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162 Abbreviations MCQs from General Knowledge, each with the correct answer and a written explanation of why it is correct. Free and unlimited, with no account needed.

Abbreviations covers the full forms and meanings of shortened names used in science, medicine, technology, education, government, finance, law, communication and international affairs. It includes initials, acronyms and standard symbols, with attention to similar abbreviations whose meanings change according to their professional or institutional context.

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Moderate
  • A. Installed Explosive Device
  • B. Implanted Explosive Device
  • C. Improvised Explosive Device
  • D. Instantaneous Explosive Device

Explanation: IED means Improvised Explosive Device, a device assembled from commonly available materials rather than manufactured as standard military…

Correct answer: Improvised Explosive Device
Moderate
  • A. Pashtun Tajir Movement
  • B. Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement
  • C. Pashtun Tehreek Movement
  • D. Pashtun Tribe Movement

Explanation: PTM expands to Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement, a rights movement founded in Pakistan. The word Tahaffuz means protection or safeguarding.

Correct answer: Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement
Moderate
  • A. Human Development Infrastructure
  • B. Human Development Industry
  • C. Human Development Index
  • D. Human Development Institute

Explanation: HDI means Human Development Index, a UNDP measure combining indicators of health, education and standard of living.

Correct answer: Human Development Index
Moderate
  • A. International cricket conference
  • B. International cricket council
  • C. International cricket club
  • D. International cricket coalition

Explanation: ICC stands for International Cricket Council, the global governing body for international cricket.

Correct answer: International cricket council
Hard
  • A. International Service Intelligence
  • B. Inter Security Intelligence
  • C. International Security Institution
  • D. Inter Services Intelligence.

Explanation: ISI stands for Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's principal intelligence agency.

Correct answer: Inter Services Intelligence.
Moderate
  • A. Non-Poliferation Treaty
  • B. National Protection Treaty
  • C. Non-Resident Protection Treaty
  • D. National Purification Treaty

Explanation: NPT means Non-Proliferation Treaty, formally the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

Correct answer: Non-Poliferation Treaty
Moderate
  • A. Exit Cancellation List
  • B. Exit Control List
  • C. Exit Common List
  • D. Excutive Crime List

Explanation: ECL stands for Exit Control List, a list used to restrict specified persons from leaving Pakistan.

Correct answer: Exit Control List
Moderate
  • A. Fata commission Report
  • B. Frontier Commission Regulations
  • C. Frontier Crimes Regulations
  • D. Frontier Common Records

Explanation: FCR stands for Frontier Crimes Regulations, a colonial-era legal framework applied in the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas of…

Correct answer: Frontier Crimes Regulations
Easy
  • A. Punjab Air Lines
  • B. Pakistan International Airlines
  • C. Poland International Airlines
  • D. Portugal International Airlines

Explanation: PIA means Pakistan International Airlines, Pakistan’s national flag carrier.

Correct answer: Pakistan International Airlines
Moderate
  • A. International Genetically Engineered Machines
  • B. International Genetically Engineered Mobiles
  • C. International Genetically Engineered Motobikes
  • D. International Genetically Engineered Motor

Explanation: iGEM expands to International Genetically Engineered Machine, the name of the synthetic-biology competition and foundation.

Correct answer: International Genetically Engineered Machines
Moderate
  • A. Britain
  • B. Germany
  • C. Russia
  • D. Indonesia

Explanation: BIN stands for Badan Intelijen Negara, Indonesia’s State Intelligence Agency.

Correct answer: Indonesia
Moderate
  • A. Bank of Commerce and Cooperation International
  • B. Bank of Central Cooperation International
  • C. Bank of Credit and Commerce International
  • D. None of These

Explanation: BCCI expanded to Bank of Credit and Commerce International, an international bank founded in 1972.

Correct answer: Bank of Credit and Commerce International
Fairly easy
  • A. Major Non NATO Ally
  • B. Main Non NATO Ally
  • C. Modern Non NATO Ally
  • D. Minor Non NATO Ally

Explanation: MNNA expands to Major Non-NATO Ally, a United States designation for selected countries that have important defence and security…

Correct answer: Major Non NATO Ally
Moderate
  • A. United Nations Internal Cultural Educational Foundation
  • B. United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
  • C. United Nations International Children Educational Foundation
  • D. United Nations International Cultural Emergency Fund

Explanation: UNICEF originally stood for United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund.

Correct answer: United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
Moderate
  • A. Iraq
  • B. Denmark
  • C. USA
  • D. Iran

Explanation: VEVAK is the commonly used abbreviation for Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security.

Correct answer: Iran
Moderate
  • A. India
  • B. Iran
  • C. Israel
  • D. Afghanistan

Explanation: KHAD was Afghanistan's state security and intelligence service during the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

Correct answer: Afghanistan
Moderate
  • A. Mossad
  • B. Shin Bet:
  • C. Aman
  • D. MI6

Explanation: Aman is the Israeli Defense Forces' Military Intelligence Directorate and its senior military intelligence branch.

Correct answer: Aman
Easy
  • A. America
  • B. Britain
  • C. Japan
  • D. Russia

Explanation: MI6 is the informal name for Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, which gathers intelligence overseas.

Correct answer: Britain
Fairly easy
  • A. 256 different characters
  • B. 512 different characters
  • C. 1024 different characters
  • D. 128 different characters

Explanation: Extended ASCII uses 8 bits, giving 2^8, or 256, possible character codes.

Correct answer: 256 different characters
  • A. November 20, 1964
  • B. April 20, 1964
  • C. December 26, 1968
  • D. November 26, 1964Primary & Secondary Schooling (K-12)

Explanation: Pakistan Television began its first transmission from Lahore on 26 November 1964.

Correct answer: November 26, 1964Primary & Secondary Schooling (K-12)