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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
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In the battle of Panipat, Babar faced the armies of

A) Jaichand B) Hemu
C) Daulat khan D) Ibrahim Lodi
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Ibrahim Lodi

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India was able to achieve the fiscal deficit target for the Financial Year 2016-17. It was how much percent of GDP?

A) 3.50% B) 4.20%
C) 3.00% D) 2.50%
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 3.50%

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Which of the following states has the lowest literacy rate?

A) Kerala B) Rajasthan
C) Bihar D) Maharashtra
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Bihar

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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 saint or a satyagrahi is often put on a ___________, freezing her acts of goodness in time. Goodness acquires an act of fixed quality __________ in amber. Rather than _____________ a living creature, a saint or an icon becomes a hoarding, a permanent spectacle or a redundant quotation. Saintliness or heroism becomes a bundle of pictures in a calendar, a statue __________ inflexibly. Goodness becomes a stencil fixed _________ time.


A saint or a satyagrahi is often put on a ___________

A) pedestal B) platform
C) plinth D) podium
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) pedestal

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Who played Gandhi in 1982's Oscar Winning Movie of the same name?

A) Ben Kingsley B) Saeed Jaffrey
C) Marlon Brando D) Richard Attenborough
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Ben Kingsley

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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.


______________________ the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the government had purchased assets of struggling banks with a view _______________ ensuring that they did not collapse taking ____________________ them the rest of the financial system. These assets __________________ later at a profit by the government! The U.S. government had acted smartly, while in the Indian case the banks now find themselves ______________________ with loans made by them to an individual with negative net worth.

they did not collapse taking ____________________ them the rest of the financial system.

A) from B) all
C) along with D) also with
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) along with

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Read each sentence to find out whether there is an error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. If there is no error, the answer will be “No Error”.

A) Linking traditional American Native stories B) to historic records of a Japanese tsunami
C) was considered an exception, not the start D) of a fruitful geological collaboration.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Linking traditional American Native stories

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In 1 part, use of 'Native' after ‘American’ is incorrect. Also ‘traditional’ should come before ‘stories’. Native is an adjective that is used here for American and not stories. So native will come before American. Traditional is used as an adjective for stories. This is a case of misplaced modifiers.Hence 1 is the correct choice.

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In the given question, an idiom/phrase highlighted in bold is given in a sentence. Choose the most suitable meaning of the idiom/phrase.

I hope you pardon my French that I used during the serious and intense discussion we were having yesterday.

A) Excuse my use of incorrect French B) Excuse my inappropriate language
C) Excuse my untidiness D) Excuse my behaviour
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Excuse my inappropriate language

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The phrase “pardon my French” is usually used humorously to denote an excuse for using taboo words or inappropriate words. The above sentence speaks of a person asking another person to excuse him for using inappropriate language during their discussion. Out of the given option, option 2 is correct.

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