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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
  • Staff Selection Commission (SSC)
  • LIC / GIC Examinations
  • Railway Examinations
  • Defense Examinations
  • UPSC Examinations
  • COMPETITIVE EXAMS FOR PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS
  • Category of Competitive Exams
  • All India Services:
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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.

 


She ate the sweets greedily.

 

A) Greedily sweets are eaten by her. B) She herself ate the sweets greedily.
C) Eating of the sweets was done by her greedily. D) The sweets were eaten by her greedily.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) The sweets were eaten by her greedily.

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

graveyard shift

A) to work in a very scary place B) a place where one is forced to work so hard that it almost kills you
C) to work with a team where everybody else is very lazy D) a work shift that runs through the early morning hours
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) a work shift that runs through the early morning hours

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Q:

The first Field Marshall of India was

A) A. S. Vaidya B) K.M. Cariappa
C) Sunderji D) S.H.F.J. Manekshaw
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) S.H.F.J. Manekshaw

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Q:

Babita Kumari represented India in the Rio Olympics 2016 in which sport?

A) Boxing B) Wrestling
C) Hockey D) Badminton
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Wrestling

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Which is the highest quality of hard coal?

A) Anthracite B) Bituminous
C) Lignite D) Peat
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Anthracite

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Q:

How many languages are officially recognized in India?

A) 17 B) 19
C) 22 D) 10
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 22

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In October 2018, India was elected as a member to the United Nations Human Rights Council for a period of

A) five years B) four years
C) three years D) two years
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) three years

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In January India will join China and Nepal, besides Pakistan, which were elected to the 47-member Council in previous years to serve three-year terms.India received 188 votes, the highest polled by any of the 18 countries elected in the voting.This is the fifth time India is elected to the Geneva-based Council, the main body of the UN charged with promoting and monitoring human rights.

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Q:

Stan Lee, who passed away recently, was a comic writer with which of the following comic works was he as associated? 

A) Science fiction Comics  B) Action/Adventur Comics 
C) Manga Comics  D) Superhero Comics 
 
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Stan Lee, the legendary writer, editor and publisher of Marvel Comics whose fantabulous but flawed creations made him a real-life superhero to comic book lovers everywhere, has died. 

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