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.
Who was the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
He led the government of the United Provinces before independence and continued as the first Chief Minister of the state after it, staying in office through the renaming of 1950.
Read the full explanation →The High Court of Uttar Pradesh has its principal seat at which city?
Uttar Pradesh is one of the few states where the High Court does not sit in the capital: its principal seat is at Prayagraj and it has a bench at Lucknow, an arrangement that goes back to the merger of the courts of Agra and Oudh.
Read the full explanation →Which state of India is the largest producer of sugarcane?
The deep alluvial soil of the Ganga plain, the canal network of the western districts and a long growing season have made the state the leading producer of sugarcane in the country, and its western belt around Meerut, Muzaffarnagar and Saharanpur holds a large share of the sugar mills.
Read the full explanation →Banaras Hindu University at Varanasi was founded in 1916 by whom?
He raised the funds and pushed through the legislation for Banaras Hindu University, which was founded at Varanasi in 1916 and became one of the largest residential universities in Asia.
Read the full explanation →The Bara Imambara at Lucknow was built by which ruler?
The Nawab of Awadh had the Bara Imambara built at Lucknow in 1784 as a famine relief project, so that people could earn wages through a hard year, and the Rumi Darwaza was raised at the same time.
Read the full explanation →At which place in Uttar Pradesh did Gautam Buddha attain mahaparinirvana?
The Buddha died there, an event described as the mahaparinirvana, and the town in eastern Uttar Pradesh keeps the Mahaparinirvana temple with its long reclining image of the Buddha, along with a stupa raised over his relics.
Read the full explanation →Which bird is the state bird of Uttar Pradesh?
It is the tallest flying bird in the world, stands over a metre and a half high, has a grey body with a bare red head and neck, and is found in the wetlands and flooded fields of the state.
Read the full explanation →Which is the only national park located in Uttar Pradesh?
It lies in Lakhimpur Kheri district along the border with Nepal and protects the tall grassland and sal forest of the Terai.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the United Provinces renamed Uttar Pradesh?
The province was called the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh and then simply the United Provinces, and the name was changed to Uttar Pradesh on 24 January 1950, two days before the Constitution came into force.
Read the full explanation →Identify the city which is situated on the banks of river Sarayu.
The city stands on the Sarayu in eastern Uttar Pradesh and is one of the oldest towns named in Indian literature.
Read the full explanation →Fatehpur Sikri was founded as the capital of the Mughal Empire by ______.
He built Fatehpur Sikri in the Agra district of present day Uttar Pradesh in the sixteenth century and made it his capital, naming it after his victory in Gujarat.
Read the full explanation →APPLE, India's first experimental communication satellite, was launched in 1981 by which launch vehicle?
The full name of the satellite, Ariane Passenger Payload Experiment, contains the answer, since it flew as a passenger on an Ariane launch in 1981 to test the building of a geostationary communication satellite in India.
Read the full explanation →GAGAN, the satellite based augmentation system, is a joint project of ISRO and which organisation?
GAGAN stands for GPS Aided GEO Augmented Navigation and was developed by ISRO together with the Airports Authority so that civil aircraft in Indian airspace get position information accurate and reliable enough for approach and landing.
Read the full explanation →The satellite navigation system BeiDou belongs to which country?
BeiDou is the Chinese global navigation satellite system, built in phases and now offering worldwide coverage, and the name is the Chinese term for the constellation of the Big Dipper.
Read the full explanation →Which was India's first operational remote sensing satellite?
The correct answer is B, IRS-1A, launched in 1988, which began the Indian Remote Sensing series and was the first such satellite whose data was used routinely for crop assessment, forest mapping, water resources and land use rather than only for experiment.
Read the full explanation →India's solar mission Aditya-L1 has been placed in a halo orbit around which point?
A Lagrange point is a place where the gravitational pulls of the two bodies and the orbital motion balance, so a spacecraft can stay there with very little fuel, and from L1 the sun can be watched continuously without eclipse or occultation.
Read the full explanation →Astrosat, launched in September 2015, was India's first satellite of which kind?
Astrosat was launched on 28 September 2015 by a PSLV and carries instruments that observe the same cosmic source in the ultraviolet, the visible and the X-ray bands at the same time, which is what multi-wavelength means and what makes the mission unusual among space telescopes of its size.
Read the full explanation →Which was India's first satellite dedicated exclusively to meteorology?
Launched in 2002 as METSAT, it was the first Indian satellite built only for weather work, and it was renamed Kalpana-1 in memory of Kalpana Chawla, the India-born astronaut who died in the Columbia accident of 2003.
Read the full explanation →The NavIC constellation was designed with how many satellites?
The system was designed as a constellation of seven satellites, three of them in geostationary orbit and four in geosynchronous orbits inclined to the equatorial plane, a small number being enough because the service area is regional and not global.
Read the full explanation →What does NavIC stand for?
The name was given in 2016 to the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, IRNSS, when the seventh satellite of the constellation was placed in orbit, and the word navik also carries the sense of a sailor or navigator, which is why it was chosen.
Read the full explanation →