SSC CGL 2016: General Awareness Test – Day 12

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Abhinav Bharat Society (Young India Society) was a secret society founded by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and his brother Ganesh Damodar Savarkar in 1903. Initially founded at Nasik as Mitra Mela

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The Congress declared January 26, 1930 as ‘Independence Day’. As the first mass movement of its kind in India, it led to tangible gains.

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Ramdas was a noted 17th-century Brahmin saint and spiritual poet of Maharashtra. He is most remembered for his Advaita Vendatist text, the Dasbodh

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AKBAR was born at Amarkot in 1542 and he was crowned at Kalanaur in 1556 at the age of 13 years. Bairam Khan was his tutor.

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The Utkal Plains are coastal plains in the Odisha state of eastern India. They include the delta of the Mahanadi River, Brahmani River, Baitarani River.

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The tallest man living is Sultan Kösen who measured 251 cm (8 ft 2.8 in) in Ankara, Turkey, on 08 February 2011.

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The president of Finland is elected directly by the people of Finland for a term of six years. Since 1991, no president may be elected for more than two consecutive terms.

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Dipa Karmakar is an Indian artistic gymnast who hails from the Northeastern Indian state of Tripura

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The Ptolemy world map is a map of the world known to Hellenistic society in the 2nd century. It is based on the description contained in Ptolemy’s book Geography.

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Andromeda galaxy (also known as NGC 224 and M31) is the nearest galaxy to the Earth apart from smaller companion galaxies such as the Magellanic Clouds. Like the Milky Way, Andromeda is a spiral galaxy.

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Apogee is the farthest point from the earth. Perigee is the closest point to the earth and it is in this stage that the moon appears larger.

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On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic Games are held in Athens, Greece, with athletes from 14 countries participating. The International Olympic Committee met for the first time in Paris in June 1984

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Radioactive Iodine-131 can be used to study the function of the thyroid gland assisting in detecting disease.

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The process of making India ink was known in China as early as the middle of the 3rd millennium BC, during Neolithic China. India ink was first invented in China
Ink is prepared from Iron salts, such as ferrous sulfate (made by treating iron with sulfuric acid), were mixed with tannin or tannic acid from gallnuts (they grow on trees) and a thickener.

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Every drop of blood in human body is filtered by the body over 300 times a day

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When black body is heated, it emits thermal radiations of different wavelengths or frequency.
E ∞ V or E hv = hc/λ

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World Environment Day (WED) is observed every year on 5 June to raise global awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet Earth.
2016 Theme : Zero tolerance for the illegal trade in wildlife

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The United Nations World Humanitarian Summit (WHS), was held in Istanbul, Turkey, on May 23 and 24, 2016.The Summit was organized by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA).

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Fascists believe that liberal democracy is obsolete, and they regard the complete mobilization of society under a totalitarian one-party state as necessary to prepare a nation for armed conflict and to respond effectively to economic difficulties.

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Marlon James is the first Jamaican author to win the Man Booker Prize for his book ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings (Novel)’