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.
In the classification given in the Natya Shastra, wind instruments are called by which name?
Sushira means hollow, and the class covers every instrument in which a column of air inside a tube is set vibrating.
Read the full explanation →The singer Bade Ghulam Ali Khan belonged to which gharana of Hindustani music?
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan is the best known singer of the Patiala gharana, a school marked by fast and intricate taans, a free use of thumri alongside khayal, and a bright open tone.
Read the full explanation →Tansen, credited with the ragas Miyan ki Malhar and Darbari Kanada, was a musician in whose court?
Tansen was counted among the navratnas, the nine jewels of Akbar's court, and had earlier served the ruler of Rewa.
Read the full explanation →Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande is remembered for which contribution to Hindustani music?
Bhatkhande travelled across India collecting compositions and then arranged the ragas of Hindustani music under ten parent scales or thaats, among them Bilawal, Kalyan, Khamaj, Bhairav, Kafi, Asavari, Bhairavi and Todi.
Read the full explanation →Who is known as the Pitamaha, or grandsire, of Carnatic music?
Purandara Dasa, a saint composer of the Kannada devotional tradition, is honoured as the Pitamaha of Carnatic music because he organised the way the music is taught.
Read the full explanation →The pakhawaj is the percussion instrument traditionally used to accompany which form?
The pakhawaj is a long barrel drum played horizontally with both hands, deeper and graver in tone than the tabla, and its weight suits the slow and solemn movement of dhrupad.
Read the full explanation →Which is the oldest surviving form of Hindustani vocal music?
Dhrupad is austere and devotional, sung in four sections called sthayi, antara, sanchari and abhog, and it opens with a long unmetred alap.
Read the full explanation →Teentaal, the most common tala of Hindustani music, has how many matras?
Teentaal runs over sixteen matras divided into four equal vibhags of four beats each. The first beat of the cycle is the sam and carries the stress, the third vibhag opens on a khali, and the cycle returns to the sam at the end.
Read the full explanation →How many melakarta ragas are there in the Carnatic system?
The melakarta ragas are the parent scales of Carnatic music, each of them using all seven notes in both ascent and descent.
Read the full explanation →The Sangeeta Ratnakara, a treatise accepted by both the Hindustani and the Carnatic traditions, was written by whom?
Sarangadeva wrote the Sangeeta Ratnakara in the thirteenth century while attached to the Yadava court at Devagiri in the Deccan.
Read the full explanation →Which Veda is regarded as the source of Indian classical music?
The Samaveda is the Veda of melody. Most of its verses are taken from the Rigveda, but they are arranged for singing rather than for recitation, and that singing is known as Samagana.
Read the full explanation →How many players does a football team have on the field, including the goalkeeper?
A football side takes the field with eleven players, one of whom is the goalkeeper, the only member of the team permitted to handle the ball, and that only within his own penalty area.
Read the full explanation →In which years was the FIFA World Cup not held because of the Second World War?
The World Cup is played every four years, so after the 1938 tournament in France the next editions would have fallen in 1942 and 1946.
Read the full explanation →The Santosh Trophy in Indian football is contested between which of the following?
The Santosh Trophy, started in 1941 and named after the Maharaja of Santosh in undivided Bengal, is the national football championship of India, played between teams representing the state associations and certain institutional units such as the services and the railways.
Read the full explanation →In football, scoring three goals by a single player in one match is called
A hat-trick in football means three goals scored by the same player in a single match. The term travelled to football from cricket, where it originally meant three wickets in three successive balls and the bowler was rewarded with a hat, and it is now used across several games.
Read the full explanation →India won the gold medal in football at the Asian Games in 1951 and in which other year?
India won the Asian Games football gold medal twice, first at the inaugural Games in New Delhi in 1951 and again at Jakarta in 1962, where the team beat South Korea in the final.
Read the full explanation →The Jules Rimet Trophy, awarded to the winners of the FIFA World Cup till 1970, was won permanently by which country?
The Jules Rimet Trophy, named after the FIFA president who conceived the World Cup, was to be kept permanently by the first nation to win the competition three times.
Read the full explanation →Which is the oldest football tournament in India and in Asia?
The Durand Cup was first played at Shimla in 1888 and is the oldest football tournament in India and in Asia, and the third oldest in the world.
Read the full explanation →In football, the penalty spot is placed at what distance from the goal line?
The penalty mark in football is twelve yards, about eleven metres, from the midpoint of the goal line, and a penalty kick is taken from that spot with only the goalkeeper defending.
Read the full explanation →The headquarters of FIFA, the world governing body of football, is located in which city?
FIFA has its headquarters at Zurich in Switzerland, from where it administers the World Cup and the world rankings.
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