General Knowledge 95

CHAPTER

ECONOMY, AGRICULTURE
& INDUSTRY

SHORT QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

1. Which is the Central Bank of Pakistan?
2. When commercial banks were nationalized in Pakistan?
3. When was the Reserved Bank/Central Bank of Pakistan established?
4. Which is the biggest Commercial Bank in Pakistan?
5. When was the Planning Commission / Planning Board set up in Pakistan?
6. When was the Ist five-year plan started?
7. When was the 2nd five-year plan started?
8. When was the 3rd five-year plan started?
9. When was the 4th five-year plan started?
10.When was the 5th five-year plan started?
11.When was the 6th five-year plan started?
12.When was the 7th five-year plan started?
13.When was the 8th five-year plan started?
14.Who manages a joint stock company?
15.Planning Commission is a ______.
16.Economic Planning is an essential feature of ______.
17.Which is the leading export item among Pakistan Plantation crops.
18.Which TV Channel is used for educational services in Pakistan?
19.When did the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which sets out rules
for world trade came into force?
20.Which is the basis for determining the National Income?
21.The employment rate of Pakistan is ______.
22.Total number of labour employed and unemployed is ______.
23.Total number of unemployment labour force is ______.
24.Number of Urban employed is ______.
25.Number of rural employed is ______.
26.Agriculture provides employment to ______.
27.Labour force is growing at an annual rate of ______.
28.Manufacturing and Mining provides employment to ______.
29.Finance and social services sector provides employment to ______.

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30.In Pakistan agriculture still contributes ______ to GDP.

31.Pakistan has two principal crop seasons that is ______.
32.Main Kharif crops are ______.
33.Main Rabi crops are ______.
34.The Rabi season starts from ______.
35.The Kharif is a season of ______.
36.The Kharif season starts from ______.
37.The production of cotton during 1999-2000 was ______ million bales.
38.The rice production during 1999-2000 was ______.
39.The Sugarcane crop production during 1999-2000 was ______.
40.The wheat production during 1999-2000 was ______.
41.Larkana and Jacobabad Districts are known for ______ production.
42.______ is the other major rice growing region of Pakistan.
43.IRRI-Pak is grown mostly in ______.
44.Basmati is grown mostly in ______.
45.Tharparkar is known for ______ production.
46.Bhakkar and Khushab produce ______.
47.65% tobacco in Pakistan is produced in ______.
48.In 1988 the growth rate in country was ______.
49.In 2000 the growth rate in country was ______.
50.In 2000 the total population was ______.
51.According to 1998 censuses what was the share in total population.
52.The share of rural population is ______%.
53.The share of urban population is ______%.
54.Which is the most populated province of Pakistan ______?
55.Which is biggest province?
56.Which is the most urbanized city in Pakistan?
57.The most less urbanized area is ______.
58.Which is the most urbanized province in Pakistan.
59.The first biggest city in Pakistan is ______.
60.The second biggest city in Pakistan is ______.
61.The third biggest city in Pakistan is ______.
62.Almost half of the urban population of Pakistan lives in ______.
63.The crude birth rate is ______.
64.The decline in crude birth rate is ______ per thousand.
65.What is the crude death rate in Pakistan.
66.Morality rate in Pakistan is ______.

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67.What is the average household size in Pakistan?
68.The largest sector of Pakistans economy is ______.
69.Which is the main source of foreign exchange earning?
70.Suleman-96 is a ______.
71.MH-97 is a ______.
72.Jatara Abadgar is a ______.
73.Super Basmati is a ______.
74.Khushboo 97 is a ______.
75.Parsun-1 is a ______.
76.National Aridland Development and Research Institute (NADRI) is at
______.
77.Arid Zone Research Centre of PARC is situated at ______.
78.Total forest area of Pakistan including rangelands is ______.
79.The share of forest area as percentage of the total geographical area of
the country is ______%.
80.The forest sector contribute about ______ percent to the GDP.
81.The forest sector contribute about ______ percent to the agriculture sector.
82.The contribution of livestock sector to GDP is ______.
83.The contribution of livestock sector to the agriculture sector is ______.
84.Livestock sector earns annual foreign exchange of ______.
85.Total forest area of Pakistan including Azad Jammu Kashmir and Northern
Area is ______.
86.What are major sources of energy in Pakistan?
87.Which sector is the largest consumer of oil and oil products in Pakistan?
88.Transport sector consumes ______ percent of total consumption of oil and
oil products.
89.Which sector is the largest consumer of the gas?
90.Power sector consumes ______ percent of total consumption of gas.
91.Which one is the longest consumer of the electricity?
92.What is the share of electricity consumption of domestic sector?
93.When Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP) started its function?
94.What is the gross capacity of KANUPP?
95.The KANUPP was built with the help of ______.
96.Which is the second Nuclear Power Plant of the country?
97.Where CHASNUPP is being constructed________.
98.The CHASNUPP is being constructed with the help of ______.

