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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
  • Category of Competitive Exams
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Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your response in the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter i.e., (a) or (b) or (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).

A) Emperor Ashoka B) have conquered Kalinga
C) before he embraced Buddhism. D) No error
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) have conquered Kalinga

Explanation:

Error is in second part. Replace ‘have’ with ‘had’. Since two events are mentioned and both occurred in the past, the even that happened first will be expressed in past perfect tense. Hence ‘had conquered’ is the correct form.

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In the following questions, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.
Language, they say, is the _____ through which human beings perceive the world. If so, English is perhaps the most _____ lens through which to see animals. It has _____ a cross eyed view of birds, beasts, fish and fowl. The very word “animal” can _____ the brutish and the sensual. Animal _____ imply baseness and vulgarity.
Animal _____ imply baseness and vulgarity.

A) breeding B) gestures
C) instincts D) species
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) instincts

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The connective tissue that connects a muscle to a bone is

A) Cartilage B) Ligament
C) Tendon D) Interstitial fluid
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Tendon

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According to the Classical Theory of Employment, deviations from the state of full employment are

A) Purely temporary in nature B) permanent in nature  
C) imaginary situations D) normal situations
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Purely temporary in nature

Explanation:

The classical economists believed in the existence of full employment in the economy. To them, full employment was a normal situation and any deviation from this regarded as something abnormal. According to Pigou, the tendency of the economic system is to automatically provide full employment in the labour market when the demand and supply of labour are equal.

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Number of players in a Kabaddi team is _______.

A) 3 B) 7
C) 5 D) 9
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 7

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When an account is declared as Inoperative & Dormant Accounts?

A) Only after 2 years from the date of the lasttransaction B) Only after 3 years from the date of the lasttransaction
C) Only after 1 years from the date of the lasttransaction D) Only after 10 years from the date of thelast transaction
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Only after 2 years from the date of the lasttransaction

Explanation:

Schedule bank’s account can be treated as inoperative account only after 2 years from the date of the last credit entry of interest on Fixed Deposit account as per RBI guidelines.

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The weight of a boy on the surface of the moon is 300 N. The weight of the same boy on the surface of the earth will be

A) 300 N B) 50 N
C) 1800 N D) 5 N
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 1800 N

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What produces the striations of a skeletal muscle cell?

Answer

The striations are a result of the A bands of sarcomeres appearing as relatively wide, dark stripes under the microscope, which alternate with narrower, lighter colored stripes formed by the I bands. 


The striations of skeletal muscle are created by the organization of actin and myosin filaments resulting in the banding pattern of myofibrils.

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