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This is the latest (2024) PTE short answer type question list which are often seen in the exam. ASQ (Answer short questions) contains 5 to 6 marks in PTE exam. This section comes into speaking zone.

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ASQ (Answer short questions) is the last task of the speaking module in the PTE Exam. You need to listen very carefully this task in exam otherwise you loose marks.

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Answer Short Questions

1. What is the generic term for gold, silver and copper?

Ans:- Metal

2. What is the opposite of the minus sign?

Ans:- Plus Sign

3. What is the food that is used in a recipe?

Ans:- Ingredient

4. How many years there are in a two decades?

Ans:- Twenty

5. What is the colorful sticker that is attached in a envelope? 

Ans:- Stamp

6. What is the weather condition related with heavy rain and strong wind occurring in the Western Pacific or Indian Ocean?

Ans:- Typhoon

7. What is the other form of water other than gas and solid?

Ans:- Liquid / fluid

8. What is the word for objects that can be easily move from one place to another?

Ans:- Portable

9. How many years are there in two centuries?

Ans:- Two hundred 

10. What do we call an amount of money that is taken off the usual cost of something?

Ans:- Discount / reduction

11. Which continent is Canada located in?

Ans:- North America

12. What is the famous canal linking the Mediterranean sea with the Indian Ocean?

Ans:- Suez

13. How many days are in a leap year?

Ans:- 366

14. How many years are there in a century?

Ans:- 100 years

15. What do we call 10 years?

Ans:- Decade

16. What is more fuel-efficient, car, or truck?

Ans:- Car

17. How many years are there in a passage of decade?

Ans:- 10

18. What is the antonym of vertical?

Ans:- Horizontal

19. What instrument would you use to examine very small objects or life forms?

Ans:- Microscope

20. If a figure is hexagonal, how many sides does it have?

Ans:- Six

21. What is the study of the stars and planets called?

Ans:- Astronomy

22. What do we call a book that contains lots of words with their meanings?

Ans:- Dictionary

23. What are 3 quarters of 100%? How much percent is three quarters?

Ans:- 75%

24. Which organ is the blood pumped from?

Ans:- Heart

25. In which direction does the sun come up?

Ans:- East

26. Where does a camel normally live?

Ans:- Desert

27. Which symbol is used to complete a sentence?

Ans:- Full stop/period

28. What kind of liquid do mammals feed their babies (children)?

Ans:- Milk

29. When you react to a stimulus, is your response quick or slow?

Ans:- Quick

30. What can we call a doctor who can sell prescribed medicines?

Ans:- Pharmacist./Chemist

31. What can we call the animals with white ivory and long trunk?

Ans:- Elephant

32. What are the two holes in your nose to breathe?

Ans:- Nostrils

33. What do we call the piece of paper that proves you have bought an item?

Ans:- A receipt

34. What word is used to describe frozen water?

Ans:- Ice

35. Which one would you use to describe the desert, humidity, or aridity? 

Ans:- Aridity

36. Before airplanes were invented, how did people travel between the island from America to Europe? 

Ans:- By ship /By cruise

37. Whose job is it to treat people that are ill or have an injury at a hospital? 

Ans:- Doctor

38. Would you go to a pharmacy or a surgery to get a prescription filled after visiting a doctor?

Ans:- A pharmacy

39. What do you call the alphabetical list at the end of a textbook that tells you where to find specific information?

Ans:- Index

40. Some calendars begin the week on Sunday, what is the other day which commonly starts a week? 

Ans:- Monday

41. Which sweet food is produced by bees?

Ans:- Honey

42. What do we call the “Times New Roman” in Microsoft Word?

Ans:- Typeface/Font

43. Before airplanes were invented, how did people travel between the island from America to Europe? 

Ans:- By ship /By cruise

44. What system does the earth belong to?

Ans:- Solar system

45. In mathematics, there are four basic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and what?

Ans:- Divisions

46. What do you call a piece of equipment we use to look at stars?

Ans:- Astronomical telescope

47. What is the meaning of “post” in the word “postgraduate? 

Ans:- After

48. What is the opposite of positive?

Ans:- Negative

49. What do we call the thread in the center of a candle?

Ans:- Wick

50. What do you need to see a thing which is far away?

Ans:- Binoculars

51. When the writer of a book is unknown, what word is used for the author?

Ans:- Anonymous

