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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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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.


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The Rain Shadow Effect is associated with

A) Convectional rainfall B) Frontal rainfall
C) Cyclonic rainfall D) Orographic rainfall
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Orographic rainfall

Explanation:

Orographic precipitation or Rain produced when moist air is lifted as it moves over a mountain range. As the air rises and cools, orographic clouds form and serve as the source of the precipitation, most of which falls upwind of the mountain ridge.

 

Some also falls a short distance downwind of the ridge and is sometimes called spillover. On the lee side of the mountain range, rainfall is usually low, and the area is said to be in a Rain Shadow. 

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In India, the chief Election Commissioner can be removed from his office in the same manner and on the same ground as :

A) A judge of the Supreme Court B) The Chief Justice of a High Court
C) The Comptroller and Auditor-General D) The Attorney General of India
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) A judge of the Supreme Court

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What is the heaviest noble gas?

A) krypton B) radon
C) helium D) xenon
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) radon

Explanation:

The seven elements — helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, radon, and oganesson of Group 18 of the periodic table are Noble or Inert gases.

 

Radon is the heaviest and Helium is the lightest gases of the noble gases.

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What is the longest irrigation canal India called

A) Yamuna Canal B) Sirhind canal
C) Indira Gandhi canal D) Upper Bari Doab Canal
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Indira Gandhi canal

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Q:

Atomic theory was devised by

A) Mosley B) John Dalton
C) Daimler D) None of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) John Dalton

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The oldest specimens of poetry in the punjabi language are devotional compositions attributed to

A) Guru Nanak B) Baba Farid
C) Guru Angad D) Guru Tegh Bahadur
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Baba Farid

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The Greatest conqueror among the Gupta rulers was

A) Samudragupta B) Chandragupta II
C) Kumaragupta D) Skandagupta
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Samudragupta

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Which one of the following was not a characteristic of society in Mauryan times?

A) Slavery B) Rigidity of Caste
C) Prostitution D) Widow remarriage
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Widow remarriage

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