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 Gandhi-Irwin Pact, by which the Civil Disobedience Movement was suspended, was signed on:
Also called the Delhi Pact, it was signed by Mahatma Gandhi and Viceroy Lord Irwin.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the Lucknow Pact between the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League signed?
At the Lucknow session the Congress and the Muslim League agreed on a joint demand for self-government, and the Congress accepted separate electorates for Muslims; Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Muhammad Ali Jinnah were the chief architects, and the moderates and extremists of the Congress, divided since the Surat split of…
Read the full explanation →The Poona Pact of 1932 was signed between Mahatma Gandhi and:
The Communal Award of August 1932 had given the Depressed Classes separate electorates.
Read the full explanation →The Treaty of Srirangapatnam of 1792 was signed at the end of which war?
Fought between 1790 and 1792 between Tipu Sultan and Lord Cornwallis, supported by the Nizam and the Marathas, it ended with the Treaty of Srirangapatnam, under which Tipu surrendered about half his territory and paid a heavy war indemnity, and two of his sons were taken as hostages.
Read the full explanation →The Treaty of Bassein of 1802 was signed between the East India Company and which ruler?
Defeated by the Holkars at Poona, the Peshwa took shelter with the Company and signed the Treaty of Bassein in December 1802, accepting Wellesley's subsidiary alliance and a British force at his capital.
Read the full explanation →The Treaty of Salbai, signed in 1782, ended which war?
That war began after the Treaty of Surat of 1775, by which the Bombay government supported Raghunath Rao's claim to the Peshwa's seat, and it ended with the Treaty of Salbai in 1782 between Warren Hastings and Mahadji Scindia.
Read the full explanation →By which treaty did the East India Company obtain the diwani rights of Bengal, Bihar and Odisha?
It was signed in 1765 by Robert Clive with the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and Nawab Shuja-ud-Daula of Awadh after the Company's victory at Buxar in 1764.
Read the full explanation →Charles Fourier and Saint Simon were the real pioneers of ________.
Charles Fourier and Saint-Simon were French thinkers of the early nineteenth century who, with Robert Owen in Britain, argued that competition should be replaced by cooperative and planned communities in which property is held in common.
Read the full explanation →Consumer sovereignty is a characteristic feature of which type of economy?
Consumer sovereignty means that the spending of consumers decides what is produced: a producer who makes what buyers do not want earns no profit and leaves the business, so in a market economy the consumer is said to rule.
Read the full explanation →A command economy is another name for which type of economy?
It is called a command economy because a central planning authority, and not the market, commands how resources are used: it fixes the targets of output, allots raw materials to factories and often fixes prices and wages as well.
Read the full explanation →The New Economic Policy of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation was adopted by India in:
A severe balance of payments crisis, with foreign exchange reserves down to a few weeks of imports, forced the government to announce the New Economic Policy in July 1991.
Read the full explanation →The word socialist was added to the Preamble of the Indian Constitution by which amendment?
It inserted the words socialist, secular and integrity into the Preamble, so the description of India became a sovereign socialist secular democratic republic.
Read the full explanation →Under the Industrial Policy Resolution of 1956, the industries listed in Schedule A were to be developed by:
The Industrial Policy Resolution of 1956 followed the Congress session at Avadi that called for a socialistic pattern of society, and it gave the public sector the commanding role.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is not one of the central problems of an economy?
Because resources are scarce and wants are unlimited, every economy must answer three questions, and these are called its central problems: what goods and in what quantity to produce, how to produce them, that is by which technique and combination of labour and capital, and for whom to produce, that…
Read the full explanation →Das Kapital, one of the foundation texts of socialist economics, was written by:
Marx published the first volume of Das Kapital in 1867; it analysed capital, surplus value and the exploitation of labour and became the basic text of what is called scientific socialism.
Read the full explanation →An economy in which the public sector and the private sector exist side by side is called:
In such an economy the state owns and runs the industries that need very large capital or serve strategic and social purposes, regulates the rest by law, and leaves ordinary production to private enterprise, while keeping responsibility for welfare and employment.
Read the full explanation →The book An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which gave the idea of the invisible hand, was written by:
The Scottish economist published the Wealth of Nations in 1776 and is called the father of economics; he argued that if each person pursues his own interest in a free market, an invisible hand guides the outcome to the good of society, which became the classic defence of capitalism and…
Read the full explanation →In a capitalist economy, what mainly decides which goods will be produced?
In a capitalist or market economy the means of production are privately owned and nobody issues orders about production.
Read the full explanation →What is the average thickness of the continental crust of earth?
The crust is the outermost and thinnest layer of the earth and is of two kinds. The continental crust, made largely of lighter granitic rock rich in silica and aluminium, averages about thirty kilometres in thickness and reaches about seventy kilometres under young fold mountains such as the Himalaya.
Read the full explanation →The theory of plate tectonics proposes that the earth's lithosphere is divided into ______ major and some minor plates.
Plate tectonics, propounded in 1967, holds that the lithosphere is broken into seven major plates and a number of minor ones that move over the plastic asthenosphere.
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