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.
Rainfall in Bihar generally decreases in which direction?
The rain comes to Bihar with the Bay of Bengal branch of the south-west monsoon, which enters from the east and loses moisture as it moves inland.
Read the full explanation →The climate of Bihar is best described as:
Bihar lies in the northern plain, where summers are hot, the rain comes in a single spell from the south-west monsoon between mid-June and early October, and winters are cool and dry with occasional cold waves.
Read the full explanation →The Sapt Kosi is formed by the union of the Sun Kosi, the Arun and which third main stream?
The Kosi is called the Sapt Kosi because seven head streams gather in the Nepal Himalaya to make it, and of these the three main ones are the Sun Kosi from the west, the Arun from the north and the Tamur from the east.
Read the full explanation →The Phalgu river, associated with the tarpan rituals of Pitrapaksha, flows past which city of Bihar?
The Phalgu, or Falgu, is formed by the union of the Lilajan and the Mohana a little above Gaya and flows past the city with a wide bed that stays sandy and dry for most of the year.
Read the full explanation →In Bihar, the shallow saucer-shaped waterlogged depressions of the northern plain, in which makhana is grown, are called:
A chaur is a shallow, saucer-shaped basin in the flat North Bihar plain that holds water for much of the year because the land has almost no slope and the rivers have raised their own beds.
Read the full explanation →The Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary is situated on the Ganga in which district of Bihar?
The sanctuary was notified in 1991 along a stretch of about sixty kilometres of the Ganga between Sultanganj and Kahalgaon in Bhagalpur district.
Read the full explanation →The devastating Kosi flood of August 2008 was caused by a breach in the river's eastern embankment at:
In August 2008 the eastern embankment of the Kosi gave way at Kusaha, upstream of the Bhimnagar barrage and inside Nepal.
Read the full explanation →Which river flows along the western boundary of Bihar with Uttar Pradesh and joins the Ganga near Chausa in Buxar district?
The Karmanasa rises on the Kaimur plateau, flows north along part of the boundary between Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and meets the Ganga near Chausa in Buxar district, the same place at which the Ganga enters Bihar.
Read the full explanation →The Kosi barrage, built under the India-Nepal Kosi agreement of 1954, is situated at:
The Kosi project that followed the 1954 agreement between India and Nepal has three parts: a barrage at Bhimnagar on the border, long embankments on both banks of the river downstream, and canals, of which the Eastern Kosi Main Canal is the largest.
Read the full explanation →Kabartal (Kanwar Lake), the first Ramsar site of Bihar, is located in which district?
Kabartal, also called Kanwar Jheel, lies in Begusarai district and is an ox-bow lake left behind by the Burhi Gandak.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest southern tributary of the Ganga in Bihar?
The Son rises at Amarkantak in Madhya Pradesh, the same plateau that gives birth to the Narmada, flows north-east through Rohtas and joins the Ganga near Maner, a little west of Patna.
Read the full explanation →The Gandak river joins the Ganga at which place?
The Gandak rises in Nepal, where it is called the Narayani or the Sapt Gandaki, enters Bihar at Valmikinagar in West Champaran and flows south-east to meet the Ganga at Sonpur, across the river from Patna.
Read the full explanation →The Ganga enters Bihar near which of the following places?
The Ganga comes into Bihar from Uttar Pradesh near Chausa, flows from west to east for about 445 kilometres and leaves the state for West Bengal near Rajmahal, splitting Bihar into the North Bihar plain and the South Bihar plain on the way.
Read the full explanation →Which river is known as the 'Sorrow of Bihar'?
The Kosi earns the name because it brings an exceptionally heavy load of silt down from Nepal, drops it the moment it reaches the flat North Bihar plain, raises its own bed above the surrounding land and then breaks out into a new channel.
Read the full explanation →Tendu leaves, the most valuable minor forest produce of Uttar Pradesh, come chiefly from which districts?
The correct answer is A, Mirzapur and Sonbhadra, the Vindhyan districts of the south-east, where dry deciduous forest grows on hilly ground and the tendu tree is common; its leaves are collected and dried to roll bidis and give seasonal work to thousands of forest dwellers, along with khair for…
Read the full explanation →The sal forests of Uttar Pradesh are found mainly in which belt?
Heavy rainfall and a high water table there support tropical moist deciduous forest in which sal, Shorea robusta, is the chief tree, in Lakhimpur Kheri, Bahraich, Pilibhit, Shravasti, Balrampur and Gorakhpur, and Dudhwa National Park and the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve lie inside this belt.
Read the full explanation →Which soil of the Bundelkhand and Vindhyan tract of Uttar Pradesh is black, clayey and good at holding moisture?
Formed on the Vindhyan and Deccan trap rocks of the south, it is clayey, dark and able to hold water through a dry spell, which is why the gram, wheat, oilseed and pulse crops of Jhansi, Jalaun, Hamirpur and Banda depend on it.
Read the full explanation →The sandy, wind-blown soil found in the upper Ganga-Yamuna doab of Uttar Pradesh is known as
Bhur is the raised sandy soil of the upper doab in districts such as Meerut, Bulandshahr and Aligarh, blown into low ridges by the wind, poor in moisture and organic matter, and fit for bajra, barley and, where irrigation reaches, for sugarcane.
Read the full explanation →Usar soil, found in the central districts of Uttar Pradesh, is reclaimed mainly by applying
Usar, also called reh, is the saline and alkaline soil of districts such as Raebareli, Unnao, Hardoi, Kanpur and Aligarh, where sodium salts gather on the surface; gypsum, which is calcium sulphate, replaces the sodium on the clay particles with calcium, the sodium is then washed away by drainage, and…
Read the full explanation →The older alluvial soil of the uplands of Uttar Pradesh, containing calcareous nodules known as kankar, is called
Bhangar is the old alluvium of the higher ground away from the present river channels; it is darker, more clayey and dotted with the lime concretions called kankar, and it is not renewed by fresh silt.
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