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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?

  • Bank Exams
  • Staff Selection Commission (SSC)
  • LIC / GIC Examinations
  • Railway Examinations
  • Defense Examinations
  • UPSC Examinations
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Which neighbouring country of India is also reffered as 'Druk Yul'?

A) Myanmar B) Maldives
C) Bhutan D) Afghanistan
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Bhutan

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How CNG is a cleaner fuel?

I. It produces oxides of Sulphur and Nitrogen in very small amounts.
II. It makes environment less polluted.
III. It emits less greenhouse gases.

A) Only I and II B) Only II and III
C) Only I and III D) All I, II and III
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) All I, II and III

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Which country is the 2nd largest importer of weapons in the world, as per 'Trends in International Arms Transfers 2018?

A) North Korea B) India
C) China D) Pakistan
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) India

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India is the 2nd largest importer of weapons in the world, as per 'Trends in International Arms Transfers 2018.

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The foreign purchases effect

A) shifts the aggregate demand curve leftward B) moves the economy along a fixed aggregate demand curve
C) shifts the aggregate demand curve rightward D) shifts the aggregate supply curve rightward
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) moves the economy along a fixed aggregate demand curve

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Which statement best describes the cold war in 1989?

A) The coldwar started B) Atom bomb on USSR
C) Glorious revolution occured D) Beginning of the end of cold war
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Beginning of the end of cold war

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The Cold War started with building tensions between the US and the USSR during World War II. As Stalin began to annex more countries and spread communism throughout Eastern Europe, the US began to feel threatened and feared that they would start a war amongst the capitalist nations. The US started an attempt to limit the spread of communism and protect capitalism, which led to a series of passive aggressive and indirectly hostile exchanges between the two nations.

 

The beginning of the end of the cold war, the Berlin Wall came down. The USSR began to collapse the following year, in 1990.

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Ranchi is the capital of which Indian State?

A) Chattisgarh B) Goa
C) Himachal Pradesh D) Jharkhand
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Jharkhand

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When a ball is thrown vertically upwards, which of the following quantities remains constant during its motion?

A) Energy B) Displacement
C) Velocity D) Acceleration
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Energy

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The layer where the decrease in temperature with increasing altitude is totally absent is

A) Troposphere B) Ionosphere
C) Stratosphere D) Mesosphere
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Stratosphere

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