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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.


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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.


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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word opposite in meaning to the word given.

Rampage

A) Binge B) Frenzy
C) Harmony D) Turmoil
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Harmony

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Which one of the following is not correct about the Panchayats as laid down in Part IX of the Constitution of India?

 

A) The Chairperson of a Panchayat needs to be directly by people in order to exercise the right to vote in the Panchayat meetings. B) The State Legislature has the right to decide whether or not offices of the Chairpersons in the Panchayats are reserved for SCs, STs or women.
C) Unless dissolved earlier, every Panchayat continues for a period of five years. D) The State Legislature may by law make provisions for audit of accounts of the Panchayats. 
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Unless dissolved earlier, every Panchayat continues for a period of five years.

Explanation:

The act provides for a five-year term of office to the panchayat at every level. However, it can be dissolved before the completion of its term.the state legislature shall provide for the reservation of offices of chairperson in the panchayat at the village or any other level for the SCs and STs. The state legislature may make provisions with respect to the maintenance of accounts by the panchayats and the auditing of such accounts.

 

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Which Institution has the final authority to interpret the Constitution of India?

A) Parliament B) Supreme Court of India
C) President D) Attorney General of India
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Supreme Court of India

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With the establishment of Grameen Bank in which of the following countries in 1983 is micro credit considered to have been originated?

A) Bangladesh B) Afghanistan
C) Combodia D) India
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Bangladesh

Explanation:

Grameen Bank is a microfinance and community development bank first started in Bangladesh in the year 1983. By the name itself, it is mainly for the village people to give small loans (microcredit).

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In autotrophic bacteria, where is chlorophyll located?

A) in the nucleoid B) in the infolded plasma membrane
C) in the ribosomes D) in chloroplast membranes
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) in the infolded plasma membrane

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In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

Clandestine

 

A) Truthful B) Secret
C) Frank D) Upright
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Secret

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Which of the following is a chemical formula of quicklime?

A) Ca2O B) Ca2CO3
C) CaO2 D) CaO
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) CaO

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The  optical  phenomenon  that  is  primarily responsible  for  the  observation  of  rainbow on a rainy day is 

A) diffraction B) interference
C) dispersion D) reflection
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) dispersion

Explanation:

A rainbow is a natural spectrum appearing in the sky after a rain shower. It is caused by dispersion of sunlight by tiny water droplets, present in the atmosphere. A rainbow is always formed in a direction opposite to that of the Sun. The water droplets act like small prisms. They refract and disperse the incident sunlight, then reflect it internally, and finally refract it again when it comes out of the raindrops.

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