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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
  • All India Services:
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Name the British General who was responsible for the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre.

A) Hastings B) Cornwallis
C) Dyer D) Dalhousie
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Dyer

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The chemical that is used to ripen mangoes is

A) Calcium sulphide B) Calcium carbide
C) Calcium carbonate D) Calcium chloride
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Calcium carbide

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A router is a networking device that forwards data packetsand is connected to two or more data lines from differentnetworks. Which among the following was the earliestdevice which had almost the same functionality as that of a router?

A) Interface Delay Device B) Interface Traffic Manager
C) Interface Routing Processor D) Interface Message Processor
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Interface Message Processor

Explanation:

The very first device that had fundamentally the samefunctionality as a router does today was the InterfaceMessage Processor (IMP); IMPs were the devices thatmade up the ARPANET, the first TCP/IP network

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Which permanent tissue makes a plant hard and stiff?

A) Parenchyma B) Aerenchyma
C) Collenchymas D) Sclerenchyma
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Sclerenchyma

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The process when the computer is switched on and the operating system gets loaded from hard disk to main memory is called

A) Booting B) Fetching
C) Processing D) Multi-Processing
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Booting

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In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

 

The movie was an ______ watch.

 

A) Interesting B) Intuitive
C) Interactive D) Incentive
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Interesting

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Saturn is the _______ planet from the Sun.

A) 2nd B) 4th
C) 6th D) 8th
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 6th

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Which one of the following is not an International Human Rights Treaty?

A) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights B) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
C) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities D) Declaration on the Right to Development
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Explanation:

The International Bill of Human Rights has been further supplemented by various other international treaties, conventions and declarations. They are usually regarded as “human rights instruments”. The important among them are as follows....

•Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979)

•Declaration on the Right to Development (1986)

•Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006).

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