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99.What is the capacity of CHASNUPP?

100. Which organization is responsible for the development of Nuclear
Power in the country?
101.

Which is the biggest coal field in Pakistan?

102.

When Thar coal field was discovered?

103.

About 91% of total coal production in the country is being utilized for
burning and 9% for ______.

104.

How many mineral rich regions are in Pakistan?

105.
106.
107.
108.
109.
110.
111.

The Principal mineral produce in Pakistan is ______.

The major coal producer province is ______.
The largest coal field in Balochistan is ______.
Where the first test coal was drilled?
In which district Khaur oil field is located?
From where gas was discovered at first?
When the gas was discovered from Sui?

112.

In which district Sui is located?

113.

How much natural gas is obtained from Sui?

114.

Which one is the second important gas reserve?

115.

How much share of gas is consumed by fertilizer industry?

116.
117.
118.
119.

Where the largest deposits of iron ore are found?

From where 72% of Pakistans total iron reserves are found?
From where Sulphur deposits are found?
From where Ruby is found?

120.

Which is famous for gold?

121.

From where lime is found?

122.

From where China clay is found?

123.

From where the fire clay is found?

124.
125.
126.
127.
128.

What is the approximate road length of high type of Pakistan?

What is the approximate road length of low type of Pakistan?
What is the approximate road length of Pakistan?
The length of Railway Track in 1947 was ______.
Railway Track length in 1999 was ______.

129.

Pakistan Railways have ______ gauges.

130.
131.
132.

The broad gauge consists at ______ feet length and 3 inches width.
What is the approximate number of motor-cycles in Pakistan?
Pakistan Railways manages ______ Railway Stations.

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150.

Which is the longest Railway line of Pakistan?

Which is the largest station of Pakistan?
Which is the longest Platform in Pakistan?
Which is the largest Railway workshop of Pakistan?
Which is the highest Railway Station of Pakistan?
Which is the longest Highway of Pakistan?
Lahore to Islamabad Motorway has a length of ______.
Lahore to Islamabad Motorway is called ______.
Which is the highest Highway of Pakistan ______.
What is the length of Karakorm Route.
PIA was set up in ______.
Which is the largest Radio Station of Pakistan?
PTV started its transmission from ______.
Which is the highest Radio Station of Pakistan?
Islamabad TV Station began its transmission in ______.
Pakistan Television Corporation was set up in ______.
Pakistan Television Corporation began its colour transmission in ______.
Which is the largest airport of Pakistan?

ANSWERS
1.
2.
3.
4.

State Bank of Pakistan.

In 1974.
Ist July, 1948.
(I) National Bank of Pakistan.
(II) Habib Bank.
5. In 1953.
6. Ist July, 1955.
7. Ist July, 1960.
8. Ist July, 1965.
9. Ist July, 1973.
10.Ist July, 1978.
11.Ist July, 1983.
12.Ist July, 1988.
13.Ist July, 1993.
14.Its Board of Directors.
15.Advisory Body.
16.Socialist Economy.

17.Cotton and Rice.

18.PTV-2
19.1948.
20.Production of goods and services.
21.6.1%
22.39.4 Million
23.2.4 Million
24.12.5 Million or 31.8%
25.26.9 Million or 68.2%
26.44.1%.
27.2.7%.
28.11.2%.
29.15.6%.
30.25%.
31.Kharif and Rabi.
32.Cotton, Rice, Sugarcane.
33.Wheat.

