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.
Constitution Day, or Samvidhan Diwas, is observed on
The Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution of India on 26 November 1949, and that day is kept as Constitution Day.
Read the full explanation →National Sports Day is observed in India on 29 August, the birth anniversary of
The hockey player was born on 29 August 1905 and won Olympic gold with India in 1928, 1932 and 1936.
Read the full explanation →Engineers' Day is celebrated in India on 15 September every year to mark the birth anniversary of
Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya was born on 15 September 1861, served as the Diwan of Mysore, and built the Krishnarajasagara dam and the system of automatic sluice gates that made his name.
Read the full explanation →Teachers' Day is celebrated in India on 5 September in honour of
He was born on 5 September 1888, was a philosopher and teacher before entering public life, and served as the first Vice-President and the second President of India.
Read the full explanation →National Science Day is observed in India on 28 February to commemorate
Sir C. V. Raman announced his discovery of the scattering of light, now called the Raman effect, on 28 February 1928, and it won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930, the first for an Indian in the sciences.
Read the full explanation →National Youth Day is observed on 12 January to mark the birth anniversary of
He was born on 12 January 1863, and the Government of India declared his birthday National Youth Day so that his call to the young would be placed before students each year.
Read the full explanation →Republic Day is celebrated in India on 26 January because on this day in 1950
The Constitution took effect on 26 January 1950 and India became a sovereign republic. The date was chosen on purpose, because the Indian National Congress had declared Purna Swaraj, or complete independence, on 26 January 1930, and the founders wished to honour that pledge.
Read the full explanation →Which protocol is used to upload files to and download files from a remote server on the internet?
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It opens two channels with a server, one on port 21 for commands and one on port 20 for the matter itself, and moves whole files in either direction, which is how web pages are put on a hosting server.
Read the full explanation →The domain name .gov in a web address shows that the site belongs to
The last part of a domain name is the top-level domain and tells you the kind of owner. Government offices use.gov, often with the country code added, as in india.gov.in for the National Portal of India.
Read the full explanation →The system that converts a domain name such as india.gov.in into its numeric address is called
The Domain Name System is the directory of the internet. People remember names, while machines route traffic by numbers, so a DNS server looks up the name typed in the browser and returns the matching IP address before the page is fetched.
Read the full explanation →Which protocol is used to send an outgoing email from a client to a mail server?
SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and is the rule set that pushes a letter out of your mail program to the server and onward from one server to the next until it reaches the receiver's mailbox.
Read the full explanation →An IPv6 address is of how many bits?
IPv6 was framed because the older scheme was running out of addresses, and its 128-bit length yields a pool so large that shortage is no longer a worry.
Read the full explanation →In an email, which field is used to send a copy to a person whose address the other recipients cannot see?
Bcc stands for blind carbon copy. An address typed there receives the letter, but it is hidden from everyone else on the list, and the people in Bcc cannot see one another either.
Read the full explanation →What is the default port number of HTTPS?
HTTPS is HTTP wrapped in encryption, and web servers listen for it on port 443. When an address begins with https, the browser opens a secure channel on that port, and the padlock shown beside the address means the traffic on it is coded.
Read the full explanation →Which symbol was chosen by Ray Tomlinson to separate the user name from the host name in an email address?
Ray Tomlinson sent the first message between two computers on ARPANET in 1971 and needed a character that would never appear in a person's name.
Read the full explanation →Who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web?
Working at CERN in Switzerland, he proposed a system of linked documents in 1989, wrote the first browser and server, and put the first website online in 1991.
Read the full explanation →ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet, carried its first message in which year?
ARPANET was funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the United States Department of Defense, and in 1969 it linked computers at four American universities and passed its first message between them.
Read the full explanation →In Gmail, the email address of the recipients can be entered in __________ field.
The To field of a mail window is meant for the addresses of the people the letter is written to.
Read the full explanation →Deleted emails are stored in
When a letter is deleted from a mailbox it is not wiped out at once. It is moved to a folder called Trash, or Bin in some services, and kept there for a fixed number of days so that a letter deleted by mistake can be restored.
Read the full explanation →Jhumpa Lahiri's story collection 'Interpreter of Maladies' won which of the following awards?
Interpreter of Maladies, her first book, is a collection of nine stories about Indian families in America, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000.
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