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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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GDPR means

A) General Data Protection Regulation B) Generic Data Per Random
C) Generic Data Protection Regulation D) Gross Data Protection Regulation
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) General Data Protection Regulation

Explanation:

GDPR stands for the General Data Protection Regulation. The GDPR is a piece of EU legislation passed by the European Parliament in 2016.

 

It aims to make it simpler for people to control how companies use their personal details.

Companies will not be allowed to collect and use personal information without the person's consent.

Data includes things like a person's name, email address and phone number, and also internet browsing habits collected by website cookies.

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If people sleep in closed rooms where charcoal fire is burning , they die due to 

A) carbon monoxide B) carbon dioxide
C) methane D) phosgene
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) carbon monoxide

Explanation:

A closed room is aplace where charcoal is burnt in limited supply of air. There is every chance for the formation of the deadly poisonous carbon monoxide, which when inhaled, reacts with the iron in haemoglobin of blood and prevents the supply of oxygen. It is said to be treacherous as there can be no previous warning of its presence because it is an odourless and colourless gas.

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Electromagnetic waves are transverse in nature is evident by

A) Reflection B) Polarisation
C) interference D) Diffraction
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Polarisation

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Which organelles in the cell, other than nucleus contains DNA?

A) Centriole B) Goalgi apparatus
C) Lysosomes D) Mitochondria
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Mitochondria

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Magnetic field lines about a current-carrying wire

A) circle the wire in closed loops B) extend radially from the wire
C) both of these D) None of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) circle the wire in closed loops

Explanation:

Electric current produces a magnetic field. This magnetic field can be visualized as a pattern of circular field lines surrounding a wire.

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Who is now the World’s Second Richest Person ?

A) Amancio Ortega B) Warren Buffett
C) Jeff Bezos D) Bill Gates
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Jeff Bezos

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Which of the following is used to preserve specimens in the biology laboratory?

A) Phenol B) Benzaldehyde
C) Formaldehyde D) Acetic acid
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Formaldehyde

Explanation:

A 40% solution of Formaldehyde known as Formalin is used in the preservation of biological specimens because of its hardening action on proteins. 

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Which is the only golfer to win the Masters Tournament Six times

A) Yound Liwei B) Sergey Karjakin
C) Jack Nicklaus D) Erik Weihenmayer
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Jack Nicklaus

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