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.
The temperate grassland of North America is known as the ______.
The temperate grassland is the same biome the world over, short nutritious grass with almost no tree, but each continent gives it a local name, and the pairs are asked directly in examinations.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest terrestrial biome on the earth?
The taiga forms an almost unbroken belt of needle leaved softwood trees, mainly pine, spruce, fir and larch, right across the northern parts of Canada, Scandinavia and Siberia, and this belt covers a greater area of land than any other biome.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following natural regions is known as the Land of Big Games?
The savanna is a tropical grassland with tall coarse grass and scattered flat topped trees, and its wet season produces an enormous crop of grass.
Read the full explanation →Which one among the following is not a coral reef island?
Kyushu is one of the four main islands of the Japanese archipelago and is of volcanic origin, built by the eruptions of an island arc where one plate dives beneath another; Mount Aso on it has one of the largest volcanic calderas in the world.
Read the full explanation →The largest barrier reef system in the world is found at _______.
The Great Barrier Reef stretches for well over two thousand kilometres along the Queensland coast in the Coral Sea, off the north eastern shore of Australia, and is the largest structure on earth built by living organisms.
Read the full explanation →Goa Statehood Day is celebrated on 30 May because on that day in 1987 Goa ______.
The Goa, Daman and Diu Reorganisation Act of 1987 raised Goa from a union territory to a full state with effect from the thirtieth of May 1987, making it the twenty-fifth state of the Union, while Daman and Diu continued as a separate union territory.
Read the full explanation →Nagaland attained the status of a full state of the Indian Union on ______.
The State of Nagaland Act of 1962 gave effect to an agreement with Naga leaders and brought the new state into being on the first of December 1963, carved out of Assam; Article 371A was inserted in the Constitution to give Nagaland special provisions covering Naga customary law and land.
Read the full explanation →Bihar Diwas is observed on 22 March every year to mark which event?
Bihar Diwas recalls the twenty-second of March 1912, when Bihar was separated from the Bengal Presidency and constituted as a province of its own, along with Orissa; the two were separated from each other later.
Read the full explanation →Karnataka Rajyotsava, the foundation day of Karnataka, is celebrated on ______.
The date carries a double significance for Karnataka. The States Reorganisation Act of 1956 brought the Kannada speaking areas together as an enlarged state on the first of November 1956, though it was then called Mysore State; and it was again on the first of November, in 1973, that the…
Read the full explanation →Sikkim became a full state of the Indian Union in which year, and by which constitutional amendment?
Sikkim's entry into the Union came in two steps. The Thirty-fifth Amendment of 1974 first made it an associate state, a status created for it alone.
Read the full explanation →Gujarat and Maharashtra were formed on 1 May 1960 by the division of which state?
The States Reorganisation Act of 1956 had left Bombay as a large bilingual state containing both Marathi and Gujarati speaking areas, and the demand for separate linguistic states continued in both.
Read the full explanation →Which three states came into existence on 21 January 1972 under the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971?
The North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act of 1971 came into force on the twenty-first of January 1972 and raised Manipur and Tripura from union territories to full states while making Meghalaya, until then an autonomous state within Assam, a state in its own right; the same Act created the union territories…
Read the full explanation →The foundation day of Jharkhand, 15 November, was chosen because it is also the birth anniversary of ______.
Jharkhand was created by the Bihar Reorganisation Act of 2000, and the fifteenth of November was deliberately named as the appointed day because it is the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda, the tribal leader of the Munda community who led the Ulgulan, or great tumult, against colonial land policy and…
Read the full explanation →Telangana, the newest state of the Indian Union, was formed on ______.
The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act of 2014 carved Telangana out of Andhra Pradesh and named the second of June 2014 as the appointed day; Hyderabad was to serve as the common capital of both states for a period fixed by the Act.
Read the full explanation →Which state was created on 1 November 1966 by the Punjab Reorganisation Act?
The Punjab Reorganisation Act of 1966 divided the then state of Punjab on a linguistic basis with effect from the first of November 1966: the Hindi speaking southern districts became the new state of Haryana, the hill areas were transferred to Himachal Pradesh, and the city of Chandigarh was made…
Read the full explanation →MeghRaj is the name of which initiative of the Government of India?
MeghRaj is the name given to the Government of India Cloud, usually shortened to GI Cloud, under which government departments obtain their computing and storage from a common set of government managed data centres rather than each building its own.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements about artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning is correct?
The three terms sit one inside the other like circles. Artificial intelligence is the whole field of making machines behave intelligently, and it includes approaches that use no learning at all, such as rule based expert systems and search algorithms.
Read the full explanation →The basic unit of information in a quantum computer is called a ______.
A classical computer stores information in bits, each of which must be either zero or one at a given moment.
Read the full explanation →In a blockchain, what makes it practically impossible to alter a record once it has been added?
Entries on a blockchain are grouped into blocks, and every block carries the cryptographic hash, a short fixed length fingerprint, of the block immediately before it.
Read the full explanation →What is the full form of RFID, a technology widely used in the Internet of Things?
An RFID system has a tag carrying a tiny chip and an antenna, and a reader that sends out radio waves; the tag answers with its stored identity, so an object can be recognised without being seen or touched and without a line of sight, unlike a barcode that must…
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