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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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Which unit of valuation is known as paper gold?

A) SDR B) Eurodollar
C) GDR D) Petrodollar
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) SDR

Explanation:

SDR means Special Drawing Rights.

 

SDRs are a measure of a country's reserve assets with IMF and, whereas not 'money' in the strict sense, have several characteristics of money as interest-bearing assets, store of value, and means of settling indebtedness.

 

International financing instrument created in 1970 by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to coincide with the disfavor of the US dollar as the principal currency of the world trade. Also called paper gold, an SDR is neither paper nor gold but an accounting entry. It is not backed by any currency or precious metal and is used only among governments and IMF for balance Of payments settlements.

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In very cold countries alcohol is used as a thermometric liquid because 

A) alcohol is a poor conductor of heat B) alcohol can be coloured for its level to be seen easily
C) its freezing point is very low D) it will not stick to the glass tube
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) its freezing point is very low

Explanation:

Alcohol has a freezing point as low as -117oC. So it won't freeze even in very cold countries.

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Q:

What symbol is used to enter number as text?

A) = B) "
C) ' D) _
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) '

Explanation:

Apostrophe(‘) symbol is used before a number to make it a text or label.

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Seacoast of which of the following states is the longest ?

A) Andhra Pradesh B) Maharashtra
C) Orissa D) Tamil Nadu
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Andhra Pradesh

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Q:

The First modern warship built in India in 1952 was

A) INS Goa B) INS Nilgiri
C) INS Kailash D) Ins Vikram
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) INS Nilgiri

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Q:

During Kargil War, Who was the Indian Army chief of staff ?

A) Ved Prakash Malik B) Sankar Roy Chowdary
C) Nirmal chandar Vij D) Sundar rajan Padmanabhan
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Ved Prakash Malik

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Q:

which of the following physical quantity is dimensionless

A) angle B) strain
C) specific gravity D) all of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) all of these

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Q:

Grand Vitara XV-7 is a vehicle launched by 

A) Ford B) GM
C) Maruti Suzuki D) Hyundai
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Maruti Suzuki

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