Sawaal
  • Home/
  • General Knowledge

General Knowledge Questions

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
  • Category of Competitive Exams
  • All India Services:
  • Group 'A' Services:
  • Group 'B' Services:
Popular Latest Rated
Q:

In Which three languages is the Rosetta Stone written?

Answer

Greek, demotic Egyptian and hieroglyphics.

Report Error

View answer Workspace Report Error Discuss

Subject: World History

0 2599
Q:

He is the world's only person who has climbe all the 14 peaks of the mountains without using oxyger cylinders

A) Henry Ford B) Reinhold Messner
C) John D) Bachhendri Pal
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Reinhold Messner

Explanation:
Report Error

View Answer Report Error Discuss

Filed Under: Sports

3 2599
Q:

The Nobel Prize in Economics was started in

A) 1901 B) 1936
C) 1957 D) 1967
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 1967

Explanation:
Report Error

View Answer Report Error Discuss

Filed Under: Books and Authors

4 2598
Q:

Head Quaters of NATO is located in 

A) Newyork B) Brussels
C) Alaska D) California
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Brussels

Explanation:

Head Quaters of NATO is located in Brussels

Report Error

View Answer Report Error Discuss

Filed Under: World Organisations

5 2598
Q:

Which scientist established the Law of Octaves?

A) John Newlands B) Antoine Lavoisier
C) Alfred Nobel D) Marie Curie
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) John Newlands

Explanation:

Law of Octaves states that "If the chemical elements are arranged according to increasing atomic weight, those with similar physical and chemical properties occur after each interval of seven elements." That is every 8th element have the same physical and chemical properties. This was established by the British scientist John Newlands in the year 1865.

Which_scientist_established_the_Law_of_Octaves1559374791.jpg image

Report Error

View Answer Report Error Discuss

Filed Under: Chemistry
Exam Prep: AIEEE , Bank Exams , CAT
Job Role: Analyst , Bank Clerk , Bank PO

2 2597
Q:

Alcohol is a stimulant. true or false

A) TRUE B) FALSE
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) FALSE

Explanation:

Alcohol is a drug.

Report Error

View Answer Workspace Report Error Discuss

Subject: Chemistry
Exam Prep: AIEEE , Bank Exams
Job Role: Analyst , Bank Clerk , Bank PO

2 2597
Q:

Where do the greenhouse gases come from?

A) Agriculture B) Land-use change
C) Fosssil fuels D) All the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) All the above

Explanation:

Most of the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) come primarily from burning fossil fuels (coal, hydrocarbon gas liquids, natural gas, and petroleum) for energy use and the major greenhouse gas is of course carbon dioxide (CO2) which comes from burning fossil fuels and land-use change.

But methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), which mostly come from agriculture and waste, are also significant GHGs and shouldn't be discounted.

Report Error

View Answer Report Error Discuss

Filed Under: General Awareness
Exam Prep: AIEEE , Bank Exams , CAT , GATE
Job Role: Analyst , Bank Clerk , Bank PO

2 2597
Q:

What does microprocessor speed of a computer depends on?

A) bandwidth B) clock speed
C) number of instructions D) All of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) All of the above

Explanation:

The computers microprocessor speed depends on all the factors like clock speed, bandwidth and the number of instructions it processes.

Report Error

View Answer Report Error Discuss

Filed Under: Computer
Exam Prep: CAT , Bank Exams , AIEEE
Job Role: IT Trainer , Database Administration , Bank PO , Bank Clerk , Analyst

2 2596