General knowledge can be defined as culturally valued knowledge about any particular topic relating to the social interest of a society, culture, civilization, community or a country, which may be communicated by a range of some non-specialist media. In simple words, general knowledge is the knowledge of every aspect of the human life, which may or may not be a part of his academic studies. It is also evident that this knowledge may or may not be of some great importance to a person and also may not be related to him or his community. There can be various areas identified as different domains of general knowledge like arts, discovery, games, politics, culture, film, medicine, history etc. Hence it would not be wrong to say that general knowledge covers almost all the aspects of human life. However, the main branches of general knowledge can be classified as follows:

Current affairs
Fashion
Family
Physical Health and Recreation
Arts
Science
These are some important branches of the human general knowledge. General knowledge is a very important aspect of the human life. If you don’t know a little about a lot of things going around you or in general things that happened, then you seem to be very stupid, so you really don’t make yourself a part of some healthy discussion, as without proper facts and knowledge you are neither able to contribute your comments and even unable to understand what others speak. Without proper general knowledge, your socialization factor becomes a little constrained. If you don’t have a little knowledge about a lot of things you won’t be able to figure out what it is that you want to be, decision making very difficult without proper knowledge and you have to rely on the advice of the other people. We need to experience the world at least through books, magazines, discussions or other sources before we tie ourselves to one anchor.

General knowledge can be of a great importance to us. These days test based on general knowledge is a part of almost every interview. Moreover, a person with good general knowledge always conquers the discussion that he is part of and wins everyone with his knowledge. Besides these, a good general knowledge gives you a great knowledge of everything going around you and helps you in making some wise decisions also.