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.
Which is the oldest infantry regiment of the Indian Army?
The Madras Regiment traces its raising to 1758 and is accepted as the senior most and oldest infantry regiment of the Indian Army.
Read the full explanation →Which naval rank is equivalent to the Army rank of Brigadier?
In the common ladder of the three services the Army Brigadier, the Navy Commodore and the Air Force Air Commodore occupy the same step.
Read the full explanation →The Indian Air Force rank of Group Captain is equivalent to which rank in the Indian Army?
The three services keep parallel ladders so that officers of equal standing can work together. At that level the Army has a Colonel, the Navy a Captain and the Air Force a Group Captain.
Read the full explanation →Who is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces?
Article 53 of the Constitution vests the supreme command of the defence forces of the Union in the President, to be exercised in accordance with law.
Read the full explanation →Which is the highest rank in the Indian Army?
Field Marshal is the five star rank of the Indian Army and stands above every other rank. It is ceremonial and is conferred only as a rare honour, and the officer who holds it never retires but remains on the active list of the Army for life.
Read the full explanation →The Palaeolithic site of Singi Talav, which has yielded hand axes and cleavers, lies near which place in Rajasthan?
The deposits around Didwana in Nagaur district, especially at Singi Talav, have produced a long sequence of Palaeolithic tools including hand axes and cleavers, and the area is one of the key localities for the study of the Stone Age in western India.
Read the full explanation →The circular Buddhist shrine on Bijak ki Pahadi is located at which site of Rajasthan?
On the hill called Bijak ki Pahadi at Bairath in Jaipur district, excavations begun by Daya Ram Sahni brought to light a round shrine built of brick and timber with a small stupa at its centre and a circular passage for circumambulation, counted among the earliest circular Buddhist structures known…
Read the full explanation →The Chalcolithic sites of Balathal and Gilund in Rajasthan belong to which culture?
Balathal in Udaipur district and Gilund in Rajsamand district stand in the Banas basin of southern Rajasthan and share the Black and Red Ware, the copper working and the stone and mud brick houses of the Ahar culture, named after its type site at Ahar in Udaipur.
Read the full explanation →Rairh in Tonk district is chiefly famous for which kind of find?
Rairh produced one of the largest hoards of punch marked silver coins reported from Rajasthan, along with Malava coins and great heaps of iron slag that show smelting was carried on there over a long period.
Read the full explanation →Ganeshwar, the site known as the cradle of copper, lies in which district?
Ganeshwar lies on the Kantli river in Sikar district in the Shekhawati region, close to the copper bearing rocks of the Khetri belt.
Read the full explanation →An edict of Ashoka has been found in Rajasthan at which place?
Bairath, also called Viratnagar, in Jaipur district is the chief Mauryan site of Rajasthan.
Read the full explanation →Bagor, one of the largest Mesolithic sites of India, is located in which district of Rajasthan?
Bagor stands on the Kothari river in Bhilwara district and was excavated by V. N. Misra. The site produced thousands of tiny stone tools called microliths, along with human burials and large numbers of animal bones, among them sheep and goat, which are read as evidence for early herding.
Read the full explanation →Which ancient site of Rajasthan was known as Tambavati?
Ahar lies on the Ayad river within present day Udaipur and was called Tambavati, which means the place of copper, because so much copper was smelted and worked there.
Read the full explanation →The earliest known ploughed field in the world has been reported from which site?
In the pre Harappan level at Kalibangan the excavators found a field with furrows running in two directions and crossing at right angles, exactly the pattern of mixed cropping still used in the region, where one crop is sown in the wider spaced furrows and another in the closer ones.
Read the full explanation →Kalibangan, the Harappan site of Rajasthan, is situated on the bank of which river?
Kalibangan lies in Hanumangarh district on the left bank of the now dry bed of the Ghaggar, the river that many scholars identify with the Saraswati of the Vedic texts.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the archaeological site of Nalanda Mahavihara inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List?
The archaeological site of Nalanda Mahavihara in Bihar was added to the World Heritage List in 2016, in recognition of a monastic and scholastic institution that functioned without a break from the third century before the Common Era to the thirteenth century.
Read the full explanation →Who destroyed the monastic universities of Nalanda and Vikramshila at the end of the twelfth century?
Ikhtiyaruddin Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji, a commander in the service of the Ghurids, overran the middle Ganga plain at the end of the twelfth century, sacking Odantapuri and Vikramshila and laying Nalanda waste soon after.
Read the full explanation →The library of Nalanda was known by which name?
The library complex of Nalanda was called Dharmaganja, the treasury of truth, and later accounts say it stood in three buildings, Ratnasagara, Ratnodadhi and Ratnaranjaka, of which Ratnodadhi is described as nine storeys high.
Read the full explanation →The monastery of Odantapuri, from which the name Bihar is usually traced, was founded by whom?
Gopala, the first king of the Pala dynasty, founded Odantapuri at the place now called Biharsharif in Nalanda district. The word vihara, meaning a Buddhist monastery, gave the region and then the state its name, and Odantapuri is the monastery most often named in that explanation.
Read the full explanation →Which scholar of Vikramshila went to Tibet and reformed Buddhism there?
Atisha was the most famous head of Vikramshila and left for Tibet in the eleventh century at the invitation of its western kings.
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