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 film 'The Godfather' (1972) was based on the novel written by:
Mario Puzo published The Godfather in 1969, and Francis Ford Coppola filmed it in 1972; Puzo also worked on the screenplay, for which he shared an Academy Award.
Read the full explanation →The film 'Umrao Jaan' was based on the Urdu novel 'Umrao Jaan Ada', written by:
Umrao Jaan Ada, published in 1899, is counted among the first novels in Urdu and tells the story of a courtesan of Lucknow; Muzaffar Ali filmed it in 1981 with Rekha in the title role.
Read the full explanation →Vishal Bhardwaj's film 'Omkara' is an adaptation of which play by William Shakespeare?
Omkara, released in 2006 and set in the politics of western Uttar Pradesh, follows the plot of Othello, with the handkerchief of the play becoming a waistband in the film.
Read the full explanation →The film '3 Idiots' (2009) was based on which novel by Chetan Bhagat?
Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT, published in 2004, was Chetan Bhagat's first novel and supplied the story of three engineering students that became 3 Idiots, directed by Rajkumar Hirani in 2009.
Read the full explanation →The film 'Slumdog Millionaire' (2008) was based on which novel by an Indian author?
Q & A was written by Vikas Swarup, a diplomat, and was adapted by Danny Boyle as Slumdog Millionaire, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture; A. R. Rahman won the awards for Best Original Score and, with Gulzar, for Best Original Song, and Resul Pookutty won for sound…
Read the full explanation →'Shatranj Ke Khilari', filmed by Satyajit Ray in 1977, is based on a short story by:
Premchand's Hindi short story Shatranj Ke Khilari, about two noblemen of Awadh absorbed in chess while their kingdom is annexed, was filmed by Satyajit Ray in 1977, the director's only Hindi feature; Ray also made Sadgati from another Premchand story.
Read the full explanation →Satyajit Ray's film 'Pather Panchali' was based on a Bengali novel written by:
His novel Pather Panchali gave Satyajit Ray the material for his first film, released in 1955, and for Aparajito, the two with Apur Sansar forming the Apu Trilogy.
Read the full explanation →The 1965 film 'Guide', starring Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman, was based on a novel by which writer?
R. K. Narayan's novel The Guide, published in 1958 and set in his imagined town of Malgudi, won him the Sahitya Akademi Award and was filmed as Guide in 1965 with Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman.
Read the full explanation →Which Article of the Constitution of India abolishes titles?
Article 18 abolishes titles: the State may not confer any title that is not a military or academic distinction, and a citizen may not accept a title from a foreign state.
Read the full explanation →After independence, which Indian award took the place of the Victoria Cross?
The Param Vir Chakra, instituted on 26 January 1950 with effect from 15 August 1947, is India's highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy and so takes the place the Victoria Cross held before independence; it was designed by Savitri Khanolkar and its first recipient was Major…
Read the full explanation →The Order of the Indian Empire was instituted in 1878, following which event?
Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India at the Delhi Durbar of 1877, and the Order of the Indian Empire was created the following year to honour a wider and more junior group of officials than the Star of India covered; its motto, Imperatricis auspiciis, means under the auspices of…
Read the full explanation →Which was the oldest gallantry decoration available to Indian soldiers, instituted by the East India Company in 1837?
Instituted by the East India Company in 1837, the Indian Order of Merit was the oldest gallantry decoration in India and, until 1911, the only such award open to Indian soldiers, who could not then receive the Victoria Cross.
Read the full explanation →The Victoria Cross, the highest gallantry award of the British Empire, was instituted by Queen Victoria in:
Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, and it bears the words For Valour; the award was then backdated so that acts of gallantry from 1854 onwards, during the Crimean War, could be recognised.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Indian to be awarded the Victoria Cross?
A sepoy of the 129th Baluchis, Khudadad Khan won the Victoria Cross for holding his machine gun position in Belgium in October 1914, becoming the first Indian to receive the decoration after Indian soldiers were made eligible for it in 1911.
Read the full explanation →Rabindranath Tagore renounced his knighthood in 1919 in protest against:
After troops under General Dyer fired on a gathering at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar on 13 April 1919, Tagore wrote to the Viceroy, Lord Chelmsford, on 31 May 1919, renouncing the knighthood conferred on him in 1915.
Read the full explanation →Mahatma Gandhi returned the Kaiser-i-Hind Medal in 1920 at the start of which movement?
Gandhi had been awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind in 1915 for raising an ambulance corps in South Africa, and in 1920 he returned it in a letter to the Viceroy, giving up two South African war medals at the same time, as part of the surrender of titles and honours that the…
Read the full explanation →The Kaiser-i-Hind Medal, given for public service in India, was instituted in:
Queen Victoria instituted the Kaiser-i-Hind Medal in 1900 for distinguished public service in India, and unlike the orders of chivalry it was open to any person of any rank, Indian or European, man or woman, in gold, silver and bronze classes.
Read the full explanation →The Order of the Star of India was instituted in which year?
The Order of the Star of India was created in 1861, four years after the Revolt of 1857, to tie the princely rulers and senior officials of India to the British Crown, and its motto was Heaven's light our guide; it was given three classes in 1866, the Knight Grand…
Read the full explanation →Mirabai Chanu won a silver medal for India at the Tokyo Olympic Games of 2020 in which sport?
Saikhom Mirabai Chanu of Manipur won the silver medal in the women's 49 kilogram weightlifting category on the opening day of competition at the Tokyo Games, held in 2021, and it was India's first weightlifting medal since Karnam Malleswari's bronze at Sydney in 2000.
Read the full explanation →How many medals did India win at the Paris Olympic Games of 2024?
India's tally at Paris in 2024 was six medals, one silver and five bronze: Neeraj Chopra's silver in the javelin throw, Manu Bhaker's bronze in the women's 10 metre air pistol, the bronze she won with Sarabjot Singh in the mixed team event, Swapnil Kusale's bronze in shooting, Aman Sehrawat's…
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