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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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Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the given word ‘EGREGIOUS’

A) Common B) Social
C) Plain D) Atrocious
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Atrocious

Explanation:

Egregious means outstandingly bad or shocking and Atrocious means cruel or wicked and both words are nearly equal in meaning.

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Which movie has won 'the best picture award' in the 90th Oscar awards?

A) Phantom thread B) Three Billboards
C) The Shape of water D) Coco
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) The Shape of water

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In the following question, a short passage with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank is given. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound).
There is a fairly universal sentiment that the use of nuclear weapons is clearly contrary to mortality and that its production probably so, does not go far enough. These activities are not only opposed to mortality but also to the law. If the legal objection can be added to the moral, the argument against the use and manufacture of these weapons will considerably be reinforced. Now the time is ripe to evaluate the responsibility of scientists who knowingly use their expertise for the construction of such weapons, which has a deleterious effect on mankind.
How appropriate it is that all this valuable skill should be devoted to the manufacture of weapons of death in a world of poverty is a question that must touch the scientific conscience.

A) Almost 50% of the skilled scientific manpower in the world is now engaged in the armaments industry. B) To think that majority of the scientists are promoting the manufacturing of the armaments is hurtful.
C) Scientists should use their conscience before taking up these contracts to manufacture the weapons of mass destruction. D) Scientific manpower is used to the interests of some selfish and careless people who want to threaten the existence of homo-sapiens.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Almost 50% of the skilled scientific manpower in the world is now engaged in the armaments industry.

Explanation:

Choice 1 is correct as it matches with the flow of the passage. The whole paragraph is about the devastating effects that nuclear weapons have due to certain curtailments on part of the
scientists in the moral and the conscience aspect. It is only logical to mention an argument to support the next statement. It also keeps up with the tone and general
subject of the passage.
Option 2 is a bad choice as it talks about absolutely nothing and is too naïve. Therefore is incorrect as it is beyond the general theme.
Option 3 is incorrect as it obviously does not go with the flow of the Para.
As for option 4, it is incorrect as the statement is illogical.
As for 5, neither does it logically follow the previous sentence nor is it related to the anything in the next sentence.

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In the following question, four words are given out of which one word is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word.

A) scentillate B) scintilate
C) scintillate D) scentilate
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) scintillate

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In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. Ifa sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.

 

Buddhism originated in Ancient India around 6th and 4th (1)/ centuries BCE, from where it spread through most (2)/ of Asia, and then it declines in India during the Middle Ages. (3)/ No error (4)

 

A) 1 B) 2
C) 3 D) 4
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 3

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Nathu La pass is located in ______.

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

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In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.

 

Could you(A)/like to read(B)/his speech?(C)/No error(D)

 

A) A B) B
C) C D) D
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) A

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The number of parliamentary seats (Rajya Sabha) of West Bengal is

A) 12 B) 16
C) 18 D) 20
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 16

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