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34.October-December.
35.Summer.
36.April-June.
37.11.24 Million bales.
38.5156 thousand tonnes.
39.46363 thousand tonnes.
40.46363 thousand tonnes.
41.Rice
42.Gujranwala
and
Sheikhupura
Districts.
43.Sindh.
44.Punjab.
45.Bajra.
46.Grams.
47.NWFP.
48.2.4%.
49.2.2%.
50.137.5 Million.
51.Pakistan
100%
NWFP
13.4%
FATA
2.4%
Punjab
55.6%
Sindh
23.0%
Balochistan 5.0%
Islamabad (Capital Territory
0.6%)
52.67.5%.
53.32.5%.
54.Punjab.
55.Balochistan.
56.Islamabad.
57.FATA.
58.Sindh.
59.Karachi.
60.Lahore.
61.Faisalabad.
62.7 big cities.
63.37.5 per thousand.

Economy, Agriculture & Industry

64.32.7 per thousand.
65.9.1 per thousand.
66.85.5 per thousand.
67.6.6%
68.Agriculture.
69.Agriculture.
70.Variety of Wheat.
71.Variety of Wheat.
72.Variety of Wheat.
73.Variety of Rice.
74.Variety of Rice.
75.Variety of Sunflower.
76.Islamabad.
77.Quetta.
78.10.5.
79.4.8%.
80.0.1%.
81.0.4%.
82.9%.
83.37%.
84.Rs. 35 billion.
85.4.2 Million hectares.
86.(i) Oil and Gas.
(ii) Coal and Electricity.
(iii) Petroleum Products.
87.Transport.
88.47.7%.
89.Power Sector.
90.39%.
91.Domestic.
92.42.5%
93.1971.
94.137 MWe.
95.Canada.
96.Chashma Nuclear
(CHASNUPP)
97.Kalabagh.

Power

Plant

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98.U.K.
99.300 MWe.
100. Pakistan
Atomic
Commission.
101. Thar Coal Field.
102. 1992.
103. Power Generation.
104. Five.
105. Coal.
106. Balochistan.

Energy

126.

249,959 K.M.

127.

8,554 K.M.

128.

8,875 K.M.

129.

130.

131.

18,34,700.

132.

781.

133.

Karachi to Peshawar.

134.

Lahore.

107.

Khost-Shahrij, Harnai.

135.

Rohri.

108.

Kundal.

136.

Mughalpura (Lahore).

109.

Attock.

137.

Peshawar.

110.

Sui.

138.

Karachi to Torkhem.

111.

1953.

139.

339 K.M.

112.
113.
114.
115.
116.
117.
118.
119.
120.
121.

Quetta.
43%
Mari.
29%.
Kalabagh.
Kalabagh.
Koh-i-Sultan.
Hunza.
Chitral.
Margalla Hills.

140.

M-2

141.

Karakoram to China.

142.

765 K.M.

143.

1955.

144.

Islamabad.

145.

26th November, 1964.

146.

Gilgit.

147.

1967.

148.

1966.

122.

Saidu Shareef.

149.

1976.

123.
124.
125.

Salt Range.
138,726 K.M.
111,233 K.M.

150. Quaid-e-Azam
Airport.

International

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (MCQs)

1.
2.

What is the share of Agriculture in GDP?

(a) 20%
(b) 21%
(c) 22%
(d) 25%
The largest sector of Pakistans economy is _________.
(a) Banking
(b) Industry
(c) Agriculture (d)
Manufacturing

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18.

