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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.


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Four words are given, out of which only one word is spelt correctly. Choose the correctly spelt word and click the button corresponding to it.

A) Immense B) Imense
C) Immiense D) Imminse
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Immense

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During the light reactions of photosynthesis

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A) the energy from sunlight is absorbed by the pigment chlorophyll B) the water are obserbed by roots
C) the sunlight is reflected by the leaf pigments D) All the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) the energy from sunlight is absorbed by the pigment chlorophyll

Explanation:

During the light reactions of photosynthesis the energy from sunlight is absorbed by the pigment chlorophyll present in the chloroplasts of the leafs.

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The taper on the lathe spindle is

A) 1 in 10 B) 1 in 20
C) 1 in 15 D) 1 in 25
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 1 in 20

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What branch of government is responsible for interpreting laws?

A) legislative B) executive
C) judicial D) All of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) judicial

Explanation:

The legislative branch passes laws. The executive branch enforces laws. The judicial branch interprets laws.

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The ozone layer is part of the

A) Troposphere B) Stratosphere
C) Ionosphere D) Mesosphere
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Stratosphere

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Japanese Ukiyo e prints depicted

A) Lord shiva B) The everyday world
C) Flung ink D) Shinto
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) The everyday world

Explanation:

Japanese Ukiyo-e prints depicted the everyday world or the transitory world we live.

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What two countries have nearly 50% of global coal reserves?

A) Iran & USA B) USA & China
C) Russia & USA D) Brazil & Russia
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Russia & USA

Explanation:

United States and Russia have together almost 400 billion tones. Which represents nearly 50% of world's reserves of coal.

 

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The  optical  phenomenon  that  is  primarily responsible  for  the  observation  of  rainbow on a rainy day is 

A) diffraction B) interference
C) dispersion D) reflection
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) dispersion

Explanation:

A rainbow is a natural spectrum appearing in the sky after a rain shower. It is caused by dispersion of sunlight by tiny water droplets, present in the atmosphere. A rainbow is always formed in a direction opposite to that of the Sun. The water droplets act like small prisms. They refract and disperse the incident sunlight, then reflect it internally, and finally refract it again when it comes out of the raindrops.

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