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.
What is the maximum duration of a single raid in kabaddi?
A raider gets thirty seconds from the moment of entering the opposing half, and the raid must end with a return across the mid line within that time, or the raider is declared out.
Read the full explanation →In kabaddi, what is the term for putting all the opponents out, which earns two extra points?
When a team succeeds in putting all seven players of the opposing side out, the whole opposing team is revived and the scoring team is awarded two extra points; this achievement is called a lona, sometimes spelt lona or lobh in older rule books.
Read the full explanation →Kabaddi is the national game of which country?
Kabaddi, known there as ha-du-du, was declared the national game of Bangladesh after the country's independence, and it is the single most asked fact about the sport in competitive papers.
Read the full explanation →How many players of a kabaddi team are on the court at one time?
A kabaddi side fields seven players at a time and keeps five substitutes, so the squad named for a match is twelve.
Read the full explanation →Land Degradation Neutrality is a target under which Sustainable Development Goal?
Sustainable Development Goal 15 is Life on Land, and target 15.3 commits countries to combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation neutral world.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT one of the three Rio Conventions?
The Ramsar Convention was signed at Ramsar in Iran in 1971 and came into force in 1975, two decades before the Earth Summit, and its secretariat sits at Gland in Switzerland; it therefore has no connection with Rio.
Read the full explanation →The secretariat of the UNCCD is located in which city?
The permanent secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification has been based at Bonn in Germany since 1999, in the same United Nations campus that hosts the secretariat of the UNFCCC, which is a useful memory link because both are Rio Conventions with their secretariats in the same…
Read the full explanation →The badland topography of the Chambal valley is the result of which type of erosion?
Running water in the Chambal basin of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh has cut deep, steep-sided channels into soft alluvium, and when these channels multiply and widen the land becomes unfit for cultivation.
Read the full explanation →The ICAR institute that works on the reclamation of saline and alkaline soils is located at:
The ICAR-Central Soil Salinity Research Institute is at Karnal in Haryana and is the national institute for the reclamation of salt-affected soils, the use of poor quality water in irrigation, subsurface drainage in waterlogged land, and salt-tolerant crop varieties.
Read the full explanation →The Central Arid Zone Research Institute (CAZRI) is located in which city?
The Central Arid Zone Research Institute was set up at Jodhpur in Rajasthan in 1959 and works under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
Read the full explanation →The fourteenth Conference of the Parties (COP14) to the UNCCD, held in India in 2019, adopted which declaration?
India hosted the fourteenth Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD at Greater Noida near New Delhi in 2019, and the meeting closed with the New Delhi Declaration, in which the parties committed themselves to restoring degraded land and to working towards Land Degradation Neutrality.
Read the full explanation →Itai-itai disease is caused by soil and water contaminated with which heavy metal?
Itai-itai, which means ouch-ouch in Japanese, was first recorded in the Jinzu river basin of Japan, where mine waste put cadmium into irrigation water and then into rice grown in the contaminated soil.
Read the full explanation →World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is observed on which date?
The day marks the anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification at Paris on 17 June 1994, and the United Nations General Assembly declared it in the same year so that governments would review progress on land restoration annually.
Read the full explanation →The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) was adopted in which year?
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification was adopted at Paris on 17 June 1994 and it entered into force in December 1996.
Read the full explanation →Which one is not the major technique of soil conservation?
The question asks for the odd one out, and the heavy use of chemical fertilisers damages soil rather than conserving it: it acidifies the soil, kills soil microorganisms, leaves salt residues, and the surplus nitrate and phosphate wash into water bodies and cause eutrophication.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following soil-conservation methods is generally implemented in the coastal and dry regions?
A shelter belt is a row or a block of trees and shrubs planted across the direction of the prevailing wind.
Read the full explanation →Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in which year?
Sultan Mehmed the Second captured Constantinople in 1453, ending the Byzantine or Eastern Roman empire, and the city became the Ottoman capital under the name Istanbul.
Read the full explanation →In which year did Apollo 11 land the first human beings on the Moon?
Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on 20 July 1969, and Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on its surface, followed by Buzz Aldrin, while Michael Collins stayed in the command module in orbit.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the Berlin Wall pulled down?
The Berlin Wall, built in 1961 to stop movement from East Berlin to West Berlin, was opened and then demolished by crowds on both sides from 9 November 1989, and its fall is the symbol of the collapse of communist rule in eastern Europe.
Read the full explanation →Who became the first human being to travel into space, and in which year?
The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth once aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961, becoming the first human being in space; the day is observed as the International Day of Human Space Flight.
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