Static General Knowledge makes up the rest of the General Awareness section in RRB NTPC, and the notices name its topics: General Science and Life Science up to Class 10, History of India and the freedom struggle, Physical, Social and Economic Geography of India and the world, Indian Polity and Governance, Indian Economy, Art and Culture, Indian Literature, Monuments and Places, Flora and Fauna, Famous Personalities, the UN and other world organisations, environmental issues, Transport Systems in India, Important Government and Public Sector Organisations, Common Abbreviations, and Basics of Computers and Computer Applications. RRB frames these as short factual questions: the unit of a physical quantity, the year of a battle, the article of the Constitution, the river a city stands on, the full form of an abbreviation, the headquarters of an organisation. GK24's GK notes on this page cover each topic in English and Hindi, arranged the way the syllabus lists them, with the facts RRB tends to ask placed first. Work through one topic at a time, note the lists (national parks, dances, articles, schedules, awards), and pair each topic with its quiz on GK24 to check what has stayed with you.
Where did Gandhiji initially forge the techniques of Satyagraha?
Gandhiji first used and shaped Satyagraha there while fighting racial laws against Indians. Gandhiji went to South Africa in 1893 as a lawyer and stayed about 21 years.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following statements about the cleansing action of soap is not true?
Soaps are sodium or potassium salts of long-chain carboxylic (fatty) acids, not ammonium salts. A soap molecule has a long hydrocarbon tail that mixes with oil and an ionic head that faces water.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is not a feature of agriculture in India?
Indian farming is dominated by food crops, not cash crops. Most of India’s cropped area is under food grains such as rice, wheat, millets and pulses, grown largely to feed the farm family and the country.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following allotropes of carbon is isomorphous with crystalline silicon?
Diamond and crystalline silicon have the same crystal structure. Isomorphous means having the same crystal form.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following is the author of the book, Tomb of Sand?
Tomb of Sand is the English translation of her Hindi novel Ret Samadhi. Ret Samadhi was translated into English by the American translator Daisy Rockwell.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements are correct about the electrical resistance and resistivity of a wire? 1. Both quantities depend on the area of cross-section of the wire 2. Both depend on the temperature 3. Resistance of the wire is directly proportional to the resistivity of the wire 4. Resistivity of the wire is directly proportional to the length of the wire Select the correct answer using the code given below :
Both quantities change with temperature, and resistance is directly proportional to resistivity, while resistivity does not depend on the wire’s size.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following statements regarding simple pendulum is correct? Simple pendulum has a time period independent of amplitude :
The restoring force on the bob is mg sin θ. For small angles sin θ is almost equal to θ, so the force becomes proportional to the displacement and points back towards the mean position.
Read the full explanation →Which one among the following is correct for a person suffering from myopia?
Myopia is short-sightedness: near objects look sharp but distant ones look blurred. In a myopic eye the eyeball is too long or the eye lens is too curved, so light from a distant object comes to a focus in front of the retina instead of on it.
Read the full explanation →For acid rain, the pH of rain water should be less than
Rain is called acid rain when its pH falls below 5.6. Even clean rain is slightly acidic, because carbon dioxide in the air dissolves in it and forms weak carbonic acid, which brings its pH down to about 5.6.
Read the full explanation →With which of the following was the Bretton Woods System NOT associated?
Bretton Woods set up fixed, not floating, exchange rates. At the Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire, USA, in July 1944, 44 Allied nations agreed on a new post-war money order.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following pairs : Chemical Reaction — Type of Chemical Reaction I. Fe(s) + CuSO₄(aq.) → FeSO₄(aq.) + Cu(s) — Displacement reaction II. Na₂SO₄(aq.) + BaCl₂(aq.) → BaSO₄(s) + 2NaCl(aq.) — Double displacement reaction III. Fe₂O₃(s) + 3CO(g) → 2Fe(s) + 3CO₂(g) — Redox reaction IV. 2KClO₃(s) → 2KCl(s) + 3O₂(g) — Thermal decomposition reaction How many of the pairs given above are correctly matched?
Each reaction is labelled with its correct type, so every pair is matched correctly. In I, iron is more reactive than copper and pushes it out of copper sulphate, a displacement reaction.
Read the full explanation →Over which period is the Green Diwali Campaign being run?
The nationwide drive opened on 20 October 2026 and continues to 8 November 2026, a window chosen so that it covers the days before the festival, when firecrackers are bought, as well as the days after it, when air quality usually stays poor.
Read the full explanation →The Green Diwali Campaign has been aligned with which national mission?
Citizens have been asked to celebrate a clean and green Diwali in line with this mission, whose approach is to change everyday habits rather than wait for large interventions, and the pledge items follow from it directly: no firecrackers, earthen diyas and energy-efficient lights, no single-use plastic, waste segregated at…
Read the full explanation →The Green Diwali Campaign gives special focus to how many cities covered under the National Clean Air Programme?
The campaign is nationwide, but the cities covered under the National Clean Air Programme, numbering 130, have been singled out for special attention, because that is where the burden on air quality is heaviest and where a cracker-free festival makes the greatest difference.
Read the full explanation →Which body launched the nationwide Green Diwali Campaign with support from the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change?
The campaign was launched by this centre of WWF-India, working with the support of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and it runs from 20 October to 8 November 2026.
Read the full explanation →Which UDAN airport has the longest runway in Bihar, at about 2.8 km?
Opened in 2025, it gave air access to more than ten districts of Bihar, cut the journey to Kolkata to about two hours and to Patna to roughly one, and it carries the state's longest runway at close to 2.8 km, long enough for A320 and B737 aircraft.
Read the full explanation →What is the total outlay of the Modified UDAN scheme announced for the next phase?
The correct answer is Rs 28,840 crore, the total provision for the next phase of the scheme launched on 4 July 2026 and running from FY 2026-27 to FY 2035-36.
Read the full explanation →How many regional routes has UDAN made operational in its first decade?
That is the number of regional routes put into service across the country in the ten years since the scheme began, and it sits alongside the other headline totals of the decade: more than 3.68 lakh flights and 1.72 crore passengers.
Read the full explanation →On which date was the Regional Connectivity Scheme, UDAN, launched?
The Regional Connectivity Scheme, named UDAN for Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik, was launched on that day, and its promise of affordable yet commercially viable regional flying came out of the National Civil Aviation Policy adopted the same year.
Read the full explanation →The Kajli Mela, held just after Raksha Bandhan and linked with the memory of the heroes Alha and Udal, belongs to which district of Uttar Pradesh?
The Kajli or Kajliyan fair of Mahoba is held just after Raksha Bandhan and recalls the battle in which the Bundelkhand heroes Alha and Udal are said to have defended the town; the Alha ballads of the region are sung at it.
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