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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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Which one of the following Indian States has the highest percentage of Scheduled Tribe population to its total population?

A) Mizoram B) Nagaland
C) Meghalaya D) Arunachal Pradesh
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Mizoram

Explanation:

                     Scheduled Tribes 

State with highest proportion of Scheduled Tribes               Mizoram (94.5 %)

State with lowest proportion of Scheduled Tribes                 Goa (0.04 %)

UT with highest proportion of Scheduled Tribes                   Lakshadweep (94.5 %)

UT with lowest proportion of Scheduled Tribes                     A & N Islands (8.3 %)

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Which of the following instrument is used to measure Soil Water Tension?

A) Photometer B) Pyrometer
C) Psychrometer D) Tensiometer
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Tensiometer

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A ball is dropped from a height of 10 m. It strikes the ground and rebounds up to a height of 2. m. During the collision, the per cent loss in the kinetic energy is

A) 100% B) 25%
C) 50% D) 75%
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 75%

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Which statement about Ultrabook computers is false?

A) Utrabooks are equipped with SSD drives for fast start-up B) Ultrabooks do not offer HDMI video output ports
C) Ultrabooks typically weigh less than 3 pounds D) Ultrabooks have the fastest optical drives
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Ultrabooks have the fastest optical drives

Explanation:

Ultrabooks have the fastest optical drives is the false statement in the given options about Ultrabook computers.

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The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. These sentences, when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Select the most logical order of sentences from among the options.

 


P: The depletion of organic nutrients in the soil has reached alarming proportions, thanks to indiscriminate use of chemical fertiliser in Green Revolution areas.
Q: As against an acceptable level of ‘soil organic carbon’ of well over 5 percent, soils in Punjab are said to have levels far below 1 percent.
R: Besides, 5.3 billion tonnes of soil is eroded annually, at a rate of 16.4 tonnes/hectare.
S: The nutrient imbalance has been skewed by the overuse of urea (N) vis-a-vis phosphatic (P in chemical parlance) and potassic (K) fertiliser.

A) SRPQ B) QPSR
C) PSRQ D) PQRS
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) PQRS

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Which of the following is done at a Stock Exchange ?

A) Commodities are bought and sold at wholesale price B) Commodities are bought and sold at retail price
C) Securities are bought and sold D) None of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Securities are bought and sold

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Which one of the following statements is not correct?

A) When total utility is maximum, marginal utility is zero B) When total utility is decreasing, marginal utility is negative
C) When total utility is increasing, marginal utility is positive D) When total utility is maximum,marginal and average utility are equal to each other.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) When total utility is maximum,marginal and average utility are equal to each other.

Explanation:

Total utility -It is total psychological satisfaction which a consumer derives from the consumption of a commodity is known as total utility

Marginal utility -It is anaddition made in total utility by consuming and additional unit of a commodity is known as marginal utility.

•When marginal utility is positive,total utility increases

•When marginal utility is zero,total utility is at maximum

•When marginal utility is negative,total utility decreases

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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 asentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.

1. A Creole language is a

2. stable natural language develop from

3. a mixture of different languages

4. No error

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

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