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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
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Oscar Awards are conferred annually by

A) Academy of Motion Pictures, arts and sciences, USA B) Hollywood Foreign Press Association
C) Government of United States D) None
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Academy of Motion Pictures, arts and sciences, USA

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Which Bollywood Superstar has been honored with the Global Diversity Award 2017 in the British Parliament House  ?

A) Salman Khan B) Akshay Kumar
C) Shah Rukh Khan D) Amir Khan
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Salman Khan

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Q:

Of the following radiations, the most easily stopped by air

A) alpha - rays B) beta - rays
C) gamma -rays D) x - rays
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) alpha - rays

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Which action is considered a primary function of State government?

A) supervising elected federal government officials B) regulating political parties and the media
C) organizing a local military to provide security D) enforcing laws regarding the public safety
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) enforcing laws regarding the public safety

Explanation:

The primary function of State government is enforcing laws regarding the public safety.

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Q:

Gases used in normal welding?

A) Oxygen and Acetylene B) Acetylene and Nitrogen
C) Oxygen, Hydrogen and Acetylene D) Oxygen and Hydrogen
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Oxygen and Acetylene

Explanation:

Normal Gas welding use oxygen-acetylene.

 

Depending on what materials you are welding, there are some more options that might be used.

For example - MIG/TIG use Argon, MAG use an argon-something mix.

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Which state Chief minister launches ridesharing app for techies G-Ride ?

A) Karnataka B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Kerala D) Goa
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Kerala

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When is the world's Asthma day celebrated?

A) 7 may 2013 B) 7 june 2013
C) 7 january 2013 D) 7 july 2013
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 7 may 2013

Explanation:

7th may is considered as world's Asthma day .This worked with the theme of "you can controll your asthma"

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Why are yeast cells frequently used as hosts for cloning?

A) they are eukaryotic cells B) they do not have plasmids
C) only yeast cells allow the gene to be cloned D) they easily form colonies
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) they are eukaryotic cells

Explanation:

If you were to produce a protein in bacterial cloning systems, you would not get the same post transcriptional and post translational modifications because the prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems work differently on the modifications.

Thus human recombinant protein genes are usually cloned in yeast cells. Also since they have a short generation time, they can be easily culture.

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