General knowledge is an important component of crystallized intelligence and is strongly associated with general intelligence, and with openness to experience. Studies have found that people who are highly knowledgeable in a particular domain tend to be knowledgeable in many.General knowledge is something that really helps us to grow both on personal as well as academic level. It narrows our sense of perceiving the world, understands, and analyzes the situations better as one would without proper knowledge. General knowledge also helps to grow your confidence level and may prove to be of some great help during some important events of our lives like interview etc.You may start to talk to any person on any topic, but your knowledge is something that determines your conversation and your impression on the other person, a good knowledge of everything around always impress the people around you.