Economy, Agriculture & Industry

Which one is the main source of foreign exchange earning?
(a) Banking
(b) Industry
(c) Agriculture (d) Manufacturing
Which one is the single largest component of agriculture
sector?
(a) Livestock
(b) Fisheries
(c) Poultry
(d) Forestry
Which of the following is the main cash crop of Pakistan?
(a) Wheat
(b) Sugarcane
(c) Cotton
(d) Rice
What is the share of local edible oil to the national need?
(a) 25
(b) 27
(c) 29
(d) 31
Agriculture is the _________ sector of economy of the country.
(a) Largest
(b) Smaller
(c) Average
(d) All of them
Name the major source of foreign exchange earning of
Pakistan?
(a) Industry
(b) Textile
(c) Cotton
(d) Agriculture
ADBP was established in _________ for the promotion of
agriculture.
(a) 1958
(b) 1959
(c) 1960
(d) 1961
Agriculture sector provides the livelihood to _________ % of the
Population of the Country.
(a) 60
(b) 65
(c) 70
(d) 75
_________ are the two important seasons for crops in Pakistan.
(a) Rabi and Kharif (b)
Barani and Rabi (c) Rabi and
Barani (d)
All of them
Kharif season starts in _________.
(a) March to June
(b) April to June
(c) June to August
(d)
June to
September
Kharif Season ends in _________.
(a) July to August
(b)
June to August
(c) October to September
(d) October to December
Rabi season starts in _________.
(a) September to October
(b) October to December
(c) July to August
(d) All of them
Rabi season ends in _________.
(a) April to May (b) May to June
(c) June to July (d) July to August
How much area of Pakistan can be cultivated due to various
factors?
(a) 70%
(b) 80%
(c) 60%
(d) 40%
How much area is being cultivated?
(a) 14%
(b) 24%
(c) 39%
(d) 36%
Economic development is taken to means__________.

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24.
25.

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27.
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29.

30.
31.

(a) Economic growth plus social change (b) Economic growth with political
stability
(c) Social change with economic stability
(d) Political as well
as economic stability
The concept of economic development encompasses.
(a) Rising GNP over a long period of time
(b) Reduction in
poverty ratio
(c) Minimizing economic inequalities (d) All of the above
Pakistan is an __________.
(a) Agricultural country
(b) Industrial country
(c) Semi-industrial country
(d) Semi-agricultural country
Agriculture is the __________ sector of Pakistani economy.
(a) Smallest
(b) Medium
(c) Largest
(d) Both (a) and
(b)
Agriculture contributes mere them _________ percent to GDP.
(a) 25%
(b) 30%
(c) 24%
(d) 26%
How much area of Pakistan can be cultivated due to various
factors?
(a) 70%
(b) 80%
(c) 60%
(d) 40%
How much area is being cultivated _________.
(a) 14%
(b) 24%
(c) 34%
(d) 36%
Which is the first and worst enemy of agricultural land
_________.
(a) Lack of water (b) Lack of fertilizer
(c)
Soil
erosion
(d)
Water-logging
How much approximately acres of land is wasted in Pakistan
_________.
(a) 6000 acres
(b) 7000 acres
(c) 8000 acres (d) 9000 acres
In Pakistan agricultural sector is _________.
(a) Advanced
(b) Developed
(c) Backward
(d) Nil
Pakistans economy is an _________.
(a) Industrial
(b) Semi-Industrial (c) Agricultural (d) None of them
Land tenure system of Pakistan is _________.
(a) An effective (b) Defective
(c) Subjective
(d) Both (a) ad
(b)
How many times land reforms are implemented in Pakistan?
(a) 3 times
(b) 5 times
(c) 6 times
(d) 7 times
Which type of credit is advanced in agricultural sector?
(a) Industrial credit
(b)
Agricultural
credit
(c) Semi agricultural credit
(d) None of them

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40.

Economy, Agriculture & Industry

Which is the main source of agricultural credit _________.
(a) State Bank
(b) Commercial Banks
(c)
Agricultural Development
(d) All of them
Green Banks Revolution has not been that Green as it has
been made out to be because _________.
(a) It is confined mainly to wheat
(b) It is confined to select regions
(c) Land reforms remain unimplmented (d)
None of these
Agriculture occupies a significant position in the starting of
economic development in Pakistan and policy measures must
be devised to improve and achieve higher rate of growth
because _________.
(a) It contributes maximum to the national income more than any other
sector
(b) It is a source of livelihood for a big proportion of population and is
also basis of Industrial Development
(c) Both of these
(d) None of these
Empirical evidence in case of developed countries suggests
that general economic development requires _________.
(a) Agriculture to go hand in hand with industrial development
(b) Agriculture growth must precede industrial development
(c) Industrial development must precede agricultural development
(d) None of the above
In Pakistan green revolution was started in the period of
_________.
(a) Liaquat Ali Khan (b) Ayub Khan
(c) Nawaz Sharif
(d)
Z.A.
Bhutto
_________ percent of total employment is generated in
agriculture.
(a) 40
(b) 42
(c) 44
(d) 46
The most serious economic problems of Pakistan are _________
(a) Unemployment not poverty
(b) Poverty and unemployment
(c) Under-development
(d) Stagnation not poverty
The Pakistani economy since independence can be described
as _________.
(a) A backward and stagnant economy
(b) An under-developed economy which has remained under-developed
(c) A developing economy
(d) An under-developed stagnant economy
Pakistans economy on the eve of independence was _________.
(a) Development but very slowly
(b) Stagnant and dualistic
(c) Backward and declining
(d) None of these

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42.

