltiest lake in the world
a) Titicaca lake
b) Dead Sea
c) Assal Lake
d) Caspian Sea
Q Who was the first person to fly across the English Channel
a) Charles Limbaugh
b) Roger Albright
c) Wilbur Weight
d) Louis Bleriot
Q Which was the first country to give women a right to vote in 1893
a) United States
b) Denmark
c) Austria
d) New Zealand
Q Which one among the following covers the highest percentage of forest area in the world
a) Temperate Coniferous forests
b) Temperate Deciduous
c) Tropical Monsoon forests
d) Tropical Rain forests
Q Which of the following is the fastest growing tree
a) Teak
b) Sal
c) Eucalyptus
d) Banyan
Q World’s largest synthetic rubber and tyre making centre is
a) Cleveland
b) Sharon
c) Akron
d) None of these
Q In which of the following countries is the widest waterfall is located
a) Canada
b) USA
c) Russia
d) Laos
Q The largest island in the world is
a) Greenland
b) Caribbean
c) Sri Lanka
d) Andaman & Nicobar
Q Photophobia is a fear of
a) Light
b) Dogs
c) Wealth
d) None of these
Q The only US President who received all the electoral votes
a) George Washington
b) James Monroe
c) Andrew Johnson
d) Theodore Roosevelt
Q Which of the following US states is called “The Lone Star Republic”
a) Florida
b) Texas
c) New Mexico
d) Maryland
Q From what country did the US purchase Alaska
a) Canada
b) Russia
c) Spain
d) France
Q What is the “MEA”
a) Secret Agency
b) Airline
c) River in Switzerland
d) Mountain Range of Europe
Q POTA stands for
a) Prohibition of Terrorist Act
b) Prevention of Terrorist Act
c) Prevention of Territorial Act
d) Prevention of Terrorist Agency
Q What do you mean by Heptarchy
a) Seven-sided Plate
b) Seven Parties System
c) Government of Seven Rulers in UK
d) Seven members of Cabinet
Q Camcorder is a word used for
a) Cassette player
b) Video camera
c) Blood pressure machine
d) Still camera
Q Who invented logarithms in 1614
a) William Oughtred
b) John Napier
c) Konrad Ruse
d) Murray Hopper
Q Which is the oldest university of USA
a) Yale University
b) Seattle University
c) New York University
d) Harvard University
Q Mongols conquered northern China in 1275 and ruled a vast empire in Mongolia Which of the following was the Capital
a) Tibet
b) Peking
c) Xiang
d) Baku
Q Hundred Years War was fought in 1338-1453 between
a) Britain and Germany
b) France and Germany
c) England and France
d) England and Dutch
Q “Kyoto Protocol”, the UN Convention on Climate Change, enforced from
a) February 2005
b) March 2010
c) April 2009
d) May 2006
Q In the election of American President, the largest number of Electoral College members are elected from the state of
a) New York
b) Texas
c) California
d) Florida
Q The Moro Islamic Liberation Front is struggling for an independent state in
a) Sierra Leone
b) Philippines
c) Nigeria
d) Russia
Q RADAR stands for
a) Rays Detecting and Ranging
b) Radio Detection and Ranging
c) Radio Decoding and Ranging
d) Radio Detecting and Roaring
Q ‘Mauritius’ is an island state in the
a) Pacific Ocean
b) Atlantic Ocean
c) Indian Ocean
d) Arctic Ocean
Q Diplomatic case arose between USA and Iran in
a) 1979
b) 1981
c) 1988
d) 1993
Q Jinnah Station was established on 25 January 1991 in ______ by Pakistan
a) Asia
b) Africa
c) Antarctica
d) America
Q Kosovo, the latest independent nation in the world, was ruled by
a) Indonesia
b) Australia
c) Malaysia
d) Serbia
Q Name the highest capital city in the world
a) La Paz (Bolivia)
b) Potosi (Bolivia)
c) Lhasa (Tibet)
d) Sucre (Bolivia)
Q “Shock and Awe” was the name of
a) A book written on Iraq
b) A US Army operation against Iraq in 2003
c) A US army operation against Afghanistan in 2001
d) A new plan of attack against Iran
Q Which one of the following Governor-Generals was impeached by the British Parliament
a) Lord Curzon
b) Warren Hastings
c) Lord Canning
d) William Bentinck
Q Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s chairman and founder Salamat Hashim died in
a) August, 2003
b) September 2004
c) June 2006
d) March 2006
Q The majority of ‘Kurd Population’ is living in
a) Iran and Afghanistan
b) Iraq and Turkey
c) Syria and Libya
d) Jordan and Tunisia
Q Name the king who laid the foundation of Muslim Empire in Indo-Pakistan He fell from the horse while playing Polo and died
a) Akbar
b) Muhammad Ghori
c) Zaheer-ud-Din Babur
d) Qutbuddin Aibak
Q The Bolshevik Revolution is associated with
a) France
b) Germany
c) Russia
d) England