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 scattering of light by the particles of a colloid is known as
The particles of a colloid are between one and one thousand nanometres across, which is large enough to scatter a beam of light sideways and make the path of the beam visible.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is a compound and not a mixture?
Common salt is sodium chloride, in which sodium and chlorine are chemically combined in a fixed ratio by mass, and the result has properties quite unlike either element, since sodium reacts violently with water and chlorine is a poisonous gas while their compound is eaten daily.
Read the full explanation →International Chess Day is observed on 20 July because on that day in 1924
The world governing body for chess was established on 20 July 1924 in Paris, and the anniversary is kept as International Chess Day, with the United Nations later recognising it as an international day in acknowledgement of the reach of the game and of its Indian ancestor, chaturanga.
Read the full explanation →Which two observances fall on 21 June?
World Music Day grew out of the Fete de la Musique begun in France, on which musicians of every kind play free in streets and public places.
Read the full explanation →World Poetry Day, declared by UNESCO, falls on
UNESCO adopted World Poetry Day in 1999 to support the reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry and to give a hearing to small publishers and to poetry in endangered languages.
Read the full explanation →International Mother Language Day is observed on
UNESCO declared this day to promote the use and preservation of mother tongues, and the date commemorates the Bengali language movement of 1952, when students in Dhaka were killed while demanding recognition for Bengali in what was then East Pakistan.
Read the full explanation →Hindi Diwas is observed on 14 September every year because on that day in 1949
That decision, taken on 14 September 1949, was later written into Article 343 of the Constitution, and the anniversary has been observed within India as Hindi Diwas.
Read the full explanation →International Olympic Day is observed on 23 June because on that day in 1894
A congress convened by Pierre de Coubertin at the Sorbonne in Paris established the International Olympic Committee on 23 June 1894, and national Olympic committees mark the anniversary with runs and open sporting events.
Read the full explanation →National Sports Day in India is observed on 29 August to mark the birth anniversary of
Dhyan Chand was born on 29 August 1905 and was part of the Indian hockey teams that won the Olympic gold medal in 1928, 1932 and 1936; he is regarded as the finest hockey player the country has produced, and the national sports awards are conferred on his birthday each…
Read the full explanation →World Heritage Day, also called the International Day for Monuments and Sites, is observed on
The day was proposed by the International Council on Monuments and Sites and approved by UNESCO in 1983, and it is used to draw public attention to the conservation of historic buildings, archaeological sites and cultural landscapes, including the sites on the World Heritage List.
Read the full explanation →International Museum Day is observed on
International Museum Day was declared by the International Council of Museums, and on it museums across the world open to the public around a common annual theme meant to show the part museums play in education and in society.
Read the full explanation →International Dance Day is observed on 29 April because it is the birth anniversary of
Noverre was the French dancer and choreographer who argued that ballet should tell a story through expressive movement rather than remain a display of steps, and the International Theatre Institute chose his birthday, 29 April, for International Dance Day.
Read the full explanation →World Theatre Day is celebrated on
World Theatre Day was instituted in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute, and every year a figure from world theatre delivers an international message that is read out in theatres across many countries.
Read the full explanation →World Book and Copyright Day is observed on which date?
UNESCO fixed this date because it carries unusual literary weight: Miguel de Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, died on 23 April 1616, and the same date is traditionally given for the death of William Shakespeare.
Read the full explanation →The Kannada novel Samskara was written by
Samskara is his best known novel, set in a Brahmin village thrown into crisis by the question of who may perform the last rites of a man who had broken every rule of the community, and it is read as a central text of modern Kannada fiction; its author received…
Read the full explanation →Allasani Peddana, who carries the title Andhra Kavita Pitamaha, was a poet in the court of
Allasani Peddana was the foremost of the eight poets of the court of Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara, a group known as the Ashtadiggajas, and he wrote Manucharitra, which earned him the title Andhra Kavita Pitamaha, the grandfather of Telugu poetry; the reign is remembered as the golden age of Telugu, and…
Read the full explanation →Kanyasulkam, regarded as the first modern Telugu play, was written by
Kanyasulkam, meaning bride price, was written against the custom of selling young girls in marriage to much older men, and it broke new ground by using spoken Telugu rather than the literary dialect, which is why it is counted as the first modern play in the language.
Read the full explanation →The novel Chemmeen was written by
Chemmeen, whose title means prawn, is set among the fishing people of the Kerala coast and turns on the belief that the sea will not spare a fisherman whose wife has been unfaithful; it is the best known Malayalam novel outside the language.
Read the full explanation →Indulekha, regarded as the first major novel in Malayalam, was written by
Indulekha, published in the late nineteenth century, is treated as the first major Malayalam novel and tells the story of an educated young woman of a Nair household who refuses an arranged match, which made it a social argument as much as a story.
Read the full explanation →Who is called the father of the Malayalam language?
His Adhyatma Ramayanam, written in the kilippattu or parrot-song form in which a bird narrates the story, settled the vocabulary, script and metre of literary Malayalam and put the Ramayana within reach of ordinary readers, which is why he carries this title.
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