Q 01/05

Pakistan's first commemorative stamps gave 15 August 1947 as independence day; who scheduled its handover ceremony a day earlier?

A) Clement Attlee

B) Muhammad Ali Jinnah

C) Lord Mountbatten

D) Liaquat Ali Khan

Answer · why

C) Lord Mountbatten

Lord Mountbatten held Pakistan's ceremony on the 14th so he could also attend India's in Delhi on the 15th, and Pakistan later made the earlier date i...

Q 02/05

Which country was the first to recognise Pakistan, establishing diplomatic relations on 14 August 1947 itself?

A) Turkey

B) Iran

C) Saudi Arabia

D) Egypt

Answer · why

B) Iran

Iran recognised Pakistan on its first day, and when its Shah paid a state visit in March 1950 the new country's still-wordless anthem was played for a...

Q 03/05

What does 'Zindabad', as in the patriotic slogan 'Pakistan Zindabad', literally mean?

A) Be strong

B) Stay free

C) Be united

D) Long live

Answer · why

D) Long live

Long live is the literal sense of the Persian-derived word, which India's freedom fighters also shouted in 'Inquilab Zindabad', 'Long live the revolut...

Q 04/05

In which city, at the Ahsan Manzil palace of its Nawab, was the All-India Muslim League founded in December 1906?

A) Lahore

B) Aligarh

C) Dhaka

D) Calcutta

Answer · why

C) Dhaka

Dhaka, where the party that went on to demand Pakistan was born, is now the capital of Bangladesh, which broke away from Pakistan in 1971.

Q 05/05

Muhammad Iqbal's tomb in Lahore stands beside the walls of which Mughal landmark?

A) Shalimar Gardens

B) Badshahi Mosque

C) Wazir Khan Mosque

D) Tomb of Jahangir

Answer · why

B) Badshahi Mosque

Badshahi Mosque's neighbour is the grave of Pakistan's national poet, who died in 1938, nine years before the country he helped inspire existed.