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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
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Who is number 1 in the Forbes 2016 ranking of World's billionaires?

A) Warren Buffet B) Amancio Ortega
C) Bill Gates D) Carlos Slim Helu
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Bill Gates

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A girl child has which of the following combinations of chromosomes in her cells?

A) 44 autosomes + XX B) 22 autosomes + XX
C) 44 autosomes + XY D) 22 autosomes + XY
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 44 autosomes + XX

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Narcolepsy is a disorder in which a person

A) has excessive daytime sleepiness B) has excess heart rate
C) has excess body pains D) All the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) has excessive daytime sleepiness

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Narcolepsy is a disorder in which a person has excessive daytime sleepiness, sleep/wake disorder.

 

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One should use porcelain and not metal containers in a microwave oven because..

A) Charge may accumulate on the metal surface and there is danger of getting a shock B) Porcelain vessels are better conductors of heat and thus food gets cooked quickly
C) Metal containers might undergo chemical reaction leading to spoilage of food D) Porcelain vessels are cheaper than the metal containers
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Charge may accumulate on the metal surface and there is danger of getting a shock

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Calculate the time period (in seconds) of a sound wave of wavelength 5m travelling with a speed of 500 m/s.

 

A) 0.01 B) 2500
C) 0.02 D) 1250
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 0.01

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__________ says that if we keep increasing the employment of an input, with other inputs fixed, eventually a point will be reached after which the resulting addition to output (i.e., marginal product of that input) will start falling.

A) Law of diminishing marginal product B) Law of variable proportions
C) The Short Run D) The Long Run
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Law of diminishing marginal product

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Who was appointed as the head of the Jury of the International Film Festival of India in November 2015?

A) Anil Kapoor B) Shekhar Kapoor
C) Anupam Kher D) Naseeruddin Shah
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Shekhar Kapoor

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The skin, the lining of the mouth, the lining of the blood vessels, lung alveoli and kidney tubules are all made of which type of tissue?

A) Epithelial tissue B) Connective tissue
C) Muscular tissue D) Nervous tissue
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Epithelial tissue

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