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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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Select the antonym of:

 

skeptic

A) profaner B) heretic
C) atheist D) devotee
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) devotee

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Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

 

A beautiful landscape, full of green vegetation, will not just attract our attention but (fill us) with infinite satisfaction.

A) will fill us B) filled us
C) fill them D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) will fill us

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Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

 

Tarapur agreement guaranteed supplies of

 

P : Tarapur reactors for entire life

Q : enriched uranium fuel from

R : the US for running the

 

A) PRQ B) QRP
C) RQP D) PQR
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) QRP

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Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

 

With its overall popularity sliding, (the party will have been working hard) to bring in the next generation of leaders.

A) the party will have to work hard B) the party will have to hardly work
C) the party will have to work hardly D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) the party will have to work hard

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Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

 

It was never meant

P-upon fundamental rights
Q-to become a tool
R-to broaden the scope of restrictions

 

A) RQP B) RPQ
C) PRQ D) QRP
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) QRP

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Which substance is produced when alcohol is added with petrol and used as a fuel?

 

A) Only oxygen B) Only carbon-dioxide
C) Only water D) Carbon-dioxide and water both
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Only carbon-dioxide

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Which of the following statements about the Deccan Riots of 1875 is/are true?

1.TheDeccan Riots resulted in protection for peasants through the Deccan Agriculturalists Relief Act of 1879.

2.The riots did not spread to the whole of Maharashtra because of prompt suppression by the British.

3.The British were unable to contain the riots and they spread throughout Maharashtra.

4.The cotton boom in the Deccan that had been caused by the artificial demand generated by the American Civil War caused the impoerishment of the peasants.

 

Select the correct answer using the code given below.

 

A) 1 only B) 1 and 3 
C) 2 and 4 only D) 1,2,3 and 4
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 1,2,3 and 4

Explanation:

In 1861, civil war broke out in the USA. USA was the largest supplier of cotton to Britain. Once the civil war broke out, the demand for cotton from India became high and this led to a surge in cotton cultivation in India and there was a period of ‘boom’ then.In May and June 1875, peasants of Maharashtra in some parts of Pune, Satara and Ahmednagar districts revolted against increasing agrarian distress. The Deccan Riots of 1875 targeted conditions of debt peonage (kamiuti) to moneylenders.In 1879, the Agriculturists Relief Act was passed which ensured that the farmers could not be arrested and imprisoned if they were unable to pay their debts.

 

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Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

When I (go) to Paris, I shall visit the Eiffel Tower.

A) shall go B) will be going
C) have to go D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) no improvement

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