SSC CGL GENERAL AWARENESS Pointers
l Place Location l The device used for measuring the wavelength of
Trafalgar Square London X-rays is Bragg Spectrometer
Red Square Moscow Chemistry
Tiananmen Square Beijing
l Alpha particle is the nucleus of an atom of He-
Tahrir Square Egypt
lium
Polity and Constitution l Silicone is a polymer of Dialkyl dichloro silane
l Division of Powers and Independent Judiciary l Blood is a natural colloid
are the two important features of Democratic l German Silver does not contain Silver
form of Government
Success Tip
l Article 32 of the Indian Constitution termed
by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar as the “Heart and Soul of Ger man silver contains copper, from 50% to
the Indian Constitution” 61.6%; zinc, from 19% to 17.2%; nickel, from 30%
to 21.1%
l Machiavelli was the first to use the term ‘State’
l Under Article 33 of the Constitution of India, l The presence of Cobalt in Vitamin B12 was es-
the fundamental rights of the members of the tablished for the first time by Spectroscopy
Armed Forces be specifically restricted l Coating of solid waste with impervious material
l President of India presides over the Joint Ses- is known as Encapsulation
sion of Indian Parliament Biology
l Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan is the Chairman
l Teeth and Bones acquire strength and rigidity
of the 21th Law Commission
from Calcium
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l The type of tail found in Shark is Heterocercal
Currently he is Chairman of the Cauvery River Wa- l The Sigmoid Colon is part of Large Intestine
ter Disputes Tribunal
l AIDS virus destroys Lymphocytes
l Chhattisgarh is the first state in India to pass
l Nitrosomonas bacterial strain developed from
the Food Security Law
natural isolates by genetic manipulations can
Economy be used for treating oil spills
l Social accounting system in India is classified l Thiamidine dimer formation in DNA is caused
into Income, product and expenditure by UV-rays
l Forced Savings refer to reduction of consu-mp- Miscellaneous
tion consequent to a rise in prices
l The demand for labour is called derived demand l Mark Zuckerberg is the founder of “Face-book”
which is currently the No.1 social networking
l Expansion of the main plant of a company,
website in India
purchase of machinery and an increase in busi-
ness inventories are investment expenditures in l In programming, repeating some statements is
goods and services usually called Looping
l Undistributed profits represents the Savings l Christopher Martin Jenkins, Presidents of MCC
of the Private Corporate Sector was a non-professional cricketer
l European Union won the Nobel Prize for Peace
Physics
in 2012
l A good conductor while carrying current is pos-
itively charged Success Tip
l Phytochrome plant pigments absorbs in red and The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Pres-
far-red region of light ident of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos
Success Tip l Shankha Ghosh won the Jnanpith Award for
2016
Phytochrome is a photoreceptor, a pigment
that plants and some bacteria and fungi, use to de- l Mark Tolly is the-author of the book “No Full
tect light. It is sensitive to light in the red and far- Stops in India”
red region of the visible spectrum l The term of a non-permanent member of the U.N.
l The process through which excess of light ener- Security Council is 2 years
gy is dissipated in photosynthesis is known as l Winner of the Australian Open Men’s Singles
Quenching Title in 2013 is Novak Djokovic
l Ultraviolet rays can be used in water treatment l Malcolm Bligh Turnbull is the 29th and current
as Disinfectant Prime Minister of Australia
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