52. What natural resource is used by a carpenter?

Ans:- Wood

53. How many hemispheres does the equator divide the globe into?

Ans:- Two

54. What does a king or queen wear on their head at official ceremonies? 

Ans:- Crown

55. What do you call the strap that circulates a person in a car or an airplane?

Ans:- Seatbelt

56. When you get lost in the city, what do you need?

Ans:- Map

57. What kind of sense do you use by your ears?

Ans:- Hearing

58. What are the mountains that erupt?

Ans:- Volcanoes

59. On what geographical location would someone be living if their country is surrounded by water on all sides? 

Ans:- Island

60. What is the name of a building where you can borrow books? 

Ans:- Library

61. What kind of book is written by a person about their own life?

Ans:- Autobiography

62. What special document do most people traveling between one country to another need to carry?

Ans:- A passport

63. How many years are there in a millennium?

Ans:- A thousand years

64. What is the natural material used to make a car tire?

Ans:- Rubber

65. If a figure is a pentagon, how many sides does it have?

Ans:- Five

66. If there are 8 black balls and 1 white ball, and I randomly pick one, which color is most likely to be picked?

Ans:- Black

67. What is the opposite of “predecessor”?

Ans:- Successor

68. What are the strings on shoes?

Ans:- Shoelace

69. What are the things that you touch with your left hand when you play the guitar?

Ans:- Strings

70. What is the joint between your shoulder and your forearm?

Ans:- Elbow

71. What is the big musical instrument that has 88 black and white keys?

Ans:- Piano

72. What does a Sundial measure? 

Ans:- Time

73. What do you call a list in front of a book which outlines the structure of a book? 

Ans:- Table of Contents

74. What is the job title for someone who cooks food in a kitchen?

Ans:- Chef /Cook

75. What do we call the instructions that tell you how to cook food?

Ans:- Recipe

76. If you want to buy a ring, who do you approach, a jeweler or pharmacist?

Ans:- Jeweler

77. What is the word for a period of one hundred years?

Ans:- Century

78. How many days should be added to February in a leap year?

Ans:- One day

79. How many years does a centennial celebrate?

Ans:- 100 years

80. What are the people who study ancient bones or plants in rocks?

Ans:- Paleontologist

81. What is the most catching line of the newspaper?

Ans:- Headline

82. How do we call a person who works in the company?

Ans:- An employee / Employees

83. What do we call a festival which is held every four years gathering people together as a sporting event?

Ans:- Olympics (Games)

84. Which day is between Tuesday and Thursday?

Ans:- Wednesday

85. What type of food does a vegetarian eat, beef pie or fruit salad?

Ans:- Fruit Salad

86. What can bring astronauts to space?

Ans:- Spacecraft

87. What publication reports daily news?

Ans:- Newspaper

88. What is the collection of pictures called?

Ans:- Album

89. Who is a physician who performs surgical operations? 

Ans:- Surgeon

90. “We went somewhere”, how do you understand it’s a past sentence?

Ans:- Went

91. How would you describe someone who can speak two languages?

Ans:- Bilingual

92. What is a standard set of letters that is used to write one or more languages based upon the general principle?

Ans:- Alphabet

93. In which reference book can you find synonyms and antonyms?

Ans:- Thesaurus

94. How do you describe the line that segments a circle?

Ans:- Chord

95. What do bees collect from flowers?

Ans:- Pollen

96. What is the opposite of the word ‘artificial’?

Ans:- Natural / genuine / real

97. Why are bees so important to agriculture?

Ans:- Pollination

98. Which continent do China, India, Korea, and Japan locate?

Ans:- Asia

99. Who sits in the cockpit of an airplane?

Ans:- Pilot

100.What is the opposite side that the sun rises?

Ans:- West

101. What device do you use to measure your weight? 

Ans:- Scale

102. How do you call the diagram which includes a horizontal line called X- axis and a vertical line called Y-axis?

Ans:- Coordinate system

103. What do these following belong to chrysanthemum, roses, daisies, tulip, etc?

Ans:- Flowers

104. What does ASAP mean? What does ASAP stand for?

Ans:- As Soon As Possible

105. How many wheels does a tricycle have?

Ans:- Three

106.Which part at the end of the book can be used for further reading? An index or a bibliography?

Ans:- Bibliography

107.Where can you find the index in a book?

Ans:- At the end

108.Which one has higher humidity, a desert, or a rainforest?

Ans:- A rainforest

109.What is the hardest/toughest part of your hand?

Ans:- Nails