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.
Together We Can is the tagline of which bank?
Canara Bank, founded at Mangaluru in 1906 by Ammembal Subba Rao Pai, uses Together We Can, and the line is easy to fix in memory because the last word repeats the bank's own name.
Read the full explanation →Which bank is known by the tagline India's International Bank?
Bank of Baroda, founded in 1908 by Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda, calls itself India's International Bank because it has long carried the widest network of overseas branches among Indian public sector banks.
Read the full explanation →The tagline The Name You Can Bank Upon belongs to which bank?
Punjab National Bank, founded at Lahore in 1894 and the first Indian bank started wholly with Indian capital, uses the line The Name You Can Bank Upon, which plays on the word bank as both a noun and a verb.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT a franchise-based league but a domestic tournament played between state or zonal teams?
The Ranji Trophy, begun in 1934-35 and named after Ranjitsinhji, is India's premier first-class cricket championship, played between teams representing states and a few institutional sides selected by the BCCI, not between privately owned city franchises.
Read the full explanation →Which team won the first season of the Hockey India League in 2013?
The Hockey India League began in 2013 under Hockey India, and Ranchi Rhinos won the first final; the league was notable for buying the world's best players at auction and for bringing international hockey to Indian cities for several weeks each winter.
Read the full explanation →Ultimate Kho Kho, India's first franchise league for kho kho, was launched in:
Ultimate Kho Kho was launched in 2022 as the first franchise league for kho kho, and the Odisha Juggernauts won the inaugural season.
Read the full explanation →The Women's Premier League, the franchise Twenty20 league run by the BCCI, began in which year?
The Board of Control for Cricket in India launched the Women's Premier League in 2023 with five franchises, and Mumbai Indians won the first final against Delhi Capitals at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.
Read the full explanation →Which club won the first edition of the Indian Super League in 2014?
The Kolkata franchise, then partnered with the Spanish club Atletico Madrid, beat Kerala Blasters in the 2014 final with a goal in stoppage time, and the club was later renamed ATK.
Read the full explanation →The Indian Super League is a franchise league associated with which sport?
The Indian Super League was launched in 2014 with franchises in eight cities and is run under the All India Football Federation, which from the 2019-20 season recognised it as the country's top football division, with the I-League below it.
Read the full explanation →Which team won the first season of the Pro Kabaddi League?
Jaipur Pink Panthers won the inaugural Pro Kabaddi League final of 2014 against U Mumba, and the team's association with a film star owner gave the new league much of its early publicity.
Read the full explanation →The Pro Kabaddi League was started in which year?
The Pro Kabaddi League began in 2014, organised by Mashal Sports along with the Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India, and it was built deliberately on the franchise model of the IPL, with city teams, a player auction and a television contract.
Read the full explanation →Which team won the first season of the Indian Premier League?
Rajasthan Royals, led by the Australian leg spinner Shane Warne, won the 2008 final against Chennai Super Kings at the Dr D. Y. Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai, and they remain the only team to win the title in the league's first attempt with the smallest purse of that season.
Read the full explanation →The first season of the Indian Premier League was played in which year?
The Board of Control for Cricket in India announced the Twenty20 league in 2007 and the first season was played in 2008, with Lalit Modi as the first chairman and commissioner.
Read the full explanation →National Pollution Control Day is observed in India on which date, in memory of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy?
India keeps 2 December as National Pollution Control Day because the leak of methyl isocyanate at Bhopal began on the night of 2 December 1984; the day is used to review pollution control laws and to remember those killed.
Read the full explanation →Which umbrella environmental law was enacted in India in the aftermath of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy?
Parliament passed it under Article 253, to give effect to the Stockholm Conference decisions, and in the direct shadow of the Bhopal leak of December 1984.
Read the full explanation →The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident of 2011 was triggered immediately by:
The Tohoku earthquake of 11 March 2011 shut the reactors down as designed, but the tsunami that arrived minutes later flooded the emergency diesel generators at the Fukushima Daiichi plant on Japan's Pacific coast.
Read the full explanation →The Great Smog of 1952 led to the enactment of the Clean Air Act of 1956 in which country?
From 5 to 9 December 1952 an anticyclone settled over London, a temperature inversion trapped the smoke and sulphur dioxide of domestic coal fires, and the resulting smog killed thousands.
Read the full explanation →The Minamata Convention, a global treaty to control one pollutant, deals with:
The Minamata Convention on Mercury was adopted at Kumamoto, Japan, in 2013 and entered into force in 2017.
Read the full explanation →Itai-itai disease, reported from the Jinzu river basin of Japan, results from poisoning by:
Mining waste carrying cadmium entered the Jinzu river in Toyama Prefecture and reached people through irrigated rice and drinking water.
Read the full explanation →Minamata disease, first identified in Japan in 1956, is caused by poisoning from which element?
The Chisso Corporation discharged methylmercury compounds into Minamata Bay in Kumamoto Prefecture; the mercury accumulated through fish and shellfish into the people who ate them and attacked the central nervous system, producing numbness, loss of coordination, blindness and congenital deformity.
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