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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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Something which has easily-understood instructions is said to be___

A) Analog data B) Digital data
C) Modem data D) Watts data
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Analog data

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Who called Subhash Chandra Bose as Desh Nayak?

A) Rabindranath Tagore B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak D) Lala Lajpat Rai
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Rabindranath Tagore

Explanation:

Rabindranath Tagore called Subhash Chandra Bose as Desh Nayak for the first time.

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Skating on ice is possible because 

A) the surface of ice is smooth B) ice is cold
C) the pressure on the ice due to skate melts the ice by lowering its melting point forming a thin film of water D) the pressure on the ice due to skate raises its melting point
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) the pressure on the ice due to skate melts the ice by lowering its melting point forming a thin film of water

Explanation:

Here is a case of  lowering of melting point of ice with increase of pressure

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The Government of India has decided to declare which of the following rivers a ' National River '

A) Yamuna B) Kaveri
C) Ganga D) None of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Ganga

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Who is the author of 'Anandmath'

A) Rabindranath Tagore B) Bankim Chandra Chattopadyaya
C) Sarojini Nayadu D) Jyotiba Phule
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Bankim Chandra Chattopadyaya

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Which one of the following Indus Civilization site gives evidence of a dockyard

A) Harappa B) Lothal
C) Mohenjodaro D) Rakhigarhi
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Lothal

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Rajasthan receives very little rain because

A) It is too hot B) there is no water available and thus the winds remain dry
C) the mansoons fail to reach this area D) the winds do not come across any barrier to cause the necessary uplift to cool the winds
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) the winds do not come across any barrier to cause the necessary uplift to cool the winds

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In known elements, the maximum number is of

A) Metals B) Non Metals
C) Metalloids D) None of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Metals

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