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What is General Knowledge?

The public knowledge communicated by a range of non-specialist masses encompassing a wide subject range. General erudition: knowledge of many things.


What does General Knowledge talk about?

Knowledge about anything, anyone, anyplace in the universe. General acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation. General knowledge is also moderately associated with verbal ability, though only weakly or not at all with numerical and spatial ability.


Why is General Knowledge Needed?

There are studies that found General Knowledge can predict exam results. The study examined personality predictors &cognitive ability in student's exam performance which found General knowledge was positively related with overall exam results.


Where we need General Knowledge?

  • Bank Exams
  • Staff Selection Commission (SSC)
  • LIC / GIC Examinations
  • Railway Examinations
  • Defense Examinations
  • UPSC Examinations
  • COMPETITIVE EXAMS FOR PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS
  • Category of Competitive Exams
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Q:

A tone in music is a sound that

A) has high frequency B) has definite pitch
C) has low duration D) None of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) has definite pitch

Explanation:

A tone in music is a sound that has definite pitch. Pitch is nothing but the relative highness or lowness of a sound.

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Q:

Antipsychotic drugs have proved helpful in the treatment of

A) Epilepsy B) Schizophrenia
C) Psoriasis D) Eczema
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Schizophrenia

Explanation:

Antipsychotic drugs have proved helpful in the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, inhibits dopamine, reduces delusions, hallucinations, thought disorganization.

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Q:

Which was the only Indus site with an artificial brick dockyard?

A) Lothal B) Dholka
C) Both A & B D) None of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Lothal

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Q:

A lytic infection concludes with the

A) production of a prophage B) production of messenger RNA
C) embedding of viral DNA into the host cell's DNA D) bursting of the host cell
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) bursting of the host cell

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Q:

Which organelles are unique to plant cells?

A) Central vacuole B) Chlorophyll
C) Cell wall D) All of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) All of the above

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Q:

Choose the word which is nearly opposite in meaning to the given word ‘CACOPHONOUS’

A) Tamed B) Harmonious
C) Domestic D) Silent
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Harmonious

Explanation:
Cacophonous means loud or noisy
Tamed means make less powerful and easier to control
Harmonious means tuneful, melodious → which is nearly opposite in meaning to Cacophonous
Domestic means relating to the running of a home 
Silent means not making any sound.
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Q:

A perfectly inelastic demand curve

A) Vertical with some steep B) Perfectly horizontal
C) Horizontal with some steep D) Perfectly vertical
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Perfectly vertical

Explanation:

A perfectly inelastic demand curve is perfectly vertical either up or down in any way.

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Q:

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.
I (didn't see) him since we met two years ago.

A) am not seeing B) have not seen
C) had not seen D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) had not seen

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