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 Indian to be awarded a Nobel Prize?
He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali and was the first Asian of any nationality to win a Nobel Prize, which is a second fact worth carrying.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first President of independent India?
He had presided over the Constituent Assembly that framed the Constitution and became the first President when the Constitution came into force in 1950.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT a gharana of Kathak?
Gwalior is the oldest gharana of Hindustani classical vocal music, not of Kathak, and it is placed among these options precisely because a candidate who remembers the word gharana without remembering the art form will pick it.
Read the full explanation →Sattriya dance originated in the monasteries established by which Vaishnava saint?
The Assamese saint of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries founded the sattras, the Vaishnava monasteries that give the form its name, and created the Ankiya Naat plays staged in the namghar, in which the dance developed.
Read the full explanation →Which classical dance is associated with the Raas Leela and with the barrel drum called the pung?
Its central theme is the Raas Leela of Radha and Krishna, the feet land softly, the face is held serene rather than expressive, and the dancer wears the stiff, barrel-shaped kumil skirt.
Read the full explanation →In Kathakali, which make-up type is worn by proud anti-hero characters such as Ravana?
The word means knife, and the make-up is marked by an upturned knife-shaped line drawn on a green base, worn by characters who are brave and powerful but arrogant, of whom Ravana and Duryodhana are the standard examples.
Read the full explanation →Kalakshetra, the institution founded at Madras in 1936 to teach Bharatanatyam, was established by whom?
She learned Bharatanatyam at a time when the form was losing its temple patronage, gave it a place on the public concert stage, and founded Kalakshetra in 1936 as a school where it could be taught systematically along with music and craft.
Read the full explanation →The tribhanga posture, in which the body is bent at three places, is a defining feature of which classical dance?
The form rests on two basic stances, the square chowk and the three-bent tribhanga, in which the head, the torso and the hips are deflected in opposite directions to produce the sculptural line seen in Odisha temple carving.
Read the full explanation →Which classical dance developed under both temple and Mughal court patronage and is known for its rapid chakkars?
It began with the kathakars, the story-tellers who narrated the epics in north Indian temples, and under Mughal patronage it moved into the court, took on Persian costume and turned towards abstract rhythm.
Read the full explanation →The tarangam, in which the dancer performs on the rim of a brass plate, is an item of which classical dance?
In the tarangam the dancer balances on the raised rim of a brass plate and moves it in rhythm, often with a pot of water carried on the head, which demonstrates the control over balance for which the Andhra form is famous.
Read the full explanation →In which year was Sattriya recognised as a classical dance form by the Sangeet Natak Akademi?
Sattriya of Assam was the eighth and last form to enter the Akademi list, and that single date is the fact papers ask most often about it.
Read the full explanation →The Natya Shastra, the foundational text of Indian classical dance and drama, is attributed to which author?
The Natya Shastra is the Sanskrit treatise that lays down the grammar every classical form follows, dividing performance into nritta, nritya and natya, naming the four kinds of abhinaya, and describing the rasas.
Read the full explanation →Which classical dance form of Kerala is a dance-drama performed with elaborately painted faces and towering headgear?
The name means story-play, and the form stages episodes from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Its characters are identified by make-up types, chiefly pacha for noble heroes, kathi for proud anti-heroes such as Ravana, thadi for fierce figures, kari for demonesses and minukku for gentle women and sages.
Read the full explanation →Bharatanatyam is the classical dance form of which Indian state?
Bharatanatyam grew in the temples of Tamil Nadu, where it was performed by devadasis under the older name sadir or dasiattam, and it was brought to the concert stage in the twentieth century by E. Krishna Iyer and Rukmini Devi Arundale, who founded Kalakshetra at Madras in 1936.
Read the full explanation →The modern Olympic torch relay, carrying the flame from Olympia to the host city, was introduced at which Games?
The flame itself had been lit at earlier Games, but the relay in which runners carry the torch from Olympia in Greece all the way to the host city began at Berlin, and it has been part of every Olympics since.
Read the full explanation →Abhinav Bindra won India's first individual Olympic gold medal in which event?
Abhinav Bindra won that event at the Beijing Games of 2008, giving India its first individual Olympic gold medal in any sport and its first gold of any kind since the hockey team's win in 1980.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal?
She won a bronze medal in weightlifting at the Sydney Games of 2000, the first Olympic medal won by an Indian woman, and the achievement is the standard one-line fact set from this chapter.
Read the full explanation →India won its first Olympic gold medal in which sport?
The Indian men's hockey team won the gold medal at the Amsterdam Games of 1928 and then kept winning, taking eight Olympic golds in all, in 1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1964 and 1980.
Read the full explanation →Who won India's first individual Olympic medal after independence?
Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav won a bronze medal in wrestling at the Helsinki Games of 1952, the first individual Olympic medal won by an Indian after independence, at a time when India's Olympic reputation rested entirely on the hockey team.
Read the full explanation →The first Winter Olympic Games were held in 1924 at which place?
The event held there in 1924 was recognised afterwards as the first Winter Olympic Games, and it created a separate cycle for sports played on snow and ice.
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