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 Santosh Trophy is contested in which sport?
The Santosh Trophy is the national football championship of India, played between teams representing the states and certain institutions, and it has been held since 1941.
Read the full explanation →Where are the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee located?
The International Olympic Committee, founded in 1894 on the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, moved its seat to Lausanne during the First World War and has worked from that city ever since, which is why Lausanne is called the Olympic capital.
Read the full explanation →The Irani Cup in Indian cricket is played between which two sides?
The Irani Cup was begun to mark twenty five seasons of the Ranji Trophy and is a single first class match in which the reigning national champions meet a side drawn from the best players of the other teams, which makes it a selection trial as much as a contest.
Read the full explanation →The Thomas Cup is the world team championship of which game?
The Thomas Cup is the world team championship for men in badminton, and its counterpart for women is the Uber Cup, while the Sudirman Cup is the mixed team championship of the same game.
Read the full explanation →The Durand Cup, the oldest football tournament in Asia, was started in which year?
The Durand Cup was begun at Shimla in 1888 and is named after Mortimer Durand, who was then the foreign secretary of the British Indian government.
Read the full explanation →In which city is the Mohun Bagan Athletic club situated?
Mohun Bagan Athletic Club was founded in 1889 in Kolkata and is among the oldest football clubs of the country.
Read the full explanation →In which city was the first golf club of India situated?
The Royal Calcutta Golf Club was founded in 1829 in the city that was then the capital of British India, and it is counted as the first golf club established anywhere outside Britain.
Read the full explanation →Project Elephant, launched by the Government of India for the protection of elephants and their corridors, was started in which year?
Project Elephant was launched in 1992 to protect elephants, their habitat and the corridors along which herds move between forests, and it also deals with human elephant conflict and the welfare of captive elephants.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following has been declared the National Aquatic Animal of India?
This nearly blind freshwater dolphin of the Ganga, Brahmaputra and Meghna systems finds its prey by echolocation and was declared the National Aquatic Animal of India in 2009, a step meant to draw attention to the pollution and damming of its rivers.
Read the full explanation →The hangul or Kashmir stag is protected mainly in which national park?
The hangul, also called the Kashmir stag, is the only surviving Asiatic subspecies of the red deer in India and its last viable population lives in Dachigam, a park in the hills above Srinagar whose name means ten villages.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following pairs: (a) Himalayan Region and wild goat and snow leopards, (b) Andaman and Nicobar Islands and mahogany and rosewood trees, (c) Gir forest and Asiatic lions. Which of the pairs given above is or are correctly matched?
The Himalayan region is home to wild goats such as the ibex and the tahr and to the snow leopard, which hunts them above the tree line, so pair (a) is right.
Read the full explanation →The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, known as CITES, came into force in which year?
CITES was drafted and signed at Washington in 1973, but a treaty begins to bind its members only after enough countries ratify it, and that stage was reached in 1975.
Read the full explanation →Silent valley national park is located in
Silent Valley National Park lies in the Palakkad district of Kerala, in the Nilgiri hills of the Western Ghats, and protects one of the last stretches of undisturbed tropical evergreen forest in the country.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the cheetah officially declared extinct in India?
The Asiatic cheetah once hunted across the open grassland and scrub of central and peninsular India, was trained by rulers for coursing blackbuck, and was wiped out by shooting and by the ploughing of its grassland.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is declared as a Wild Ass Sanctuary?
The Wild Ass Sanctuary lies in the Little Rann of Kachchh in Gujarat and is the last home of the Indian wild ass, locally called the khur, a Schedule I animal that grazes on the raised patches of grass known as bets in the salt desert.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following IUCN Red List categories indicates a lower level of extinction risk than Endangered?
The Red List arranges risk in a ladder, and the three threatened grades in falling order of severity are Critically Endangered, Endangered and Vulnerable.
Read the full explanation →The greater one-horned rhino is listed under the Schedule ______ of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.
The greater one-horned rhinoceros, the animal of Kaziranga and Manas in Assam, is placed in Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, the schedule that carries the highest protection and the strictest punishment for hunting or trade.
Read the full explanation →The International Union for Conservation of Nature, which publishes the Red List of Threatened Species, has its headquarters in which country?
The International Union for Conservation of Nature was founded in 1948 and works from Gland, a town in Switzerland near Geneva, where several environmental bodies have their offices.
Read the full explanation →After Wildlife Protection Act in 1972, the name of India's first wildlife conservation project was
Project Tiger was launched in 1973, the year after the Wildlife (Protection) Act came into force, and it was the first species recovery project of its kind in India.
Read the full explanation →Infantry Day, observed on 27 October, commemorates which event of 1947?
On 27 October 1947, a day after the Instrument of Accession was signed by the ruler of Jammu and Kashmir, the first infantry company was flown into Srinagar to meet the tribal invasion, and the day is kept by the infantry as its own.
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