Correct answer: Sindh. Khairpur is in Sindh.
Background: Khairpur was a princely state that joined Pakistan in 1947.
Did you know? The Khairpur district is famous for its dates.
Memory trick: Khairpur = Sindh = dates.
Correct answer: June 2017. Pakistan became a full SCO member at the Astana summit in June 2017.
Background: India became a full member at the same summit.
Did you know? The SCO was founded in 2001 in Shanghai.
Memory trick: 2017 Astana: Pakistan and India join.
Correct answer: Wakhan Corridor. The Wakhan Corridor is a narrow strip of Afghanistan that separates Pakistan from Tajikistan and touches China.
Background: It was created in the 19th century as a buffer between the British and Russian empires.
Did you know? The corridor is about 350 km long and in places only 13 km wide.
Memory trick: Wakhan = Afghanistan’s long arm toward China.
Correct answer: Karachi. Karachi, with its concrete buildings, roads, and little greenery, traps heat and forms an urban heat island.
Background: An urban heat island is a city that is warmer than the surrounding countryside.
Did you know? In June 2015 a deadly heatwave hit Karachi.
Memory trick: Concrete city → Karachi heat.
Correct answer: Allama Iqbal. Allama Iqbal wrote the Persian poetry collection Zabur-e-Ajam, published in 1927.
Background: Iqbal wrote much of his work in Persian to reach a wider Muslim audience.
Did you know? His other Persian works include Asrar-e-Khudi (1915) and Rumuz-e-Bekhudi (1918).
Memory trick: Zabur-e-Ajam = Iqbal’s Persian Psalms.
Correct answer: Muhammad Ali Jauhar. The Khilafat Movement was led by Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar, with his brother Shaukat Ali.
Background: The movement (1919–24) aimed to protect the Ottoman Caliphate after the First World War.
Did you know? Jauhar published the newspapers Comrade (English) and Hamdard (Urdu).
Memory trick: Khilafat = the Ali Brothers (Jauhar).
Correct answer: 1878. Sir Syed was nominated to the Viceroy’s Legislative Council in 1878.
Background: He used the position to speak on Muslim education and social reform.
Did you know? He had founded the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh in 1875.
Memory trick: 1875 college → 1878 council.
Correct answer: 1913. Muhammad Ali Jinnah joined the Muslim League in 1913.
Background: He had earlier been a member of the Indian National Congress.
Did you know? He helped arrange the Lucknow Pact of 1916 between the League and the Congress.
Memory trick: League 1906 → Jinnah joins 1913.
Correct answer: Dhaka. The All-India Muslim League was formed at Dhaka in December 1906.
Background: The meeting took place at the Ahsan Manzil of Nawab Salimullah Khan.
Did you know? Its first president was Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk’s colleague Sir Aga Khan, who was the honorary president.
Memory trick: 1906, Dhaka, Salimullah.
Correct answer: Sehwan Sharif. The shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar is in Sehwan Sharif, Sindh.
Background: Lal Shahbaz Qalandar was a 13th-century Sufi saint.
Did you know? His Urs is famous for the devotional dance called dhamal.
Memory trick: Lal → Sehwan.
Correct answer: 1919. The Government of India Act 1919 (Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms) introduced diarchy in the provinces.
Background: Diarchy meant “dual rule”: some subjects were “transferred” to Indian ministers, while others stayed “reserved” for the British governor.
Did you know? Education and health were transferred subjects, while law and order and finance were reserved.
Memory trick: 1919 = Diarchy.
Correct answer: Indian Independence Act, 1947. The Indian Independence Act, 1947, created the two independent dominions of India and Pakistan.
Background: The Act followed the 3rd June Plan and ended British rule on 14–15 August 1947.
Did you know? It received royal assent on 18 July 1947.
Memory trick: 1947 Act = Partition Act.
Correct answer: Shia Muslims. The Fatimids were an Ismaili Shia dynasty that founded Cairo in 969 CE.
Background: The Fatimids claimed descent from Fatima, the Prophet’s (PBUH) daughter, which is where their name comes from.
Did you know? Al-Azhar Mosque was founded under the Fatimids around 970 CE and later became a great centre of Sunni learning.
Memory trick: Fatimid = Fatima’s descendants = Shia (Ismaili).
Correct answer: Greece. Athens, Greece, hosted the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Background: The 2004 Games brought the Olympics back to Greece, the birthplace of the ancient Games.
