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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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In photosynthesis________

A) Light energy is converted into chemical energy B) Chemical energy is converted into Light energy
C) Chemical energy is converted into electrical energy D) Light energy is converted into Mechanical energy
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Light energy is converted into chemical energy

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A proton is identical to _____.

A) the nucleus of helium B) the nucleus of a hydrogen atom
C) an alpha-particle D) a beta particle
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) a beta particle

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What is the first step in Photosynthesis?

A) Formation of ATP B) Joining of 3-carbon atom to form glucose
C) Ionization of water D) Excitement of an electron of chlorophyll photon of light
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Excitement of an electron of chlorophyll photon of light

Explanation:

The first step in Photosynthesis is Excitement of an electron of chlorophyll photon of light.

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Which line is an example of the poetic technique metonymy?

A) I’m martyr to a motion not my own B) These old bones live to learn her wanton ways
C) Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay D) I swear she cast a shadow white as stone
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) These old bones live to learn her wanton ways

Explanation:

Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept. Hence it occurs when a word is replaced by a word that has an obvious relation to itself.

 

In the given example of the text, the bones refer to the human being.

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Tubes that bifurcate from the windpipe

A) Bronchi B) pleura
C) Apex D) Adenoids
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Bronchi

Explanation:

Tubes that bifurcate from the windpipe are called Bronchi.

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Spongy, porous bone tissue is also called

A) Compact bone B) Bone fissure
C) Yellow bone marrow D) Cancellous bone
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Cancellous bone

Explanation:

Spongy, porous bone tissue is also called cancellous bone.

 

Cancellous bone is found in bones that aren't generally under significant stress like in the shoulder blades, ribs, parts of the skull, and at the ends of long bones.

 

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Cyclones are called as hurricanes in 

A) Bangladesh B) China
C) Gulf of Mexico and Carribean Sea D) Japan
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Gulf of Mexico and Carribean Sea

Explanation:

Tropical cyclones are also known as 'typhoons' in china, and Willy Willies in Australia.

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Who was the last Emperor of Rome ?

A) Nero B) Ceaser
C) Romulus Augustulus D) Julius
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Romulus Augustulus

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