SSC CGL GENERAL AWARENESS Pointers
General Geography l The chemical name of ‘Plaster of Paris” common-
ly used for setting broken bones is calcium sul-
l Marble is the odd item among Shale, Marble,
Limestone and Sandstone phate
l The apparatus used to test acidity of aqueous
Success Tip
solution is pH meter
Marble is a metamorphic rock while others are
sedimentary rocks Biology
l In our country the ‘Van Mahotsav Day’ is ob- l Rugae folds found in the mucous lining of the
served on 1st July empty stomach
Success Tip l Leaves of many grasses are capable of folding
Van Mahotsav was started in 1950 by K.M.Munshi, and unfolding because they have specialised
the then Union Minster for Agriculture and Food to bulliforrn cells
create enthusiasm among masses for forest l Pleura is the covering of Lung
conservation and planting trees l Duck – billed platypus is an egg-laying mammal
l The Hutti Gold mines are located in the State l The type of kidneys present in frog are meso-
of Karnataka nephros
l Ganga river serves the largest cultivable area l Medicine of Quinine is provided by Cinchona
Polity and Constitution plant
l India follows the policy of non-alignment which l Process through which plants reproduce is Pol-
implies neutrality towards power blocs lination
l The number of subjects incorporated in the Miscellaneous
Union List is 97
l An aspect of Input/output controller of data log-
l Democratic Socialism aims at bringing about
ic is called Buffering
Socialism through democratic means
l BIOS stands for Basic Input Output System
l Two – Party System is found in U.S.A.
l Nelson Mandela was the first recipient of ‘Ma-
l Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is appoint-
hathir Award’ for Global Peace in August 2013
ed by the President
l In August 2013, Malala Yousafzai won the In-
Economy ternational Children’s Peace Prize
l A unit price elastic demand curve will touch Success Tip
neither price axis, nor quantity axis
International Children’s Peace Prize 2016 has been
l If the supply curve is a straight line passing
conferred to Kehkashan Basu (16) from the United
through the origin, then the price elasticity of
Arab Emirates for her extraordinary fight to safeguard
supply will be equal to unity
the environment
l According to Modern Theory of Rent, rent ac-
crues to any factor l Mamnoon Hussain is the present President of
l The book which is at the centrepiece of the study Pakistan
of Macro–Economics was written by Prof. J.M. l Shubha Mugdal had been selected for the Rajiv
Keynes Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award 2016
l The basic problem studied in Macro –Econom- l Thomas Bach was elected as the Ninth Presi-
ics is production of income dent of International Olympic Committee (IOC)
Physics Success Tip
l The device used to convert solar energy into elec- Headquarters of the International Olympic
tricity is Photovoltaic cell Committee is in Lausanne (Switzerland)
l The Indian Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta won
Chemistry
the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2016
l The moderator used in a nuclear reactor is ordi- l Zubin Mehta had been selected for the Tagore
nary water
Award for Cultural Harmony in 2013
Success Tip l Stan Wawrinka won the U.S. Open Men’s Sin-
Commonly used moderators include regular (light) gles in 2016 in Lawn Tennis
water (roughly 75% of the world’s reactors), l On 26th August, 2013 Rajya Sabha passed “ The
solid graphite (20% of reactors) and heavy water (5% Marriage Laws” (Amendment) Bill 2012
of reactors). Beryllium has also been used in some
l GSAT – 7 was the first Indian exclusive defence
experimental types, and hydrocarbons have been
satellite which was successfully launched on 29
suggested as another possibility
August, 2013
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