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.
National Commission for Scheduled Tribes came into existence as a separate commission in which of the following year?
The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes began work as a separate body in 2004.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is a tidal port?
Kandla, now named Deendayal Port, stands on the Gulf of Kutch in Gujarat and is a tidal port, which means ships use the rise of the tide in its creek to come in and go out.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first ruler of the Sayyid Dynasty?
Khizr Khan founded the Sayyid dynasty at Delhi in 1414 after taking the city from Daulat Khan Lodi.
Read the full explanation →Which among the following is an agricultural festival of Arunachal Pradesh and celebrated by the Galo tribe?
Mopin is the harvest and agricultural festival of the Galo people of Arunachal Pradesh, held in early April. It is a prayer to the goddess Mopin Ane for a good crop, for health and for prosperity, and for the driving away of evil and illness.
Read the full explanation →The Chalukya Dynasty ruled in Vatapi which is in the modern day Indian state of ______.
Vatapi is today's Badami in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, and it was the capital of the Chalukyas of Badami, founded by Pulakeshin the First in the sixth century.
Read the full explanation →The ancient name of which of the following rivers is Vipasha?
Vipasha is the Sanskrit name of the Beas, the river the Greeks called Hyphasis and the one at whose bank Alexander's army refused to march further east in 326 BC.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following Mughal emperors built Sheesh Mahal in Agra?
The Sheesh Mahal, or palace of mirrors, inside the Agra Fort was built in Shah Jahan's reign as a bath and dressing chamber for the royal household.
Read the full explanation →Mosses, Lichens and small shrubs are found in which type of vegetation?
Mosses, lichens and low shrubs make up the tundra, the treeless cover of the lands around the Arctic Ocean and of high mountain slopes above the tree line.
Read the full explanation →In India, National Voters' Day is celebrated on __________.
National Voters' Day is observed on 25 January every year because the Election Commission of India was set up on 25 January 1950, a day before the Constitution came into force.
Read the full explanation →A type of unemployment in rural areas when people are not able to find jobs during some months of the year is called ______.
Seasonal unemployment is the kind in which people find work only in certain months and sit idle in the rest.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following dynasties ruled over Delhi just after the Sayyid dynasty?
The Lodis followed the Sayyids at Delhi. Bahlol Lodi, an Afghan noble who was governor of Sirhind, took the throne in 1451 when the last Sayyid ruler Alam Shah gave up Delhi and settled at Badaun.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following was the first language conferred with the status of Classical Language in India?
Tamil was the first language to be given classical language status in India, in 2004. Sanskrit was declared classical in 2005, Kannada and Telugu together in 2008, Malayalam in 2013 and Odia in 2014.
Read the full explanation →What is the chemical name of Dry Ice?
Dry ice is solid carbon dioxide. At ordinary pressure it does not melt into a liquid at all: it changes straight from solid to gas, a process called sublimation, at about minus 78.5 degrees Celsius.
Read the full explanation →Rani Rudramadevi was related to which of the following kingdoms?
Rudramadevi ruled the Kakatiya kingdom from Warangal, called Orugallu then, in what is now Telangana, in the second half of the thirteenth century.
Read the full explanation →Litmus solution is a purple dye, which is extracted from lichen, a plant belonging to the division ________.
Litmus is a purple dye taken from lichens, and in the classification used in school science lichens are placed in Thallophyta, the group of simple plants whose body is an undifferentiated thallus with no true root, stem or leaf.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following Harappan sites is located in Afghanistan?
Shortughai stands in north-eastern Afghanistan, near the Oxus or Amu Darya river, and is the northernmost Harappan settlement known.
Read the full explanation →Which article of the Indian constitution talks about Oath or affirmation by the President?
Article 60 lays down the form of the oath or affirmation that the President of India makes before entering office.
Read the full explanation →The headquarters of the Eastern Railway Zone is located at _______.
The Eastern Railway zone has its headquarters at Fairlie Place in Kolkata, West Bengal. Eastern Railway was created in 1952 out of the eastern part of the old East Indian Railway and a portion of the Bengal Nagpur Railway, which makes it one of the oldest zones of Indian Railways.
Read the full explanation →Whose discus, belonging to a Paralympic silver medallist, is among the lots in the PM Mementos auction?
The correct answer is Yogesh Kathuniya, described in the announcement as a Paralympic silver medallist whose discus is part of the collection and stands for sporting achievement and perseverance.
Read the full explanation →Which city is the theme of the eighth edition of the PM Mementos auction?
The edition puts up thirty mementos chosen to show the many dimensions of the capital, and the lots bear this out: a framed artwork of St. Stephen's College, a crystal memento of the Old Secretariat building, a textile artwork of the New Parliament Building, two Delhi Metro models, a painting…
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