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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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There are how many Non-permanant members of Security Council?

A) 5 B) 10
C) 15 D) 20
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 10

Explanation:

There are 10 Non-permanant members of Security Council

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Distance of stars are measured in

A) Galactic unit B) seller mile
C) Cosmic Kilometre D) Light year
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Light year

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The ________  part of india receives maximum insolation

A) northern B) eastern
C) western D) southern
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) southern

Explanation:

southern region is closest to equator and thus receives sunlight for longer duration than any other part of India

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Q:

 Former Minister Ashwani Kumar has been awarded as Order of Rising Sun by which country ?

A) India B) China
C) Iraq D) Japan
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Japan

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Q:

The substances that are composed of to or more different elements in fixed proportion by mass are called

A) mixture B) compound
C) element D) None of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) compound

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Q:

Who among the following was an aminent painter

A) Sarada Ukil B) Uday Shankar
C) V.Shanta Ram D) Yusuf Meherally
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Sarada Ukil

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Q:

Which one of the following orders presents the correct sequence of the increasing basic nature of the given oxides?

(1) K2O<Na2O<Al2O3<MgO

(2) Al2O3<MgO<Na2O<K2O

(3) MgO<K2O<Al2O3<Na2O

(4) Na2O<K2O<MgO<Al2O3

A) Option 1 B) Option 2
C) Option 3 D) Option 4
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Option 2

Explanation:

While moving from left to right in periodic table basic character of oxide of elements will decrease.

  ∴→Increasing basic strengthAl2O3<MgO<Na2O 

 

and while descending in the group basic character of corresponding oxides increases. 

 ∴→Increasing basic strengthNa2O<K2O

 

∴ Correct Order is Al2O3 < MgO <Na2O <K2O

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The idea of ‘Farr-i Izadi’, on which the Mughal kingship was based, was first developed by which one of the following Sufi saints?

A) Shihabuddin Suhrawardi B) Nizamuddin Auliya
C) Ibn al-Arabi D) Bayazid Bistami
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Shihabuddin Suhrawardi

Explanation:

Abul Fazl placed Mughal kingship as the highest station in the hierarchy of objects receiving light emanating from God (farr-i izadi). Abul Fazl was inspired by a famous Iranian Sufi, Shihabuddin Suhrawardi who first developed this idea. According to this idea, there was a hierarchy in which the Divine Light was transmitted to the king who then became the source of spiritual guidance for his subjects.

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