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.
Which tissue joins a muscle to a bone?
A tendon is made of dense white fibrous connective tissue with great tensile strength and almost no elasticity, so when a muscle contracts the whole pull is transmitted to the bone without being lost in stretching.
Read the full explanation →The cell theory, that all plants and animals are composed of cells, was proposed by:
Matthias Schleiden, a botanist, concluded that all plants are made of cells, and Theodor Schwann, a zoologist, reached the same conclusion for animals; together their statement became the cell theory.
Read the full explanation →Which organelle is known as the suicide bag of the cell?
A lysosome is a membrane-bound sac of powerful digestive enzymes that breaks down worn-out organelles and any foreign particle the cell takes in; if the cell is damaged or starving, the sacs burst and the same enzymes digest the cell itself, which is why the name suicide bag is used.
Read the full explanation →Which cell organelles have their own DNA and Ribosomes?
Both carry a small circular DNA of their own and their own 70S ribosomes, so they make a part of their protein themselves and divide independently of the cell; this semi-autonomous nature is the main evidence for the view that they descend from free-living bacteria engulfed by an early cell.
Read the full explanation →Who discovered the cell in 1665 while examining a slice of cork?
In 1665 he cut a thin slice of cork, examined it under a microscope of his own making and saw rows of empty boxes, which he named cells after the small rooms of a monastery; the drawing and description appeared in his book Micrographia.
Read the full explanation →Under Article 243Q, an urban area in transition from a rural area to an urban area is governed by a:
Article 243Q requires the Governor to constitute a Nagar Panchayat, by whatever name called, for a transitional area, that is an area moving from rural to urban character.
Read the full explanation →Who appoints the State Election Commissioner responsible for conducting panchayat elections?
Article 243K vests the superintendence, direction and control of panchayat elections in a State Election Commission consisting of a State Election Commissioner appointed by the Governor.
Read the full explanation →Which committee first recommended a three-tier structure of Panchayati Raj in India?
Appointed in 1957 to examine the working of the Community Development Programme, it recommended democratic decentralisation through three tiers, namely the Gram Panchayat at the village level, the Panchayat Samiti at the block level and the Zila Parishad at the district level.
Read the full explanation →A Metropolitan Planning Committee under Article 243ZE is constituted for an area having a population of at least:
Article 243P defines a metropolitan area as an area having a population of ten lakh or more, comprised in one or more districts and consisting of two or more municipalities or panchayats, which the Governor specifies by public notification.
Read the full explanation →Under the Constitution of India, what is the minimum age for a person to contest an election to a panchayat?
Article 243F provides that a person who is less than twenty-five years of age shall not be disqualified on the ground of age if he has attained twenty-one years, which fixes twenty-one as the floor for membership of a panchayat.
Read the full explanation →Which Article of the Constitution of India provides for the Gram Sabha?
It says that a Gram Sabha may exercise such powers and perform such functions at the village level as the legislature of a State may by law provide.
Read the full explanation →How many subjects are listed in the Eleventh Schedule of the Constitution of India?
The Eleventh Schedule was added by the 73rd Amendment Act of 1992 and lists twenty-nine subjects, from agriculture and minor irrigation to poverty alleviation and public distribution, which a State legislature may devolve on the panchayats under Article 243G. The Schedule itself does not transfer power; it only marks the…
Read the full explanation →To establish which of the following objectives the 74th Amendment _______ was passed.
The 74th Amendment Act of 1992 created Part IXA for urban local bodies, of which the municipal corporation is the largest form under Article 243Q. It also made regular elections compulsory by fixing a five-year term under Article 243U and by placing the conduct of municipal elections with the State…
Read the full explanation →Local government bodies for the urban areas are known as __________.
Part IXA of the Constitution, inserted by the 74th Amendment Act of 1992, is titled The Municipalities and covers every kind of urban local body.
Read the full explanation →In India the first Municipal Corporation was set up in which one among the following places?
The East India Company set up the first municipal corporation in India at Madras in 1688, with a mayor and aldermen, mainly to raise local taxes for the maintenance of the town.
Read the full explanation →The three-tier system of local government does NOT include the _________.
The three tiers created by Article 243B are the village level, the intermediate level and the district level, known in most States as the Gram Panchayat, the Panchayat Samiti and the Zila Parishad.
Read the full explanation →Panchayati Raj institutions came into existence under the:
Both were passed in 1992 and together they gave constitutional status to local government.
Read the full explanation →The Company obtained the Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa by which treaty?
Signed in 1765 after the Battle of Buxar, it was concluded by Robert Clive with the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II and with Shuja-ud-Daulah of Awadh.
Read the full explanation →Wood's Despatch of 1854, known as the Magna Carta of English education in India, was issued during the term of:
Charles Wood, the President of the Board of Control, sent the Despatch in 1854 while Dalhousie was Governor-General.
Read the full explanation →The Charter Act of 1833 is important because it:
The Charter Act of 1833 made the Governor-General of Bengal the Governor-General of India with authority over the Bombay and Madras Presidencies, took away their power to make laws, and added a law member to the Council, a post first held by Lord Macaulay.
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