General Knowledge(GK) (or) General Awareness

Welcome to the General Knowledge Section of Free Time Learning. As we are aware General Knowledge (GK) is a very important area in all the competitive exams held in the country. Nowadays, a good knowledge of general awareness is very important in clearing any competitive and government recruitment examinations.

These General Knowledge Question are very important and usefull to UPSC, IAS/PCS, UPPSC, IBPS, SBI, RBI, SSC, CGL, Railway, APPSC, TSPSC, KPSC, TNPSC, TPSC, UPPSC, MPSC, RPSC, BPSC, MPPSC, UKPSC, MPSC, and other competitive exams.

1 .

Which one is the hottest planet in our solar system

Mercury

Venus

Saturn

Mars

Correct Answer : Venus

Venus is the exception, as its proximity to the Sun and dense atmosphere make it our solar system's hottest planet.

Published On : June 7, 2021

2 .

Which one is the largest natural moon in our solar system

Ganymede

Amalthea

Callisto

Europa

Correct Answer : Ganymede

Ganymede: Jupiter's largest moon is the largest non-planet in the Solar System. With a diameter of 5,268 km (3,271 miles), it's 8% bigger than the planet Mercury, although it has less than half the mass of our Solar System's innermost planet, being made of mostly ices and silicate minerals.

Published On : June 7, 2021

3 .

Who is known as the inventor of steam engine

Michael Faraday

William Murdoch

James Watt

Graham Bell

Correct Answer : James Watt

James Watt was an 18th-century inventor and instrument maker. Although Watt invented and improved a number of industrial technologies, he is best remembered for his improvements to the steam engine.

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4 .

Which scientist formulated the theory of evolution

Isaac Newton

Charles Darwin

Alexander Fleming

Aristotle

Correct Answer : Charles Darwin

The theory of evolution is a shortened form of the term “theory of evolution by natural selection,” which was proposed by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the nineteenth century

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5 .

Which one is India's First Indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle

GSLV

ASLV

PSLV

SLV-3

Correct Answer : SLV-3

Satellite Launch Vehicle-3 (SLV-3) was India's first experimental satellite launch vehicle, which was an all solid, four stage vehicle weighing 17 tonnes with a height of 22m and capable of placing 40 kg class payloads in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

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6 .

Which day is celebrated as National Mathematics Day in India as a respect to S Ramanujan

22 December

30 August

24 March

12 January

Correct Answer : 22 December

22 December is a special day for mathematics. This day is observed as National Mathematics Day to celebrate the achievements of Srinivasa Ramanujan. The legendary mathematician was born on this day in 1887. In 2012, then prime minister Manmohan Singh declared 22 December as National Mathematics Day.

Published On : June 7, 2021

7 .

Boiling point of water is

200⁰F

204⁰F

208⁰F

212⁰F

Correct Answer : 212⁰F

Water boils at 100⁰C or 212⁰F at one atmosphere of pressure. Liquids boil when the pressure of the atmosphere is equal to the pressure of the liquid. When the pressure of the atmosphere is reduced a liquid boils at a lower temperature. This is what happens when you climb a mountain.

Published On : June 7, 2021

8 .

California - based private spaceflight company Space X has launched which secret mission for United States government?

Zuma

Dream Chaser

Sprint

Cygnus

Correct Answer : Zuma

Spacexcmsadmin (29 January 2016). "Zuma mission". SpaceX. Archived from the original on 26 November 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2017.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is an American aerospace manufacturer, space transportation services and communications company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. SpaceX was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to enable the colonization of Mars. SpaceX manufactures the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles, several rocket engines, Dragon cargo, crew spacecraft and Starlink communications satellites.

SpaceX's achievements include the first privately funded liquid-propellant rocket to reach orbit (Falcon 1 in 2008), the first private company to successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft (Dragon in 2010), the first private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station (Dragon in 2012), the first vertical take-off and vertical propulsive landing for an orbital rocket (Falcon 9 in 2015), the first reuse of an orbital rocket (Falcon 9 in 2017), and the first private company to send astronauts to orbit and to the International Space Station (SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 in 2020). SpaceX has flown and reflown the Falcon 9 series of rockets over one hundred times.

Published On : June 7, 2021

9 .

Study of earth is known as

Ecology

Geology

Biology

Ethology

Correct Answer : Geology

Geology - Study of the structure of the Earth | Britannica.

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10 .

As per historical astronomy there are ___ zodiac divisions.

Correct Answer : 12

In Western astrology, and formerly astronomy, the zodiac is divided into twelve (12) signs, each occupying 30° of celestial longitude and roughly corresponding to the constellations: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces.

Published On : June 7, 2021