43.

44.

45.

46.

47.
48.
49.

Because of the developments of the British period, we

inherited _________.
(a) A dualistic economy with small traditional sector and a big
developing sector
(b) A dualistic economy with a big traditional sector and a small
developing sector
(c) A dualistic economy with almost equal importance of the traditional
and developing sector
(d) None of the above
Since independence in Pakistan _________.
(a) National and per capita incomes leave both increased fast
(b) National income has increased but per capita income has decreased
(c) National income has increased and per capita income has grown as
a slower rate
(d) None of the above
The distribution of labour force and the sectoral
distribution of income in Pakistan _________.
(a) Have both moved in the same direction
(b) Have moved in the opposite direction
(c) The former has been static and the latter changing showing greater
inter-sectoral disparities
The poverty line has been defined as the basis of _________.
(a) The standard of living of the people.
(b) The income level of the majority of people
(c) The customs of the people
(d) The national requirements of 2400 calories per person per day for
rural areas and 2100 calories per person per day for urban area
The performance of our public sector industrial undertaking in
the recent past _________.
(a) Has shown no improvement
(b) Has shown some improvement
(c) Has shown faster deterioration
(d) Has been very poor
The outgoing fiscal year 1998-99 has been the most year for
Pakistan ________.
(a) Easy
(b) Soft
(c) Hard
(d) Difficult and
challenging
In 1998-99 the GPD registered a modest growth of _________.
(a) 5%
(b) 4.1%
(c) 3.1%
(d) 2.1%
Per capita income of Pakistan is _________.
(a) 480 dollar
(b) 850 dollar
(c) 410 dollar
(d) 600 dollar
The period of first-five year plan was _________.
(a) 1947-1952
(b) 1955-1960
(c) 1960-1965 (d) 1965-1970

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64.

Economy, Agriculture & Industry

The period of second five-year plan was _________.
(a) 1955-60
(b) 1960-65
(c) 1965-70
(d) 1970-75
The period of third five-year plan was _________.
(a) 1955-60
(b) 1960-65
(c) 1965-70
(d) 1970-75
The period of fourth five-year plan was _________.
(a) 1963-78
(b) 1970-75
(c) 1975-80
(d) 1980-85
The period of fifth five-year plan was _________.
(a) 1978-83
(b) 1975-80
(c) 1972-77
(d) 1980-85
The period of sixth five-year plan was _________.
(a) 1983-88
(b) 1980-85
(c) 1982-87
(d) 1987-92
The period of seventh five-year plan was _________.
(a) 1988-93
(b) 1985-90
(c) 1990-95
(d) 1995-2000
The period of eight five-year plan was _________.
(a) 1990-95
(b) 1992-97
(c) 1983-98
(d) 1999-2003
The first long plan of Pakistan was _________.
(a) 1960-80
(b) 1965-70
(c) 1970-90
(d) 1990-2000
The second long plan of Pakistan is _________.
(a) 1980-2000
(b) 1988-2003
(c) 19990-2006 (d) None of them
Total population of Pakistan is:
(a) 131.5 million (b) 134.5 million
(c) 145.96 million (d)
132.8
million
The growth rate of population in Pakistan is _________.
(a) 2.9%
(b) 2.6%
(c) 2.1%
(d) 2.5%
The balance of payment of Pakistan remain _________.
(a) Favourable
(b) Un-favourable (c) Deficit
(d) None of them
Pakistans objective under the plan has been a achieve
_________.
(a) Growth with or without stability (b) Stability without growth or not
(c) Growth with stability
(d) None of these
More national income is earned from the exports of _________.
(a) Agriculture Sector
(b)
Industrial Sector
(c) Semi-Sector
(d) None of these
WTO came into being _________.
(a) 1945
(b) 1955
(c) 1995
(d) 2005

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