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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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Which movie won the Best Film award at Kolkata International Film Festival 2018?

A) The Third Wife B) Beauty Pageants
C) Antony Firingee D) Abyakto
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) The Third Wife

Explanation:

Vietnamese film 'The Third Wife' won the Best Film award at Kolkata International Film Festival 2018.

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Q:

Most catches in test cricket by wicket keeper?

A) MV. Boucher B) M.S Dhoni
C) Gilchrist D) IA. Healy
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) MV. Boucher

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Q:

Innate immune system defenses include

A) phagocytosis B) B cells
C) plasma cells D) T cells
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) phagocytosis

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Q:

Net exports are negative when

A) exports are greater than imports B) imports are greater than exports
C) No exports D) None of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) imports are greater than exports

Explanation:


When exports are greater than imports, net exports are positive and similarly, when imports are greater than exports, net exports are negative.

 

When a country imports goods, it buys them from foreign producers. The money spent on imports leaves the economy, and that decreases the importing nation's GDP.

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Q:

Depletion of ozone layer is caused by

A) CFC's B) Carbon tetra-chloride (CCl4)
C) HCFC's D) All of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) All of the above

Explanation:

Ozone layer depletion is one of the most serious problems faced by our planet earth. Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (ODS) emission are responsible for ultraviolet radiations from the sun break them to release chlorine (from CFCs) and bromine (from methyl bromide and halons).

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Q:

Who was the first cricketer to take all wickets in a test innings?

A) Curtly Ambrose B) Jimmy Mathews
C) Jim Laker D) Anil Kumble
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Jim Laker

Explanation:

Jim Laker was the first player to take all 10 wickets in a Test match innings. Ten for 53 in the Australians 2nd innings of the 4th Ashes Test at Old Trafford in 1956.

 

The only other bowler to achieve the feat is India's Anil Kumble, who took ten for 74 at Delhi's Feroz Shah Kotla against Pakistan in 1999.

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4 1914
Q:

Instrument for measuring light intensity is called

A) Lucimeter B) Cryometer
C) Cyanometer D) Barometer
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Lucimeter

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Q:

An electric fuse is based on

A) the chemical effect of the current B) the magnetic effect of the current
C) the heating effect of the current D) All of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) the heating effect of the current

Explanation:

An electric fuse is based on the heating effect of the current.

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