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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
  • All India Services:
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Computer software can be defined as

 

A) the interaction between the computer and its database B) an interface between the computer and the network
C) the computer and its associated equipment D) the instructions that tell the computer what to do
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) the instructions that tell the computer what to do

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Bone deformities occur due to the excess intake of

A) Phosphorus B) Potassium
C) Fatty acid D) Fluorine
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Fluorine

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First Indian woman to win Man Booker Prize?

A) Kiran Desai B) V.S. Naipaul
C) Salman Rushdie D) Arundhati Roy
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Arundhati Roy

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Arundhati Roy was the first Indian woman to win the Man Booker Prize in the year 1997.

An Indian writer, Arundhati Roy, was awarded England's prestigious Booker Prize this evening for her first novel, ''The God of Small Things,'' a soaring story about a set of twins struggling to make sense of the world, themselves and their strange and difficult family in southern India.

 

Kiran Desai was the youngest woman to win the Man Booker Prize.

Bernice Rubens became the first woman to win the Booker Prize in 1970. Man Booker Prize is one of the world's richest literary prizes.

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At which particular place on earth are days and nights of equal length always?

A) Prime Meridian B) Poles
C) Equator D) No where
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Equator

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Which of the statements given below are correct?
 
A) Indian Grandmaster won the 2017 Chess World Cup.
B) In 2017, Roberto Firmino played for the Premier League team Leicester City
C) In 2018 IPL auctions, Rajasthan Royals retained MS Dhoni.

A) Only A B) Only B
C) Only C D) None
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) None

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In which of the following cases, the Supreme Court held that fundamental rights are unamendable?

A) A.K.Gopalan's case B) Keshvananda Bharati's case
C) M.C Mehta's case D) Golak Nath's case
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Golak Nath's case

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The largest and the oldest museum of India is located in the state/union territory of

A) New Delhi B) West Bengal
C) Uttar Pradesh D) Andhra Pradesh
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) West Bengal

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What is the Study of human beauty called?

A) Argology B) Kalology
C) Agrostology D) Oncology
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Kalology

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The Study of human beauty and the ways in which beauty influences the society is called as Kalology.

 

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      • This study is focused primarily on human attractiveness, rather than the broader field of aesthetics.

 

      • Opposite of beauty is Ugly.
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