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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.


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Guwahati is situated on the bank of the river

A) Teesta B) Brahmaputra
C) Hooghly D) Sone
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Brahmaputra

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The sampling distribution of a statistic is

 

 

A) A normal curve, for which probabilities are obtained by standardizing.  B) A distribution of all possible summary statistics from a single random sample, from the same population.
C) A distribution of all parameters from the population that is to be randomly sampled. D) The mechanism that determines whether the random sampling was effective. 
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) A normal curve, for which probabilities are obtained by standardizing. 

Explanation:

The sampling distribution of a statistic is the distribution of the statistic for all possible samples from the same population of a given size.

 

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“Functional Finance” is associated with: __________

 

 

 

A) Adams B) Adam Smith
C) Adolph Wogner D) Abba P Lerne
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Abba P Lerne

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The 84th Amendment Act has frozen the total number of existing seats in the Lok Sabha on the basis of 1971 Census. They shall remain unaltered till the first Census to be taken after the year:

A) 2010 B) 2015
C) 2021 D) 2026
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 2026

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Q:

The Indus Valley Civilization was Non-Aryan because

A) It was Urban B) It has a pictographic script
C) It had an agricultural economy D) It extended up to the narmada Valley
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) It was Urban

Explanation:

The Indus Valley Civilization was Non-Aryan because it was Urban.

 

Harappan Civilization is also known as The Indus Valley Civilisation. It was a Bronze Age civilisation mainly in the northwestern regions of South Asia, extending from what today is northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India.

 

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The box that contains the central electronic components of the computer is the ..............

A) Motherboard B) System Unit
C) Peripheral D) RAM
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) System Unit

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Which of the statements given below are correct?

 

A) Grigor Dimitrov won the Tennis 2017 ATP World Tour Finals Men's Singles.

B) In 2017, Sergio Aguero played for the Premier League team Liverpool.

C) In 2017, Rohit Sharma captained the IPL team Mumbai Indians.

 

A) Both A and C B) Both A and B
C) A, B and C D) None of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Both A and C

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Is C2 Paramagnetic or Diamagnetic?

A) Paramagnetic B) Diamagnetic
C) Ferromagnetic D) Can't be determined
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Diamagnetic

Explanation:

Paramagnetic Molecules ::

 

If the Electronic configuration of a molecule has any unpaired electrons, then that molecule is said to be Paramagnetic.

 

Diamagnetic Molecules ::

 

If the Electronic configuration of a molecule has only paired or spin paired electrons, then that molecule is said to be Diamagnetic.

 

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Here the molecule C2 has all paired electrons in its electronic configuration. So C2 is Diamagnetic.

 

Whereas, B2 molecule has unpaired electrons. So B2 is Paramegnetic.

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