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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?

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What is the India’s rank in the 2017 global Multi-dimensional Poverty Index (MPI)  ?

A) 38th B) 37th
C) 36th D) 35th
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 37th

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India has been ranked 37th out of 103 nations in the 2017 global Multi-dimensional Poverty Index (MPI), according to a new report by the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative. The OPHI is an economic research centre at the Oxford University, led by Professor Sabina Alkire. The 2017 global MPI has covered 76% of the world’s population, living in 103 countries. The index measures the nature and intensity of poverty, based on the profile of overlapping deprivations each poor person experiences. It aggregates these into meaningful indexes that can be used to inform targeting and resource allocation and to design policies that tackle the interlinked dimensions of poverty together.

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The world's Greatest traveller of pre-modern times, believed to have put behind him a distance of over 73000 miles and visited territories the eqivalent of about 44 modern countries, is 

A) Marco Polo B) Fahien
C) Ibn Batuta D) Hiuen Tsang
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Marco Polo

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Who among the following is known as 'Kipper'

A) Napoleon Bonaparte B) Field Marshal K.M Cariappa
C) Gen. Erwin Rommel D) Younger Pitt
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Field Marshal K.M Cariappa

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Palaeobotany is the branch of botany is which we study about

A) Animal fosills B) Plant fossils
C) Seed of plant D) Flower
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Plant fossils

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The time at Cairo is 2 hours ahead of Greenwhich. Hence, it is located at 

A) 30 degrees W longitude B) 30 degrees E longitude
C) 28 degrees E longitude D) 28 degrees W longitude
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 30 degrees E longitude

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Formation of anions occurs by

A) loss of neutrons B) gain of protons
C) gain of electrons D) none
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) gain of electrons

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From the following languages listed in the Eighth schedule of the constitution pick out of the one which is official language of a state

A) Kashmiri B) Urdu
C) Sindhi D) Nepali
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Urdu

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The Home Rule Movement in India was started by 

A) S.N. Banerjee and W.C Banerjee B) Annie Besant and Tilak
C) Mahatma Gandhi and Motilal Nehru D) Annie Besant and Gokhale
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Annie Besant and Tilak

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