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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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Which one of the following years is known as the 'Year of the Great Divide' with regard to population, after which there has been a continuous and rapid growth in India's population?

A) 1911 B) 1921
C) 1941 D) 1951
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 1921

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Lying between the states of pennsylvania and Maryland, which imaginary line divided the 'Slave States' from the 'Free States' in pre-Civil war America?

Answer

Mason Dixon Line

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Who among the following was the Constitutional Advisor to the Constituent Assembly?

A) B. N. Rau B) V. N. Menon
C) Sachidanand Sinha D) H. N. Kunzuru
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) B. N. Rau

Explanation:

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Sir Benegal Narsing Rao (B N Rau), was the Constitutional Advisor to the Constituent Assembly. He was an Indian civil servant, jurist, diplomat and statesman known for his key role in drafting the Constitution of India.

He was also India's representative to the United Nations Security Council from 1950 to 1952.

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The velocity required to place a vehicle in orbit round the moon is _______ that required to place it in orbit round the earth 

A) less than B) Greater than
C) equal to D) greater than or equal to
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) less than

Explanation:

This orbital velocity at the moon is less because orbital velocity = rg

 

where 'r ' is the orbital radius. i.e the distance of the body from the center of the earth and 'g' is the acceleration due to gravity on the body in question. In the case of the moon, both r and g are less than in the case of the earth.

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After Srinagar (J&K), India's 2nd Tulip Garden will come up in which state?

A) Uttarakhand B) Himachal Pradesh
C) Delhi D) Karnataka
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Uttarakhand

Explanation:

India's 2nd Tulip Garden will come up in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand state.

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Where are genes located in the cell?

Answer

Genes are located on DNA present in the chromosome. Chromosomes are present in the nucleus of the cell.

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Yanam is the colony of the which of the European powers ?

A) Danish B) French
C) Spanish D) Portugese
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) French

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Energy produced in nuclear reaction is given by

A) Charle's law B) Grahm's law
C) Gay - Lussac's law D) Einstein's law
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Einstein's law

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