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 bana, a three stringed instrument, is played by which group of Gond bards?
The Pardhans are the bardic group within Gond society who sing the deeds of Bada Dev to the three stringed fiddle called the bana, and who receive a customary payment from the families they sing for.
Read the full explanation →The Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, the National Museum of Mankind, is located in which city?
The Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya was set up in 1977 and stands on the Shamla Hills at Bhopal, overlooking the Upper Lake.
Read the full explanation →Who is the chief deity of the Gond community, worshipped in the saja tree?
Bada Dev, also called Budha Dev, is the chief deity of the Gonds and is worshipped in the saja tree; the Pardhan bards sing his deeds to the three stringed bana, and these songs are the source from which Gond painting drew its subjects.
Read the full explanation →Mandana, found in the Malwa and Nimar region, is which kind of art?
Mandana is made by women of the Malwa and Nimar region, who coat the floor or the lower wall with red geru and then draw geometric figures, flowers, peacocks and lamps on it with white chui mitti.
Read the full explanation →Which three communities are the particularly vulnerable tribal groups of Madhya Pradesh?
These three are notified as particularly vulnerable tribal groups in Madhya Pradesh, a category earlier called primitive tribal groups and defined by a pre-agricultural level of technology, very low literacy, a small and stagnant population and a forest based life.
Read the full explanation →Bhuri Bai, who received the Padma Shri in 2021, belongs to which tribe of Madhya Pradesh?
Bhuri Bai of Pitol village in Jhabua district is a Bhil artist who began as a wage worker at the Bharat Bhavan site, was encouraged to paint on paper by Jagdish Swaminathan and became the first Bhil artist to carry Pithora forms on to paper and canvas.
Read the full explanation →Which institution at Bhopal, opened in 1982, holds the Roopankar gallery that first showed tribal painting as art?
Bharat Bhavan opened at Bhopal in 1982 in a building designed by the architect Charles Correa, and its art gallery Roopankar, shaped by the painter Jagdish Swaminathan, placed the work of village and tribal artists beside modern Indian painting.
Read the full explanation →Pithora wall painting is made by which community of Madhya Pradesh?
Pithora is the ritual wall painting of the Bhil and Bhilala people of Jhabua, Alirajpur and Dhar in the west of the state.
Read the full explanation →Jangarh Singh Shyam belonged to Patangarh village of which district of Madhya Pradesh?
Patangarh, the village of Jangarh Singh Shyam and of many Gond painters after him, lies in Dindori district in the eastern, forested part of the state, in the Gond country that also covers Mandla.
Read the full explanation →The Jangarh Kalam style of Gond painting was created by which artist?
A Pardhan Gond of Patangarh village in Dindori district, he was brought to Bhopal in the early nineteen eighties for Roopankar, the gallery of Bharat Bhavan, and turned the Digna wall patterns and the songs of Bada Dev into paintings on paper and canvas.
Read the full explanation →Which grain is the staple of the traditional rural diet of Haryana, eaten as roti and as khichdi?
Bajra, the pearl millet of the dry south western districts, is the grain of the traditional Haryanvi kitchen: the daily roti is made of bajra or of wheat, bajra khichdi and bajra aloo roti are standard dishes, and bajra rabri is drunk in the hot months.
Read the full explanation →Sanjhi, made by girls in Haryana during Navratri, is best described as what?
During the nine nights of Navratri the unmarried girls of a Haryanvi household shape Sanjhi, a figure of the goddess, in clay and cow dung on the wall of the courtyard or the entrance, decorate her with mirrors, bangles and colour, sing to her every evening and at the end…
Read the full explanation →Gugga Naumi, observed in the month of Bhadrapad in Haryana, is dedicated to which deity?
Gugga Naumi, also written Gugga Naumi or Gugga Navami, falls in Bhadrapad and honours Gugga Pir, revered as the lord of snakes and protector against snake bite.
Read the full explanation →Alsi ki pinni, a traditional Haryanvi sweet, is made chiefly of which ingredient and eaten in which season?
Alsi ki pinni is made by roasting ground flaxseed, which is alsi, with wheat flour, ghee and jaggery or sugar and shaping it into balls; it is eaten in the cold months because it is held to give warmth and strength.
Read the full explanation →Hansli is a traditional Haryanvi ornament worn on which part of the body?
Hansli is the heavy silver neck ring of the Haryanvi woman, worn with the kanthi, the galsari and the hamel, and it is still described in folk songs and in Saang performances as the mark of a bride.
Read the full explanation →The khes, a thick double woven cotton wrap, is associated above all with which town of Haryana?
Panipat is the textile town of Haryana and the best known centre for the khes, the thick double woven cotton wrap used as a shawl and a bedcover, as well as for the panja durrie woven on the pit loom and for a large trade in furnishings.
Read the full explanation →Which sweet is specially associated with the Teej festival in Haryana?
Ghevar, the disc of fried batter soaked in syrup, is the sweet of the Hariyali Teej of Sawan, when swings are hung from the trees, a married daughter receives new clothes and sweets from her parents, and the women of the household sing Teej songs.
Read the full explanation →In a Haryanvi wedding, the bhaat is the gift brought by which relative?
Bhaat is the gift of clothes, ornaments, cash and sweets that the mama brings at the marriage of his sister's son or daughter, and the ceremony of bringing it, bhaat bharna, is an event of its own, in which the family of the maternal uncle is received and honoured by…
Read the full explanation →In Haryanvi social custom, karewa refers to which practice?
Karewa, also called chadar dalna or chadar andazi from the sheet placed over the woman as the token of the new marriage, was practised widely in rural Haryana and is recorded in the colonial settlement reports of the region.
Read the full explanation →The ornament called pajeb is worn on which part of the body?
Pajeb is the anklet of the Haryanvi woman, worn with the kade on the ankles and the bichhua on the toes, and it was traditionally made of silver rather than gold because silver was within reach of a farming household.
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