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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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By definition a clade is

A) monophyletic B) polyphyletic
C) parsimonious D) paraphyletic
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) monophyletic

Explanation:

A clade is a group of ancestral species and all its descendants. Hence it is a branch of one same species and so monophyletic.

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In what city would you find the world's tallest building?

Answer

Dubai

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Q:

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.
I don't want an award (for help to you).

A) to have helped you B) for helping you
C) for helping to you D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) for helping you

Explanation:
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Q:

The law of demand implies that

A) the higher the price of a good, the lesser the quantity demanded B) the higher the price of a good, the higher the quantity demanded
C) the higher the quantity demanded, the higher the price of a good D) All of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) the higher the price of a good, the lesser the quantity demanded

Explanation:

The law of demand implies that "The higher the price of a good, the lesser the quantity demanded".

 

 

For example:

If the rate of a mobile phone increased, the quantity demanded by the customers is decreased.

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Q:

India has longest international border with which country?

A) Bhutan B) Nepal
C) Bangladesh D) Pakistan
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Bangladesh

Explanation:
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Q:

The Damin-i-Koh was created by the British Government to settle which one of the following communities?

A) Santals B) Mundas
C) Oraons D) Saoras
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Santals

Explanation:

Damini-i-Koh was the land allocated to the Santhals. The Santhals could live on the land and practise plough agriculture, thus helping them to carry out settled agriculture.

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Q:

The principal quantum number indicates what property of an electron?

A) energy of electron B) distance of electron from nucleus
C) both a & b D) number of subshells
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) both a & b

Explanation:

The principal quantum number is the property of an electron which determines the energy of electron and the distance of electron from the nucleus of an atom.

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Q:

Where was christianity founded?

A) Jerusalem B) Bethlehem
C) Palestine D) None of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Jerusalem

Explanation:

Christianity was founded by hesus Christ in Jerusalem, capital of Israel.

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