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 one of the following gemstones contains beryllium metal?
Emerald is the deep green variety of the mineral beryl, a beryllium aluminium silicate, so beryllium is part of its very formula.
Read the full explanation →An AI system that can perform only one specific task, such as filtering spam, is called:
It is trained for a single defined task and cannot transfer that skill to another; every system working today, from spam filters and voice assistants to chess engines and face recognition, is narrow AI.
Read the full explanation →In the name of the GPT family of language models, GPT stands for:
Each word carries meaning: generative, because the model produces new text rather than only sorting what it is shown; pre-trained, because it first learns general language from a very large body of text before being adapted to particular tasks; and transformer, the neural network architecture, built on an attention mechanism…
Read the full explanation →India’s National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence, with the slogan “AI for All”, was released by which body?
The correct answer is B, NITI Aayog, which published the National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in June 2018 under the slogan AI for All, and identified five priority sectors: healthcare, agriculture, education, smart cities and infrastructure, and smart mobility and transportation.
Read the full explanation →Which computer program defeated the Go champion Lee Sedol in 2016?
The correct answer is C, AlphaGo, built by DeepMind, which beat the South Korean Go champion Lee Sedol in a five-game match in 2016; the victory mattered because Go has far more possible positions than chess, so brute-force search alone cannot win and the program relied on deep neural networks…
Read the full explanation →The IndiaAI Mission is implemented by which body?
The Cabinet decision of 7 March 2024 named this division as the implementing agency for all seven components of the mission.
Read the full explanation →How many components, or pillars, does the IndiaAI Mission have as approved by the Cabinet?
The approved mission has seven components: IndiaAI Compute Capacity, the IndiaAI Innovation Centre, the IndiaAI Datasets Platform, the IndiaAI Application Development Initiative, IndiaAI FutureSkills, IndiaAI Startup Financing, and Safe and Trusted AI.
Read the full explanation →The IndiaAI Mission was approved by the Union Cabinet with a budget outlay of about:
The Union Cabinet approved the IndiaAI Mission on 7 March 2024 with an outlay of 10,371.92 crore rupees, to be spent across its seven components, and the mission is run by the IndiaAI Independent Business Division under the Digital India Corporation in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
Read the full explanation →Which type of machine learning is trained on labelled data?
Here every training example carries the right answer, its label, and the model learns the mapping from input to label, which is how spam filters, handwriting readers and credit-scoring models are built.
Read the full explanation →The Turing Test was proposed in a paper published in which year?
Alan Turing set out the imitation game in his paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, published in 1950 in the journal Mind; a machine passes if a human judge, exchanging only typed messages, cannot tell it from a human being.
Read the full explanation →Who coined the term “artificial intelligence”?
He coined the phrase artificial intelligence in the proposal for a summer research workshop held at Dartmouth College in 1956, and that conference is treated as the moment the subject was founded; McCarthy also created the LISP programming language and is commonly called the father of artificial intelligence.
Read the full explanation →Chhattisgarh is the only state in India that produces the primary ore of which metal?
The Bastar belt carries cassiterite, the primary ore of tin, and Chhattisgarh is the only state in the country from which primary tin ore is mined, which makes it a favourite one-line fact for objective papers.
Read the full explanation →Who is remembered as the first martyr of Chhattisgarh, hanged by the British in 1857?
The zamindar of Sonakhan opened grain stores for a famine stricken countryside during the revolt of 1857, was arrested for it, and was hanged at Raipur, which is why he is honoured as the first martyr of Chhattisgarh.
Read the full explanation →The Bhilai Steel Plant was set up with the technical collaboration of which country?
The Bhilai Steel Plant in Durg district was built with Soviet collaboration and began production in 1959; it is run today by the Steel Authority of India and is known above all for the long rails it supplies to Indian Railways.
Read the full explanation →Which folk artist of Chhattisgarh, known for Pandwani, has been awarded the Padma Vibhushan?
She is the best known performer of Pandwani, the sung narration of the Mahabharata, which has two styles, Kapalik and Vedamati, and she carried the form from village gatherings to stages abroad; she has received the Padma Shri, the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Vibhushan.
Read the full explanation →The Kutumsar caves are located in which national park of Chhattisgarh?
The park is unusual because it protects limestone caves as well as forest: Kutumsar and Kailash are its best known caves, and it also holds the Tirathgarh waterfall on the Kanger river and the hill myna, the state bird.
Read the full explanation →Bailadila, famous for high grade iron ore, is located in which district of Chhattisgarh?
The Bailadila range in Dantewada district holds some of the finest haematite iron ore in the world, mined by the National Mineral Development Corporation, and the name is said to come from the hump of an ox, which the range resembles.
Read the full explanation →Chitrakote Falls, often called the Niagara of India, lies on which river?
Chitrakote Falls is in the Bastar region on the Indravati, a tributary of the Godavari, and its broad horseshoe curve, the widest fall in India, earns it the name Niagara of India.
Read the full explanation →The High Court of Chhattisgarh is located at:
When the state was formed in 2000 the High Court was established at Bilaspur, so the capital and the seat of the High Court are in different cities, a split the examiner likes.
Read the full explanation →Chhattisgarh was carved out of which state?
The eastern districts of Madhya Pradesh, long known as the Chhattisgarh region, were separated under the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000.
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