General Knowledge Questions

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In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

 

Volition

 

A) Dependence B) Violence
C) Villainy D) Choice
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Choice

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The foothill range of Himalaya is known as which of the following name?

A) Trans Himalaya B) Great Himalaya
C) Pir Panjal D) Shivalik
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Shivalik

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In which system is the central government weakest?

A) confederate government B) representative government
C) unitary government D) federal government
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) confederate government

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

 

I cook almost every day, but even the thought of producing that quantum of food (daunt) for me.

 

A) is daunting B) was daunted
C) has daunting D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) is daunting

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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

 

A brain and nervous system that are poorly developed or insufficiently nourished means low grade of ______________ in our mental processes, just as a poorly constructed or wrongly adjusted motor means loss of power in applying the electric current to its work. We will, __________, look upon the mind and the brain as counterparts of ___________ other, each performing activities which correspond to activities in the other, ________ inextricably bound together at least so far as this life is concerned, and each getting its _______________ by its union with the other. This view will lend interest to a brief study of the brain and nervous system.

 

nourished means low grade of ______________ in our mental processes

 

A) efficiently B) efficiencies
C) efficiency D) efficient
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) efficiency

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All this does not bode _______________ for even the loosest definitions of cosmopolitanism. A city by definition is a space, as ________________ historians and sociologists have already told us, which ideally privileges and _________________ the unexpected encounter, and calls on its citizens to be able to respond humanely even to those _______________ are not linked to us in familial, ethnic, nationalist or caste ___________________.

 

ethnic, nationalist or caste ___________________.

 

A) partnerships B) alliances
C) clans D) affiliations
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) affiliations

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Q:

Amartya Sen won Nobel Prize for?

A) Literature B) Physics
C) Peace D) Economic Sciences
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Economic Sciences

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Q:

Who Invented Post-it note?

A) William Friese-Greene B) Arthur Fry
C) Gordon Gould D) Otto von Guericke
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Arthur Fry

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