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 International Atomic Energy Agency has its headquarters in which city?
The International Atomic Energy Agency was set up in 1957 and works from Vienna in Austria.
Read the full explanation →The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has its headquarters in which city?
The Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in 1945 and works from Rome in Italy. It leads international work on food production, nutrition and rural development, publishes the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, and observes World Food Day on 16 October, the date of its founding.
Read the full explanation →The International Labour Organization was established in which year?
The International Labour Organization was created in 1919 by Part Thirteen of the Treaty of Versailles, at the end of the First World War, as part of the League of Nations system.
Read the full explanation →The headquarters of the World Health Organization is located in which city?
The World Health Organization works from Geneva in Switzerland. Its constitution came into force on 7 April 1948, which is why that date is observed every year as World Health Day, and its governing body, the World Health Assembly, meets in Geneva each May.
Read the full explanation →Which among the following organisations releases Index of Economic Freedom?
The Index of Economic Freedom has been published by this research organisation based at Washington DC since 1995, and it scores countries on matters such as property rights, tax burden, government spending, trade freedom and business regulation.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following international scientific organisations approves the names of elements, symbols and unit?
It is the world authority on chemical nomenclature, so it approves the names and symbols of newly discovered elements, standardises the naming of compounds and maintains the recommended values of atomic weights.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is or are not an official language of the United Nations? 1. Arabic 2. German 3. Spanish 4. Chinese. Select the correct answer using the code given below.
The United Nations works in six official languages, Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Of the four names in the list, Arabic, Spanish and Chinese are all official, so only German, the second item, is not.
Read the full explanation →The Bretton Woods Agreement led to the creation of which one of the following institutions?
The conference held in 1944 at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire in the United States set up two twin institutions, the International Monetary Fund to keep exchange rates orderly and help countries facing balance of payments difficulty, and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to lend for reconstruction and…
Read the full explanation →In which country is the headquarter of Asian Development Bank located?
The Asian Development Bank was founded in 1966 to lend for development in Asia and the Pacific and has its headquarters at Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
Read the full explanation →The headquarters of UNESCO is at
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization was founded in 1946 and works from Paris in France.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Indian to travel into space?
An Indian Air Force pilot, Rakesh Sharma flew to the Soviet space station Salyut 7 aboard a Soyuz spacecraft in April 1984 as part of a joint mission and spent about a week in orbit, carrying out experiments in biology and remote sensing.
Read the full explanation →Which spacecraft, launched in 1977, is the most distant human-made object from the earth?
Launched by NASA in 1977, Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter and Saturn, then continued outward and has since crossed into interstellar space, making it the farthest human-made object from the earth.
Read the full explanation →Which country's spacecraft made the first ever landing on the far side of the Moon?
The Chinese mission Chang'e 4 landed on the far side of the Moon in January 2019, the first spacecraft ever to do so, and released the rover Yutu-2.
Read the full explanation →JAXA is the space agency of which country?
JAXA stands for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, formed in 2003 by merging three earlier Japanese space bodies, with its headquarters at Tokyo.
Read the full explanation →The headquarters of the European Space Agency is located in which city?
The European Space Agency was founded in 1975 by a group of European countries that decided to pool their space work, and its headquarters is in Paris.
Read the full explanation →The Chandrayaan-3 lander touched down near the south pole of the Moon in which year?
Chandrayaan-3 was launched on 14 July 2023 on an LVM3 rocket, and its lander Vikram touched down near the lunar south pole on 23 August 2023, releasing the rover Pragyan.
Read the full explanation →India's Mars Orbiter Mission, also called Mangalyaan, entered the orbit of Mars in which year?
The Mars Orbiter Mission was launched on 5 November 2013 by a PSLV rocket and was placed in orbit around Mars on 24 September 2014.
Read the full explanation →What was the name of the first Indian satellite, launched in 1975?
India's first satellite was named after the ancient astronomer and mathematician Aryabhata and was launched on 19 April 1975 from a Soviet site, since India did not yet have a launch vehicle of its own.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first human being to travel into space?
The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin circled the earth once aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961 and became the first human being in space, a flight that lasted about one hour and forty eight minutes.
Read the full explanation →Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite of the earth, was launched in 1957 by which country?
Sputnik 1 was launched on 4 October 1957 and became the first artificial satellite to circle the earth, sending out a simple radio signal that stations across the world could hear.
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