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.
The annual buffalo race called Kambala is a festival celebrated in which Indian state?
Kambala is a traditional buffalo race of coastal Karnataka, held mainly in the Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts, the Tulu Nadu region.
Read the full explanation →Which state of India celebrates the 'Sangai Festival' in November?
The Manipur Sangai Festival is held every year from 21 to 30 November to showcase the state's culture and tourism.
Read the full explanation →Which biotic component of an ecosystem is present in the greatest number?
Producers, the green plants and algae, are the most numerous living part of an ecosystem because every other organism depends on them for food.
Read the full explanation →The Union Environment Ministry has launched a pilot project for beach clean-up and development named:
In 2018 the Union Environment Ministry started a pilot project to clean up and develop selected beaches so that they could win the Blue Flag.
Read the full explanation →Which was the first country to introduce GST in its system?
France was the first country to introduce GST, in 1954. The idea came from Maurice Lauré, a French tax official, who designed a tax charged at every stage of production and sale but only on the value added at that stage.
Read the full explanation →Which is the first Indian state to ratify the GST Constitution Amendment Bill, recently passed by the Parliament of India?
Assam became the first state to ratify the GST Constitution Amendment Bill, on 12 August 2016, soon after Parliament passed it.
Read the full explanation →On which date Swachh Bharat Mission was started by PM Narendra Modi to fulfill India's biggest dream of being a clean nation?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Mission on 2 October 2014, Mahatma Gandhi's 145th birth anniversary, at Rajpath in New Delhi.
Read the full explanation →Which Article of the Indian Constitution directs the State to take steps to organize Village Panchayats?
Article 40 directs the State to organise village panchayats and give them the powers they need to work as units of self-government.
Read the full explanation →Oaths and affirmations for various constitutional posts are provided in which Schedule of the Indian Constitution?
The Third Schedule of the Constitution gives the forms of oaths or affirmations for important constitutional posts.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following articles in the Indian Constitution states that there shall be a Council of Ministers with the Prime Minister at the head to aid and advise the President who shall, in the exercise of his functions, act in accordance with such advice?
Article 74 says there shall be a Council of Ministers with the Prime Minister at the head to aid and advise the President, who shall act according to that advice.
Read the full explanation →According to Article 24 of the Indian Constitution, what is the minimum age for employment in factories or mines or other hazardous employment?
Article 24 says that no child below the age of 14 years shall be employed to work in any factory or mine or in any other hazardous employment.
Read the full explanation →Which of these rivers primarily flows in South Africa?
The Orange River is the longest river of South Africa, about 2,200 km long. It rises in the Drakensberg mountains of Lesotho, flows west across South Africa and falls into the Atlantic Ocean at Alexander Bay.
Read the full explanation →What is the name of the canal that connects the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean? It was commissioned in the year 1914.
The Panama Canal cuts across the narrow Isthmus of Panama in Central America and joins the Atlantic Ocean, through the Caribbean Sea, with the Pacific Ocean.
Read the full explanation →The Indira Point, the southern point of India, is situated at the _______ tip of Great Nicobar Island.
Indira Point, the southernmost point of India, lies at the southern tip of Great Nicobar Island in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Read the full explanation →The tallest peak of which of the following mountain ranges is a mountain called 'Guru Shikhar'?
Guru Shikhar, about 1,722 m high on Mount Abu in the Sirohi district of Rajasthan, is the highest peak of the Aravalli Range.
Read the full explanation →When was India's capital shifted from Calcutta to Delhi?
King George V announced at the Delhi Durbar on 12 December 1911 that the capital of British India would move from Calcutta to Delhi.
Read the full explanation →Under which Indian emperor's reign was the Jama Masjid in Delhi built?
The Jama Masjid of Delhi was built by Shah Jahan between 1650 and 1656 as the main mosque of his new capital, Shahjahanabad.
Read the full explanation →Before Champaran Satyagraha, the farmers of Champaran used to follow the 'Tinkathiya' system, whereby three katthas of land in a bigha had to be planted with ______.
Under the tinkathiya system, European planters forced the peasants of Champaran in Bihar to grow indigo on 3 out of every 20 katthas (one bigha) of their land.
Read the full explanation →The SI unit of potential difference is ______.
Potential difference is the work done to move a unit charge between two points, and its SI unit is the volt.
Read the full explanation →Electric devices like laundry iron, electric toaster, electric oven, electric kettle and electric heater are based on which effect of electric current?
An iron, toaster, oven, kettle and heater all turn electrical energy into heat when current flows through a coil of high resistance.
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