SSC CGL GENERAL AWARENESS Pointers
   l  Catalytic converters are generally made from                           Success Tip
      transition metals                                  Metadata is data that describes other data. Meta is
   l  The green colour seen in firework displays is due  a prefix that in most information technology usages
      to the chloride salt of Barium                     means “an underlying definition or description.”
Biology                                                  Metadata summarizes basic information about data,
                                                         which can make finding and working with particular
   l  The substrate of Photorespiration is Glycolate     instances of data easier
   l  Match the following:                                 l Amnesty International is a Human Rights Or-
      I                            II                         ganization
      Chlorophyll                 Photosynthetic                             Success Tip
      Nostoc                      Diazotroph             Amnesty International was founded in London in
      Transpiration               Loss of water from     July 1961 by English labour lawyer Peter Benenson
                                  plant surface            l Jaspal Rana is the name associated with Shoot-
      Rust of wheat               Plant disease               ing
                                                           l The author of the book “Zest for Life” is Emile
   l  Myxine is jawless
                                                              Zola
   l  Competition for food, light and space is most
                                                           l Speciality of WINDOWS-NT is that it supports
      severe in closely related species growing in the
                                                              multi-processing
      same area or niche
   l  Afla toxins are produced by fungi                  SSC Combined Graduate Level (CGL)
                      Success Tip                           Tier-I Exam Held on: 16.08.2015
 Aflatoxins are a family of toxins produced by certain                   (Second Sitting)
 fungi that are found on agricultural crops such as
 maize (corn), peanuts, cottonseed, and tree nuts       Ancient History
   l  Sporozoite is the infective stage of the Malaria     l  Chandragupta is known as the ‘Napoleon of In-
      Parasite                                                dia’
                      Success Tip                          l  Harappa Indus Valley sites is in Pakistan
 an infected mosquito injects immature forms of         Modern History
 the parasite, called sporozoites, into the person’s       l  George Yule was the first European to be se-
 bloodstream. The sporozoites are carried by the blood        lected as President of Indian National Congress
 to the liver
                                                                             Success Tip
Miscellaneous                                            George Yule was the fourth President of the Indian
   l  Headquarter of European Union (EU) is situat-      National Congress in 1888 at Allahabad, the first
      ed in Brussels (Belgium)                           non-Indian to hold that office
   l  The Thirteenth Pravasi Bhartiy Divas was held        l Correct Pairs
      on 8th and 9th January 2015 at Gandhinagar              Comrade – Mohammed Ali
                      Success Tip                             Indian Sociologist – Lala Har Dayal
                                                              Young India – Mahatma Gandhi
 The fifteen Pravasi Bhartiya Divas was held on 7-
 9th January 2017 at Bangalore                                Common Weal – Annie Besant
                                                           l Aurobindo Ghosh’s name is connected With Al-
   l  man Booker Prize for 2014 is awarded to Rich-
                                                              ipore Conspiracy Case
      ard Flanagan
                                                           l C. Rajagopalachari was the founder of Swa-
                      Success Tip                             tantra Party
 The Sellout by Paul Beatty is named winner of                               Success Tip
 the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
                                                         The Swatantra Party was a conservative political party
   l  The National Police Academy is located in Hy-      that existed from 1959 to 1974. It was founded by C.
      derabad                                            Rajagopalachari in reaction to what he felt was
   l  Vikrant is an indigenously built light combat      the Jawaharlal Nehrudom-inated Indian National
      aircraft of India                                  Congress’s increasingly socialist and statist outlook
   l  In a Database Managemnt System (DBMS), the           l  Chronological order of the events: Minto-Mar-
      content and the location of the data is defined         ley Reforms, Montague-Chelmsford Reforms,
      by the Meta data                                        Cripps Mission, Cabinet Mission
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