Pakistan Trivia
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94 free Pakistan trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
48 free Pakistan trivia questions with answers. These Pakistan trivia questions cover the country from the Karakoram to the Arabian Sea. You will find the second-highest mountain on Earth, a 4,500-year-old city, the world's largest earth-filled dam, the town that makes most of the planet's footballs, and the poet whose 1930 speech sketched a nation before it existed. The set moves from easy (the capital, the national sport, the founder known as Quaid-e-Azam) through medium (which province was renamed in 2010, who won the 1979 Nobel Prize) to hard questions about forts, necropolises, dams and squash streaks. It suits a classroom unit on South Asia, an Independence Day quiz night, or anyone brushing up before a trip. Every answer was verified against a reference page and each question carries the sentence that supports it, so the answer key holds up under argument.
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Q 01Which city has been the capital of Pakistan since it was built as a planned city in the 1960s?
Islamabad
Islamabad: planners wanted a capital easier to reach from the whole country and close to the army's Rawalpindi headquarters, and Rawalpindi served as stand-in capital while it was built.
Q 02Muhammad Ali Jinnah is revered in Pakistan by the title Quaid-e-Azam, which means what?
Great Leader
Great Leader: early in his career Sarojini Naidu hailed Jinnah as an 'ambassador of Hindu–Muslim unity', long before he led the campaign for a separate Pakistan.
Q 03The Indus River rises in which region before flowing through Pakistan to the Arabian Sea?
Tibet
Tibet: the Indus rises there near sacred Mount Kailash as the 'Lion River', and the name India itself derives from the river.
Q 04Which is Pakistan's national sport?
Field hockey
Field hockey: Pakistan won three Olympic golds and four World Cups, yet its men's team failed to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Q 05Which animal, known for its corkscrew horns, is the national animal of Pakistan?
Markhor
Markhor: its Persian name is usually read as 'snake-eater', and local communities receive 80% of Pakistan's trophy-hunting licence fees for it, which gives them a reason to protect it.
Q 06Which flower is Pakistan's national flower?
Jasmine
Jasmine: it is also Tunisia's national flower, so Western media dubbed Tunisia's 2010–11 revolution the Jasmine Revolution.
Q 07Which conifer is the national tree of Pakistan?
Deodar
Deodar: its rot-resistant timber made it prized for building, including the famous houseboats of Srinagar in Kashmir.
Q 08Malala Yousafzai grew up under Taliban control in which Pakistani valley?
Swat
Swat: at 11 she blogged anonymously for the BBC about life there under the Taliban, and at 17 she became the youngest Nobel laureate.
Q 09Abdus Salam, the first Pakistani Nobel laureate, won the 1979 prize in which field?
Physics
Physics: Salam was an Ahmadi, a group a 1974 amendment declared non-Muslim, and the word 'Muslim' was later removed from his gravestone.
Q 10What is the nickname of the bronze statuette unearthed at Mohenjo-daro in 1926?
Dancing Girl
Dancing Girl: when Mohenjo-daro's finds were shared out at partition, she went to India, while the Priest-King went to Pakistan's national museum.
Q 11The Mohenjo-daro archaeological site lies in which province?
Sindh
Sindh: archaeologist R. D. Banerji came to survey what he took for a Buddhist stupa in 1919–20 and found artefacts from a far older city.
Q 12The Badshahi Mosque in Lahore was commissioned in 1671 by which Mughal emperor?
Aurangzeb
Aurangzeb: after Ranjit Singh took Lahore in 1799, his army used the mosque's courtyard as a stable and its rooms to store military supplies.
Q 13The tent-shaped Faisal Mosque was designed by an architect from which country?
Turkey
Turkey: Vedat Dalokay's domeless design, modelled on a Bedouin tent, won a 1969 competition, and the mosque was named for Saudi King Faisal, who funded it.
Q 21The Karakoram Highway reaches its highest point near which mountain pass on the Chinese border?
Khunjerab Pass
Khunjerab Pass: at least 810 Pakistani workers died building the highway through the Karakoram, and it opened to tourists in 1986.
Q 22The port of Gwadar was purchased by Pakistan in 1958 from which country?
Oman
Oman: its sultans had held Gwadar since 1783, and after the 1958 handover China went on to build a deep-water port there.
Q 23Which dam on the Indus is the world's largest earth-filled dam by structural volume?
Tarbela Dam
Tarbela Dam: built as part of the project that followed the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, its reservoir forced about 96,000 people from their villages.
Q 14Which language is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan?
Urdu
Urdu: it is the national language and lingua franca, yet in the 2023 census only about 9% of Pakistanis named it as their mother tongue.
Q 15Who became the first woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country, in 1988?
Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto: she took office 11 years after a coup toppled her father's government, and both of her terms ended in dismissal.
Q 16The Khyber Pass runs along Pakistan's border with which country?
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: after 2001 the pass became a crucial overland supply route for the US and NATO forces fighting there.
Q 17Which Pakistani peak earned the nickname 'Killer Mountain' for its many climber deaths?
Nanga Parbat
Nanga Parbat: 31 people had died on it before Hermann Buhl reached the top alone in 1953, without supplementary oxygen.
Q 18Which Pakistani squash player went unbeaten in competitive matches from 1981 to 1986?
Jahangir Khan
Jahangir Khan: his 555-match streak ended in the 1986 World Open final against Ross Norman, and he also won ten straight British Open titles.
Q 19Imran Khan's Pakistan won the 1992 Cricket World Cup final against which team?
England
England: earlier in the tournament England bowled Pakistan out for 74, and only rain, which washed that match out, kept Pakistan from going out.
Q 20The polytheistic Kalash people live in three valleys of which region?
Chitral
Chitral: its Bumburet, Rumbur and Birir valleys shelter the Kalash, who kept their old faith while people across the border in Kafiristan were forcibly converted in the 1890s.
Q 24On Pakistan's flag, what does the vertical white stripe at the hoist represent?
Religious minorities
Religious minorities: the flag grew out of the Muslim League's green banner, and the white stripe for non-Muslims was added shortly before independence.
Q 25Which border crossing near Lahore stages a nightly flag-lowering ceremony by Pakistani and Indian guards?
Wagah
Wagah: in November 2014 a suicide bomber killed dozens of people on the Pakistani side just after the daily ceremony.
Q 26Which is the largest of Pakistan's provinces by area, but the least populated?
Balochistan
Balochistan: the princely state of Kalat there stayed independent after August 1947, and its Khan acceded to Pakistan only in March 1948.
Q 27The North-West Frontier Province was renamed what in April 2010?
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa became the province's name under the 18th Constitutional Amendment, signed into law on 19 April 2010, reflecting its Pashtun majority.
Q 28Gilgit-Baltistan, home to K2, was known by what name until 2009?
Northern Areas
Northern Areas was the name given in 1970 to the combined Gilgit Agency and Baltistan; the 2009 Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Governance Order renamed the territory and gave it an elected assembly.
Q 29The Pakistan Super League played its first season in 2016 in which country?
United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates venues in Dubai and Sharjah hosted the whole inaugural 2016 season, because international cricket had largely avoided Pakistan since the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore.
Q 30Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was the world's most famous performer of which form of Sufi devotional music?
Qawwali
Qawwali: his work with Peter Gabriel on the soundtrack of The Last Temptation of Christ helped carry the Sufi form to Western audiences.