Static GK decides the General Awareness score in SSC CGL. Of the 25 questions in Tier-I and the 25 in Tier-II Paper-I, most come from Indian Polity, History, Geography, the Economy and General Science, the areas the CGL 2026 notice lists as History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General Policy and Scientific Research relating to India and its neighbouring countries. Polity questions ask about articles, parts and schedules of the Constitution, amendments, the President, Parliament, the Supreme Court and constitutional bodies. History covers the Indus Valley, the Mauryas and Guptas, the Delhi Sultanate and Mughals, and the freedom struggle from 1857 to 1947. Geography asks about rivers, soils, climate, national parks, minerals and world physical features. The Economy part asks about budget terms, the RBI, banking and basic concepts. General Science is school-level Physics, Chemistry and Biology. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for SSC CGL, written as short facts and tables so a topic can be revised in one sitting. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to check what you retained.
In which year was the Surajkund Crafts Mela started?
The Surajkund mela was started in 1987 as a crafts fair of the state, and it has been held every February since, bringing craftspeople and folk performers from across the country to the grounds at Surajkund.
Read the full explanation →The Surajkund International Crafts Mela is held in which district of Haryana?
The fair is held at Surajkund in Faridabad district, close to the Delhi border, where the amphitheatre-shaped reservoir attributed to the Tomar king Surajpal gives the place its name and its setting.
Read the full explanation →Which pair of a Bihar monument and its place is correctly matched?
The gurdwara at Patna Sahib marks the birthplace of Guru Gobind Singh in 1666 and is one of the five Takhts of the Sikhs, the only one in Bihar.
Read the full explanation →The Mundeshwari temple, an octagonal stone shrine counted among the oldest temples in India still in worship, is in which district?
The Mundeshwari temple stands on the Pawra hill at Ramgarh in Kaimur district. It is an octagonal shrine of stone, Shaiva and Shakta in its images, carries an early inscription and has been in continuous worship, which is why it is listed among the oldest functioning temples of the country.
Read the full explanation →The Jal Mandir at Pawapuri, a marble temple standing in a tank, marks the nirvana of
Pawapuri in Nalanda district is held to be the place where Mahavira, the twenty-fourth Tirthankara, attained nirvana, and the Jal Mandir of white marble stands in the middle of a lotus tank said to have formed where his ashes were taken.
Read the full explanation →The marble Vishwa Shanti Stupa, built in 1969 on Ratnagiri hill, is at which place in Bihar?
The Vishwa Shanti Stupa or World Peace Pagoda was built in 1969 on Ratnagiri hill at Rajgir in Nalanda district by a Japanese Buddhist order, and the ropeway that climbs to it is one of the best known in eastern India.
Read the full explanation →The Ashokan pillar carrying a bull capital was found at which place in West Champaran district?
Two Ashokan pillars were found at Rampurva in West Champaran district, one crowned by a bull capital and the other by a lion capital; the bull capital is the best known animal capital from Bihar after the Sarnath lions and is kept in New Delhi.
Read the full explanation →The remains of the eighty-pillared Mauryan hall of Pataliputra have been excavated at
The Kumhrar mound in Patna has yielded the remains of a Mauryan hall whose roof was carried on eighty polished sandstone pillars, read as an assembly or audience hall of Pataliputra, together with the Arogya Vihara of a later period.
Read the full explanation →The octagonal tomb of Sher Shah Suri, built in the middle of an artificial lake, stands at
The tomb of Sher Shah Suri rises on a stone plinth in the middle of a tank at Sasaram, an octagonal chamber under a single large dome with smaller domed kiosks around it, and it is the high point of Indo-Afghan building in India.
Read the full explanation →The Golghar, the granary built at Patna in 1786 after the famine of 1770, was designed by
The Golghar was built in 1786 to a design by Captain John Garstin of the Bengal Engineers, as a store of grain against another famine like that of 1770; its beehive shape and the two spiral stairways on the outside make it the best known colonial building of Patna.
Read the full explanation →The Lomas Rishi and Sudama caves, the oldest surviving rock-cut caves in India, are in which district of Bihar?
The Barabar hills in Jehanabad district hold the Lomas Rishi and Sudama caves, cut in the Mauryan period and polished inside to a mirror finish; the carved chaitya-arch doorway of the Lomas Rishi cave is the earliest example of that motif in stone.
Read the full explanation →Vikramshila Mahavihara at Antichak, in Bhagalpur district, was founded by which Pala ruler?
Vikramshila was founded by the Pala king Dharmapala and became, after Nalanda, the most important centre of Buddhist learning in eastern India, especially of tantric studies; its ruins at Antichak in Bhagalpur district show a large brick stupa surrounded by monastic cells.
Read the full explanation →The foundation of Nalanda Mahavihara in the fifth century CE is attributed to which ruler?
The founding of Nalanda is credited to the Gupta ruler Kumaragupta I in the fifth century CE, after which it grew for seven hundred years under later Gupta, Maukhari and Pala patronage until the raid of Bakhtiyar Khalji about 1193 CE.
Read the full explanation →Which site of Bihar was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2016?
The excavated remains of the ancient university at Nalanda were added to the World Heritage List in 2016 as an archaeological site, and they are the second World Heritage Site of Bihar.
Read the full explanation →All the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Uttar Pradesh lie in which district?
Uttar Pradesh has three World Heritage Sites and all three are in Agra district: the Taj Mahal, built by Shah Jahan in white marble for Mumtaz Mahal; the Agra Fort, raised by Akbar in red sandstone on the Yamuna; and Fatehpur Sikri, Akbar's planned capital with the Buland Darwaza, the…
Read the full explanation →At which place in Uttar Pradesh did the Buddha attain mahaparinirvana?
Kushinagar, in the east of the state near Gorakhpur, was the capital of the Malla republic, and the Buddha died there under sal trees; the event is called mahaparinirvana.
Read the full explanation →The Bara Imambara of Lucknow, with its famous Bhulbhulaiya, was built in 1784 by whom?
Asaf-ud-Daula of Awadh had the Bara Imambara built at Lucknow in 1784 as a famine relief work, so that labourers could earn wages through a year of scarcity.
Read the full explanation →Lathmar Holi, in which women drive men away with sticks, is famously played at which place in the Braj region?
Barsana, remembered as Radha's village, holds the best known Lathmar Holi, in which the women of Barsana playfully beat back the men who come from Nandgaon with long sticks, and the play is repeated the next day at Nandgaon.
Read the full explanation →The Prayag Prashasti, inscribed on the Ashokan pillar at Prayagraj, praises Samudragupta and was composed by whom?
The Prayag Prashasti, also called the Allahabad pillar inscription, was composed in Sanskrit by Harisena, a minister and court poet of Samudragupta.
Read the full explanation →The fort at Prayagraj, standing beside the Sangam, was built in 1583 by which ruler?
Akbar built the fort at the confluence in 1583 and renamed the town Illahabas, from which the name Allahabad came; the city was renamed Prayagraj in 2018.
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