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 first Grammy Award ceremony was held in which year?
The Recording Academy held its first Grammy ceremony on 4 May 1959 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, and it honoured the recordings released during 1958.
Read the full explanation →The album Planet Drum, for which Ustad Zakir Hussain shared a Grammy with Mickey Hart, won the first ever award in which category?
Planet Drum, a percussion project led by Mickey Hart with Zakir Hussain among its players, won in 1992 the very first Grammy ever given in that newly created category.
Read the full explanation →A. R. Rahman won two Grammy Awards in 2010 for his work on which film?
Rahman took one Grammy for the compilation soundtrack album of the film and a second, shared with the lyricists Gulzar and Tanvi Shah, for the song Jai Ho; through that second award Tanvi Shah became the first Indian woman to win a Grammy.
Read the full explanation →Among the Grammy general field categories, which one is given to the songwriter rather than the performer?
This category honours the composition itself, that is the words and the music, so the trophy goes to the songwriter or composer rather than to the person who sang or produced the track.
Read the full explanation →The Grammy Awards are presented by which organisation?
Its formal name is the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and its voting members are musicians, producers, recording engineers and other professionals of the American recording industry.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Indian to win a Grammy Award?
The sitar maestro won the Grammy in 1968 for Best Chamber Music Performance for the album West Meets East, which he recorded with the violinist Yehudi Menuhin, making him the first Indian to receive the award.
Read the full explanation →India's first Paralympic gold medal was won in which sport?
Murlikant Petkar won the 50 metre freestyle at the 1972 Heidelberg Paralympic Games, and that remained India's only Paralympic gold for thirty-two years.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT one of the aquatic disciplines governed by World Aquatics?
World Aquatics recognises six disciplines, namely swimming, diving, water polo, artistic swimming, open water swimming and high diving. Rowing is played on water but is governed by a separate international body, World Rowing, long known as FISA, and its Olympic events are listed under rowing, not aquatics.
Read the full explanation →Where is the headquarters of World Aquatics, the international federation for swimming formerly called FINA?
The body was founded in 1908 in London during that year's Olympic Games, as the Federation Internationale de Natation, and the shortened form FINA stayed in use until it was renamed World Aquatics in 2023.
Read the full explanation →How many gold medals did Michael Phelps win at a single Olympic Games, the most by any athlete?
The American swimmer won eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics of 2008, the most won by any athlete at one Games, and he closed his career as the most decorated Olympian in history with 28 medals, 23 of them gold.
Read the full explanation →How many players of a water polo team are in the water at one time?
The correct answer is C, seven: six field players and one goalkeeper, who is distinguished by a red cap while the two teams wear white and dark caps.
Read the full explanation →Which is the longest swimming race held inside the pool at the Olympic Games?
The correct answer is B, the 1500 metre freestyle, often called the metric mile, which covers thirty lengths of a 50 metre pool and is the longest event on the Olympic pool programme.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Indian to swim across the English Channel?
A lawyer from Bengal, he swam the English Channel in 1958 and went on to cross five major seas and straits in a single year, 1966, including the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Dardanelles, the Bosphorus and the Panama Canal.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Asian woman to swim across the English Channel?
The Bengali swimmer crossed the English Channel in September 1959, becoming the first woman from Asia to do so, and in 1960 she became the first Indian sportswoman to be awarded the Padma Shri. Option A is wrong but close enough to be the standard distractor: Bula Choudhury, also from…
Read the full explanation →Which stroke is swum by the first swimmer in a 4 x 100 metre medley relay?
The medley relay order is backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle, and the reason the sequence differs from the individual medley is practical.
Read the full explanation →In the individual medley, in which order are the four strokes swum?
One swimmer covers all four strokes in that fixed sequence over 200 or 400 metres, and freestyle is always last.
Read the full explanation →How many lanes are marked in a pool used for Olympic swimming competition?
A pool built to the long course standard is marked into ten lanes of 2.5 metres each across its 25 metre width.
Read the full explanation →What is the length of an Olympic-size (long course) swimming pool?
An Olympic-size or long course pool measures 50 metres in length and 25 metres in width, and all Olympic pool races are swum in it, so a 100 metre race means two lengths and the 1500 metre freestyle means thirty.
Read the full explanation →Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas, notified in 2024, is observed on 25 June to remember
The Ministry of Home Affairs issued a notification in 2024 declaring 25 June as Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas, to pay tribute to those who suffered during the Emergency, which was proclaimed on 25 June 1975 and withdrawn on 21 March 1977.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following days was NOT declared after 2014?
