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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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The Ajanta painting belongs to which period ?

A) Harappan period B) Gupta period
C) Buddhist period D) Mauryan period
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Gupta period

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The religion of early vedic Aryan was primarily of

A) Bhakti B) Image worship and Yajnas
C) worship of nature and Bhakti D) Worship of nature and Yajnas
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Worship of nature and Yajnas

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The Indus Valley Civilization was Non-Aryan because

A) It was Urban B) It has a pictographic script
C) It had an agricultural economy D) It extended up to the narmada Valley
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) It was Urban

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The Indus Valley Civilization was Non-Aryan because it was Urban.

 

Harappan Civilization is also known as The Indus Valley Civilisation. It was a Bronze Age civilisation mainly in the northwestern regions of South Asia, extending from what today is northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India.

 

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Who is known as the ' Saint of the gutters '

A) B.R.Ambedkar B) Mother Teresa
C) Mahatma Gandhi D) Baba Amte
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Mother Teresa

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The 84th Amendment Act has frozen the total number of existing seats in the Lok Sabha on the basis of 1971 Census. They shall remain unaltered till the first Census to be taken after the year:

A) 2010 B) 2015
C) 2021 D) 2026
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 2026

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Name the continent where 'Tundra' type of climate is not found

A) Europe B) Asia
C) Africa D) North America
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Africa

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Guwahati is situated on the bank of the river

A) Teesta B) Brahmaputra
C) Hooghly D) Sone
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Brahmaputra

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The box that contains the central electronic components of the computer is the ..............

A) Motherboard B) System Unit
C) Peripheral D) RAM
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) System Unit

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