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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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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".


You (will being surprised) to learn that some leading philosophers have supported immoral views.

 

A) will be surprised B)  will be surprise
C) will be surprising D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) will be surprised

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Hockey was introduced in the Asian Games in

A) 1958 in Tokyo B) 1962 in Jakarta
C) 1966 in Bangkok D) 1970 in Bangkok
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 1958 in Tokyo

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What is Harry Potter's owl's name

A) Hedwig B) Honey Dukes
C) Money Duke D) Eagle
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Hedwig

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The term computer is derived from

A) Latin language B) Sanskrit language
C) Greek language D) German language
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Latin language

Explanation:

The term computer is derivrd from the latin keyword 'computare' which means to calculate or to compute.

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The capacity of a pure capacitor is 1 farad. In D.C circuit, its effective resistance will be

A) Zero B) Infinite
C) 1 Ohm D) 1/2 Ohm
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Infinite

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Which unit of valuation is known as paper gold?

A) SDR B) Eurodollar
C) GDR D) Petrodollar
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) SDR

Explanation:

SDR means Special Drawing Rights.

 

SDRs are a measure of a country's reserve assets with IMF and, whereas not 'money' in the strict sense, have several characteristics of money as interest-bearing assets, store of value, and means of settling indebtedness.

 

International financing instrument created in 1970 by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to coincide with the disfavor of the US dollar as the principal currency of the world trade. Also called paper gold, an SDR is neither paper nor gold but an accounting entry. It is not backed by any currency or precious metal and is used only among governments and IMF for balance Of payments settlements.

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'World Diabetes Day' is observed on

A) August 4 B) August 1
C) July 29 D) June 27
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) June 27

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The Indus valley people traded with the

A) Chinese B) Mesopotamians
C) Parthians D) Romans
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Mesopotamians

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