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.
Which one of the following countries is called the 'country of winds'?
Denmark is known as the country of winds because strong westerly winds blow across its flat land and long North Sea coast for most of the year.
Read the full explanation →The reservoir of the Rihand dam in Sonbhadra district is known by which name?
The Rihand dam was built on the Rihand, a tributary of the Son, in Sonbhadra district, and its reservoir is the largest artificial lake of India.
Read the full explanation →Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh is best known for the manufacture of which product?
Aligarh has made locks since the colonial period and the trade grew into a cluster of small workshops making locks, hinges, builders hardware and brass fittings, which is also the One District One Product of the district.
Read the full explanation →Which district of Uttar Pradesh is the main centre of hand knotted carpet weaving?
The town and the villages around it, together with neighbouring Mirzapur, form the largest hand knotted carpet belt of India and export most of what they weave.
Read the full explanation →The only oil refinery of Uttar Pradesh is located at:
The Mathura refinery of the Indian Oil Corporation is the only refinery in the state and was set up to serve the demand of the north western plains, with crude reaching it by pipeline.
Read the full explanation →Which district of Uttar Pradesh is famous for the traditional perfume called ittar?
The town has distilled flower oils in copper stills for centuries and is called the perfume capital of India, its ittar being carried in leather bottles and matured through the seasons.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the One District One Product scheme launched by the Uttar Pradesh government?
The scheme was announced on Uttar Pradesh Day, 24 January 2018, and chose one traditional product for each district so that help with design, credit, common facility centres, packaging and marketing could be concentrated instead of scattered.
Read the full explanation →Which city of Uttar Pradesh is known as the Manchester of North India?
The city grew in the nineteenth century as the cotton and woollen mill town of the Ganga plain, with army supply orders behind it, and the tanneries of Jajmau grew beside the mills.
Read the full explanation →Which is the only coal producing district of Uttar Pradesh?
The Singrauli coalfield spreads across the border of Madhya Pradesh into Sonbhadra, and no other district of Uttar Pradesh has workable coal.
Read the full explanation →Firozabad, a city in Uttar Pradesh, is famous for which of the following industries?
Firozabad has made glass bangles, chandeliers and glassware for generations and is called the bangle city of India.
Read the full explanation →Lucknow city of Uttar Pradesh is famous for which of the following handloom production centers?
Chikankari is the fine white shadow work embroidery of Lucknow, done with untwisted thread on muslin, cotton and georgette, and it carries a geographical indication tag in the name of the city.
Read the full explanation →In the method of irrigation, water is applied to a field by means of small, narrow field channel and is suitable for crops grown in rows. Since the water is not applied to the entire area, the consumption of water is less, is described by which method of irrigation?
In this method small narrow channels are run between the ridges on which a row crop stands, and only those channels are filled.
Read the full explanation →The best method of applying water to sandy undulating area is :
Sandy soil drinks water too fast for any surface method, and an uneven surface cannot be flooded evenly without heavy levelling.
Read the full explanation →The khadin system of water harvesting and farming is traditionally associated with which region of Rajasthan?
A khadin is an earthen bund built along the lower edge of a rocky slope in the desert.
Read the full explanation →The Bisalpur dam, the largest drinking water project of Rajasthan, is built on which river?
The Bisalpur dam stands on the Banas in Tonk district and was built mainly to supply drinking water, which it pipes to Jaipur, Ajmer and Tonk, besides irrigating land in Tonk itself.
Read the full explanation →Which is the uppermost dam of the Chambal Valley Project?
The four structures of the project stand in a fixed order from upstream to downstream, and the order itself is the question: Gandhi Sagar in Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh, then Rana Pratap Sagar at Rawatbhata in Chittorgarh, then Jawahar Sagar near Borawas in Kota, and last the Kota barrage…
Read the full explanation →The Chambal Valley Project is a joint venture of Rajasthan and which other state?
The Chambal rises at Janapav hill in the Vindhyan highlands of Madhya Pradesh and then flows along and through Rajasthan, so the two states built the valley scheme together and share its cost and its benefits equally.
Read the full explanation →Which is the oldest canal of Rajasthan, built in the reign of Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner?
It was opened in 1927, draws Sutlej water from the Hussainiwala headworks near Ferozepur and carries it into Sri Ganganagar, which became the first and for long the only canal irrigated district of Rajasthan.
Read the full explanation →By what name was the Indira Gandhi Canal known before 1984?
The project was planned by the engineer Kanwar Sain in 1948 under that name, the foundation stone was laid on 31 March 1958, and the canal was renamed the Indira Gandhi Canal in 1984.
Read the full explanation →The Indira Gandhi Canal takes off from which barrage?
It stands in Punjab just below the point where the Beas joins the Sutlej, so it can command the combined flow of the two rivers.
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