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.
The Sharda Devi temple, reached by a long climb up the Trikuta hill, is at which place in Madhya Pradesh?
The Sharda Devi temple stands on the Trikuta hill at Maihar in Satna district, and pilgrims climb more than a thousand steps to reach it.
Read the full explanation →The Great Stupa at Sanchi was originally built by which ruler?
The core of the Great Stupa at Sanchi, in Raisen district, was raised in brick by Ashoka in the third century BCE, and the stone casing and the railing were added later.
Read the full explanation →The unfinished Bhojeshwar temple at Bhojpur, with one of the largest Shiva lingams in India, was begun by which ruler?
Bhoja, who ruled from Dhar in the eleventh century and is remembered as a scholar king, began the Bhojeshwar temple at Bhojpur in Raisen district on the Betwa.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest temple in the Khajuraho group?
It is the largest and most developed of the Khajuraho temples, built in the western group under the Chandela ruler Vidyadhara in the early eleventh century, and it shows the Nagara plan at its fullest, with a cluster of smaller shikharas rising like foothills to the main spire over the…
Read the full explanation →The temples of Khajuraho were built by which dynasty?
The Chandela rulers of Jejakabhukti built the Khajuraho group in Chhatarpur district between about 950 and 1050 CE, in the Nagara style with clustered shikharas rising over the sanctum.
Read the full explanation →The Omkareshwar jyotirlinga stands on an island in which river?
Omkareshwar is on the island of Mandhata in the Narmada, in Khandwa district, and the island is said to take the shape of the syllable Om, from which the name comes.
Read the full explanation →Which jyotirlinga is the only one that faces south, and is therefore called Dakshinamukhi?
The jyotirlinga at Ujjain is installed facing south, which is why it is called Dakshinamukhi, and it is the only one of the twelve with that orientation.
Read the full explanation →Which two of the twelve jyotirlingas are located in Madhya Pradesh?
Mahakaleshwar stands at Ujjain on the bank of the Shipra and is the only south-facing jyotirlinga, known for the Bhasma Aarti performed before dawn.
Read the full explanation →The Tosham rock inscription, written in Brahmi script, is in which district of Haryana?
The inscription is cut into the rock on the Tosham hill in Bhiwani district and is written in Brahmi characters of the Gupta age, which makes it one of the oldest written records found in the state.
Read the full explanation →The Jal Mahal and Birbal ka Chhatta are monuments of which town of Haryana?
Narnaul, in Mahendragarh district, is the richest small town in the state for sixteenth and seventeenth century building.
Read the full explanation →The Asigarh fort, linked in tradition with Prithviraj Chauhan, stands at which town of Haryana?
The Asigarh fort, also called the Hansi fort, stands on a high mound in Hansi town of Hisar district and is associated in local tradition with Prithviraj Chauhan, whose family held the region before the battles of Tarain.
Read the full explanation →Surajkund, the stepped reservoir where a crafts fair is held every February, is in which district?
Surajkund is a semicircular embankment of stone steps around a reservoir in the Aravalli foothills of Faridabad district, attributed to the Tomar king Surajpal of about the tenth century, from whom it takes its name.
Read the full explanation →Jyotisar, held to be the place where the Bhagavad Gita was spoken, is in which district?
Jyotisar lies a short distance from Kurukshetra town on the road to Pehowa, and an ancient banyan there is pointed out as the spot of the discourse, with a chariot sculpture and a tank beside it.
Read the full explanation →The terraced Mughal garden at Pinjore, also called the Yadavindra garden, was laid out by whom?
Fidai Khan, a foster brother of Aurangzeb who served as a governor and builder in his reign, laid out the garden at Pinjore in Panchkula district in the charbagh tradition, using the natural slope of the Shivalik foothills to carry water down a series of terraces with pavilions on them.
Read the full explanation →The Kabuli Bagh mosque at Panipat was built by which ruler?
Babur had the Kabuli Bagh mosque raised at Panipat to mark his victory over Ibrahim Lodi in the first battle of Panipat in 1526, and tradition says it was named after his queen Mussammat Kabuli Begum.
Read the full explanation →The tomb of Sheikh Chilli, often called the Taj Mahal of Haryana, stands at which place?
The tomb stands on a mound at Thanesar, built in marble and sandstone with a tall Persian dome in a walled garden, and the resemblance to a small Mughal mausoleum has earned it the name Taj Mahal of Haryana.
Read the full explanation →The city of Hisar was founded in 1354 as Hisar-e-Firoza by which ruler?
He founded the town in 1354 and called it Hisar-e-Firoza, the fort of Firoz, and built a palace complex there that still holds the Gujari Mahal and the Lat ki Masjid, a mosque that reuses an older pillar shaft.
Read the full explanation →Rakhigarhi, the largest Harappan site in India, is located in which district of Haryana?
Rakhigarhi lies in Hisar district, where its mounds spread across more than one village and cover a larger area than any other Harappan site in India.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Chief Minister of Bihar after independence?
Known across the state as Shri Babu, he headed Bihar's government from 1946 and continued as Chief Minister after independence until his death in 1961.
Read the full explanation →The Jharkhand Party, formed in 1950 to press the demand for a separate state, was founded by whom?
He had captained the Indian hockey team that won gold at the 1928 Olympics, led the Adivasi Mahasabha from 1938, and converted it into the Jharkhand Party in 1950 to seek a separate state for the Chhotanagpur and Santhal Parganas region.
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