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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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A symbol that represents a speech sound

A) Phonemes B) Grapheme
C) Phonics D) None of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Grapheme

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Hagia Sophia, also known as the “Church of the Holy Wisdom” is located in which country?

A) Italy B) Greece
C) Turkey D) Poland
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Turkey

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The book Historia plantrum is written by

A) Aristotle B) Theophrastus
C) Hipporates D) Darwin
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Theophrastus

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Who proved that microorganisms cause disease?

A) van Leeuwenhoek B) Koch
C) Fleming D) Pasteur
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Koch

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Between which one of the following pairs of Islands in DuncanPassage located?

A) South Andaman and Little Andaman B) Little Andaman and Car Nicobar Island
C) Car Nicobar Island and Little Nicobar Island D) Little Nicobar Island and Great Nicobar Island
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) South Andaman and Little Andaman

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Which structure is common to plant and animal cells?

A) Centriole B) Chloroplast
C) Central Vacuole D) Mitochondria
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Mitochondria

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Mitochondria are present in both plant and animal cells.

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When is the International Firefighters' Day(IFFD) observed every year ?

A) 2 May B) 4 May
C) 3 May D) 6 May
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 4 May

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International Firefighters' Day (IFFD) is observed on May 4. It was instituted after proposal emailed out across the world on January 4, 1999 due to the deaths of five firefighters in tragic circumstances in a bushfire in Australia.

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A substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances

A) Heterogenous mixure B) Compound
C) Homogenous mixture D) Element
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Element

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A substance that cannot be decomposed (broken down) into simpler substances by ordinary chemical means.

Examples: gold, iron, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen.

Material composed of only one kind of matter throughout (same atoms or same molecules).

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