Test Your Knowledge: National & International MCQs

NATIONAL

1. Former CM Punjab Manzoor Wattoo passed away on ______.

(a) Dec. 16 (b) Dec. 17

2. The Deosai National Park was established in ______.

(a) 1988 (b) 1993

3. On Dec. 17, the fourth Hangor class submarine of Pakistan Navy, named ______, was launched.

(a) Ghazi (b) Taimoor

4. On Dec. 17, former foreign secretary ______ was designated to be the secretary general of D-8.

(a) Aiza Chaudhary (b) Sohail Mahmood

5. The current Director General of Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency is ______.

(a) Anwarul Haq (b) Tariq Mehmood

6. On Dec. 18, President Zardari approved the denotification of Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri as a judge of the ______ High Court.

(a) Sindh (b) Lahore

7. On Dec. 18, the EU-Pakistan 15th Joint Commission was held in ______.

(a) Islamabad (b) Brussels

8. On ______, Vice Chairman of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, Mama Qadeer Baloch, passed away.

(a) Dec. 20 (b) Dec. 21

9. 'Labzganj' is the first-ever comprehensive online dictionary for the ______ language.

(a) Hindko (b) Brahvi

10. On Dec. 21, the commissioning ceremony of 2nd Pakistan Navy MILGEM class ship PNS ______ was held at Istanbul Naval Shipyard.

(a) Taimoor (b) Khaibar

11. On Dec. 21, Pakistan completely outclassed ______ to clinch the Junior Asia Cup title for the first time.

(a) India (b) Bangladesh

12. On Dec. 22, Pakistan reached a deal worth over $4 billion to sell conventional military equipment to the ______ National Army.

(a) Sudanese (b) Yemeni

13. On Dec. 22, the 2nd Lok Sahaita Int’l Marathon was held in ______.

(a) Sukkur (b) Karachi

14. On Dec. 23, Pakistan sold a 75 percent stake in PIA for ______ to an Arif Habib-led consortium.

(a) Rs185 billion (b) Rs165 billion

15. The Khunjerab Pass connects China's Xinjiang region with ______ in Pakistan.

(a) Gilgit-Baltistan (b) KP

16. On Dec. 25, the ______ High Court set aside the federal government's power to inactivate a citizen's passport and placing a person on the Passport Control List.

(a) Lahore (b) Islamabad

17. The incumbent Chief Executive Officer of the Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organisation is ______.

(a) Eng Salman Anwar

(b) Eng Anwarul Haq

(d) None of these

18. Dr Shamshad Akhtar, former governor of the State Bank of Pakistan and ex-caretaker federal finance minister, passed away on ______.

(a) Dec. 25 (b) Dec. 27

19. On Jan. 01, ______ was appointed as IGP Sindh.

(a) Zulfiqar Larik (b) Javed Odho

20. On Jan. 01, PM Shehbaz Sharif appointed Maulana Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi as his Coordinator for Religious Harmony and Diaspora in the Middle East and ______ countries.

(a) Muslim (b) African

21. Dr Faiqa Qureshi, who died on Jan. 2 in USA, was the daughter of Air Marshal ______.

(a) Pervaiz Mehdi Qureshi

(b) Kaleem Saadat

22. On Jan. 02, ______ was named as Pemra chairperson.

(a) Faiqa Mumtaz (b) Shaukat Ali

23. On Jan. 02, the federal government appointed ______ as the CEO of Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority.

(a) Adnan Aziz (b) Najam Wali Khan

(d) None of these

24. On Jan. 03, the PAF conducted the flight test of the indigenously developed ______ weapon system.

(a) Taimoor (b) Khaibar

25. On Jan. 04, the seventh round of the Pakistan-China Foreign Ministers' Strategic Dialogue was held in ______.

(a) Islamabad (b) Shanghai

26. On Jan. 05, ______ was elected chairman of PSX Board of Directors.

(a) Ruhail Mohammad

(b) Salman Minhas

(d) None of these

27. On Jan. 06, the ______ government formally merged the Levies Force into the provincial Police, and abolished all 'B' areas across the province.

(a) KP (b) Sindh

28. On Jan. 08, the Pakistan Super League (PSL) formally inducted two new franchises – Hyderabad and ______ – into the league.

(a) Multan (b) Faisalabad

29. On Jan. 10, ______ was appointed as new Chairman of Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP).

(a) Dr Kabir Ahmed Sidhu

(b) Dr Shamshad Ahmed Punnu

(d) None of these

30. On Jan. 13, Pakistan and ______ signed a grant agreement worth US$18.62 million for improving child health.

(a) Japan (b) Indonesia

31. On the 2026 Henley Passport Index, Pakistan has been ranked at ______ position.

(a) 102nd (b) 100th

32. Pakistan introduced its public sector accounting framework, the New Accounting Model, in ______.

(a) 1985 (b) 2000

33. The current prime minister of AJK is ______.

(a) Chauddhary Anwarul Haq

(b) Sultan Mehmood

(d) None of these

34. The State Emblem of Pakistan was adopted in ______.

(a) 1948 (b) 1950

35. The Cunningham Clock Tower is located in ______.

(a) Peshawar (b) Karachi

36. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan earned his PhD in metallurgical engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium in ______.

