Static GK in IBPS exams means banking awareness first. The awareness tests of PO, Clerk and RRB Mains name banking, economy, financial and digital awareness, and the questions that return every year are about the RBI and its functions, the monetary policy tools (repo, SDF, MSF, CRR, SLR), types of banks and accounts, NPAs, Basel norms, priority sector lending, payment systems such as UPI, NEFT, RTGS and IMPS, deposit insurance, financial inclusion schemes, and the regulators SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDA and institutions such as NABARD and SIDBI. Headquarters and taglines of banks, capitals and currencies, national parks, dams and important days appear too, though with a smaller share than in SSC. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for banking exams, written as short facts and tables so that a topic can be revised in one sitting, with the terms and abbreviations that IBPS papers use. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to check what you retained, and come back to the notes for the facts you missed.
Which fort was the capital of Shivaji, where he was crowned in 1674?
The correct answer is B, Raigad, which Shivaji made his capital and where his coronation took place in 1674, the ceremony at which he took the title Chhatrapati.
Read the full explanation →The Golconda Fort is located in which present-day state?
Golconda, on the edge of Hyderabad, was the capital of the Qutb Shahi rulers before they moved down to the new city; it was the market through which the diamonds of the region were traded, and its acoustics are famous, a clap at the Fateh Darwaza being heard at the…
Read the full explanation →The Hawa Mahal of Jaipur was built in 1799 by:
The correct answer is B, Sawai Pratap Singh, who had the Hawa Mahal built in 1799 as a screen of small windows and jharokhas through which the women of the household could watch the processions in the street below without being seen.
Read the full explanation →The Vijay Stambha, or tower of victory, stands in which fort?
The Vijay Stambha was raised by Rana Kumbha of Mewar to mark a victory, and the Kirti Stambha, the tower of fame, stands in the same fort, so a question may ask for either.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest fort in India by area?
The correct answer is A, Chittorgarh Fort, which spreads over the largest area of any fort in the country and holds within it palaces, tanks and temples as well as the Vijay Stambha and the Kirti Stambha.
Read the full explanation →The Red Fort at Delhi was built by which Mughal emperor?
The correct answer is C, Shah Jahan, who built the Red Fort of red sandstone as the citadel of his new capital Shahjahanabad, completing it in 1648; the Diwan-i-Aam, the Diwan-i-Khas, the Rang Mahal and the Moti Masjid stand inside, and it was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in…
Read the full explanation →The height of Mount Everest was revised in a joint announcement by Nepal and China in 2020 to:
In December 2020 Nepal and China announced a jointly agreed new height for Mount Everest of 8,848.86 metres, after separate surveys from the two sides.
Read the full explanation →Which Indian athlete is best known for representing India in the luge at six Winter Olympic Games?
Shiva Keshavan, from Himachal Pradesh, competed in the luge at six Winter Olympic Games beginning in 1998 and won titles at the Asian level, which makes him India's best known winter Olympian.
Read the full explanation →Which city became the first in the world to host both a Summer and a Winter Olympic Games?
Beijing hosted the Summer Olympics in 2008 and the Winter Olympics in 2022, becoming the first city to have held both.
Read the full explanation →The Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, whose first director of field training was Tenzing Norgay, is located at:
The Himalayan Mountaineering Institute was founded at Darjeeling in West Bengal in 1954, the year after the first ascent of Everest, and Tenzing Norgay served as its first director of field training.
Read the full explanation →Which was the first peak above eight thousand metres to be climbed?
Annapurna I, 8,091 metres high and the lowest of the fourteen eight-thousanders, was climbed in 1950 by a French expedition led by Maurice Herzog, three years before Everest; it remains one of the most dangerous of the fourteen.
Read the full explanation →Which is the highest mountain peak lying entirely within the territory of India?
Nanda Devi, 7,816 metres high, stands in Uttarakhand and is the highest peak lying wholly inside India.
Read the full explanation →Biathlon, an event of the Winter Olympics, is a combination of which two activities?
In the biathlon a competitor skis a cross-country course and stops at a range to shoot at targets, with a penalty of extra distance or time for each miss; the sport grew out of military patrol skiing in Scandinavia.
Read the full explanation →Which of these winter sports is descended head first and face down on a small sled?
In skeleton the athlete lies face down and head first on a small sled and steers it down an ice track by shifting body weight.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest?
She reached the summit of Everest on 23 May 1984 as a member of an Indian expedition and became the first Indian woman and the fifth woman in the world to do so.
Read the full explanation →Who were the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest?
They reached the summit on 29 May 1953 as part of a British expedition led by Colonel John Hunt; Hillary was a New Zealander and Tenzing Norgay a Sherpa who later became the first director of field training at the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling.
Read the full explanation →The first Winter Olympic Games were held in 1924 at which place?
The first Winter Olympic Games were held at Chamonix in the French Alps in 1924, the same year as the Paris Summer Olympics, and were recognised retrospectively by the International Olympic Committee as the first Winter Games.
Read the full explanation →Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 relates to:
Section 79 gives an intermediary such as a network service provider or a social media platform a safe harbour, provided it merely transmits or hosts the content, does not initiate or modify it, and observes the due diligence prescribed by the rules; the Shreya Singhal judgment read the section down…
Read the full explanation →In which case did the Supreme Court hold that the right to privacy is a fundamental right under Article 21?
A bench of nine judges held in 2017 that the right to privacy is intrinsic to the right to life and personal liberty under Article 21, which became the constitutional basis for India's data protection framework and for the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
Read the full explanation →Which amendment to the Information Technology Act inserted sections 66A to 66F and gave statutory recognition to electronic signatures?
The Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008 came into force on 27 October 2009 and made the most important changes to the parent Act: it added section 3A on electronic signatures, inserted the computer-related offences of sections 66A to 66F and 67A to 67C, added section 43A on compensation for failure…
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