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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?

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The busiest and most important sea route of the world is _____

A) North Pacific Sea Route B) North Atlantic Sea Route
C) South Atlantic Sea Route D) Indian Ocean Route
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) North Atlantic Sea Route

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First Indian woman to win Man Booker Prize?

A) Kiran Desai B) V.S. Naipaul
C) Salman Rushdie D) Arundhati Roy
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Arundhati Roy

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Arundhati Roy was the first Indian woman to win the Man Booker Prize in the year 1997.

An Indian writer, Arundhati Roy, was awarded England's prestigious Booker Prize this evening for her first novel, ''The God of Small Things,'' a soaring story about a set of twins struggling to make sense of the world, themselves and their strange and difficult family in southern India.

 

Kiran Desai was the youngest woman to win the Man Booker Prize.

Bernice Rubens became the first woman to win the Booker Prize in 1970. Man Booker Prize is one of the world's richest literary prizes.

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The second longest east-flowing peninsular river is 

A) Godavari B) Krishna
C) Cauvery D) Mahanadi
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Godavari

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Godavari is the largest river system in the peninsula and second largest system in india next to Ganga System.

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What does airbag, used for safety of car driver, contain?

A) Sodium bicarbonate B) Sodium azide
C) Sodium nitrite D) Sodium peroxide
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Sodium azide

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Bone deformities occur due to the excess intake of

A) Phosphorus B) Potassium
C) Fatty acid D) Fluorine
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Fluorine

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Smallest cricket stadium in the world by boundary?

A) Carisbrook Stadium B) Feroz Shah Kotla
C) Melbourne Cricket Ground D) Sydney Cricket Stadium
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Feroz Shah Kotla

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The Feroz Shah Kotla Ground is a cricket ground built in 1883 in New Delhi is the second oldest international cricket stadium still functional in India, after the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. It also holds the record of the smallest cricket stadium in the world by boundary.

 

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At which particular place on earth are days and nights of equal length always?

A) Prime Meridian B) Poles
C) Equator D) No where
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Equator

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The year 1995 is the golden Jubilee year of which of the following International Organisations

A) GATT B) NAM
C) UNO D) ASEAN
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) UNO

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