Which article of the 1973 Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan prohibits all forms of slavery, forced labour and child labour?
- (a) 37
- (b) 11
- (c) 25
- (d) 18
- (b) 11
Article 11 of the 1973 Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan prohibits all forms of slavery, forced labour, and child labour. As a fundamental right, this article declares slavery forbidden, bans all forms of forced labour and human trafficking, and prohibits the employment of children under 14 years in factories, mines, or hazardous employment.
Under the Factories Act, 1934 no adult employee, defined as a worker who has completed his or her 18th year of age can be required or permitted to work in any establishment in excess of________ hours a day and _________ hours a week.
- (a) 7, 42
- (b) 8, 48
- (c) 9, 48
- (d) 8, 56
- (c) 9, 48
Under the Factories Act, 1934, no adult employee (defined as a worker who has completed his or her 17th or 18th year of age, depending on the specific provincial amendment, though generally referred to as 18 in context of adult work) can be required or permitted to work in any establishment in excess of nine hours a day and 48 hours a week.
Servile is the opposite of:
- (a) Puerile
- (b) Futile
- (c) Haughty
- (d) Foul
- (c) Haughty
In the election of the President of the United States of America, the largest number of members of the ‘Electoral College’ are elected from the state of:
- (a) New York
- (b) Texas
- (c) California
- (d) Florida
- (c) California
California has the most electors in the Electoral College. It has 54 electoral votes for the elections of 2024 and 2028 because it possesses a big population, comprising 52 representatives plus 2 senators.
Out of the following, the largest ethnic group by population without having a state of its own is:
- (a) Kurdish
- (b) Welsh
- (c) Uighurs
- (d) Sikhs
- (a) Kurdish
The Kurds are often considered the largest ethnic people in the world without their own independent nation. They number around 30 to 40 million people, living almost entirely within a continuous area covering parts of southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq, northeastern Iran, and northern Syria-the so-called Kurdistan area. They have a distinct language and culture and a robust sense of national identity, but they have largely been divided between these states. There is some amount of autonomy, especially with the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq, but as of yet, there is not a fully sovereign country of their own.
The first President of Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat died on:
- (a) 11th September, 2006
- (c) 9th November, 2001
- (b) 12th December, 2007
- (d) 11th November, 2004
- (d) 11th November, 2004
Yasser Arafat, who had been at the helm as the first Palestinian Authority President, unfortunately died on 11th November 2004 at a military hospital in Paris, France. His untimely illness had resulted in his untimely death, bringing to a close a glorious era in Palestinian political history because Arafat had represented Palestinian political interests for many decades.Yasser Arafat rests in the Muqataa complex in Ramallah, West Bank. Muqataa has traditionally served as the PA headquarters and residence to Arafat in his last years of life.
Which vitamin is provided by sunlight to the body?
- (a) Vitamin A
- (b) Vitamin B
- (c) Vitamin C
- (d) Vitamin D
- (d) Vitamin D
Sunlight allows the body to synthesize Vitamin D, particularly Vitamin D3. When UVB rays strike the skin, 7-dehydrocholesterol responds to the sunlight and converts to previtamin D3, which then gets converted in the liver and kidneys to become activated. Vitamin D3 plays a central role in the proper functioning of the immune system and the maintenance of healthy bones. allows the body to synthesize Vitamin D, particularly Vitamin D3. When UVB rays strike the skin, 7-dehydrocholesterol responds to the sunlight and converts to previtamin D3, which then gets converted in the liver and kidneys to become activated. Vitamin D3 plays a central role in the proper functioning of the immune system and the maintenance of healthy bones.
The imaginary line of zero degree longitude which passes through Greenwich is called:
- (a) Meridian
- (b) Equator
- (c) Tropic of Cancer
- (d) Tropic of Capricorn
- (a) Meridian
The Greenwich Meridian is the imaginary 0° longitude line that passes through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. Established in 1884, it has become the worldwide reference for measuring longitude east and west and is also the starting point for time zones.
The famous book “East of Eden” ‘is the work of:
- (a) John Steinbeck
- (b) R.W. Emerson
- (c) Bertrand Russell
- (d) Earnest Hemingway
- (a) John Steinbeck
East of Eden, the celebrated novel written in 1952 by the famous American author and Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, is considered his Magnum Opus and describes how Steinbeck wrote about good and evil in his novel set in the Salinas Valley in California in the form of a large family epic with his own take on the Cain and Abel story.
Bastille Day is the commemoration of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison which was seen as a symbol of the revolutionary uprising in:
- (a) Canada
- (b) Belgium
- (c) USA
- (d) France
- (d) France
Bastille Day is celebrated on July 14 to commemorate the 1789 storming of the Bastille Prison in Paris, a fortress that symbolized the absolute and oppressive power of the French monarchy under the Ancien Régime; its seizure proved to be the auspicious moment in the French Revolution.