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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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Four words are given, out of which only one word is spelt correctly. Choose the correctly spelt word and click the button corresponding to it.

A) Desorientation B) Disorientetion
C) Dysorientation D) Disorientation
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Disorientation

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence.

Interrupt (a public speaker) with derisive or aggressive comments or abuse

A) Heckle B) Soothe
C) Allay D) Dulcify
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Heckle

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Alexander Kerensky was

A) the head of the Provisional Government in Russia before the October Revolution B) a  close  confidant  of  Lenin,  with  whose help the Czar was dethroned
C) the head of the Czar’s army D) an advisor of Joseph Stalin
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) the head of the Provisional Government in Russia before the October Revolution

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Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky was a Russian lawyer and revolutionary who was a key political figure in the Russian Revolutionof 1917. After the February Revolution of 1917 he joined the newly formed Russian Provisional Government

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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

Priya advised me not to go to school the next day.

A) "Don't go to school next day" Priya said to me. B) "Don't go to school tomorrow" Priya said to me.
C) Priya said, "Will you not go to school tomorrow?" D) Priya told me that, "Don't go to school tomorrow."
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) "Don't go to school tomorrow" Priya said to me.

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An element A forms an oxide with formula A3O4. What is the valency of element A?

A) 3 B) 2
C) 1 D) 4
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 4

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Burzil Pass is situated in which of the following states?

A) Himachal Pradesh B) Jammu and Kashmir
C) Sikkim D) Uttarakhand
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Jammu and Kashmir

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Nautical miles is a unit of distance used in

A) Navigation B) Road mile
C) Astronomy D) Measuring the boundaries of a nation
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Navigation

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A sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect Speech. Out of the four given alternatives, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct Speech.

 

Gopal said to his friends, “Are you angry?”

 

A) Were they angry, asked Gopal. B) Gopal asked why they are angry.
C) Gopal asked them whether they are angry. D) Gopal asked his friends whether they were angry.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Gopal asked his friends whether they were angry.

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