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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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  • Railway Examinations
  • Defense Examinations
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Which of the following battles marked the real beginning of the Mughal Empire in India?

A) Battle of Talikota B) Battle of Haldighati
C) First Battle of Panipat D) Second Battle of Panipat
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Second Battle of Panipat

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Q:

Chief component of first generation computer was

A) Vacuum tubes B) integrated circuits
C) transisters D) None of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Vacuum tubes

Explanation:

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The chief component in the first generation computers are  Vacuum tubes.

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Which revenue system among the following is also known as the bandobast system?

A) Dahsala B) Nasaq
C) Kankut D) Zabti
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Zabti

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Who had observed that "good government was never a good substitute for self government"?

A) Swami Vivekananda B) Ramakrishna Paramahansa
C) Swami Dayananda D) Aurobindo Ghose
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Swami Dayananda

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The International Waste Picker's Day is observed on which date?

 

A) 1 March B) 3 March
C) 5 March D) 7 March
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 1 March

Explanation:

The International Waste Picker's Day is observed on 1st March in memory of the massacre in Colombia in which 11 workers were brutally killed University of Barranquilla.

 

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If a band is played on the moon the sound will

A) reverberate B) be heard by us faintly
C) be heard upto 10km from it D) not be heard at any distance at all from it
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) not be heard at any distance at all from it

Explanation:

As there is no atmosphere surrounding the moon, the sound from any band that is played there cannot travel outwards there is no material medium  surrounding it for its propagation.

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Q:

The country which proposed the observance of the World Pulses Day?

 

A) Berlin B) Benin
C) Burkina Faso D) Nigeria
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Burkina Faso

Explanation:

Burkina Faso proposed the observance of World Pulses Day on 10th February.

 

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What was the exact constitutional status of the Indian Republic on 26 January, 1950 when the constitution was inaugurated?

A) A Democratic Republic B) A Sovereign Secular Democratic Republic
C) A Sovereign Democratic Republic D) A Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) A Sovereign Democratic Republic

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