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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.


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In case of uniform circular motion, the acceleration is

A) Variable in magnitude but constant in direction B) Constant in magnitude and directed radially inwards
C) Variable in magnitude but tangential to the circle D) Zero
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Variable in magnitude but constant in direction

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Q:

The planet nearest to the Sun is

A) Venus B) Mercury
C) Jupiter D) Saturn
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Mercury

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Which is the highest Plateu?

A) Deccan B) Pamir
C) Colorado D) None
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Pamir

Explanation:

Pamir is the highest of all the platues.It is located in Tibet

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The Yarlung Zangbo river in India is known as

A) Godavari B) Brahmaputra
C) Ganga D) Indus
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Brahmaputra

Explanation:

The Yarlung Zangbo river in India is known as Brahmaputra. The river Brahmaputra in China is called Yarlung Tsangpo or Yarlung Zangbo river. In Assam and Arunachal Pradesh it is called Lohit or luit meaning blood.

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The Brahmaputra is one of the major rivers of Asia, a trans-boundary river which flows through China, India and Bangladesh.

 

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The first passenger train in India ran between

A) Kalyan and Pune B) Bombay and Thane
C) Howrah and Delhi D) New Delhi and Madras
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Bombay and Thane

Explanation:

India's first passenger train run took place from Mumbai to Thane for around 34 kms on 16th April in the year 1853. 

That train was hauled by three steam locomotives : Sahib, Sindh and Sultan.

That train had 14 carriages, carrying around 400 passengers.

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Moti Masjid in Red fort was constructed by

A) Humayun B) Aurangzeb
C) Akbar D) Jahangir
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Aurangzeb

Explanation:

Moti Masjid was built by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb from 1659-1660. The Moti Masjid is a white marble mosque inside the Red Fort complex in Delhi, India.

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During World War II, when did Germany attack France?

A) 1940 B) 1941
C) 1942 D) 1943
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 1940

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The electrical domestic tube light gives white fluorescent light because of

A) colision between molecules of filled gas under electric current B) heavy current
C) vacuum inside the tube D) falling of ultra violet rays on the white inner coating of the tube
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) falling of ultra violet rays on the white inner coating of the tube

Explanation:

The ultraviolet rays have high frequency and shorter wavelength are converted to visible white light with lower frequency and greater wave length

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