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.
Lotia is the regional music of:
Lotia takes its name from the lota, the small metal water pot that women carry on the head in the procession with which it is performed, and it belongs to the folk tradition of Rajasthan, alongside Maand, Panihari and the Banna-Banni wedding songs.
Read the full explanation →India won its first Test series outside the subcontinent in 1968 in which country, under Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi?
India won the series in New Zealand in 1968 under Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, taking three of the four Test matches, and it was India's first series win on foreign soil after thirty-six years of Test cricket.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the first season of the Indian Premier League played?
The Indian Premier League, the franchise Twenty20 competition run by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, played its first season in April and May 2008, and the Rajasthan Royals, captained by Shane Warne, won that edition.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first batter in the world to complete 10,000 runs in Test cricket?
Gavaskar reached ten thousand Test runs in 1987, the first cricketer of any country to do so, and he had earlier passed Don Bradman's record of twenty-nine Test centuries, finishing his career with thirty-four.
Read the full explanation →India won the first ICC World Twenty20 in 2007. In which country was that tournament held?
The inaugural ICC World Twenty20 was staged in South Africa in September 2007, and India beat Pakistan in the final at the Wanderers in Johannesburg, Joginder Sharma bowling the last over and Irfan Pathan taking three wickets.
Read the full explanation →The Ranji Trophy, India's premier first-class cricket competition, is named after whom?
Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, the prince of Nawanagar who played for England in the 1890s and was famous for the leg glance, gave his name to the trophy for the national first-class championship, which was first played in the 1934 and 1935 season and was won by Bombay.
Read the full explanation →Anil Kumble took all ten wickets in a Test innings in 1999 against which country?
At the Feroz Shah Kotla ground in Delhi in February 1999 Anil Kumble took ten wickets for 74 runs in Pakistan's second innings, becoming only the second bowler in the history of Test cricket to take all ten in an innings, after Jim Laker of England, who did it against…
Read the full explanation →Who was the captain of India when it won the 2011 Cricket World Cup?
India beat Sri Lanka in the final at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on 2 April 2011 under Dhoni, who finished the chase himself with a six and was named player of the match; it was the first time a team had won a World Cup final on its own…
Read the full explanation →In the final of the 1983 Cricket World Cup at Lord's, India defeated which team?
On 25 June 1983 India, led by Kapil Dev, bowled out the West Indies for 140 while defending a modest total of 183, and won the Prudential World Cup against a side that had won the first two editions in 1975 and 1979.
Read the full explanation →Who scored the first Test century for India?
Lala Amarnath scored 118 against England at the Bombay Gymkhana ground in 1933, in the first Test match ever played on Indian soil and in his own debut Test, and it was the first century by an Indian in Test cricket.
Read the full explanation →Who captained India in its first ever Test match?
Nayudu. Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu led India in its first Test match at Lord's in 1932 and is regarded as the first great Indian cricketer; the Board of Control for Cricket in India named its lifetime achievement award after him.
Read the full explanation →India played its first Test match in 1932 against England at which ground?
India played its first Test match in June 1932 at Lord's in London, becoming the sixth country to be granted Test status after England, Australia, South Africa, the West Indies and New Zealand.
Read the full explanation →Which type of weathering is dominant in a hot, humid tropical climate?
Abundant rainfall, warm temperatures and thick vegetation together supply the water, the heat and the organic acids that speed up solution, hydrolysis, hydration, carbonation and oxidation, so minerals are decomposed deeply.
Read the full explanation →A fjord is best described as which of the following?
A valley glacier reaching the coast scoops its floor below present sea level; when the ice melts and the sea rises, water floods the trough and leaves a long, narrow, steep-sided inlet with great depth.
Read the full explanation →Karst topography takes its name from a plateau in which present-day country?
The term comes from the Kras or Karst plateau of the Dinaric region, which lies largely in present-day Slovenia and extends into the neighbouring coastal belt.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is a depositional landform of a glacier?
A moraine is the ridge of unsorted rock debris that a glacier carries and dumps; it is named by position as lateral, medial, ground or terminal moraine, and the terminal moraine marks the farthest point the ice reached.
Read the full explanation →Loess, a thick deposit of fine, wind-blown silt, is best developed in which country?
Loess is a depositional landform of wind: very fine silt lifted from desert and glacial margins is carried far away and settles as a yellow, porous, loosely packed sheet.
Read the full explanation →An ox-bow lake is formed by which of the following?
In its middle and lower course a river swings from side to side, eroding the outer bank of each bend and depositing on the inner bank.
Read the full explanation →Stalactites, stalagmites and pillars inside a limestone cave are formed mainly by the action of which agent?
Rainwater charged with carbon dioxide becomes a weak carbonic acid, seeps along joints in limestone and dissolves calcium carbonate by carbonation.
Read the full explanation →Exfoliation, in which curved shells of rock peel away from a granite dome like the skin of an onion, is an example of which process?
Exfoliation is caused by repeated heating and cooling of the outer layer of a rock and by the release of pressure when overlying material is removed; the surface expands and contracts more than the interior and splits away as curved sheets.
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