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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
  • Staff Selection Commission (SSC)
  • LIC / GIC Examinations
  • Railway Examinations
  • Defense Examinations
  • UPSC Examinations
  • COMPETITIVE EXAMS FOR PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS
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National Khadi Festival 2018 held in

A) Hyderabad B) Kolkata
C) Bangaluru D) Mumbai
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Mumbai

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What is Iron Ore used for?

A) Aluminium B) Copper
C) Steel D) Brass
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Steel

Explanation:

The primary use of iron ore is in the production of iron. Most of the iron produced is then used to make steel. Steel is used to make automobiles, locomotives, ships, beams used in buildings, furniture, paper clips, tools, reinforcing rods for concrete, bicycles, and thousands of other items.

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Is rusting a physical or chemical change?

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In chemistry rusting is called as oxidation. Oxidation is a chemical process where metal gains oxygen and become oxide. In rusting the Iron ore make a chemical reaction with the oxygen in the presence of water and environmental or atmospheric moisture to produce an Iron oxide. Iron oxide is otherwise called as rust.


The rusting of iron is a chemical change because it is two substances reacting together to make a new substance. 


 


Rusting would only be a physical change if iron molecules remained pure iron throughout the process.

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Air temperatures are effected by slope and orientation as slopes facing into the Sun will be 

A) Warmer than those facing away B) Colder than those facing away
C) Neither warmer nor colder than those facing away D) None of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Warmer than those facing away

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Study of inter relationship between living organism and their environment is called _______

A) Plant Geography B) Plant social science
C) Ecology D) Ecosystem
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Ecology

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East African Valleys, streching from East Africa through Red Sea to Syria is an example of

A) river valley B) rift valley system
C) glaciated valley D) a canyon
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) rift valley system

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A rift valley is formed either due to upheaval of blocks on either sides of a fracture or due to subsidence of block between them.

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Who wrote the line: ' A thing of beauty is a joy for ever '

A) P.B.Shelley B) William Wordsworth
C) John Keats D) Robert Browning
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) John Keats

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Jamini Roy was a famous

A) Actor B) Producer
C) Dancer D) Painter
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Painter

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