Important General knowledge Bits for competitive exams: Updated

Some Selected Important GK bits for all Competitive Exams



1. Who is known as Modern Bhoja?
Answer: Krishnadeva Raya


2. Who started Shudhi Movement?
Answer: Dayananda Saraswathy


3. Which Pakistan President signed the Tashkent Agreement?
Answer: Ayub Khan


4. Which Substance is known as Philosopher's wool?
Answer: Zinc Oxide


5. Which Vitamin helps in the absorption of Calcium?
Answer: Vitamin D


6. Who discovered Rh Factor?
Answer: Karl Landsteiner (the same person discovered Blood Group)



7. Who wrote the book Harmonies of World?
Answer: Kepler


8. Where is the Headquarters of Amnesty International?
Answer: London

9. Which is the shortest River in the world?
Answer: Roe


10. The image formed on the Retina of the human eye is ________ ?
Answer: Real and inverted


11. Who discovered Microphone?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell


12. Myopia (Short sightedness) can be corrected by using a  _______ lens ?
Answer: Concave


13. Hypermetropia (Long sightedness) can be corrected using a _________ ?
Answer: Convex lens


14. Erg is the unit of _____?
Answer: Work


15. Dyne is the unit of ______ ?
Answer: Force


16. Poise is the unit of _______ ?
Answer: Viscosity of fluid



Colour of different lamps


Sodium Vapour lamp  =>>  Yellow

Hydrogen Vapour lamp  =>>  Blue

Nitrogen Vapour lamp  =>>  Red

Mercury Vapour lamp  =>>  White

Neon Vapour Lamp  =>>  Orange

Chlorine Vapour Lamp  =>>  Green


* 17. Which cricketer has the nickname Haryana Hurricane?
Answer: Kapil Dev


* 18. Who is the law Adviser of the central Government?
Answer: Attorney General



* 19. Which is the acid present in tomato?
Answer: Oxalic acid


* 20. Which disease is also known as Hansen's disease?
Answer: Leprosy


* 21. Who gave the Pacific Ocean its name?
Answer: Magellan


* 22. Which state has a large number of cinema theaters in India?
Answer: Andhara Pradesh

*23. The term "virus" stands for?
Answer: Vital Information Resource under siege

*24. What is the expansion for "CRZ"?
answer: Coastal Regulation Zone

25. Who designed the National flag of India?
answer: Pingali Venkayya

26. Total number of time zones?
answer: 24

27. rabies affects which part of the body?
answer: brain

28. How much is a baker's dozen?
answer: 13

29. The supreme court started functioning from?
answer: 1950 January 28

30. The election commission of India was formed on?
answer: 25th January 1950

31. World press freedom day is on?
answer: 3rd May

32. Which day is observed as world youth skills day?
answer: July 15

Some GK Questions related to respiratory organs

33. Which is the Respiratory organ of a spider?
Answer: Book Lungs

33. Which is the Respiratory organ of Plants?
Answer: Stomata

33. Which is the respiratory organ of Fish?
Answer: Gills

33. Which is the respiratory organ of Earthworms?
Answer: Skin

33. Which is the respiratory organ of insects?
Answer: Trachea

34. Study of Lungs is called?

Answer: Pulmonology

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