General Knowledge(GK) (or) General Awareness

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A)
Nitrogen
B)
Oxygen
C)
Argon
D)
Carbon dioxide

Correct Answer :   Oxygen


Inhaling of oxygen and releasing of carbon dioxide to make our living is the process called as respiration. We know that, air is a mixture several gases like 78% of nitrogen, 21% of oxygen and several other gases with watervapour. Hence, Oxygen is essential for respiration process.

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A)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
B)
Felix Adler
C)
Lyndon B. Johnson
D)
All of the above

Correct Answer :   J. Robert Oppenheimer


Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is among those who are credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb" for their role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons. The first atomic bomb was successfully detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico.

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A)
aluminium and copper
B)
copper and iron
C)
copper and tin
D)
tin and aluminium

Correct Answer :   copper and tin


Bronze is the mixture of is a mixture of copper and tin. The composition is copper is 88% and tin is 12%.

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A)
slate
B)
gneiss
C)
phyllite
D)
All of the above

Correct Answer :   All of the above


Some kinds of metamorphic rocks -- granite gneiss and biotite schist are two examples -- are strongly banded or foliated. (Foliated means the parallel arrangement of certain mineral grains that gives the rock a striped appearance.)

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A)
Forgetfulness
B)
Temporary blindness
C)
Disrupted sleep
D)
All of the above

Correct Answer :   All of the above


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A)
Maltose
B)
Dextrose
C)
Levulose
D)
Ribose

Correct Answer :   Dextrose


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A)
Kidneys
B)
Heart
C)
Liver
D)
Brain

Correct Answer :   Brain


Paralysis is most often caused by damage in the nervous system, especially the spinal cord. Other major causes are stroke, trauma with nerve injury, poliomyelitis, cerebral palsy, peripheral neuropathy, Parkinson's disease, ALS, botulism, spina bifida, multiple sclerosis, and Guillain–Barré syndrome.

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A)
Trypsin
B)
Maltase
C)
Amylase
D)
Pepsin

Correct Answer :   Amylase


An enzyme called amylase breaks down starches (complex carbohydrates) into sugars, which your body can more easily absorb. Saliva also contains an enzyme called lingual lipase, which breaks down fats.

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A)
Acid used in Batteries
B)
Saline water
C)
Pure water
D)
Milk

Correct Answer :   Acid used in Batteries


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A)
Swine Flu
B)
Malaria
C)
Rabies
D)
Filaria

Correct Answer :   Rabies


Hydrophobia is a clinical sign characteristic of human rabies. This sign occurs following paroxysmal contractions of pharynx responsible for hydrophobic spasms.

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