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.
Who scored the first Test century for India?
Lala Amarnath scored 118 against England at the Bombay Gymkhana ground in 1933, in the first Test match ever played on Indian soil and in his own debut Test, and it was the first century by an Indian in Test cricket.
Read the full explanation →Who captained India in its first ever Test match?
Nayudu. Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu led India in its first Test match at Lord's in 1932 and is regarded as the first great Indian cricketer; the Board of Control for Cricket in India named its lifetime achievement award after him.
Read the full explanation →India played its first Test match in 1932 against England at which ground?
India played its first Test match in June 1932 at Lord's in London, becoming the sixth country to be granted Test status after England, Australia, South Africa, the West Indies and New Zealand.
Read the full explanation →Which type of weathering is dominant in a hot, humid tropical climate?
Abundant rainfall, warm temperatures and thick vegetation together supply the water, the heat and the organic acids that speed up solution, hydrolysis, hydration, carbonation and oxidation, so minerals are decomposed deeply.
Read the full explanation →A fjord is best described as which of the following?
A valley glacier reaching the coast scoops its floor below present sea level; when the ice melts and the sea rises, water floods the trough and leaves a long, narrow, steep-sided inlet with great depth.
Read the full explanation →Karst topography takes its name from a plateau in which present-day country?
The term comes from the Kras or Karst plateau of the Dinaric region, which lies largely in present-day Slovenia and extends into the neighbouring coastal belt.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is a depositional landform of a glacier?
A moraine is the ridge of unsorted rock debris that a glacier carries and dumps; it is named by position as lateral, medial, ground or terminal moraine, and the terminal moraine marks the farthest point the ice reached.
Read the full explanation →Loess, a thick deposit of fine, wind-blown silt, is best developed in which country?
Loess is a depositional landform of wind: very fine silt lifted from desert and glacial margins is carried far away and settles as a yellow, porous, loosely packed sheet.
Read the full explanation →An ox-bow lake is formed by which of the following?
In its middle and lower course a river swings from side to side, eroding the outer bank of each bend and depositing on the inner bank.
Read the full explanation →Stalactites, stalagmites and pillars inside a limestone cave are formed mainly by the action of which agent?
Rainwater charged with carbon dioxide becomes a weak carbonic acid, seeps along joints in limestone and dissolves calcium carbonate by carbonation.
Read the full explanation →Exfoliation, in which curved shells of rock peel away from a granite dome like the skin of an onion, is an example of which process?
Exfoliation is caused by repeated heating and cooling of the outer layer of a rock and by the release of pressure when overlying material is removed; the surface expands and contracts more than the interior and splits away as curved sheets.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following types of erosion and arrange them in the correct sequence in the increasing order of soil loss from a field: I. Gully erosion II. Splash erosion III. Rill erosion IV. Sheet erosion. Select the correct answer from the codes given below.
Water erosion passes through stages, and the soil lost grows at every stage. Splash erosion, numbered II, is the first and mildest: raindrops strike bare soil and knock single particles a few centimetres away.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT a method of soil conservation?
Overgrazing strips the protective cover of grass, loosens the surface with hooves and leaves bare soil exposed to rain and wind, so it is one of the leading causes of soil erosion in dry India, never a remedy.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is the main cause of 'bad lands'?
Bad lands are stretches of land cut into a close network of deep gullies and sharp ridges, so dissected that cultivation becomes impossible, and they are produced when running water removes the topsoil through sheet wash that concentrates first into rills and then into gullies.
Read the full explanation →The crescograph, an instrument that magnifies and records the growth of plants, was invented by which Indian scientist?
Bose designed the crescograph to magnify the growth of a plant many thousand times and record it on a smoked glass plate, which allowed him to show that plants respond to light, heat, touch and other stimuli in ways that resemble responses in animals.
Read the full explanation →A seismograph is an instrument used to record which of the following?
A seismograph holds a heavy mass that tends to stay still while the ground and the frame of the instrument move during a tremor; the relative motion is magnified and traced as a seismogram, from which the arrival times of the primary, secondary and surface waves are read.
Read the full explanation →X-rays were discovered by which scientist?
In 1895, while working with a discharge tube, Roentgen found an unknown radiation that passed through cardboard and flesh but was stopped by bone and metal, and made a screen coated with a fluorescent salt glow.
Read the full explanation →Penicillin, the first widely used antibiotic, was discovered by whom?
In 1928 Fleming noticed that a mould of the genus Penicillium which had contaminated a culture plate in his London laboratory had killed the staphylococcus bacteria around it, and he named the active substance penicillin.
Read the full explanation →The depth of the ocean is measured with which instrument?
A fathometer, also called an echo sounder, sends a pulse of sound from the hull of a ship to the sea floor and times the returning echo; since the speed of sound in sea water is known, the time gives the depth.
Read the full explanation →The purity of milk is determined with the help of which instrument?
A lactometer is a floating instrument that measures the relative density of milk. Pure milk has a density slightly greater than that of water, so adding water lowers the reading and the float sinks deeper, which is how dilution is detected.
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