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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.


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Which describes the work of Nicolaus Copernicus?

A) Inventing analytic geometry B) Experimenting on Human Bodies
C) Studying prisms and the nature of light D) Developing a Heliocentric Theory
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Developing a Heliocentric Theory

Explanation:

Nicolaus Copernicus was decribed by his work on "The Heliocentric Theory" which is based on that the earth revolves around the Sun.

 

This theory was developed in parts by different astronomers over many years, namely Aristarchus, Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo.

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The study of brain is called

A) Neurology B) Nephrology
C) Phrenology D) Pathology
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Phrenology

Explanation:

The study of brain is called Phrenology.

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Which city to become India’s 1st city to have Crematorium For Cows?

A) Lucknow B) Hyderabad
C) Bhopal D) Allahabad
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Bhopal

Explanation:

Bhopal mayor Alok Sharma provision to build a cow crematorium in the Madhya Pradesh capital city Bhopal.

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What is the escape velocity of the rocket in the earth is?

A) 12.2 km/sec B) 10.2 km/sec
C) 13.2 km/sec D) 11.2 km/sec
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 11.2 km/sec

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Q:

Vitamin-A plays an important role in

A) Eye vision B) Brain
C) Hair D) Bones
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Eye vision

Explanation:

Vitamin-A plays an important role in Eye vision. Vitamin A helps form and maintain healthy teeth, skeletal and soft tissue, mucus membranes, and skin. It is also known as retinol because it produces the pigments in the retina of the eye. Vitamin A promotes good vision, especially in low light.

 

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As the object covers unequal distances in equal intervals of time, it is said to be in ____________ motion.

A) uniform B) linear
C) non-uniform D) equilibrium
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) non-uniform

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Which of the following statements with regard to the speech of Mahatma Gandhi at the opening of the Banaras Hindu University are correct?

1.he charged the Indian elite with a lack of concern for the laboring poor.

2.He asserted that our salvation can come only through the farmers.

3.He highlighted the plight of the untouchables.

4.He promised to take up the cause of the mill owners of Ahmedabad.

Select the correct answer using the code given below.

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

Explanation:

Only   1   and   2   are   correct,   as Mahatma  Gandhi’s  speech  in  BHU on 4 February,1916 did not include plight  of  untouchables  and  there was no issue of the mill owners on Ahmedabad in 1916.

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Nylon threads are made of

A) Polyester polymer B) Polyamide polymer
C) Polyvinyl polymer D) Polysaccharide
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Polyamide polymer

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