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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
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  • Railway Examinations
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  • UPSC Examinations
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What Frank Whittle invented?

A) Radar B) Ethyl gasoline
C) Sonar D) Jet propulsion
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Jet propulsion

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FROZEN FOOD – Who discovered the first practical method of freezing food?

A) C. Birdseye B) F. Rozenosh
C) G. Findus D) R. Scott
 
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Who invented fuel cells in 1839?

A) Buckminster Fuller B) Sir William Grove
C) Sylvester Graham D) Joyce Hall
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Sir William Grove

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Roentgen discovered

A) Electrocardiograph B) X–rays
C) Anti polio vaccine D) Encephalograph
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) X–rays

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Streptomycin was invented by

A) Fleming B) Marie Curie
C) Walksman D) None of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Walksman

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Bushwell invented

A) Atomic Bomb B) Submarine
C) Urey D) Hovercraft
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Submarine

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D.D.T. was invented by

A) Paul Muller B) John Dalton
C) Rudolf D) None of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Paul Muller

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Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Muller discovered DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) noted its effectiveness as a pesticide during World War II to control malaria and typhus among civilians and troops, a discovery that earned him a Nobel Prize in 1948.

 

It was first synthesized in the year 1874.

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Landstrom invented

A) Metallurgy B) Gas Engine
C) Safety Match D) None of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Safety Match

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