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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
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Which of the statements given below are correct?

A) Netherlands won the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup.

B) Australia won the 2016–17 Men's FIH Hockey World League Final.

C) Fan Zhendong won the Tennis 2017 US Open Men's Singles.

 

A) Only B B) Only C
C) Both B and C D) A, B and C
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Only B

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Which of the statements given below are correct?

A) Rafael Nadal won the Tennis 2017 Australian Open Men's Singles.

B) In 2017, Virat Kohli captained the IPL team Royal Challengers Bangalore.

C) Serena Williams won the Table Tennis 2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals Women's Singles

 

A) Only A B) Only B
C) Both A and C D) None of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Only B

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The busiest  sea route is 

A) The Mediterranean Red-Sea Route B) The South Atlantic Route
C) The North Atlantic Route D) The Pacific Route
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) The North Atlantic Route

Explanation:

There are Industrially most developed countries on either side of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Where is located the most active volcano in the world?

 

A) Around the Atlantic Ocean   B) Around the Pacific Ocean  
C) Around the Indian Ocean   D) Around the Arctic Ocean
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Around the Pacific Ocean  

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Where has the World's largest Monolithic statue of Buddha been installed

A) Bamiyan B) Hyderabad
C) Kandy D) Lhasa
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Bamiyan

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Buddha's preaching were mainly related to

A) belief in one God B) practice of rituals
C) purity of thought and conduct D) idol worship
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) purity of thought and conduct

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D.D.T. was invented by

A) Paul Muller B) John Dalton
C) Rudolf D) None of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Paul Muller

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Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Muller discovered DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) noted its effectiveness as a pesticide during World War II to control malaria and typhus among civilians and troops, a discovery that earned him a Nobel Prize in 1948.

 

It was first synthesized in the year 1874.

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When formaldehyde and potassium hydroxide are heated , we get 

A) Acetylene B) Methyl alcohol
C) Methane D) Ethyl formate
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Methyl alcohol

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