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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
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Pure Banking, Nothing Else - is a slogan of

A) YES Bank B) SBI Bank
C) Axis Bank D) HDFC Bank
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) SBI Bank

Explanation:

"Pure Banking, Nothing Else" - is a slogan raised by SBI -  State Bank of India.

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Why are yeast cells frequently used as hosts for cloning?

A) they are eukaryotic cells B) they do not have plasmids
C) only yeast cells allow the gene to be cloned D) they easily form colonies
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) they are eukaryotic cells

Explanation:

If you were to produce a protein in bacterial cloning systems, you would not get the same post transcriptional and post translational modifications because the prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems work differently on the modifications.

Thus human recombinant protein genes are usually cloned in yeast cells. Also since they have a short generation time, they can be easily culture.

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Special 3-D photographs which have been taken with laser beams (and which make the objects look real) are called what?

A) Holograms B) 3D special effects
C) Portraits D) DVD
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Holograms

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When were the first general elections of Independent India conducted ?

A) 1948-49 B) 1949-50
C) 1950-51 D) 1951-52
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 1951-52

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China's TCL Communication has a joint venture agreement with European company for manufacturing mobile handsets?

A) Alcatel B) Nokia
C) Siemens D) None of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Alcatel

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Pulitzer prize winners are selected by the Pulitzer prize Board and announced by the president of the

A) New York University B) Columbia University
C) Wesleyan University D) Cambridge university
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Columbia University

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The Gas used for Artificial Ripening of Green Fruit is

A) Acetone B) Di Carbonate
C) Ethylene D) Ethyl Alcohol
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Ethylene

Explanation:

Ethylene is used for Artificial Ripening of Green Fruit.

    • Calcium carbide is also used in some countries for artificially ripening fruit. When calcium carbide comes in contact with moisture, it produces acetylene gas, which is quite similar in its effects to the natural ripening agent, ethylene

 

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Tata Steel's Wholly owned indirect subsidiary, Tata Steel Global Minerals Holdings Pvt Limited, Singapore, on October 1, 2008, entered into a binding agreement  with new Millennium Capital Corporation, _______(NML) whereby Tata Steel will become a strategic investor in NML

A) Canada B) Taiwan
C) Mexico D) South Africa
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Canada

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