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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
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  • LIC / GIC Examinations
  • Railway Examinations
  • Defense Examinations
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Which one of the following Articles of the Constituent of India down that no citizen can be denied the use of wells, tanks and bathing Ghats maintained out of State funds?

 

A) Article 14 B) Article 15
C) Article 16 D) Article 17
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Article 15

Explanation:
Article 15:
 
Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth 
(1) The State shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them
(2) No citizen shall, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them, be subject to any disability, liability, restriction or condition with regard to
(a) access to shops, public restaurants, hotels and palaces of public entertainment; or
(b) the use of wells, tanks, bathing ghats, roads and places of public resort maintained wholly or partly out of State funds or dedicated to the use of the general public
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______ is a thyroid hormone which controls the balance of calcium in the body.

A) Calcitonin B) Thyroxine
C) Calmodulin D) all of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Calcitonin

Explanation:

Calcitonin is 32-amino acid linear polypeptide hormone that is produced in humans primarily by the parafollicular cells of the thyroid, and in many other animals in the ultimopharyngeal body. It acts to reduce blood calcium, opposing the effects of parathyroid hormone.

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Open Market Operations refer to __________

A) Borrowings by Scheduled banks from RBI B) Lending by Commercial banks to industry
C) Purchase and sale of Government securities by RBI D) Deposit mobilisation
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Purchase and sale of Government securities by RBI

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Which of the following physical quantity measures the rate of work done?

A) Power B) Momentum
C) Force D) Energy
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Power

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Who has been appointed as the Governor of Assam as of March 2018?

A) Subramanian Swamy B) Ganga Prasad
C) Banwarilal Purohit D) Jagdish Mukhi
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Jagdish Mukhi

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Which of the following is a metabolic function of skin?

A) synthesis of a vitamin D precursor B) cutaneous sensation
C) body temperature regulation D) elimination of nitrogenous wastes
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) synthesis of a vitamin D precursor

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Which feature of a plant helps to distinguish a monocot from a dicot?

A) pollination B) venation
C) vernation D) aestivation
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) venation

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______________ was a philosopher and theologian from India during early 8th century who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta.

A) Adi Shankara B) Dyaneshwar
C) Eknath D) Madhvacharya
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Adi Shankara

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