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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.


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The Indus Valley Civilization was Non-Aryan because

A) It was Urban B) It has a pictographic script
C) It had an agricultural economy D) It extended up to the narmada Valley
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) It was Urban

Explanation:

The Indus Valley Civilization was Non-Aryan because it was Urban.

 

Harappan Civilization is also known as The Indus Valley Civilisation. It was a Bronze Age civilisation mainly in the northwestern regions of South Asia, extending from what today is northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India.

 

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The box that contains the central electronic components of the computer is the ..............

A) Motherboard B) System Unit
C) Peripheral D) RAM
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) System Unit

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The annual percentage rate on a credit card determines

 

A) The amount of money you still owe to the credit card company B) Money you withdrawn from the credit card
C) Total transactions done throughout the year D) The amount of interest you are charged on credit card purchases
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) The amount of interest you are charged on credit card purchases

Explanation:

The annual percentage rate (APR) on a credit card determines the amount of interest you are charged on credit card purchases.

 

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Eclipses occur due to which optical phenomena

A) Reflection B) Refraction
C) Rectilinear propagation D) Diffraction
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Rectilinear propagation

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Is C2 Paramagnetic or Diamagnetic?

A) Paramagnetic B) Diamagnetic
C) Ferromagnetic D) Can't be determined
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Diamagnetic

Explanation:

Paramagnetic Molecules ::

 

If the Electronic configuration of a molecule has any unpaired electrons, then that molecule is said to be Paramagnetic.

 

Diamagnetic Molecules ::

 

If the Electronic configuration of a molecule has only paired or spin paired electrons, then that molecule is said to be Diamagnetic.

 

Is_C2_Paramagnetic_or_Diamagnetic1556263140.jpg image 

 

Here the molecule C2 has all paired electrons in its electronic configuration. So C2 is Diamagnetic.

 

Whereas, B2 molecule has unpaired electrons. So B2 is Paramegnetic.

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Who is known as the ' Saint of the gutters '

A) B.R.Ambedkar B) Mother Teresa
C) Mahatma Gandhi D) Baba Amte
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Mother Teresa

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Who presided over the first meeting of the Indian Constituent Assembly

A) Dr.Rajendra Prasad B) Sachchidananda Sinha
C) B.R. Ambedkar D) H.V.Kamath
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Sachchidananda Sinha

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The sampling distribution of a statistic is

 

 

A) A normal curve, for which probabilities are obtained by standardizing.  B) A distribution of all possible summary statistics from a single random sample, from the same population.
C) A distribution of all parameters from the population that is to be randomly sampled. D) The mechanism that determines whether the random sampling was effective. 
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) A normal curve, for which probabilities are obtained by standardizing. 

Explanation:

The sampling distribution of a statistic is the distribution of the statistic for all possible samples from the same population of a given size.

 

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