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 protocol is responsible for delivering web pages over the Internet?
HTTP, the HyperText Transfer Protocol, is the application-layer protocol a browser uses to ask a web server for a page and to receive the HTML, images and scripts that make it up.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following tag creates a checkbox for a form in HTML?
HTML has no separate checkbox element at all. Every simple form control is written with the single input tag, and the type attribute decides what the browser draws, whether that is text, password, radio, checkbox, submit, file or hidden.
Read the full explanation →Convert the hexadecimal number C6 to binary number.
Each hexadecimal digit stands for exactly four binary digits, so a two-digit hex number becomes an eight-bit binary number. Here C is 12 in decimal, which is 1100 in binary, and 6 is 0110.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is/are the examples of non-volatile memory?
Flash memory, ROM and a hard drive all keep their contents after the power is switched off, and that is exactly what non-volatile means.
Read the full explanation →Orissa was officially renamed Odisha, and Oriya renamed Odia, with effect from which date?
Two laws of 2011 did the work together: the Orissa (Alteration of Name) Act changed the name of the state to Odisha, and the Constitution (113th Amendment) Act changed Oriya to Odia in the Eighth Schedule, which lists the languages of India.
Read the full explanation →Which of the classical dance forms of India originated in Odisha?
Odissi grew out of the temple dance of Odisha, from the Mahari tradition of women dancers in the Jagannath temple and the Gotipua tradition of boys dressed as girls dancing outside it, and its sculptural poses echo the carvings of Konark and Bhubaneswar.
Read the full explanation →The Sukinda valley in the Jajpur district of Odisha is known for the mining of which mineral?
The Sukinda valley in the Jajpur district holds the bulk of India chromite, the ore of chromium used in stainless steel and in chrome plating, and the belt is the reason India figures at all in world chromite output.
Read the full explanation →Gahirmatha on the Odisha coast is famous for the mass nesting of which creature?
The Gahirmatha coast of the Kendrapara district, a marine sanctuary adjoining Bhitarkanika, holds the largest known nesting ground of the Olive Ridley sea turtle, where lakhs of females come ashore together in the mass nesting called arribada.
Read the full explanation →The Rourkela Steel Plant in Odisha was set up with the technical collaboration of which country?
Rourkela, in the Sundargarh district, was built with West German collaboration under the Second Five Year Plan and was the first integrated steel plant set up in the public sector in India.
Read the full explanation →Which is the highest peak of Odisha?
Deomali, in the Koraput district of southern Odisha, rises to about one thousand six hundred and seventy two metres and is the highest point in the state.
Read the full explanation →The Hirakud Dam, independent India first major multipurpose river valley project, is built on which river?
Hirakud was built across the Mahanadi above Sambalpur, work beginning in 1947 and the project being dedicated in 1957, and it stands as independent India first major multipurpose river valley project.
Read the full explanation →The Sun Temple at Konark was built by a ruler of which dynasty?
The Sun Temple at Konark was raised in the thirteenth century by Narasimhadeva I of the Eastern Ganga dynasty, conceived as the chariot of the sun god with twenty four carved wheels drawn by seven horses.
Read the full explanation →The famous Hathigumpha inscription, carved in the Udayagiri caves of Odisha, belongs to which king?
The Hathigumpha or elephant cave inscription, cut into the Udayagiri hill near Bhubaneswar, is the record of Kharavela, the Jain king of the Mahameghavahana line of Kalinga.
Read the full explanation →The Kalinga War, fought in about 261 BCE, was waged by which ruler?
The Mauryan emperor Ashoka invaded Kalinga in about the eighth year of his reign, around 261 BCE, and the slaughter it caused turned him to Buddhism and to the policy of dhamma.
Read the full explanation →Which lake of Odisha is the largest brackish water lagoon in India?
Chilika, spread along the coast of the Puri, Khordha and Ganjam districts, is the largest brackish water lagoon in India, cut off from the Bay of Bengal by a long sandbar.
Read the full explanation →Odisha came into being as a separate province on which date, observed in the state as Utkal Divas?
Orissa was separated from the Bihar and Orissa Province and made a province in its own right on 1 April 1936, and the day is kept every year as Utkal Divas.
Read the full explanation →Which port in Gujarat was the first to be developed after independence and was renamed Deendayal Port in 2017?
After partition left the port of Karachi outside India, Kandla in the Gulf of Kutch was developed as the main gateway for the northern and western hinterland, which makes it the first major port developed after independence.
Read the full explanation →Which central scheme, launched in 2015, is aimed at port led development and coastal shipping in India?
The programme covers port modernisation and new port development, port connectivity, port linked industrialisation and coastal community development, and it is run by the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways.
Read the full explanation →The Airports Authority of India was constituted in which year by merging two earlier authorities?
The Airports Authority of India came into being in that year through the merger of the International Airports Authority of India, which ran the international gateways, with the National Airports Authority, which ran the domestic airfields and the air navigation services.
Read the full explanation →Which major port of India is described as the deepest landlocked port, having both an inner and an outer harbour?
The port in Andhra Pradesh lies in a natural inlet sheltered by the Dolphin's Nose headland, which gives it great depth while keeping it protected, and it is the one Indian major port that works with a separate inner harbour and outer harbour.
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