Static GK fills most of Part-B of the SSC GD Computer Based Examination. The GD 2026 notice lists the areas as History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General Polity, Indian Constitution, Scientific Research and Sports, relating to India and its neighbouring countries, and says the questions need no special study of any discipline. That is the key to preparing it: the questions are of Matriculation level and ask for the fact, not the analysis. Polity asks which Article deals with a right, how many Schedules the Constitution has, who appoints a Governor, or the tenure of the Rajya Sabha. History asks about the Mauryas, the Guptas, the Mughals, the 1857 revolt, the Congress sessions and the movements of Gandhi. Geography asks about rivers and their tributaries, States and their capitals, national parks, soils, passes and the countries on India's borders. The Economy part asks about the Budget, the RBI, taxes and schemes; Science asks about vitamins, units, gases, the human body and everyday physics; Sports asks about trophies, venues and players. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for SSC GD, written in short facts and tables in Hindi and English so a topic can be revised in one sitting. Read a note, then solve the previous-year questions and the quiz on that topic on this site to see what stayed.
The only Harappan site with an artificial dockyard has been identified at which place?
Lothal lies on the Bhogava, a tributary of the Sabarmati in Gujarat, and its eastern side holds a large brick basin connected to the river by a channel.
Read the full explanation →The Great Bath of the Indus Valley Civilisation was found at which site?
The Great Bath stands in the citadel of Mohenjo-daro in Sindh. It is a brick tank about twelve metres long and seven metres wide, with flights of steps at two ends, small rooms around it and a layer of natural tar below the floor to stop water from seeping away.
Read the full explanation →Ganymede, the largest satellite in the solar system, is a moon of which planet?
Ganymede is one of the four large moons of Jupiter first seen by Galileo, the others being Io, Europa and Callisto, and it is larger than the planet Mercury, which makes it the biggest satellite in the solar system.
Read the full explanation →On 21 June the rays of the Sun fall vertically over which line of latitude?
On 21 June the northern hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun, whose rays fall vertically on the Tropic of Cancer at 23.5 degrees north.
Read the full explanation →In which year did the International Astronomical Union reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet?
In that year the International Astronomical Union adopted a formal definition of a planet: a body that orbits the Sun, is massive enough for its own gravity to pull it into a nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.
Read the full explanation →Light from the Moon takes about how much time to reach the Earth?
The Moon is on average about 384,400 kilometres from the Earth. Light covers about three lakh kilometres in a second, so it crosses that distance in a little over a second.
Read the full explanation →The asteroid belt of the solar system lies between the orbits of which two planets?
The asteroid belt is a broad band of rocky bodies, from dust-sized grains to bodies hundreds of kilometres across, going round the Sun between the orbit of Mars and that of Jupiter.
Read the full explanation →Which planet has the lowest density, so low that it would float if placed in a large enough body of water?
Saturn is a huge ball of hydrogen and helium spread over an enormous volume, and its average density is less than that of water.
Read the full explanation →The occurrence of seasons on the Earth is caused mainly by which of the following?
The axis of the Earth is tilted about 23.5 degrees from the vertical and keeps pointing in the same direction throughout the year.
Read the full explanation →Apart from Uranus, which planet rotates on its axis from east to west, that is in a direction opposite to most planets?
Almost every planet, the Earth included, rotates from west to east, which is why the Sun appears to rise in the east.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest planet of the solar system?
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest of all by both diameter and mass; it is a gas giant of hydrogen and helium.
Read the full explanation →Approximately how long does sunlight take to reach the Earth?
The Sun is about 149.6 million kilometres from the Earth, a distance called one astronomical unit, and light travels about three lakh kilometres in a second.
Read the full explanation →Which is the hottest planet of the solar system?
Venus is wrapped in a very thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide, which lets sunlight in but does not let the heat escape.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following described the Directive Principles of State Policy as the novel feature of the Constitution of India?
Dr Ambedkar, chairman of the Drafting Committee, described the Directive Principles as a "novel feature" of the Constitution.
Read the full explanation →In which of the following cases did the Supreme court of India give a ruling that, 'in case of any conflict between the fundamental rights and the directive principles, the former would prevail'?
In State of Madras v. Champakam Dorairajan, the Supreme Court struck down a Madras government order that reserved college seats by community.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT included in the category of Directive Principles of State Policy of the Indian Constitution?
The Constitution does not classify the Directive Principles, but scholars group them into three categories: Socialist (such as Articles 38, 39, 41, 42 and 43, aimed at a welfare state and economic justice), Gandhian (such as Article 40 on village panchayats, Article 43 on cottage industries, Article 47 on prohibition…
Read the full explanation →Article 50 of the Constitution of India refers to the ________.
Article 50 says the State shall take steps to separate the judiciary from the executive in the public services of the State.
Read the full explanation →Protection of environment and wildlife is mentioned in which Article of the Indian Constitution?
Added by the 42nd Amendment in 1976, it says the State shall endeavour to protect and improve the environment and to safeguard the forests and wildlife of the country.
Read the full explanation →Which Amendment Act of the Constitution of India requires a State to minimise inequalities in income, status, facilities and opportunities as a Directive Principle of State Policy?
The 44th Amendment Act, 1978 added clause (2) to Article 38, which asks the State in particular to strive to minimise inequalities in income, and to endeavour to eliminate inequalities in status, facilities and opportunities, not only among individuals but also among groups of people living in different areas or…
Read the full explanation →The provision of early childhood care and education to children below six years of age was introduced by which Constitutional Amendment?
Originally Article 45 asked the State to provide free and compulsory education for all children until they reached fourteen, within ten years.
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