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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
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  • LIC / GIC Examinations
  • Railway Examinations
  • Defense Examinations
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Point out which from the following is NOT a right enumerated in the Constitution of India but has been articulated by the Supreme Court to be a Fundamental Right

A) Right to life B) Equality of opportunity in matters of public employment
C) Protection of personal liberty D) Right to permanent housing
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Right to permanent housing

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...... this is the act of copying or downloading a program from a network and making multiple copies of it

A) Network piracy B) Plagiarism
C) Software piracy D) Site-Licency piracy
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Software piracy

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The Sarvodaya Movement was started by

A) Vinoba Bhave B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C) Mahatma Gandhi D) Vivekananda
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Vinoba Bhave

Explanation:

The Sarvodaya Movement was started by Vinoba Bhave on 18 April 1951 at Pochampally village in Nalgonda district who was directly influenced by Gandhi. 

 

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The meaning of Sarvodaya is a combination of two words Sarva meaning one and all, and Uday meaning welfare or uplift. Thus it implies Universal uplift or welfare of all as.

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A stone floor feels cold to the bare feet but a carpet on the same floor feels warm. This is because 

A) the floor and carpet are at different temperatures B) the stone conveys the heat away from the feet more rapidly than the carpet
C) the carpet is a better conductor of heat than the stone D) the human body maintains a constant temperature
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) the stone conveys the heat away from the feet more rapidly than the carpet

Explanation:

Both the floor and the carpet have the same temperature as both are exposed to the same atmosphere. But the former conducts away the heat from the feet better than the carpet as the latter is a non-conductor. So the feet losing more heat, the floor appears cooler to the feet.

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Malabar is covered by which types of vegetation

A) Mountain forest B) Thorn
C) Tropical deciduous D) Tropical evergreen
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Tropical evergreen

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Plants having body that is differentiated into roots, stems and leaves and have specialized tissue for the conduction of water and other substances, fall in which group?

 

A) Bryophyta B) Thallophyta
C) Pteridophyta D) All option are correct
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Pteridophyta

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The question of disqualification of a member of a State Legislature shall be decided by the Governor after consultation with the 

A) Chief Minister B) Election Commission
C) Supreme Court D) Public Service Commission
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Election Commission

Explanation:

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The blue colour of the clear sky is due to 

A) Diffraction of light B) Dispersion of light
C) Reflection of light D) Refraction of light
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Dispersion of light

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