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 book 'The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times' was written by:
The Light We Carry is her second book, written after the memoir Becoming, and it sets out the habits and ideas she uses to face uncertainty.
Read the full explanation →The novel 'Orbital', which won the Booker Prize in 2024, was written by:
Orbital, a short novel that follows six astronauts through a day of orbits around the earth, won the Booker Prize in 2024 for the British writer Samantha Harvey.
Read the full explanation →The biography titled 'Elon Musk', published in 2023, was written by:
The American writer Walter Isaacson, who had earlier written the authorised life of Steve Jobs and books on Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, published his biography of Elon Musk in 2023 after following him for two years.
Read the full explanation →The memoir 'Spare' was written by:
Spare is his own account of his life in and away from the British royal family, and the title refers to the old saying about an heir and a spare, the second son.
Read the full explanation →The Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2024 was awarded to:
The South Korean writer Han Kang received the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024 for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical trauma, and she is known for the novel The Vegetarian.
Read the full explanation →Who is the author of the book 'Ambedkar: A Life'?
Shashi Tharoor, the writer and parliamentarian, wrote Ambedkar: A Life, a short life of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar; his other recent books include Pride, Prejudice and Punditry, and his earlier works are An Era of Darkness and Why I Am a Hindu.
Read the full explanation →Heart Lamp, the collection of Kannada short stories that won the International Booker Prize in 2025, was written by:
Heart Lamp gathers short stories written in Kannada by Banu Mushtaq, and it won the International Booker Prize in 2025; it was the first collection of short stories to take that prize.
Read the full explanation →Tomb of Sand, which won the International Booker Prize in 2022, was originally written in Hindi as Ret Samadhi by:
Her Hindi novel Ret Samadhi, translated into English by Daisy Rockwell as Tomb of Sand, won the International Booker Prize in 2022 and became the first book originally written in any Indian language to do so; the prize money is shared equally by the author and the translator.
Read the full explanation →The book 'Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India's Economic Future' was co-authored by which former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?
Raghuram Rajan, who was Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 2013 to 2016, wrote Breaking the Mould with the economist Rohit Lamba, arguing that India should build on services and skills rather than copy the manufacturing path of East Asia.
Read the full explanation →The book 'Why Bharat Matters' was written by:
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, India's External Affairs Minister and earlier the Foreign Secretary, wrote Why Bharat Matters, in which he explains India's place in a changing world order; his earlier book, published in 2020, is The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World.
Read the full explanation →Who authored the book 'To the Seventh Generation: The Journey of Christian Medical College Vellore', released in January 2025?
The book tells the story of the Christian Medical College at Vellore, one of India's oldest teaching hospitals, and it was written by Dr. V I Mathan, a physician long associated with that institution.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following wrote the book 'The World After Gaza'?
Pankaj Mishra is an Indian essayist and novelist who writes on politics, history and ideas, and The World After Gaza is his book on how the conflict in West Asia is read differently in the West and in the formerly colonised world.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following was the first recipient of the Templeton Prize?
The Templeton Prize was instituted in 1972 by the investor John Templeton to honour work that explores the deepest questions of life and of the spirit, and Mother Teresa received the first award in 1973, six years before her Nobel Peace Prize.
Read the full explanation →The Nansen Refugee Award is given by which organisation?
It is named after Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwegian explorer who was the first High Commissioner for Refugees under the League of Nations and who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922.
Read the full explanation →The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought is awarded by:
It is named after Andrei Sakharov, the Soviet nuclear physicist who became a campaigner for civil liberties and himself won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975.
Read the full explanation →The Ramon Magsaysay Award, often called Asia's Nobel Prize, was instituted in memory of a President of which country?
Ramon Magsaysay was President of the Philippines and died in an air crash in 1957; the award was created in the same year in his memory, it is presented at Manila, and it honours greatness of spirit in service to the people of Asia.
Read the full explanation →The Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development was instituted in:
The Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust instituted this prize in 1986, two years after Indira Gandhi's death, and it is presented on 19 November, her birth anniversary, with a cash award of twenty-five lakh rupees.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first recipient of the Gandhi Peace Prize?
The correct answer is B, Julius Nyerere, the first President of Tanzania, who received the Gandhi Peace Prize in its first year, 1995, for his work for peace and for the poor of Africa.
Read the full explanation →The Gandhi Peace Prize was instituted in which year?
The Government of India instituted the Gandhi Peace Prize in 1995, the year of the 125th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, and it is administered by the Ministry of Culture.
Read the full explanation →Kailash Satyarthi received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 jointly with:
The prize for 2014 was shared by Kailash Satyarthi of India, who founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan against child labour, and Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan, who campaigned for girls' education and who remains the youngest person to receive any Nobel Prize.
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