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.
How many commercial banks were nationalised in the first round on 19 July 1969?
On 19 July 1969 the government promulgated an ordinance nationalising fourteen major commercial banks, each of which held deposits of fifty crore rupees or more.
Read the full explanation →Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) was established in which year?
SIDBI was set up under the Small Industries Development Bank of India Act, 1989 and began operations in 1990 as the principal financial institution for the promotion, financing and development of micro, small and medium enterprises.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the State Bank of India created following the passage of the Imperial Bank of India into state ownership?
The All India Rural Credit Survey Committee found that rural credit needed a bank with a nationwide branch network, so Parliament passed the State Bank of India Act, 1955, and the Imperial Bank of India was taken over and renamed the State Bank of India with effect from 1 July…
Read the full explanation →The Chennakeshava temple at Belur and the Hoysaleshwara temple at Halebidu belong to which style?
The Hoysalas ruled southern Karnataka from Belur and Dwarasamudra, today's Halebidu, and their temples are unmistakable: a raised star shaped platform called the jagati, shrines on a stellate plan, soft chloritic schist or soapstone that allowed jewellery and hair to be carved in minute detail, lathe turned pillars, and bands…
Read the full explanation →The Sun Temple at Konark, designed in the form of a chariot, was built by:
The Konark Sun Temple in Odisha was raised in the thirteenth century by Narasimhadeva I. The plan is the chariot of Surya: a high platform carrying twelve pairs of carved stone wheels drawn by seven horses.
Read the full explanation →The temples at Pattadakal in Karnataka are best known because they show:
Pattadakal on the Malaprabha was a coronation city of the Chalukyas of Badami, and its temples stand side by side in both idioms: the Papanatha and Galaganatha temples carry curving Nagara towers, while the Virupaksha temple, built by queen Lokamahadevi to mark Vikramaditya II's victory over the Pallavas, and the…
Read the full explanation →The monolithic Kailasa temple at Ellora was excavated during the reign of which dynasty?
Cave 16 at Ellora, the Kailasa temple, was cut for the Rashtrakuta king Krishna I in the eighth century.
Read the full explanation →The curving tower raised over the sanctum of a north Indian temple is called the:
In the Nagara style of north India the tower over the garbhagriha is the shikhara.
Read the full explanation →The Brihadeshwara temple at Thanjavur was built by which ruler?
The Brihadeshwara or Rajarajeshwara temple at Thanjavur was completed about 1010 CE by Raja Raja I. Its vimana rises in shrinking storeys to over sixty metres and is crowned by a single huge capstone, the whole structure is of granite, and the courtyard holds one of the largest monolithic Nandi…
Read the full explanation →The Kanheri Caves, built by Buddhists, are located in which of the following states?
The Kanheri caves are cut into a basalt hill inside the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai.
Read the full explanation →The famous caves of Udayagiri and Khandagiri are located in ______.
The twin hills of Udayagiri and Khandagiri stand near Bhubaneswar and hold Jain rock-cut cells cut for monks in the first century BCE.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following features distinguishes the Elephanta Caves from other rock-cut sites of early India?
Elephanta, on Gharapuri island near Mumbai, is a Shaivite rock-cut group whose panels tell Shiva stories: the Trimurti Sadashiva, Ardhanarishvara, Gangadhara, the marriage of Shiva and Parvati and Shiva as Nataraja.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following heritage sites shows the Dravidian style of architecture?
Hampi on the Tungabhadra in Karnataka was the capital of the Vijayanagara empire, and its Virupaksha, Vittala and Hazara Rama temples are Dravidian work of the most elaborate kind: walled enclosures, towering gopurams, pillared kalyana mandapas, the famous stone chariot and the musical pillars.
Read the full explanation →In the context of temple architecture, the most important part of the temple is:
The garbhagriha, the womb house, is the small square windowless cell that holds the image of the presiding deity. Every other part of a temple is added around it: the tower rises over it, the hall stands in front of it and the circumambulatory passage runs around it.
Read the full explanation →Which element of the Lion Capital of Ashoka at Sarnath was left out when the State Emblem of India was adapted from it?
The original capital at Sarnath rests on an inverted lotus shaped like a bell, and that part was deliberately omitted from the State Emblem, which begins at the abacus.
Read the full explanation →The National Flag of India was based on the design proposed by
He was a freedom fighter from the Machilipatnam region of present day Andhra Pradesh who studied flags for years and presented a design to Mahatma Gandhi at Vijayawada in 1921.
Read the full explanation →Who designed the Indian rupee sign that was approved by the Union Cabinet in 2010?
His design won a public competition and the Union Cabinet approved it on 15 July 2010.
Read the full explanation →The National Calendar of India is based on the Saka era. Which is its first month?
The Saka calendar was adopted as the National Calendar with effect from 22 March 1957, which was the first of Chaitra in the Saka year 1879.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is the National Aquatic Animal of India?
Platanista gangetica, the South Asian river dolphin of the Ganga, Brahmaputra and Meghna systems, was notified as the National Aquatic Animal in 2009.
Read the full explanation →Vande Mataram, the National Song of India, first appeared in which novel?
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee composed Vande Mataram in Sanskritised Bengali and later placed it in his novel Anandamath, published in 1882, where the ascetic rebels sing it.
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