Static GK is the larger half of the General Knowledge section in the Agniveer exams. The Army's syllabus asks about India and its neighbouring countries, especially History, Culture, Geography and who's who, and adds abbreviations, terminology, the Indian Armed Forces, continents and sub-continents, inventions and discoveries, the Constitution of India, international organisations, and books and authors. General Science is a separate subject of 15 questions in General Duty and Tradesmen: school-level Physics, Chemistry and Biology, with the human body, cells and tissues, plants and animals, and common epidemics named in the syllabus. The Army says questions may come from outside the list, but within the CBSE syllabus, so school textbooks set the level. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for Agniveer, written as short facts and tables in English and Hindi, so that a topic can be revised in one sitting. Start with Indian History, Geography and Indian Polity for the General Knowledge section, then the General Science notes, and add Sports GK, Awards and Honours and Books and Authors. After each topic, solve its quiz on this site to check what stayed in memory, and come back to the notes you got wrong.
In which year did the annexation of Awadh by Lord Dalhousie take place?
Lord Dalhousie annexed Awadh in February 1856, in the last weeks of his term as Governor-General from 1848 to 1856.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following war ended with the treaty of Salbai?
The Treaty of Salbai, signed in May 1782, closed that war between the English East India Company and the Marathas.
Read the full explanation →Which writ is issued when the court finds that there is unlawful arrest of a person?
It orders the person or authority holding someone to produce that person before the court, and if the detention is found unlawful the person is set free.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is the motto of NCC?
The motto of the National Cadet Corps is Unity and Discipline, in Hindi Ekta aur Anushasan. The NCC was set up in 1948 under the National Cadet Corps Act, 1948, and works under the Ministry of Defence with its headquarters in New Delhi.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is the only paramilitary force with a dual control structure?
It is the only such force whose administrative control lies with the Ministry of Home Affairs while its operational control lies with the Indian Army.
Read the full explanation →The Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School of Indian Army is situated at:
The Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School, known as CIJWS, is at Vairengte in the Kolasib district of Mizoram, close to the Assam border.
Read the full explanation →The Battle of Rezang La, an epic battle in hostile conditions, was fought by the Indian Army in:
The Battle of Rezang La was fought on 18 November 1962 during the India-China war, at a pass about 16,000 feet high near Chushul in Ladakh.
Read the full explanation →The green plants in a terrestrial eco-system absorb sunlight that falls on their leaves and convert it into food energy. The percentage of solar radiation absorbed by all green plants for the process of photosynthesis is about
Green plants are the producers of a terrestrial ecosystem, and NCERT's Class 10 chapter Our Environment states that they capture about 1 percent of the energy of the sunlight that falls on their leaves and convert it into food energy through photosynthesis.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is not a main greenhouse gas?
A greenhouse gas is one whose molecules absorb the long-wave infrared radiation given off by the warm surface of the Earth and send part of it back, keeping the planet about 33 degrees Celsius warmer than it would otherwise be.
Read the full explanation →Which Five Year Plan of India focused on rapid industrialization based growth process?
The Second Plan (1956 to 1961) was built on the model of the statistician P. C. Mahalanobis and aimed at rapid industrialisation with a stress on heavy and basic industries such as steel, machinery and chemicals, on the belief that machines to make machines would speed up growth.
Read the full explanation →In the passing of a Money Bill, the Rajya Sabha has limited powers in that it shall return the Bill, with or without any recommendation, within the stipulated time of
Under Article 109 a Money Bill can be introduced only in the Lok Sabha, and after it is passed there it is sent to the Rajya Sabha, which cannot reject or amend it.
Read the full explanation →In which Schedule of the Constitution of India, provisions as to disqualification on grounds of defection are given?
The Tenth Schedule, popularly called the anti-defection law, was added by the 52nd Constitutional Amendment Act of 1985.
Read the full explanation →By which one of the following amendments, was Article 51A, relating to the Fundamental Duties, inserted into the Constitution of India?
The 42nd Amendment of 1976, passed on the recommendation of the Swaran Singh Committee, added a new Part IV-A with a single Article 51A listing ten Fundamental Duties of citizens, such as respecting the Constitution, the National Flag and the National Anthem, protecting the environment and developing the scientific temper.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following crops is generally benefitted by the rain caused by western disturbances in India?
Western disturbances are low-pressure systems that originate over the Mediterranean Sea and travel eastward with the subtropical westerly jet stream in winter, bringing light rain to Punjab, Haryana, western Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, and snow to the Himalaya, between December and February.
Read the full explanation →Snow, sleet and hail are the forms of
Precipitation is any form of water, liquid or solid, that falls from clouds to the ground. When the temperature is above freezing it falls as rain or drizzle; below freezing, water vapour turns directly into ice crystals that fall as snow.
Read the full explanation →River Beas, flowing from Himachal and Punjab, joins the river
The Beas rises at Beas Kund near the Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh, flows past Manali, Kullu and Mandi, enters Punjab and meets the Satluj at Harike in Punjab, where the Harike barrage and wetland stand.
Read the full explanation →When and where was the demand for 'Purna Swaraj' or complete independence made by the Indian National Congress?
At its Lahore session in December 1929, presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian National Congress passed the Purna Swaraj resolution declaring complete independence, not dominion status, as its goal.
Read the full explanation →Which Governor General of Bengal underwent impeachment proceedings in the British Parliament?
Warren Hastings was the first Governor-General of Bengal under the Regulating Act of 1773 and held office from 1773 to 1785.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following composed the 'Prayag Prashasti' of Samudragupta?
The Prayag Prashasti, also called the Allahabad Pillar Inscription, is a Sanskrit eulogy of the Gupta emperor Samudragupta (about 335 to 375 CE) composed by his court poet and minister Harishena, who held the titles sandhivigrahika (minister of peace and war) and kumaramatya.
Read the full explanation →Taxila was the capital of which one among the following Mahajanapadas of ancient India?
Buddhist texts list sixteen mahajanapadas of the sixth century BCE, and Gandhara, in the north-west covering the Peshawar and Rawalpindi region, had its capital at Taxila (Takshashila), near present-day Islamabad in Pakistan.
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