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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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In the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

Truth is indeed a controversial aspect of ______. But almost always it can be justified as a moral principle on the basis of ______. When we talk about speaking the truth in order not to hide what, if hidden, will only prove damaging to others, we are emphasizing the ability to ‘feel’ for others. Again, often we purposely keep ourselves from communicating the truth as, once ______, it may hurt someone‘s feelings and sentiments. But keeping a person in the dark or denying him or her knowledge which he or she ought to have amounts to ______ another soul of its right to know that with which it has a ______.

know that with which it has a ______.

A) urge B) belonging
C) concern D) Need
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) concern

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

A science of race, culture and human development

A) Tannery B) Eugenics
C) Volley D) Treak
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Eugenics

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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.

Caught red­-handed

A) Caught by mistake B) Caught with a red­handkerchief
C) Found wounded D) Discovered in the act of doing
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Discovered in the act of doing

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The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph.

The considerations which

X-are set forth in our
Y-lead us to refer ideas to the brain
Z-physiologies and psychologies

A) YXZ B) YZX
C) XYZ D) ZYX
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) YXZ

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________ is separated from India by a narrow channel of sea formed by Palk Strait and the Gulf of Mannar.

A) Sri Lanka B) Myanmar
C) Bangladesh D) Pakistan
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Sri Lanka

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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.

India is the second most populous country ______ the seventh largest country by area in the world.

A) but B) however
C) and D) while
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) and

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A duty or task to be fulfilled

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A duty or task that needs to be fulfilled is a responsibility that needs to happen.


 


For example : a doctor has his own task or responsibility, a police, a lawyer, etc... all have their own responsibilities.  

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Who called 1st time as Mahatma?

A) Ravindranath Tagore B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C) Lala Lajpath Roy D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Ravindranath Tagore

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Ravindranath Tagore called 1st time Gandhi as Mahatma.

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