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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?

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Sleeping sickness in main is caused by the organism 

A) Plasmodium B) entamoeba
C) giardia D) trypanosoma
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) trypanosoma

Explanation:

Trypanasoma is a protozoan animal. It lives as a parasite in the blood and later invades the cerebrospinal fluid to cause the sleeping sickness. This parasite is transmitted by the Tsetse fly.

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What is seismic zone extending at an angle of about 45o from the base of an ocean trench, down through lithosphere to the asthenosphere known as?

A) Appleton layer B) Benioff zone
C) Conard discontinuity D) Convergence zone
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Benioff zone

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Q:

Pearl Harbour is located in

Answer

Hawai

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The acid used in lead storage cells is

A) Sulphuric acid B) Nitric acid
C) Hydrochloric acid D) Phosphoric acid
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Sulphuric acid

Explanation:

The acid used in lead storage cells is Sulphuric acid. They are used car batteries. Lead-acid batteries are capable of being recharged, which is important for their use in cars.

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Q:

Dry ice is an example of which process

A) Condensation B) Evaporation
C) Sublimation D) Freezing
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Sublimation

Explanation:

Sublimation is a process when a solid changes directly into gas instead changing into liquid first. Dry ice is an example of Sublimation process because it doesn't change into liquid CO2 and directly change into gaseous CO2 when heated.

 

Hence, Dry ice is an example of Sublimation process. 

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Q:

"National Volunteer Day" is observed on ____ ?

A) 1st October B) 21st September
C) 11th October D) 29th September
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 21st September

Explanation:

"National Volunteer Day" & "International Peace Day" are observed on 21st september every year.

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Man has _____ pairs of salivary glands

A) 3 B) 4
C) 6 D) 8
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 3

Explanation:

Salivary glands of man are 3 pairs = 6. They are one pair of parotid glands, one pair of sub-maxillary or sub-mandibular glands and one pair of sub-lingual glands.

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Q:

The cause of Beri Beri was discovered by

A) Eijkman B) Macmillan
C) Alexanderson D) Cockrell
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Eijkman

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