How good is your general knowledge? test yourself

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No matter if it’s international cuisine, architecture or the human body, can you shine in all subject areas? So you obviously have an extraordinarily broad general knowledge. But what exactly does this term mean?

General knowledge is knowledge that can be acquired by people with average educational opportunities. It is not just about the knowledge that is taught to children and young people in their upbringing and education. This also includes knowledge that is inadvertently absorbed, for example by consuming media.

General education describes the most important knowledge and skills that a person needs to be able to actively shape as many areas of modern society as possible. General knowledge should be the basis of the education of every human being. Both terms, general knowledge and general education, are not clear and are not uniformly defined. Colloquially, the terms are often equated.

Bottom line: general education requires general knowledge. If general knowledge is available, people still need their intellect to understand this knowledge in context and apply it when in doubt. In psychology, common knowledge consists of more or less everyday facts stored in long-term memory. To build this general knowledge, a person needs a certain degree of intelligence.