SSC CGL 2016: General Awareness Test – Day 10

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23 hours, 56 minutes, 4.09 seconds is exact

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It has no atmosphere and no satellite.

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Venus is the hottest planet because it’s atmosphere is in a runaway greenhouse state.

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Jupiter is the first of what are called the outer planets (being outside the asteroid belt).

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An equatorial evergreen forest is a forest consisting entirely or mainly of evergreen trees that retain green foliage all year round. Such forests reign in the equatorial region, between the tropics primarily as broadleaf evergreens, and in temperate and boreal latitudes primarily as coniferous evergreens.

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Oct 1 – World Vegetarian Day, Oct 2 – International Day of Non Violence, Oct – World Nature Day, Oct 4 – World Animal Day

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annular pattern means a ring-like arrangement

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Deimos is the smaller and outer of the two natural satellites of the planet Mars, the other being Phobos.

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The synagogue is the Jewish equivalent of a church, more or less. It is the center of the Jewish religious community: a place of prayer, study and education, social and charitable work, as well as a social center.

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Maurya Empire (321–184 BC)