Static GK decides the General Awareness score in SSC CHSL. Of the 25 questions in Tier-I and the 20 in Tier-II, most come from Indian Polity, History, Geography, the Economy and General Science, the areas the CHSL 2026 notice lists as History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General Policy and Scientific Research relating to India and its neighbouring countries. The level is that of Class 12, so the questions are direct: which article, which river, which ruler, which year. Polity asks about parts and schedules of the Constitution, fundamental rights, the President, Parliament, the Supreme Court and constitutional bodies. History covers the Indus Valley, the Mauryas and Guptas, the Sultanate and Mughal periods, 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 with everyday applications, and Culture covers dances, festivals, monuments and books. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for SSC CHSL, 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 temples of Khajuraho were built by rulers of which dynasty?
The Chandelas of Jejakabhukti built the temples of Khajuraho between roughly the middle of the tenth and the middle of the eleventh century, in the Nagara style, with clustered spires rising over a shrine set on a high platform.
Read the full explanation →The Sanskrit work Samarangana Sutradhara, a treatise on architecture, is ascribed to which ruler?
Bhoja, the Paramara king of Dhar in the first half of the eleventh century, is credited with a long list of works, of which the Samarangana Sutradhara on architecture and town planning and the Saraswatikanthabharana on poetics are the best known.
Read the full explanation →Dhar was the capital of which dynasty of Malwa?
The Paramaras ruled Malwa from Dhar from about the ninth century until Alauddin Khalji's army took the country in 1305.
Read the full explanation →The famous rock-cut panel of Varaha lifting the earth, together with an inscription of the reign of Chandragupta II, is found at:
The Udayagiri caves near Vidisha are Gupta rock-cut shrines of the late fourth and early fifth centuries, and the largest panel there shows Varaha, the boar incarnation of Vishnu, raising the earth goddess on his tusk.
Read the full explanation →The Heliodorus pillar, the earliest inscriptional evidence of the Bhagavata faith, stands near which town of Madhya Pradesh?
The pillar stands at Besnagar beside Vidisha. It was set up in the second century before Christ by Heliodorus, a Greek ambassador sent by Antialcidas, the Indo-Greek king of Taxila, to the court of king Bhagabhadra.
Read the full explanation →Mahakaleshwar, one of the twelve jyotirlingas, is situated in which city?
The Mahakaleshwar temple at Ujjain is one of the twelve jyotirlingas, and it is singled out in every list because its lingam faces south, the only one of the twelve to do so; the bhasma aarti performed there before dawn is equally famous.
Read the full explanation →Ujjain was the capital of which mahajanapada?
Avanti was one of the sixteen mahajanapadas of the sixth century before Christ, and it was divided into two parts: the north, ruled from Ujjayini or Ujjain, and the south, ruled from Mahishmati, which is identified with Maheshwar on the Narmada.
Read the full explanation →Ujjain is situated on the bank of which river?
Ujjain stands on the Shipra, also written Kshipra, a tributary of the Chambal, and it is on the ghats of this river that the Simhastha, the Kumbh of Ujjain, is held every twelve years.
Read the full explanation →Relics of Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, two chief disciples of the Buddha, were recovered from which structure at Sanchi?
The relic caskets of Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, the two chief disciples of the Buddha, were found in Stupa 3 at Sanchi, which stands a short distance north-east of the Great Stupa and has a single gateway.
Read the full explanation →The four carved gateways or toranas of the Great Stupa at Sanchi were added under which dynasty?
The four toranas that stand at the cardinal points of the Great Stupa were carved in the first century before Christ in the Satavahana period, and an inscription on one of them records the gift of ivory carvers of Vidisha.
Read the full explanation →The Great Stupa at Sanchi was originally built during the reign of which ruler?
The Great Stupa, Stupa 1 at Sanchi, was raised in brick in the third century before Christ in the reign of Ashoka, who also set up a pillar at the site bearing the schism edict and crowned by a lion capital.
Read the full explanation →Who brought the Bhimbetka rock shelters to the notice of scholars in 1957?
Vishnu Shridhar Wakankar, an archaeologist from Ujjain, noticed the rocky outcrops from a train in 1957 and went on to explore and record the shelters and their paintings.
Read the full explanation →The rock shelters of Bhimbetka are located in which district of Madhya Pradesh?
The Bhimbetka rock shelters lie in Raisen district, in the foothills of the Vindhyan range south of Bhopal, within the forest now protected as Ratapani.
Read the full explanation →Thanesar in Haryana was the capital of which dynasty?
Thanesar, the ancient Sthanvishvara in Kurukshetra district, was the capital of the Pushyabhuti dynasty, also called the Vardhana dynasty from the ending of its kings' names.
Read the full explanation →The Ashokan pillar now standing at Firoz Shah Kotla in Delhi was brought by Firoz Shah Tughlaq from which place in Haryana?
The pillar was brought from Topra in Yamunanagar district to Delhi by Firoz Shah Tughlaq in the fourteenth century and set up at his new city of Firozabad, where it still stands at Firoz Shah Kotla.
Read the full explanation →Jyotisar in Kurukshetra is traditionally associated with which event?
Jyotisar, a short distance from the town of Kurukshetra, is held by tradition to be the spot where Krishna spoke the Gita to Arjuna before the Mahabharata war, and an old banyan tree there is shown as a witness to it.
Read the full explanation →According to the Manusmriti, Brahmavarta was the land lying between which two rivers?
The Manusmriti describes Brahmavarta as the holy land created by the gods between the Saraswati and the Drishadvati, and that strip of country is the plain of present-day Haryana.
Read the full explanation →A terracotta model of a plough was found at which Harappan site of Haryana?
Banawali in Fatehabad district, excavated by R. S. Bisht, gave a terracotta model of a plough, which is one of the clearest pieces of evidence for ploughed fields in the Harappan world; the other famous evidence is the ploughed field surface found at Kalibangan in Rajasthan.
Read the full explanation →The Harappan site of Rakhigarhi is located in which district of Haryana?
Rakhigarhi lies in Hisar district and covers the land of two villages, Rakhi Khas and Rakhi Shahpur, on a dried channel of the Drishadvati, today called the Chautang.
Read the full explanation →Which of the three Gods were especially important in the Rigvedic period?
These three receive the largest number of hymns in the Rigveda. Indra, the war god and breaker of forts, has the greatest number; Agni, the fire that carries the offering to the gods, comes next; and Soma, both a plant and a god, has the whole of the ninth mandala…
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