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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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Rusting is _____.

A) Electrolysis B) Oxidation
C) Redox reaction (Oxidation and Reduction) D) Reduction
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Redox reaction (Oxidation and Reduction)

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Who is the second bowler who took 10 wickets in test cricket?

A) Jim Laker B) Lakshmipathy Balaji
C) Anil kumble D) Wasim Akram
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Anil kumble

Explanation:

Anil kumble tore through Pakistan in Delhi with a stunning 10/74, becoming just the second man after Jim Laker to take all ten wickets in a Test innings.

 

26.3 overs

9 maidens

74 runs

10 Wickets !!!

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Who pioneered the guerrilla warfare methods?

A) Babur B) Akbar
C) Shivaji D) Bajirao Peshwa
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Shivaji

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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

Explanation:

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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Which among the following is not an example of emulsion?

A) Chocolate-Milk B) Butter
C) Whipped Cream D) Curd
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Curd

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The people of the Indus valley civilisation worshipped ____________________.

A) Vishnu B) Pashupati
C) Indra D) Brahma
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Pashupati

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The President of the Indian Olympic Association, N Ramachandran, was awarded the Plympic Order for his outstanding services to ___

A) Athletics B) The Olypic movement
C) Hockey D) Football
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) The Olypic movement

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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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