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.
In which year was Orissa renamed Odisha?
Parliament passed the law that changed the English spelling of the state's name to Odisha, together with a constitutional amendment that changed the name of its language from Oriya to Odia, so that both matched the local pronunciation.
Read the full explanation →Saigon, the city renamed in 1976 after the reunification of its country, is now called
Saigon was the capital of South Vietnam, and after the north and the south were united the city was renamed in 1976 after Ho Chi Minh, the leader of the Vietnamese independence movement.
Read the full explanation →The city of Constantinople is now known as
Founded as Byzantium, the city became Constantinople as the capital of the eastern Roman empire and was officially renamed Istanbul in 1930; it straddles the Bosphorus and so lies partly in Europe and partly in Asia.
Read the full explanation →Swaziland officially changed its name in 2018 to
The small southern African monarchy announced the change in 2018 on the fiftieth anniversary of its independence, the new name meaning the land of the Swazi in the Swati language, and it is now listed at the United Nations as the Kingdom of Eswatini.
Read the full explanation →Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia are the former names of which two countries respectively?
Northern Rhodesia became Zambia on independence in 1964 and Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980, the new name being taken from the stone ruins of Great Zimbabwe.
Read the full explanation →Upper Volta is the old name of which country?
The correct answer is B, Burkina Faso, which was called Upper Volta after the branches of the river Volta that cross it and took its present name in 1984; the new name is drawn from two of its own languages and is read as the land of upright people.
Read the full explanation →Which country was earlier known as the Gold Coast?
The British colony of the Gold Coast, named for the gold traded from its shore, became independent in 1957 under the name Ghana, which was taken from a medieval West African empire, and it was the first colony of sub-Saharan Africa to win its freedom.
Read the full explanation →Ceylon was renamed Sri Lanka in which year?
The correct answer is C, 1972, the year the island became a republic and took the name Sri Lanka in place of Ceylon.
Read the full explanation →Siam is the former name of which country?
The kingdom was called Siam until 1939, when it took the name Thailand, understood as the land of the free, a name that fits the fact that it is the one country of South-East Asia never ruled by a European power.
Read the full explanation →Erythropoietin, better known as EPO, is prohibited in sport because it
Erythropoietin is a hormone that signals the bone marrow to make red blood cells; when it is injected, the blood carries more oxygen to the muscles and endurance rises, which is why it has been the drug of choice in cycling and distance events and why it is banned at…
Read the full explanation →Which sprinter was stripped of the 100 metres gold medal of the 1988 Seoul Olympics after testing positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol?
The case is treated as the moment doping became a public issue and is the usual example in questions on the subject.
Read the full explanation →What is the slogan of the World Anti-Doping Agency?
The phrase has been WADA's slogan since its early years and appears on its campaigns, its outreach programmes at major Games and its education material for athletes.
Read the full explanation →The National Dope Testing Laboratory of India is located at
The National Dope Testing Laboratory, which analyses the samples that NADA collects, functions at New Delhi under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, and its standing as a testing laboratory rests on accreditation by WADA.
Read the full explanation →In anti-doping rules, what is a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE)?
An athlete who genuinely needs a medicine that appears on the Prohibited List, such as an inhaler for asthma or insulin for diabetes, applies in advance to a panel of doctors, which may grant a Therapeutic Use Exemption limited to that substance, dose and period.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following classes of substances is prohibited only in competition?
The Prohibited List divides substances into those banned at all times, those banned only in competition and those banned only in particular sports.
Read the full explanation →The International Convention against Doping in Sport, the treaty by which governments bind themselves to the World Anti-Doping Code, was adopted in 2005 under the auspices of
Because WADA is a private foundation, governments needed an instrument of international law through which they could commit themselves to the Code, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization provided it by adopting the International Convention against Doping in Sport in 2005.
Read the full explanation →The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has its seat in which city?
CAS was established in 1984 at the initiative of the International Olympic Committee, whose own headquarters is in the same city, and it also keeps branch offices at Sydney and New York besides sitting in ad hoc divisions at the Olympic Games.
Read the full explanation →India's National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) works under which ministry?
NADA was set up on 24 November 2005 as a registered society under that ministry, and it plans and carries out sample collection, manages results and runs education programmes so that sport in India is practised without doping.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the World Anti-Doping Agency established?
WADA was created on 10 November 1999, a year after the Festina affair of the 1998 Tour de France, in which a team car carrying banned drugs exposed how organised doping had become and pushed the Olympic movement and governments to build a joint agency.
Read the full explanation →Where is the headquarters of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)?
WADA began work in 1999 from Lausanne and then moved its headquarters to Montreal, where the agency has remained; Lausanne continues as its European office.
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