Static GK decides most of the General Knowledge and General Awareness score in SSC CPO. The CPO 2026 notice lists History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General Polity, the Indian Constitution and Scientific Research relating to India and its neighbouring countries, together with everyday science. In Paper-I the part has 25 questions for 25 marks in 15 minutes; in Paper-II it has 20 questions for 40 marks in 20 minutes, and those marks count in the final merit. Polity questions ask about articles, parts and schedules of the Constitution, amendments, Parliament, the President, the judiciary and constitutional bodies. History runs from the Indus Valley and the Mauryas and Guptas through the Sultanate and the Mughals to the freedom struggle. 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, and General Science is school-level Physics, Chemistry and Biology. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for SSC CPO, written as short facts and tables so that one topic can be revised in one sitting. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to check what stayed with you.
Wangala, the hundred-drums harvest festival, is celebrated by which tribe?
Wangala is the post-harvest thanksgiving festival of the Garo of Meghalaya, offered to Saljong, the sun god who grants the harvest.
Read the full explanation →The Sonepur Mela, also called the Harihar Kshetra Mela and counted among the largest cattle fairs of Asia, is held in which state?
The Sonepur Mela is held at Sonepur in the Saran district of Bihar, where the Gandak joins the Ganga. It begins on Kartik Purnima, the same full moon as the Pushkar Fair, and is named the Harihar Kshetra Mela after the Harihar Nath temple there, which tradition links to Rama.
Read the full explanation →The Pushkar Fair, famous for its camel and livestock trading, is held in which state?
The Pushkar Fair is held at Pushkar in the Ajmer district of Rajasthan, on the bank of the Pushkar lake and beside the temple of Brahma.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following tribes does NOT live in India?
The Maasai are a cattle-keeping people of East Africa, living in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania around the Rift Valley and the Serengeti.
Read the full explanation →'Bhagta Parab', a tribal festival that is celebrated between the period of spring and summer, originated in the state of ______.
Bhagta Parab is observed by the tribal communities of Jharkhand in the weeks between spring and summer, and it is dedicated to Budha Baba.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following regions is the original habitat of the 'Toda Tribe'?
The Toda are a small pastoral people of the upper Nilgiri plateau in Tamil Nadu. They live in hamlets called munds, herd buffaloes and treat dairy work as a sacred duty carried out at the conical or barrel-vaulted temple huts that appear in every photograph of them.
Read the full explanation →'Ali Ai Ligang Festival' is a festival celebrated in the state of _______.
Ali Ai Ligang is the spring sowing festival of the Mising tribe of Assam. The name itself describes the occasion, for it refers to the sowing of roots and seeds, and the festival begins on the first Wednesday of the month of Fagun.
Read the full explanation →Ambubachi fair is celebrated in which of the following states?
The Ambubachi Mela is held every year at the Kamakhya temple, which stands on Nilachal Hill in Guwahati, the largest city of Assam.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following was NOT one of the five Deccan sultanates that emerged from the break-up of the Bahmani kingdom?
Khandesh was ruled by the Faruqi dynasty, which set itself up in the Tapi valley in the late fourteenth century independently of the Bahmanis, and it was annexed by Akbar in 1601; it never formed part of the Bahmani kingdom and so did not emerge from its break-up.
Read the full explanation →Mahmud Gawan built his famous three-storeyed madrasa at which city?
Mahmud Gawan, the Persian-born wazir of Muhammad Shah III who held the title Malik-ut-Tujjar, built a madrasa at Bidar in 1472.
Read the full explanation →The Persian envoy Abdur Razzaq visited Vijayanagara during the reign of which ruler?
Abdur Razzaq was sent by Shah Rukh, the Timurid ruler of Herat, and reached Vijayanagara in 1443, when Deva Raya II of the Sangama dynasty was on the throne.
Read the full explanation →The Telugu work Amuktamalyada was written by which ruler?
Amuktamalyada is a Telugu poem on the life of the Tamil saint Andal that also sets out the duties of a king, and it was composed by Krishnadevaraya himself, which is why he is remembered as a poet-king with the title Andhra Bhoja.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the Battle of Talikota, also called Rakshasi-Tangadi, fought?
On 26 January 1565 the combined armies of the Deccan sultanates of Bijapur, Ahmadnagar, Golconda and Bidar defeated the Vijayanagara forces led by Aliya Rama Raya at Talikota, a battle also named Rakshasi-Tangadi after two nearby villages.
Read the full explanation →Which Bahmani ruler shifted the capital from Gulbarga to Bidar?
In 1425 Ahmad Shah Wali moved the Bahmani capital from Gulbarga to Bidar, which he renamed Muhammadabad, and Bidar remained the seat of the kingdom until it broke up.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following Bahmani sultans was noted for cruelty and hence got the title as ‘Zalim’?
Humayun Shah Bahmani ruled from 1458 to 1461 and the chronicles of the Deccan record his punishments as so savage that he was nicknamed Zalim, the cruel or the tyrant.
Read the full explanation →The Vijayanagara empire was considered the golden period during whose rule?
Krishnadevaraya of the Tuluva dynasty ruled from 1509 to 1529 and his reign is treated as the golden age of Vijayanagara: the Raichur doab was won back, Odisha's Gajapati ruler was humbled, Telugu literature flourished under the eight court poets called the Ashtadiggajas, and the Vitthalaswamy and Hazara Rama temples…
Read the full explanation →Vijayanagara empire was founded in which of the following years?
Harihara I and Bukka Raya I, the sons of Sangama, founded the city and the empire of Vijayanagara in 1336 on the southern bank of the Tungabhadra, at the site now known as Hampi in Karnataka.
Read the full explanation →The Bahmani Sultanate was founded by which of the following leaders?
In 1347 the centurion nobles of Daulatabad, the Amiran-i-Sadah, rebelled against the Delhi Sultan and raised one of their own, Hasan Gangu, to the throne of the Deccan.
Read the full explanation →In which year did India face the severe balance of payments crisis that led to the reforms of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation?
By the middle of 1991 India's foreign exchange reserves had fallen to roughly a fortnight of imports, gold was pledged abroad to raise funds, the country borrowed from the International Monetary Fund and the rupee was devalued in two steps in July.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is recorded in the capital account of the balance of payments?
The capital account records transactions that change the ownership of assets and liabilities between residents and non-residents, and foreign direct investment, along with portfolio investment, external commercial borrowings and deposits of non-resident Indians, falls squarely in that group.
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