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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.


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Light travels in a straight line (rectilinear propagation of light). This statement does hold if the medium of travel for light is

A) of variable refractive index B) made up of slabs of different refractive indices
C) homogeneous and transparent D) inhomogeneous and transparent
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) homogeneous and transparent

Explanation:

In vacuum and in homogeneous, transparent media, such as air, water, and glass, light moves in a straight line. When light encounters a boundary between two different transparent media, some light is reflected and some moves from the first into the second medium.

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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.

Dark clouds have overcast the evening sky.

A) By the dark clouds the evening sky was overcast. B) The evening sky has been overcast by the dark clouds.
C) Dark clouds overcastted the evening sky. D) The sky of the evening was overcasted by dark clouds.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) The evening sky has been overcast by the dark clouds.

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The Official Residence-cum-Office of the President of Bangladesh is called ______________.

A) Dhaka House B) Sonar Bangla
C) Bangabhaban D) No option is correct
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Bangabhaban

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Which of the following cannot be beaten into Sheets?

A) Gold B) Silver
C) Potassium D) Aluminum
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Potassium

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What is the other name of Galileo's law of falling bodies?

A) Law of motion B) Newton's first law
C) Newton's second law D) Newton's third law
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Newton's first law

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What is the unit of the physical quantity "Jerk"?

A) meter second B) meter per second cube
C) meter per second square D) meter per second
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) meter per second cube

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Q:

The least penetrating power ray is

A) Gamma rays B) Beta rays
C) Alpha rays D) None of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Alpha rays

Explanation:

The least penetrating power ray is Alpha rays.

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Q:

Alexander the great invaded India in?

A) 326 BC B) 336 BC
C) 346 BC D) 354 BC
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 326 BC

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