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.
Lata Mangeshkar was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in which year?
Lata Mangeshkar received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1989, and she was later awarded the Bharat Ratna in 2001.
Read the full explanation →Satyajit Ray received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in which year?
Satyajit Ray, the Bengali director of Pather Panchali and the rest of the Apu trilogy, received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1984.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first posthumous recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?
Prithviraj Kapoor, the actor of both stage and screen and the founder of Prithvi Theatres, received the award in 1971 and was its first posthumous recipient.
Read the full explanation →The Dadasaheb Phalke Award carries which medallion?
The recipient is given the Swarna Kamal or Golden Lotus medallion, along with a shawl and a cash prize, at the National Film Awards ceremony.
Read the full explanation →The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is conferred by the Government of India through which ministry?
The award is conferred by the Government of India through the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and is presented at the annual National Film Awards ceremony, the recipient being chosen by a committee of eminent persons from the film industry.
Read the full explanation →The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is named after the maker of which film, India's first full-length feature film?
Dadasaheb Phalke wrote, produced and directed Raja Harishchandra, released in 1913, which is recognised as the first full-length Indian feature film, and it is for this that he is called the father of Indian cinema.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?
Devika Rani, an actress and producer often described as the first lady of Indian cinema, received the first Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1969, so the very first recipient of the honour was a woman.
Read the full explanation →The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was instituted in which year?
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was introduced in 1969 by the Government of India, as part of the celebration of the birth centenary of Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, and it has been conferred each year since on one person for a lifetime's contribution to Indian cinema.
Read the full explanation →Kalamandalam Kalyanikutty Amma, often called the mother of her form, is associated with which dance?
Kalamandalam Kalyanikutty Amma is often described as the mother of Mohiniyattam, because she gathered and set in order the movements and repertoire of this graceful dance of Kerala, which is performed by women and belongs to the lasya or gentle style.
Read the full explanation →Uday Shankar is remembered as a pioneer of what in India?
Uday Shankar was not a classical dancer in the strict sense; he created a new idiom by blending Indian movement with Western stagecraft, and he is regarded as the pioneer of modern or creative dance in India, having performed with the ballerina Anna Pavlova early in his career.
Read the full explanation →The Sattriya dance of Assam is traced to which saint?
Sattriya grew in the sattras, the Vaishnava monasteries of Assam, and is traced to the saint and reformer Srimanta Sankardeva, who used dance and drama to carry his teaching to ordinary people; it is the most recent of the eight forms to be recognised as classical.
Read the full explanation →Guru Bipin Singh is remembered as a master of which dance form?
Guru Bipin Singh was the teacher who systematised Manipuri dance and, with the Jhaveri sisters as his leading pupils, carried it from Manipur to concert stages across India.
Read the full explanation →Vempati Chinna Satyam is associated with which classical dance form?
Vempati Chinna Satyam was the guru who shaped the modern repertoire of Kuchipudi, the dance that takes its name from a village in Andhra Pradesh and is traditionally traced to the saint-poet Siddhendra Yogi.
Read the full explanation →Kerala Kalamandalam, the institution that revived Kathakali, was founded by whom?
The poet Vallathol Narayana Menon founded Kerala Kalamandalam in the twentieth century to revive Kathakali and the other performing arts of Kerala, and the gurus trained there carry the name of the institution before their own.
Read the full explanation →Nrityagram, the dance village near Bengaluru, was founded by whom?
Protima Gauri, also known as Protima Bedi, founded Nrityagram near Bengaluru as a residential village where dancers live and train in the manner of the old gurukul, and she herself was a dancer of Odissi.
Read the full explanation →Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra was a leading figure of which classical dance form?
Kelucharan Mohapatra was the guru who, with Pankaj Charan Das and others, reconstructed Odissi in the twentieth century from temple sculpture and the surviving traditions of Odisha, and he trained a generation of dancers including Sanjukta Panigrahi.
Read the full explanation →Sitara Devi, who was called the empress of dance, is associated with which form?
Sitara Devi was one of the great Kathak dancers of the twentieth century, and Rabindranath Tagore is said to have called her the empress of dance after watching her perform.
Read the full explanation →Pandit Birju Maharaj was a celebrated exponent of which classical dance form?
Birju Maharaj belonged to the Lucknow gharana of Kathak and to the Kalka-Bindadin family of dancers, and he is the name most often set when this form is tested; Shambhu Maharaj and Lachhu Maharaj of the same family came before him.
Read the full explanation →Kalakshetra, the well known dance institution at Chennai, was founded by whom?
Rukmini Devi Arundale founded Kalakshetra at Madras in 1936, and the institution reshaped the presentation of Bharatanatyam and trained most of the following generations of dancers in the form.
Read the full explanation →From which edition were the National Games reorganised on the pattern of the Olympic Games?
Until then the National Games had been a meet of limited scale; the 1985 edition at New Delhi remodelled them on the Olympic pattern, with a much longer list of disciplines, a whole state rather than a single city as host, a torch relay, formal opening and closing ceremonies, a…
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