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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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When were the first general elections of Independent India conducted ?

A) 1948-49 B) 1949-50
C) 1950-51 D) 1951-52
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 1951-52

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First and Last Indian viceroys of India?

A) Lord Mountbatten B) C Raj Gopalachari
C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak D) Lala Lajpath Rai
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) C Raj Gopalachari

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The First and Last Indian viceroys of India is C. Raj Gopalachari. 

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Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, informally called Rajaji or C.R., was an Indian politician, independence activist, lawyer, writer, historian and statesman. Rajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India, as India soon became a Republic in 1950.

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What is refractive index ?

A) it is defined as the ratio of speed of light in the medium to the speed of light in vacuum. B) it is defined as the product of speed of light in medium and in vacuum.
C) it is defined as the ratio of speed of light in vacuum to the speed of light in the medium . D) None of above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) it is defined as the ratio of speed of light in vacuum to the speed of light in the medium .

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Which scientist discovered the radioactive element radium?

A) Isaac Newton B) Marie Curie
C) Benjamin Franklin D) None of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Marie Curie

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The enzyme that is necessary to bring about clotting of blood is 

A) peptidase B) amylase
C) lipase D) thrombokinase
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) thrombokinase

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The clotting of blood is a chain reaction initiated by the enzyme thrombokinase produced by the platelets. This causes prothrombin to be converted into thrombin in the presence of Ca++ion.

Thrombin combines with fibrinogen  to produce fibrin threads which entangles the corpuscles to form the clot.

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Reactions that require CO2 take place in

A) the Calvin cycle alone B) the light reactions alone
C) Both A & B D) the chloroplast, but is not part of photosynthesis
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) the Calvin cycle alone

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The Buddhist  Doctrines were written in 

A) Sanskrit B) Pali
C) Tibetan D) Not written in any language but orally transnitted
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Pali

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Ecology deals with the study of

A) Environment B) Birds
C) Organisms and their Environment D) Living beings
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Organisms and their Environment

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Ecology is the branch of science which deals with the study of Ecosystem (relation between the Organisms and their Environment.)

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