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.
National Sports Day, on which the sports awards are traditionally conferred, is observed on:
The national sports awards are conferred by the President at Rashtrapati Bhavan on this day.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the Arjuna Award instituted?
The Arjuna Award is the oldest of the individual national sports awards and is given for consistently outstanding performance over four years, together with qualities of leadership, discipline and sportsmanship; the awardee receives a bronze statuette of Arjuna, a scroll and a cash prize.
Read the full explanation →The Dronacharya Award is given to:
Instituted in 1985 and named after the teacher of the Pandavas and the Kauravas, it honours coaches whose trainees have won medals and honours at international events, and it is given in a regular category and a lifetime category.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first recipient of the Khel Ratna Award?
The correct answer is A, Viswanathan Anand, the chess grandmaster, who received the award in its very first year, 1991 and 1992, when it was still called the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.
Read the full explanation →Which is the highest sporting honour conferred by the Government of India?
Instituted in 1991 and 1992 and renamed in August 2021, it is given for the most spectacular and outstanding performance by a sportsperson over the four preceding years and stands at the top of the national sports awards.
Read the full explanation →Chilika Lake, the largest brackish water lagoon in India, lies in which state?
Chilika is a shallow lagoon on the Bay of Bengal coast, separated from the sea by a sandy ridge and joined to it by a narrow mouth, which is why its water is brackish.
Read the full explanation →The Montreux Record under the Ramsar Convention is a register of:
The Montreux Record lists Ramsar sites where the ecological character has changed, is changing or is likely to change because of pollution, encroachment, siltation or other interference, so that the parties can direct attention and assistance there.
Read the full explanation →A ring shaped coral reef enclosing a central lagoon is known as:
Charles Darwin explained its formation: a fringing reef grows around a volcanic island, the island slowly subsides, the reef keeps growing upward towards the light, and in the end only a ring of reef and a lagoon are left where the island stood.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is not one of the four major coral reef areas of India?
Its water is muddy, its tidal range is among the highest in the country and several rivers empty into it, so the clear, silt-free conditions that corals need are absent; it is known instead for tidal energy potential.
Read the full explanation →The algae that live inside coral polyps and give reefs their colour are called:
These single-celled algae live within the tissue of the coral polyp, photosynthesise, hand most of the food they make to the polyp and give the reef its colour; the polyp in return offers shelter and nutrients, a textbook case of symbiosis.
Read the full explanation →The upward growing breathing roots of mangrove plants are called:
Mangrove mud is waterlogged and short of oxygen, so these roots grow vertically out of the soil and take in air through small pores called lenticels; they are the classic adaptation asked about in examinations, along with stilt roots and vivipary.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is the largest mangrove forest in the world?
It is named after the sundari tree, holds the only mangrove population of the Royal Bengal tiger, and the Indian portion is a national park, a biosphere reserve and a World Heritage Site.
Read the full explanation →Keibul Lamjao, the only floating national park in the world, lies on which lake?
Keibul Lamjao National Park rests on these mats and is the last natural home of the sangai, the brow-antlered deer of Manipur.
Read the full explanation →World Wetlands Day is observed every year on which date?
The correct answer is B, 2 February, the anniversary of the signing of the Ramsar Convention in 1971, which is why the day carries that date.
Read the full explanation →The Convention on Wetlands, known as the Ramsar Convention, was signed in 1971 in which country?
The convention takes its name from Ramsar, a town on the Caspian coast of Iran, where it was signed on 2 February 1971; it came into force in 1975 and is the oldest of the modern global environmental treaties.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following pairs of wetlands and the confluence of rivers they lie at:
Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?
The Harike Wetland in Punjab was created by building a barrage just below the point where the Beas joins the Sutlej, so the first pair is correct and it is the only one.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following Ramsar sites is not situated in Uttar Pradesh?
These twin lakes lie near Jammu in the Jammu and Kashmir region, not in Uttar Pradesh, so they are the odd one out in this list.
Read the full explanation →World Immunization Week is observed in the last week of which month?
The World Health Organization keeps the last week of April for this campaign, which presses the case for vaccination at every age and reminds governments of the children still missed by routine immunisation.
Read the full explanation →Hindi Pakhwada in central government offices begins on Hindi Diwas, which falls on:
On that day in 1949 the Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi in the Devanagari script as the official language of the union, and the anniversary is kept as Hindi Diwas, after which offices run a fortnight of competitions and reviews of official language work.
Read the full explanation →In official Indian usage, a pakhwada is a period of:
A pakhwada is a fortnight, half of a lunar month, and government departments use it when a theme needs actual work rather than a ceremony; Swachhata Pakhwada, the cleanliness fortnight taken up by each ministry in turn, and Hindi Pakhwada, which begins on Hindi Diwas, are the standard examples.
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