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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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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.


Under the weather

 

A) Become a bit unpredictable like the weather. B) Slightly unwell or in low spirits.
C)  Feel optimistic simply because the weather is good. D)  Feel depressed because you expect bad weather.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Slightly unwell or in low spirits.

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Nitrogen fixing bacteria is useful in growing which crop ________

A) Wheat B) Paddy
C) Legume D) Maiz
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Legume

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Which one of the following types of volcanic eruptions is not usually explosive

A) Pelean B) Hawaiian
C) Strombolian D) Vulcanian
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Hawaiian

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Which one of the following rivers is recharged by subsoil water?

A) Godavari B) Damodar
C) Narmada D) Krishna
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Narmada

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Fish and other aquatic creatures can live inside a deep frozen pond because 

A) fish are cold-blooded animals B) ice is a bad conductor of heat
C) there will always be water just beneath the ice level D) they can adapt themselves to live in ice
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) there will always be water just beneath the ice level

Explanation:

Water has the maximum density at 4oC. So at this temperature, it sinks down to bottom and stays here. If it cools further, it will become less dense and move up. So while the upper layers can cool enough to form ice, the bottom layers remain as water at  4oC .  

Therefore, (C) is correct.

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The first battle of Panipat (1526) was fought between

A) Barbar and Daulat Khan B) Barbar and Ibrahim Lodi
C) Barbar and Alam Khan D) Barbar and Rana Sanga
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Barbar and Ibrahim Lodi

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Former Australian captain Allan Border was sometimes known as 'Captain Grumpy' What was his other nickname

A) Abe B) Captain Junior
C) AB D) Groucho
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) AB

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The East India Company had taken Bombay from?

A) The Dutch B) Charles I
C) Charles II D) The Portuguese
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Charles II

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