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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.


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What is it called when you can't hear?

A) Deaf B) Dumb
C) Mute D) Blind
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Deaf

Explanation:

When you can't hear it is called as Deaf.

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In the given question, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below the sentence, three alternatives to the bold part are given which may help improve the sentence. Choose the option that reflects the correct use of the phrase in the context of the sentence. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer is (E) i.e. No correction required.

Monu and Sonu attempted to make light their difficulties, but it was obvious that things were going badly for them.

i attempted to make their difficulties light

ii has attempted to make light their difficulties

iii attempted to make light of their difficulties

A) Only I B) Only ii
C) Only iii D) Both ii and iii
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Only iii

Explanation:
The correct option is 3 because the correct phrase that should be used here is ‘make light of their difficulties.’ It means ‘trying to treat something as though it is not serious or important, when it in fact is.
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Q:

A person who enjoys pain is called

A) Sadist B) Dipsomania
C) Masochist D) Blogomaniac
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Masochist

Explanation:

A person who enjoys in feeling or being pain is called Masochist. The person who enjoys inflicting pain on others is called as Sadist.

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Q:

Which is a density independent factor in controlling a population?

A) Food shortage B) Disease
C) Floods D) All of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Floods

Explanation:

Any factor limiting the size of a population whose effect is not dependent on the number of individuals in the population, then such factor is called Density Independent Factor. It is things that the organisms have no control over.

 

Here in the given options, food shortage and disease are factors that are dependent on the number of population but Floods have no dependency.

 

Some examples of density independent factors are :: Earth quake, fires, volcanic eruptions, floods, and  all natural calamities.

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Q:

Select the antonym of
eternity

A) perpetuity B) yonder
C) aeon D) ephemeral
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) ephemeral

Explanation:
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Which state government to install 221-Metre Bronze Statue Of lordRam In Ayodhya?

A) Uttar Pradesh B) Gujarat
C) Uttarakhand D) Himachal Pradesh
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Uttar Pradesh

Explanation:

Uttar Pradesh state government to install 221-Metre Bronze Statue Of lordRam In Ayodhya.

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Which of the following is the India's first underwater robotic drone?

A) EyeROV TUNA B) HandROV TUNA
C) BrainROV TUNA D) HeadROV TUNA
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) EyeROV TUNA

Explanation:

EyeROV TUNA, the India's first underwater robotic drone was launched and handed over to Kochi based DRDO lab and it can send realtime videos of ships and other underwater structures to help with their repair and maintenance.

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Q:

Which of the following is not an allotrope of carbon?

A) Diamond B) Graphene
C) Ethylene D) Buckminsterfullerene
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Ethylene

Explanation:

Allotropes are different structural modifications of an element, that is, each of two or more different physical forms in which an element can exist.

 

Carbon is capable of forming many allotropes due to its valency. Well-known forms of carbon include charcoal, diamond, graphite, buckminsterfullerene and graphene.

 

Hence, Ethylene is not an allotrope of Carbon.

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