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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
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  • Railway Examinations
  • Defense Examinations
  • UPSC Examinations
  • COMPETITIVE EXAMS FOR PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS
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In each of the questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and click the button corresponding to it.

To be in a fix

A) In pain B) In distress
C) Depressed D) In a difficult situation
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) In a difficult situation

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Chalukya temples (Jain temples) at Dilwara are situated in

A) Madhya Pradesh B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Rajasthan D) Haryana
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Rajasthan

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Which of the following is a natural polymer?

A) Bakelite B) Nylon
C) Polythene D) Starch
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Starch

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Who Invented the 3-D printer?

A) Nick Holonyak B) Elias Howe
C) Chuck Hull D) Christiaan Huygens
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Chuck Hull

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Who among the following is the first Indian to win Pulitzer Prize?

A) Arundhati Roy B) Gobind Behari Lal
C) Vijay Seshadri D) Jhumpa Lahiri
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Gobind Behari Lal

Explanation:

Gobind BehariLal: He came to study at the University of California in Berkeley in 1912 on the Guru Govind Singh Sahib Scholarship. He later became the science editor of the San Francisco Examiner. He won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1937.

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Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh launched a medical scheme for APL families. What is the name of that scheme?

A) Haritha Kalyanam B) Arogya Raksha
C) Kalyanamsurvay D) Swasthya Raksha
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Arogya Raksha

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Fighting began in Lexington and concord when British troops

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Fighting began in Lexington and concord when British troops came to arrest colonial leaders and take colonial weapons.

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Mount Damavand is the highest peak in

A) Iraq B) Papua New Guinea
C) Oman D) Iran
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Iran

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Mount Damavand is the highest peak in Iran and also a potentially active volcano.

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