Correct answer: 1950. Pakistan joined the International Monetary Fund in 1950.
Background: The IMF was created in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference.
Did you know? The IMF lends to countries facing balance-of-payments problems.
Memory trick: IMF = 1950.
Correct answer: Karakoram Highway. The Karakoram Highway (KKH), built jointly by Pakistan and China and opened in 1979, is the best-known symbol of their friendship.
Background: It connects Pakistan with China through the Khunjerab Pass.
Did you know? It is often called the “Friendship Highway”.
Memory trick: KKH = Friendship Highway.
Correct answer: Netherlands. Pakistan won the 1994 World Cup final in Sydney by beating the Netherlands in a penalty shoot-out.
Background: Pakistan won the first World Cup in 1971.
Did you know? Its four titles came in 1971, 1978, 1982, and 1994.
Memory trick: Titles: 71, 78, 82, 94.
Correct answer: All of these. The President is elected by an electoral college made up of the Senate, the National Assembly, and the provincial assemblies.
Background: This is provided in Article 41 of the Constitution.
Did you know? The President serves a five-year term.
Memory trick: Senate + NA + Provincial Assemblies.
Correct answer: Belt and Road Initiative. Gwadar is the flagship port of CPEC, which is part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
Background: CPEC was launched in 2015.
Did you know? Gwadar is a deep-sea port on the Arabian Sea in Balochistan.
Memory trick: Gwadar → CPEC → BRI.
Correct answer: Wheat. Wheat is grown on the largest area in Pakistan, and it is the main staple food.
Background: Wheat is a rabi (winter) crop, sown in November and harvested around April.
Did you know? Pakistan is one of the world’s larger wheat producers.
Memory trick: Roti staple = wheat.
Correct answer: China. China is Pakistan’s largest source of imports, including machinery and electronics.
Background: Trade with China has grown with CPEC projects.
Did you know? Pakistan’s trade deficit is mainly driven by imports.
Memory trick: Imports → China.
Correct answer: Maryam Nawaz. Maryam Nawaz became Punjab’s first woman Chief Minister in February 2024.
Background: She is the daughter of Nawaz Sharif.
Did you know? She took oath as Chief Minister on 26 February 2024.
Memory trick: First woman CM Punjab = Maryam.
Correct answer: Pakistan Army Act, 1952. The Pakistan Army (Amendment) Act 2020 amended the Pakistan Army Act, 1952, concerning the tenure of the Army chief.
Background: The amendment followed a Supreme Court order on the extension of the Army chief’s tenure.
Did you know? The Air Force and Navy acts were amended around the same time.
Memory trick: Army Act 1952.
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: 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: 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: 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: Liaqat Ali Khan. Prime Minister Liaqat Ali Khan presented the Objectives Resolution in the Constituent Assembly on 7 March 1949.
Background: The Assembly passed it on 12 March 1949.
Did you know? It later became the preamble of the 1973 Constitution.
Memory trick: Liaqat → Objectives.
Correct answer: Ras Koh. Pakistan’s nuclear tests took place in the Ras Koh Hills in Chagai District, Balochistan.
Background: Pakistan tested five devices on 28 May 1998 and one more on 30 May 1998.
Did you know? 28 May is observed as Youm-e-Takbeer.
Memory trick: Ras Koh = Chagai = 28 May 1998.
Correct answer: 1951. The Pakistan Table Tennis Federation was established in 1951.
Background: National federations organise sports and send teams to international events.
Did you know? The International Table Tennis Federation was founded in 1926.
Memory trick: PTTF = 1951.
Correct answer: 2. Pakistan had only two sugar mills at independence.
Background: The industry grew rapidly afterwards as sugarcane became a major cash crop.
Did you know? Sugarcane is one of Pakistan’s major crops.
Memory trick: 1947: just 2 mills.
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.