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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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  • LIC / GIC Examinations
  • Railway Examinations
  • Defense Examinations
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The given sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph keeping 1 as the first statement.

1) On one online forum, the sysadmins were enjoying some gallows humour.

A) They were discussing a pair of recently announced security flaws, known as Meltdown and Spectre that between them affect any computer powered by processors designed by Intel, AMD, ARM and others.

B) Another wrote, with tongue only half in cheek, that “computers were a mistake”.

C) One simply posted a picture of a fire raging in a skip.

D) That’s most of them, in other words, from smartphones and desktop PCs to games consoles and the racks of machines that run cloud-computing services from Microsoft, Amazon and the like.

A) CBAD B) ADBC
C) BCDA D) CADB
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) CBAD

Explanation:

The correct sequence is CBAD.

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Q:

The percentage of irrigated land in India is about

A) 66% B) 35%
C) 71% D) 22%
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 35%

Explanation:

According to World Bank Indicator India - Land use:

      • Agriculture Land - 1797090 sq. Km (about 60.4%). 
      • Forest Area - 677598 sq. Km. (about 22.08%). 
      • Agriculture Irrigated land - 35 %.



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Water kept in an earthen pot is less cool on rainy days than in summer because during the rainy days 

A) the pores in the pot are closed B) rain water stops oozing out from the pores
C) the water that oozes out does not evaporate quickely because of the large percent age of moisture in the air D) surface of the pot becomes damp
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) the water that oozes out does not evaporate quickely because of the large percent age of moisture in the air

Explanation:

To evaporate the water that oozes out, heat is required. Part of this heat is taken from the water inside which therefore become cool. Therefore (C) is correct. Here evaporation is less, so cooling too is less.

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Which Indian doctor has been selected for the 2017 Ophthalmology Hall of Fame?

A) C P Thakur B) Gullapalli N. Rao
C) Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar D) Aroup Chatterjee
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Gullapalli N. Rao

Explanation:

Dr. Gullapalli N. Rao, the founder and chair of the LV Prasad Eye Institute (Hyderabad), has been selected to the 2017 Ophthalmology Hall of Fame instituted by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS). He will be honoured at the induction ceremony in Los Angeles on May 6, 2017 at the annual meeting of the ASCRS.

 

Currently, Rao is the President of the prestigious Academia Ophthalmologica International (AOI), a group of 80 eminent academicians in ophthalmology in the world and is a past Chair of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB).

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Soil erosion on hillslopes can be checked by

A) Terrace cultivation B) Contour ploughing
C) Afforestation D) Strip cropping
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Terrace cultivation

Explanation:

Hence, soil erosion on hillslopes can be checked by Terrace cultivation.

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The number of pincode postal regions in india is 

A) 5 B) 6
C) 7 D) 8
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 8

Explanation:
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The Good Governance Day (GGD) is observed on which day in India?

A) December 22 B) December 25
C) December 21 D) December 24
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) December 25

Explanation:

The Good Governance Day (GGD) is observed every year in India on the eve of the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

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Which is true of the 1912 presidential election?

A) Because all three major candidates were Progressive, the Socialist won B) Because all three major candidates were Progressive, Progressive votes were split
C) Although none of the candidates was Progressive, the Progressives decided the election D) Although none of the candidates was Progressive, Progressive ideas were important
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Because all three major candidates were Progressive, Progressive votes were split

Explanation:

Because all three major candidates were Progressive, Progressive votes were split" is the one among the following that is true of the 1912 presidential election.

The correct option among all the options that are given in the question is the option "B".

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