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.
Sitara Devi, who was called the empress of dance, is associated with which form?
Sitara Devi was one of the great Kathak dancers of the twentieth century, and Rabindranath Tagore is said to have called her the empress of dance after watching her perform.
Read the full explanation →Pandit Birju Maharaj was a celebrated exponent of which classical dance form?
Birju Maharaj belonged to the Lucknow gharana of Kathak and to the Kalka-Bindadin family of dancers, and he is the name most often set when this form is tested; Shambhu Maharaj and Lachhu Maharaj of the same family came before him.
Read the full explanation →Kalakshetra, the well known dance institution at Chennai, was founded by whom?
Rukmini Devi Arundale founded Kalakshetra at Madras in 1936, and the institution reshaped the presentation of Bharatanatyam and trained most of the following generations of dancers in the form.
Read the full explanation →From which edition were the National Games reorganised on the pattern of the Olympic Games?
Until then the National Games had been a meet of limited scale; the 1985 edition at New Delhi remodelled them on the Olympic pattern, with a much longer list of disciplines, a whole state rather than a single city as host, a torch relay, formal opening and closing ceremonies, a…
Read the full explanation →The Khelo India School Games were first held in which year?
The first edition of the Khelo India School Games was held at New Delhi in 2018 under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, and from the following edition at Pune the competition was broadened and renamed the Khelo India Youth Games, with under-seventeen and under-twenty-one categories and a long-term…
Read the full explanation →Besides the states and union territories, which team takes part in the National Games?
The Services Sports Control Board enters a single contingent known simply as Services, made up of sportspersons serving in the Army, the Navy and the Air Force, and because the armed forces recruit and train athletes from across the country this team has been among the most successful in the…
Read the full explanation →The 38th National Games, held in 2025, took place in which state?
The 38th National Games were held in Uttarakhand in 2025, with competition spread over Dehradun, Haldwani, Rudrapur, Haridwar and other centres, and with Mauli, a Himalayan monal, as the mascot; the monal is the state bird of Uttarakhand.
Read the full explanation →Moga, the mascot of the 37th National Games, represented which animal?
Moga was modelled on the gaur, the large wild cattle of the Western Ghats which is the state animal of Goa, and it was chosen as the mascot when Goa hosted the 37th National Games in 2023.
Read the full explanation →The 37th National Games, held in 2023, were hosted by which state?
The 37th National Games were held in Goa in 2023, the state hosting them for the first time after a long wait, with events spread across Panaji and other centres and with the mascot Moga, a gaur or Indian bison, the state animal of Goa.
Read the full explanation →Savaj, the mascot of the 36th National Games, was based on which animal?
Savaj was a cub of the Asiatic lion, and it was chosen as the mascot of the Gujarat edition of 2022 because the Gir forest of Gujarat is the only place in the world where that subspecies survives in the wild, making the lion the obvious emblem of the host…
Read the full explanation →The 36th National Games, held in 2022, were hosted by which state?
The 36th National Games were held in Gujarat in 2022, spread across Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot and Bhavnagar, with the mascot Savaj, an Asiatic lion cub chosen because the Asiatic lion survives in the wild only in that state.
Read the full explanation →Which body conducts the National Games of India?
The Indian Olympic Association is the national Olympic committee of the country, and it conducts the National Games in partnership with the Olympic association of the host state, deciding the list of disciplines, approving the venues and ratifying the results, with support from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the All India Olympic Games renamed the National Games?
The competition had been held since 1924 under the name the All India Olympic Games, and at the Bombay edition of 1940 it was renamed the National Games, which it has remained ever since.
Read the full explanation →The competition that is now known as the National Games of India was first held in 1924 in which city?
The first edition was staged in 1924 at Lahore, then the chief city of undivided Punjab, under the name the All India Olympic Games, and its purpose was to create a national meet from which an Indian team could be picked for the Olympic Games.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is the dispersing medium for an emulsion? A. Gas B. Liquid C. Solid
A colloid is named according to the states of its two parts, the dispersed phase and the dispersing medium, and an emulsion is defined as a colloid in which a liquid is dispersed in another liquid, so the dispersing medium must itself be a liquid.
Read the full explanation →In water, hydrogen and oxygen are combined in the ratio of
A molecule of water contains two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen.
Read the full explanation →Crystallisation is preferred to simple evaporation for obtaining a pure solid because
In crystallisation a hot saturated solution is allowed to cool slowly, and as it cools only the required substance comes out of solution in the regular form of crystals while the impurities, present in smaller amounts, stay dissolved in the liquid that is left behind, which is called the mother…
Read the full explanation →Which of the following does NOT show the Tyndall effect?
When salt dissolves in water it breaks up into separate ions, which are far smaller than the wavelength of visible light, so they cannot scatter a beam sideways and the path of light through the liquid stays invisible.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is used to separate the different dyes present in a sample of ink?
Chromatography separates substances that are dissolved in the same solvent and present in very small quantities, by letting the solution creep along a strip of filter paper.
Read the full explanation →A mixture of common salt and ammonium chloride can be separated by
Ammonium chloride passes directly from the solid to the vapour state on heating, without melting, while common salt does not.
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