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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
  • All India Services:
  • Group 'A' Services:
  • Group 'B' Services:
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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

Leave no stone unturned

A) Search for the hidden treasure B) Do a futile task
C) Be known for achieving a tremendous feat D) Try every possible course of action in order to achieve something
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Try every possible course of action in order to achieve something

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In each of the questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and click the button corresponding to it.

Feather one's own nest

A) Decorate B) Work hard at home
C) build a home D) make money in an improper way
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) make money in an improper way

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Ozone protects biosphere from ___________

A) X ­- rays B) Gamma rays
C) Ultraviolet rays D) Infrared rays
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Ultraviolet rays

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence.

A person who lives outside his native country

A) Indigenous B) Natal
C) Expatriate D) Intrinsic
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Expatriate

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Five statements are given below, labelled A, B, C, D and E, among these, four statements are in logical order and form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the option that does not fit into the theme of the passage.

A) Untouchable have to kill or dispose of dead cattle or working with their hides for a living. B) They pursued activities that brought the participant into contact with emissions of the human body, such as faeces, urine, sweat, and spittle
C) They have to eat the flesh of cattle or of domestic pigs and have to live outside the village. D) They were not allowed to enter the temples or touch wells, river or ponds.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer:

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All statements except ‘A’ are based about the same theme which is The Fight for Ocean Health while sentence A talks about The Next Phase of Climate Action.

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In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

More than thirty years have now passed ______ I had my first flight.

A) since B) after
C) while D) when
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) since

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In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

Accolade

A) Silence B) Mediocrity
C) Laurels D) Lowliness
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Silence

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Canberra is capital city of which country?

A) Peru B) New Zealand
C) Australia D) Vietnam
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Australia

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