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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.


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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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Which one of the following statements is not correct?

A) Centre for Science and Environment in a recent study found that a number of commonly available brands of prepackaged breads tested positive for potassium bromate and potassium iodate. B) Food Safety and Standards Authority of India recommended to the Health Ministry to remove potassium bromate from the list of permissible food additives.
C) The Union Government banned the use of potassium bromate as a food additive on the basisof the above recommendation. D) Potassium bromate is a neurotoxin.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Potassium bromate is a neurotoxin.

Explanation:

CSE in its recommendation asked Indian regulator FSSAI to act immediately and ban the two chemicals.

It says that Indian bread manufacturer’ use two chemicals, banned in many countries but not in India, being used by bread industry are potassium bromate (KbrO3) and potassium iodate (KIO3).

The government (FSSAI) banned the use of potassium bromate as a food additive on the basis of the above recommendation.

The regulator had recommended to the health ministry removal of potassium bromate from the list of permissible food additives after a study by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).

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Name the first Indian who got Nobel Prize in physics.

A) CK Naidu B) Rangnath Mishra
C) Amartya Sen D) CV Raman
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) CV Raman

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Which of the following molecules is joined by a double covalent bond?

A) Cl2 B) O2
C) N2 D) He2
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) O2

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Potassium Permanganate is used for purifying drinking water, because________

A) It is a reducing agent B) It is an oxidising agent
C) It is a sterilising agent D) It dissolves the impurities of water
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) It is an oxidising agent

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In the following question, four words are given out of which one word is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word

A) frenatically B) freneticaly
C) frenetically D) frenaticaly
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) frenetically

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Tropical cyclone 'Pabuk' recently occurred in which country?

A) Thailand B) New Zealand
C) Singapore D) Australia
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Thailand

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Which of the following is NOT a storage device?

A) Hard Disk B) CD ROM
C) Flash Drive D) Modem
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Modem

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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.

 

Widespread liberalization of the economic ________________ regime was long overdue in 1991, and has played a positive role since, but its impact has ________________ its course and the policy has recognisable ___________________. Liberalization cannot address all aspects of the man­made environment and now climate change ________________ to change everything forever. We do not have another quarter century to deal ___________ these imperatives.

 

We do not have another quarter century to deal ___________ these imperatives.

 

A) about B) for
C) with D) of
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) with

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