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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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Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

 

In developing

P : and poor schooling opportunities,

Q : countries, dues to high poverty

R : child labour is still prevalent

 

A) PRQ B) QPR
C) RQP D) QRP
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) QPR

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Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Of these,

P-­mostly two have proved
Q­-to be bones of contention
R­-between the two parties

 

A) QRP B) RPQ
C) PRQ D) PQR
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) PQR

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Who is the first female pilot to be inducted into the Indian Navy in 2017?

 

A) Tessy Thomas B) Zaira Wasim
C) Shubhangi Swaroop D) Dipa Karmakar
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Shubhangi Swaroop

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Q:

Select the synonym of

 

carnage

 

A) accord B) butchery
C) concord D) cessation
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) butchery

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Who was/were the 10th century composer(s) of the Nalayira Divya Prabandham?

 

A) Alvars B) Nayanars
C) Appar D) Sambandar
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Alvars

Explanation:

The Nalayira Divya Prabandham is a collection of 4,000 Tamil verses composed by the 12 Alvars and was compiled in its present form by Nathamunigal during the 9th -10th centuries. These were sung by the Alwars indevotional estacy in varrious shirineas of Vishnu, made famous as Magalashasana sthalas.

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Q:

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Mixed cropping should be encouraged both as a (hedge for) price risk and for its ecological benefits.

A) hedge against B) hedge of
C) hedge in D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) hedge against

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Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

 

The Centre would reconsider its draft and limit its scope to just providing relief to women, (instead of creating a new regulative).

 

A) instead of creating a new regulatory B) instead of making a new regulator
C) instead of creating a new regulation D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) instead of creating a new regulation

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Q:

Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

I) Bleaching powder is a pale yellow powder

II) Dry NH3 gas turns red litmus blue

III) The pH of rain water is nearly 7

IV) The pH of acid rain is nearly 5.6

 

A) I, II and IV B) II and III
C) I and IV D) Only II
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Only II

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