Did you know? The first modern Olympics were also held in Athens, in 1896.
Memory trick: 2004 Athens = Greece.
Correct answer: Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan does not border Afghanistan; Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan lie between them.
Background: Afghanistan is landlocked and has six neighbours.
Did you know? The six neighbours are Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and China.
Memory trick: Kazakhstan is a step further north, past Uzbekistan.
Correct answer: All of these. Terrorism is generally described as political violence aimed at civilians in order to create fear.
Background: There is no single, universally accepted legal definition of terrorism.
Did you know? The word “terror” comes from the Latin terrere, meaning “to frighten”.
Memory trick: Terrorism = violence + civilians + fear.
Correct answer: Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan, with about 2.7 million square kilometres, is the largest Muslim-majority country by area.
Background: Kazakhstan is the ninth-largest country in the world.
Did you know? Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population.
Memory trick: Area → Kazakhstan; population → Indonesia.
Correct answer: Sri Lanka. The LTTE fought the Sri Lankan government for a separate Tamil state in the north and east of the island.
Background: The Sri Lankan civil war lasted from 1983 to 2009.
Did you know? The war ended in May 2009 with the defeat of the LTTE.
Memory trick: Tamil Tigers = Sri Lanka.
Correct answer: Muhammad Ali Jauhar. Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar is named as having helped Quaid-e-Azam prepare the Fourteen Points of 1929.
Background: Jinnah announced the Fourteen Points in March 1929 in reply to the Nehru Report of 1928.
Did you know? The Nehru Report had rejected separate electorates for Muslims.
Memory trick: 14 Points: 1929, Jinnah, with Jauhar’s help.
Correct answer: Australia. Bondi Beach is a famous beach in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Background: On 14 December 2025, two gunmen attacked a Hanukkah gathering (“Chanukah by the Sea”) at Bondi Beach, and authorities declared it a terrorist attack.
Did you know? Bondi is one of Australia’s best-known tourist beaches and is close to Sydney’s city centre.
Memory trick: Bondi = Sydney = Australia.
Correct answer: 21 Dec. New Zealand is in the southern hemisphere, where the summer solstice and the longest day fall around 21 December.
Background: The seasons are reversed in the southern hemisphere because the Earth’s axis is tilted.
Did you know? In the northern hemisphere the longest day falls around 21 June.
Memory trick: Down under: longest day in December.
Correct answer: Marina Beach. Marina Beach in Chennai, about 13 km long, is widely described as the second-longest urban beach in the world.
Background: Marina Beach runs along the Bay of Bengal coast of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu.
Did you know? It is a popular public place with statues of famous Tamil figures along its promenade.
Memory trick: Marina = Chennai.
Correct answer: 538. The Electoral College has 538 votes: 435 for the House seats, 100 for the Senate seats, and 3 for Washington, D.C.
Background: A candidate needs a majority of 270 electoral votes to become President.
Did you know? Maine and Nebraska divide their electoral votes by district instead of giving them all to one candidate.
Memory trick: 270 to win out of 538.
Correct answer: ضمیر. جو لفظ کسی اسم کی جگہ استعمال ہو اسے ضمیر کہتے ہیں، جیسے وہ، میں، تم۔
پس منظر: ضمیر کی تین بڑی قسمیں ہیں: ضمیرِ متکلم (میں، ہم)، ضمیرِ مخاطب (تم، آپ) اور ضمیرِ غائب (وہ، یہ)۔
کیا آپ جانتے ہیں؟ “ضمیر” کا ایک مطلب باطن یا دل بھی ہے۔
یاد رکھنے کی ترکیب: ضمیر = اسم کا نائب۔
Correct answer: پانی. مثل ہے: “لاٹھی مارنے سے پانی جدا نہیں ہوتا”، یعنی بھائیوں کے درمیان رشتہ لڑائی سے ختم نہیں ہوتا۔
پس منظر: مثل کا مطلب یہ ہے کہ اپنوں کے درمیان وقتی ناراضی سے رشتہ ختم نہیں ہوتا، جیسے پانی کو لاٹھی مارنے سے وہ دو حصوں میں بٹ نہیں جاتا۔
کیا آپ جانتے ہیں؟ اس مفہوم کو بھائیوں کے آپس کے جھگڑوں کے لیے بولا جاتا ہے۔
یاد رکھنے کی ترکیب: لاٹھی + پانی = جدا نہیں۔