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.
Which shortcut key combination opens File Explorer in Windows?
The letter E stands for Explorer, and this combination opens File Explorer, earlier called Windows Explorer, which is the program used to browse drives, folders and files.
Read the full explanation →The temporary memory area that holds the data you have cut or copied is called the:
The clipboard is the area of main memory in which Windows keeps whatever was last cut or copied, so that it can be pasted into the same program or another one; since it lives in volatile memory, its contents are lost when the computer is shut down or restarted.
Read the full explanation →A folder inside another folder is called a:
Because a folder, also called a directory, can contain further folders, the storage of a drive takes the shape of a tree, and a folder held within another is its subdirectory or subfolder.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT a valid character in a Windows file name?
Windows reserves nine characters for paths, drives and wildcards and will not accept them in a file name: the backslash, the forward slash, the colon, the asterisk, the question mark, the double quotation mark, the less than and greater than signs, and the vertical bar.
Read the full explanation →NTFS, the standard file system of Windows hard disks, stands for:
NTFS was introduced with Windows NT and is now the normal file system for the disk on which Windows itself is installed, because it supports file and folder permissions, encryption, compression, journaling that helps recovery after a crash, and very large volumes and files.
Read the full explanation →What happens when a file on the hard disk is deleted by pressing Shift and Delete together?
The Delete key alone moves a file from the hard disk to the Recycle Bin, where it occupies space until the Bin is emptied and from where it can be restored.
Read the full explanation →In Windows, which key is used to rename a selected file or folder?
Selecting a file in File Explorer and pressing F2 puts its name into edit mode, so the new name can be typed directly; the same result is got by right-clicking and choosing Rename.
Read the full explanation →Eric Arthur Blair, the author of Animal Farm, is better known as:
Eric Arthur Blair chose the pen name George Orwell, taking the surname from the river Orwell in England, and under it wrote Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Burmese Days and the essay Shooting an Elephant.
Read the full explanation →Sampooran Singh Kalra is the real name of which well-known lyricist and poet?
Sampooran Singh Kalra took the pen name Gulzar, meaning a garden in bloom, and is known both for Urdu poetry and for film lyrics, and for the collection Raat Pashmine Ki.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT a pen name?
Netaji is a title of respect given to Subhas Chandra Bose by his followers, and he did not publish his writing under it.
Read the full explanation →In Urdu poetry, the pen name taken by a poet and usually woven into the last couplet of a ghazal is called:
The takhallus is the pen name a poet adopts, such as Ghalib, Mir, Faiz or Firaq, and by convention the poet mentions it in the closing couplet of a ghazal.
Read the full explanation →Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan wrote under the pen name:
He was a leading figure of the Nayi Kavita movement, edited the Tar Saptak anthologies that introduced a generation of poets, and wrote the novels Shekhar Ek Jivani and Nadi ke Dweep.
Read the full explanation →Vaidyanath Mishra is better known by which pen name?
Vaidyanath Mishra wrote in Hindi as Nagarjun, a name taken from the Buddhist philosopher, and in Maithili as Yatri, meaning the traveller; he is known for Balchanama and for sharply political poems.
Read the full explanation →The pen name used by Rabindranath Tagore for the poems of Bhanusimha Thakurer Padavali was:
As a boy Tagore wrote poems in an archaic Vaishnava style and presented them as the work of a poet named Bhanusimha, and the collection is therefore called Bhanusimha Thakurer Padavali.
Read the full explanation →George Eliot, the author of Middlemarch, was the pen name of which writer?
She took a man's name so that her novels would be judged as serious literature rather than as light romances by a woman, and she wrote Middlemarch, Silas Marner, Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss under it.
Read the full explanation →Which pen name was used by Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan?
Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan first wrote under the takhallus Asad and later chose Ghalib, which means dominant or victorious, and he names himself in the closing couplet of many ghazals.
Read the full explanation →Mark Twain, the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, was the pen name of:
He took the name from the call of a Mississippi riverboat crew, where mark twain meant a sounding of two fathoms, that is water deep enough to be safe.
Read the full explanation →Nirala was the pen name of:
He is always written as Suryakant Tripathi Nirala, the pen name meaning the unique or the unlike-any-other, and he wrote Saroj Smriti, Ram ki Shakti Puja and the poem Bhikshuk.
Read the full explanation →Premchand was the pen name of which writer?
He wrote first in Urdu as Nawab Rai, and after the colonial administration seized his collection Soz-e-Watan he adopted the name Premchand, under which he wrote Godan, Nirmala, Gaban, Rangbhoomi and the story Kafan.
Read the full explanation →Which novel, originally written in Hindi, won the International Booker Prize in 2022?
Geetanjali Shree's novel Ret Samadhi, translated into English by Daisy Rockwell as Tomb of Sand, won the International Booker Prize in 2022, becoming the first book originally written in Hindi, and in any Indian language, to receive that award.
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