SSC CGL GENERAL AWARENESS Pointers
   l The components of an atom are Protons and Neu-
                                                              SSC CAPFs ASI & DP SI Exam
      trons.
   l In Aqua Regia, HCl and HNO3 are mixed in ratio          Held on: 04.07.2017 2nd Shift
      of 1:3.
   l The mass of one mole of a substance in grams is
                                                       Ancient History
      called Molecular Mass.                              l Historian/travelers and their related country
                                                               Historian/Traveler               Country
Biology
                                                            a. Hiuen Tsang                      China
   l Urine is stored in human body in urinary blad-         b. Ibn Battuta                      Morocco
      der.
                                                            c. Megasthenes                      Greece
   l Sweet Potato is an example of tuber-root.
                                                            d. Fa-Hien                          China
   l The highest source of protein is Soyabean.
                                                          l Idol of dancing girl (Bronze) is found in Indus
   l Endoplasmic Reticulum are rough because of ri-
                                                            Valley Civilization.
      bosomes present on their surface.
                                                          l Gautam Buddha is also known as ‘Light of
                      Success Tip                           Asia’.
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a type of organelle                       Success Tip
in eukaryotic cells that forms an interconnected net-
work of flattened, membrane-enclosed sacs or tube-     Gautama Buddha was born in Lumbini, Nepal. His
like structures known as cisternae.                    family name was Siddhartha. Gautama was the per-
   l The examples of amphibian are frog, alligator and son who began the religion of Buddhism. He lived
      toad.                                            from about 563 BC to about 483 BC. He is also called
                                                       Sakyamuni or Tathagat.
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Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of
                                                       Medieval History
the class Amphibia. Modern amphibians are all Lis-        l The Vijayanagar ruler Krishna Dev Raya’s work
samphibia.                                                  ‘Amuktamalayada’ was written in Telugu lan-
   l During hibernation state, frog respires through        guage.
      skin only.                                                            Success Tip
Miscellaneous                                          Krishnadevaraya was an emperor of the Vijayanaga-
   l Title bar is located at top of WordPad/Notepad.   ra Empire who reigned from 1509–1529. He is the
   l The Basic logical operators in Boolean Algebra    third ruler of the Tuluva Dynasty.
      laws are AND, OR and NOT.
                                                       Modern History
   l Under ‘Geo Mahatma Gandhi NREGA’ initiative,
      MNREGA has reached a milestone by geo tag-          l Bengali weekly newspaper ‘Samvad Kaumudi’
      ging 1 crore assets created under it.                 in year 1821 was started by Raja Ram Mohan
   l Great Pyramid of Giza has the honorary status          Roy.
      among the seven wonders of the modern world.                          Success Tip
   l A recipient of 2016 National Bravery Awards is
                                                       Samvad Kaumudi was a Bengali weekly newspaper
      Arjun Singh.
                                                       published from Kolkata in the first half of the 19th
   l The author of the book ‘Modi’s Midas Touch in
                                                       century by Ram Mohan Roy.
      Foreign Policy’ is Surendra Kumar.
   l Morocco has re-established diplomatic ties with   Geography and Environment
      Cuba after 37 years.
                                                          l The imaginary lines touching both the poles of
   l ‘TAPI’ is a natural gas pipeline from Turkmeni-
                                                            earth are called longitudes.
      stan to India. It passes through Afghanistan and
      Pakistan.                                           l Summer solstice is observed in Northern Hemi-
                                                            sphere on 21st June.
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The Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India Pipe-
                                                       The solstice occurs twice each year (around June 21
line (TAPI), also known as Trans-Afghanistan Pipe-
line, is a natural gas pipeline being developed by the and December 21) as the Sun reaches its most north-
Asian Development Bank.                                erly or southerly excursion relative to the celestial
                                                       equator on the celestial sphere.
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