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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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  • Railway Examinations
  • Defense Examinations
  • UPSC Examinations
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In this section, each of the following sentences has a blank space and four words are given below it. select the word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.

 

Mrs. Ramsay did not know whether Miss Jane knew ___________

A) swimming B) to swim
C) him to swim D) how to swimming
 
Answer & Explanation Answer:

Explanation:

Swimming is a verb that needs no preposition. So, none of the other options are suitable. Swimming is an action we learn to do, so option-4 is correct.

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In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No error'.


No sooner did the sun rise (1)/ when we resumed the journey (2)/ after having a hasty breakfast. (3)/ No Error (4)

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

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Which one of the following pairs of military training institute of India and location is not correctly matched?

 

A) Army War College:Mhow   B) High Altitude Warfare School:Gulmarg
C) Army Air Defence College:Pune D) RashtriyaIndian Military College:Dehradun
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Army Air Defence College:Pune

Explanation:

The Army Air Defence College, (abbreviated as AADC), is the training academy for the Army Air Defence Corps of Indian Army. The college is located in the Gopalpur Military Station in Gopalpur, Odisha.

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In which year was Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) established?

A) 1947 B) 1875
C) 1920 D) 1960
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 1875

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Q:

Who invented JavaScript the programming language?

A) Brendan Eich B) Willem Einthoven
C) George Eastman D) Emil Erlenmeyer
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Brendan Eich

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Recently, RBI has declared that how much percentage of demonetized money was back? 

A) 79.30%  B) 93.30%
C) 88.30% D) 99.30%
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 99.30%

Explanation:

As much as 99.3 per cent of the junked Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes have returned to the banking system, the RBI said today, indicating that just a miniscule percentage of currency was left out of the system after the government's unprecedented note ban aimed at curbing black money and corruption. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which has taken an awfully long time to count the currency that was returned in the limited period window provided by the government to exchange or deposit the demonetised currency, said in its Annual Report for 2017-18 that the exercise is finally over. 

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Ibrahim Lodi was killed by ........... in the First Battle of Panipat in 1526.

A) Muhammad Shah B) Firoz Shah Tughlaq
C) Babur D) Timur
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Babur

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Calculate the pressure (in Pa) if a thrust of 600 N is applied to an area of 24 sq.m.

A) 144 B) 50
C) 25 D) 72
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 25

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