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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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The inequality between day and night becomes greater or more marked as one travels from _______ to _________

A) Poles, Equator B) Equator, Poles
C) Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn D) Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Equator, Poles

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Diameter of a Ping Pong Ball?

A) 37 mm B) 38 mm
C) 40 mm D) 42 mm
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 40 mm

Explanation:

The ball with which Table Tennis is played is called Ping Pong Ball.

According to the International rules, the diameter of the ping pong ball must be not less than 39.5 millimeters and not greater than 40.5  millimeters having a mass of 2.7 grams.

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Which cells are destroyed in AIDS

A) Monocytes B) Neutrophils
C) Lymphocytes D) R.B.C.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Lymphocytes

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The artificial kidney is a

A) transplant B) machine
C) another's kidney D) other kidney from same body
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) machine

Explanation:

The artificial kidney is the dialysis machine. Blood from the body is fed into the machine which removes nitrogenous wastes like urea and returns the blood back to the body.People with renal failure have to use this machine.

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Which pair is not correctly matched

A) Mahadevi Verma - Megsaysay award B) Indira Gandhi - UN population award
C) Mother Teresa - Magsaysay award D) S. Chandrashekhar - Nobel Prize
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Mahadevi Verma - Megsaysay award

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A person who is always dissatisfied

A) malcontent B) surrogate
C) heresy D) felon
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) malcontent

Explanation:

The one word substitute for "a person who is always dissatisfied" is malcontent.

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Important objective of biotechnology in agriculture section is _________

A) % produce best resistant varieties of plant B) % increase the nitrogen content
C) % decrease the seed number D) % increase the plant weight
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) % produce best resistant varieties of plant

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Who Discovered The Nucleus of a Cell?

A) Otto Hahn B) John Dalton
C) Robert Brown D) Marie Curie
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Robert Brown

Explanation:

Robert Brown, Scottish botanist, Discovered The Nucleus of a Cell in 1831, London. When Brown was studying orchids under microscope when he observed an opaque area, which he called the "Areola" or "Nucleus", in the cells of the flower's outer layer.

The nucleus was also described by Franz Bauer in 1804 but in detail Robert Brown made it in 1831.

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