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 Punjab and Haryana High Court is located at
Chandigarh is the capital of both Punjab and Haryana and is itself a union territory, and the common High Court for the two states and for the union territory sits there.
Read the full explanation →Under which Article may Parliament create or abolish a Legislative Council in a state?
It empowers Parliament by law to abolish an existing Legislative Council or to create one where none exists, but only if the Legislative Assembly of the state first passes a resolution supported by a majority of the total membership of the House and by not less than two-thirds of the…
Read the full explanation →Which of the following states does not have a Legislative Council?
West Bengal had a Legislative Council in the years after independence but abolished it in 1969, and its legislature has been unicameral since then, consisting of the Governor and the Legislative Assembly alone.
Read the full explanation →Which Article of the Constitution provides that there shall be a High Court for each state?
It states plainly that there shall be a High Court for each state, and the following articles complete the scheme: Article 215 makes every High Court a court of record, Article 216 leaves the number of judges to the President, Article 217 provides for their appointment, and Article 231 allows…
Read the full explanation →The High Court of Kerala is located at which city?
The Kerala High Court sits at Kochi, in the Ernakulam area, although the capital of the state is Thiruvananthapuram.
Read the full explanation →Which is the oldest High Court in India?
It was established in July 1862 under the Indian High Courts Act of 1861, which allowed the Crown to replace the old supreme courts and sadar courts of the Presidency towns with High Courts.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following pairs of building and style is correctly matched?
The Rajabai Clock Tower in the University of Mumbai campus, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott and completed in 1878, is a Victorian Gothic tower modelled on the Big Ben clock tower in London, with pointed arches, stained glass and carved figures.
Read the full explanation →The Amba Vilas Palace at Mysuru, a well-known Indo-Saracenic building, was designed by
The Amba Vilas Palace, the Mysore Palace of the Wadiyar rulers, was rebuilt in grey granite and pink marble to the design of Henry Irwin after the old wooden palace burned down in 1897, and the work was finished in 1912.
Read the full explanation →At which event was the decision to shift the capital of British India from Calcutta to Delhi announced?
George V and Queen Mary came to India in December 1911 and at the Delhi Durbar announced both the transfer of the capital from Calcutta to Delhi and the reversal of the partition of Bengal of 1905.
Read the full explanation →The India Gate in New Delhi is a memorial to
The India Gate, originally the All India War Memorial Arch, was designed by Edwin Lutyens as a memorial to the Indian soldiers of the British Indian Army who died in the First World War between 1914 and 1921 and in the Third Anglo-Afghan War.
Read the full explanation →Fort Dansborg, built in 1620, was established by the Danish at Tranquebar in which present-day state?
Fort Dansborg was built in 1620 at Tranquebar, now Tharangambadi in the Mayiladuthurai district of Tamil Nadu, after the Danish East India Company obtained the site from the Nayak ruler of Thanjavur.
Read the full explanation →The Basilica of Bom Jesus, which holds the relics of St Francis Xavier, was built by which European power?
The Basilica of Bom Jesus at Old Goa was completed in 1605 by the Portuguese, who had taken Goa in 1510 and made it the capital of their eastern empire.
Read the full explanation →The circular Parliament House of New Delhi, opened in 1927, was designed by
Sir Herbert Baker designed the old Parliament House, then called the Council House, which was begun in 1921 and opened in January 1927 by the Viceroy Lord Irwin.
Read the full explanation →Who designed the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi?
Sir Edwin Lutyens designed the Viceroy House on Raisina Hill, renamed Rashtrapati Bhavan after independence, and it was completed in 1929.
Read the full explanation →The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in Mumbai, completed in 1888, is built in which architectural style?
The station, built as Victoria Terminus and designed by Frederick William Stevens, is the finest Victorian Gothic Revival building in India, with pointed arches, a ribbed central dome, turrets, stained glass, gargoyles and a stone figure of Progress on the dome.
Read the full explanation →Who was the architect of the Victoria Memorial in Kolkata?
The Victoria Memorial was designed by Sir William Emerson, then president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, after Lord Curzon proposed a memorial to Queen Victoria in 1901.
Read the full explanation →The Gateway of India was built to commemorate the visit of which of the following king?
The Gateway of India at Apollo Bunder in Mumbai was raised to mark the landing of George V and Queen Mary in December 1911, the visit on which the Delhi Durbar was held and the transfer of the capital from Calcutta to Delhi was announced.
Read the full explanation →The Aga Khan palace is located in which state?
The Aga Khan Palace stands at Pune in Maharashtra. It was built in 1892 by Sultan Muhammed Shah Aga Khan III, partly as famine relief work for the surrounding villages, and it mixes Italianate arches with wide Indian verandahs over five acres of built space.
Read the full explanation →Which event of 2010 brought the Hockey World Cup to New Delhi and was followed eight years later by the tournament moving to Bhubaneswar?
New Delhi hosted the tenth edition of the Hockey World Cup in 2010 at the stadium named after Major Dhyan Chand, the same ground that had been built for the first Asian Games in 1951; Australia won that tournament.
Read the full explanation →The Indian Grand Prix of Formula One was held at which circuit?
Built in Uttar Pradesh near Delhi, the Buddh International Circuit held the Indian Grand Prix in 2011, 2012 and 2013, after which the race was dropped from the calendar; Sebastian Vettel won all three editions.
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