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.
Takht Sri Patna Sahib in Bihar marks the birthplace of which Sikh Guru?
The gurdwara built on that site is Takht Sri Patna Sahib, one of the five Takhts, and the only one in Bihar.
Read the full explanation →Takht Sri Hazur Sahib, one of the five Takhts of Sikhism, is located at:
The five Takhts, or seats of Sikh religious authority, must be learnt as a set, because the question is usually set by swapping one place for another.
Read the full explanation →The Adi Granth was installed in the Harmandir Sahib at Amritsar in 1604 by which Sikh Guru?
The correct answer is B, Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth Guru, under whom the Harmandir Sahib was built and who had the Adi Granth compiled and installed in it in 1604, appointing Baba Buddha as its first granthi.
Read the full explanation →The Indian Veterinary Research Institute has its main campus at:
The institute, which lies at Izatnagar near Bareilly, is the country's premier centre for veterinary research and teaching, covering animal diseases, vaccines and livestock production, and it has a second campus at Mukteswar in the Nainital district.
Read the full explanation →The National Institute of Virology, which works under the Indian Council of Medical Research, is located at:
The institute is the country's reference laboratory for viral diseases, it tests and confirms outbreaks and it also works on vaccines; the National AIDS Research Institute is in the same city.
Read the full explanation →The Central Food Technological Research Institute, a CSIR laboratory, is located in which city?
The institute works on food processing, preservation, packaging and nutrition, and it shares the city with the Defence Food Research Laboratory, so Mysuru is best remembered as the food research city.
Read the full explanation →The National Institute of Oceanography has its headquarters at:
The institute is a laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and studies the physics, chemistry, biology and geology of the seas around India, with regional centres at Kochi, Visakhapatnam and Mumbai.
Read the full explanation →The Central Arid Zone Research Institute, which studies desert agriculture and the spread of deserts, is located at:
The institute works on dryland farming, sand dune stabilisation, agroforestry and the management of grazing land in the arid west of the country, and it comes under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
Read the full explanation →The National Dairy Research Institute is located in which city?
The institute is the country's main centre for research and training in dairy science, covering animal breeding, milk production and dairy technology, and it works under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research; Karnal also holds the Central Soil Salinity Research Institute.
Read the full explanation →The Indian Agricultural Research Institute, which moved from Bihar after the earthquake of 1934, is now located at:
The institute began in 1905 at Pusa in Bihar, and after the Bihar earthquake of 1934 damaged its buildings it was shifted to Delhi, where the campus is still called Pusa; it is the country's leading agricultural research and teaching institute and was central to the Green Revolution.
Read the full explanation →The Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, which works on fast breeder reactor technology, is located at:
The centre was set up in 1971 and is the country's main laboratory for the second stage of the nuclear programme, in which plutonium from spent fuel is used in fast breeder reactors; the Fast Breeder Test Reactor and the prototype fast breeder project are both at Kalpakkam.
Read the full explanation →India's rocket launches take place from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, which is situated at:
The spaceport lies on an island on the Bay of Bengal coast, chosen because launches to the east pass over the sea and because its nearness to the equator helps eastward launches; it is named after Satish Dhawan, a former chairman of ISRO.
Read the full explanation →The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India's premier nuclear research facility, is located at:
The centre began in 1954 as the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay and was renamed the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in memory of Homi Jehangir Bhabha, the architect of India's atomic programme; the research reactors Apsara, Cirus and Dhruva are all on this campus.
Read the full explanation →Which legend of squash, from Pakistan, won ten British Open titles and remained unbeaten for more than five years from 1981?
He won the British Open ten times in a row and went unbeaten in competitive play for over five years from 1981, a run of hundreds of consecutive match wins that is often called the longest winning streak in any professional sport.
Read the full explanation →Emil Zatopek won the 5,000 metres, the 10,000 metres and the marathon at the same Olympic Games. Which Games were these?
The Czechoslovak runner won all three distance events at those Games, and the marathon was the first he had ever run; no athlete has repeated the treble.
Read the full explanation →Which driver won the Formula One world championship in 1994 and 1995 and then five times in a row from 2000 to 2004?
The German driver won his first two championships with Benetton in 1994 and 1995, moved to Ferrari and won five consecutive titles from 2000 to 2004, giving him seven in all.
Read the full explanation →The famous boxing bout called the 'Rumble in the Jungle', in which Muhammad Ali beat George Foreman in 1974, was held in which city?
The fight took place in October 1974 at Kinshasa, then the capital of Zaire and today the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is how the bout came to be called the Rumble in the Jungle.
Read the full explanation →Nadia Comaneci of Romania scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics at which Games?
At the Montreal Olympics, the fourteen-year-old Nadia Comaneci was awarded a perfect score of 10 on the uneven bars, the first such mark in Olympic gymnastics; the scoreboards of the day could not display it and showed 1.00 instead.
Read the full explanation →Sir Donald Bradman of Australia holds the highest Test batting average in cricket history. What is that average?
Bradman played 52 Test matches between 1928 and 1948 and scored 6,996 runs with 29 centuries, leaving him with an average of 99.94, a figure no batter has approached since.
Read the full explanation →The boxing legend Muhammad Ali was born with which name?
Born Cassius Marcellus Clay in Louisville in the United States, he won the light heavyweight gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics, took the world heavyweight title from Sonny Liston in 1964 and changed his name to Muhammad Ali soon afterwards.
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