(a) 1964 (b) 1970

37. Khanpur Dam is located on the ______ River near Islamabad.

(a) Korang (b) Soan

38. The only person from Pakistan Air Force who received Nishan-e-Haider is ______.

(a) Lalak Jan (b) Rashid Minhas

39. The Karachi-Chaman-Quetta Highway is known as______.

(a) N-10 (b) N-25

40. Malakhra game is played in ______.

(a) Balochistan (b) Sindh

INTERNATIONAL

1. On Dec. 17, the US Senate voted to advance a ______ defence bill.

(a) $901 billion (b) $925 billion

2. On Dec. 17, Ousmane Dembele of ______ was named FIFA men's player of the year.

(a) Germany (b) France

3. A leader of Bangladesh's 2024 uprising, who was recently killed, was _______.

(a) Nahid Islam (b) Sarjis Alam

(d) None of these

4. On Dec. 18, the US approved $11 billion-worth of arms to _______.

(a) Ukraine (b) Syria

5. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has declared _______ as the top global sports drug cheater for a third straight year.

(a) India (b) Australia

6. On Dec. 20, the US military launched Operation _______ on dozens of bases used by IS group in Syria.

(a) Hawkeye Strike (b) Just Cause

7. On Dec. 21, Saudi Arabia and ______ inked an agreement granting mutual exemption from short-stay visa requirements for holders of diplomatic, special and official passports.

(a) India (b) Iran

8. On Dec. 22, President Trump appointed Jeff Landry, the governor of ______, as special envoy to Greenland.

(a) California (b) Louisiana

9. On Dec. 23, the head of ______ armed forces Lieutenant General Mohammed al-Haddad was killed in a plane crash in Turkiye.

(a) Libya's (b) Iraq's

10. On Dec. 25, Nasry Asfura, a son of Palestinian immigrants, was declared winner of the ______ presidential vote.

(a) Jamaican (b) Honduran

11. The head of China's Family Planning Commission from 1988 to 1998, who was the one-child policy czar, was ______.

(a) Liu Yuanchun (b) Yang Jiechi

12. On Dec. 26, Russia provided ______ with new financing worth $9 billion for the Akkuyu nuclear power plant.

(a) Mexico (b) Iran

13. Rosatom is the state nuclear energy company of ______.

(a) Russia (b) Ukraine

14. India's Dulhasti Stage-II hydropower project will be built on ______ River.

(a) Chenab (b) Yamuna

15. On Dec. 27, Israel formally recognized ______ northern region of Somaliland as an independent state.

(a) Chad's (b) Somalia's

16. The first Green politician elected to a national parliament anywhere in the world was Daniel Brelaz from ______.

(a) Switzerland (b) Denmark

17. On Dec. 29, Hamas's armed wing confirmed the death of its spokesperson ______.

(a) Abu Marzook (b) Khalil al-Hayya

18. On ______, Bangladesh's first woman prime minister, Khaleda Zia, died aged 80.

(a) Dec. 28 (b) Dec. 30

19. On Dec. 30, Sonam Yeshey of ______ became the first bowler to take eight wickets in a Twenty20 International.

(a) Nepal (b) UAE

20. Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as New York mayor on ______.

(a) Dec. 27 (b) Dec. 31

21. On Jan. 01, Bulgaria became the ______ country to switch to the euro.

(a) 29th (b) 30th

22. On Jan. 02, ______ carmaker BYD overtook Elon Musk's Tesla as the world's biggest seller of electric vehicles.

(a) Japanese (b) American

23. On ______, the US attacked Venezuela and captured its long-serving President Nicolas Maduro.

(a) Jan. 01 (b) Jan. 03

24. On Jan. 04, Saudi Arabia designated senior diplomat Major General (Retired) Rajeh Albugami as new ambassador for ______.

(a) Pakistan (b) Iran

25. On Jan. 05, the embassy of Palestine was officially inaugurated in ______.

(a) Brussels (b) Paris

26. On Jan. 08, President Trump ordered the US government to pull out of 66 international organisations, including ______ UN entities.

(a) 29 (b) 31

27. On Jan. 10, the Council of Foreign Ministers of the OIC held its 22nd extraordinary session in ______.

(a) Riyadh (b) Jeddah

28. On Jan. 11, Israel and ______ signed a security pact to expand cooperation on counterterrorism and cyber defence.

(a) USA (b) Somaliland

29. China has posted the world's largest-ever trade surplus of ______.

(a) $989 billion (b) $1.19 trillion

30. The lev is the currency of ______.

(a) Somalia (b) Austria

31. AI tool integrated with MS Word and MS Excel is ______.

(a) Siri (b) Copilot

32. Permanent Secretariat of SAARC is located at ______.

(a) Dhaka (b) Kathmandu

33. The Weimar Triangle is a political grouping of France, Poland and ______.

(a) Germany (b) Italy

34. The Global Risk Report 2026 has been released by ______.

(a) UNDP (b) WEF

35. The International Telecommunications Union was founded in ______.

(a) 1847 (b) 1860

36. The Montreal Protocol, a landmark global agreement that mandates the phase‑out of ozone‑depleting substances, was adopted in _______.

(a) 1970 (b) 1980

37. The Biological Weapons Convention entered into force on ______.

(a) March 26, 1970 (b) March 26, 1972

38. OPEC+, a wider alliance of petroleum-exporting countries, was formed in ______.

(a) 2002 (b) 2010

39. The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations was launched in ______.

(a) 2002 (b) 2005

40. The Manila-based Asian Development Bank was established in ______.

(a) 1946 (b) 1956

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