Static GK decides most of the General Awareness score in SSC exams. The CGL, CHSL and CPO notices describe it in almost the same words: questions on India and its neighbouring countries in History, Culture, Geography, the Economic Scene, General Policy and Scientific Research, and on everyday observation in its scientific aspect. The GD notice adds Sports, General Polity and the Indian Constitution, and the MTS notice lists Social Studies, General Science and Environmental Studies up to the 10th Standard. This page brings together GK24's GK notes and practice questions tagged for all five SSC exams. The notes follow a subject-wise syllabus, one topic per note in English and Hindi: Indian Polity, Indian History, Geography, Indian Economy, General Science, Environment and Ecology, Art and Culture, Computer, Sports, Awards and Honours, Books and Authors, Days and Dates, and Static GK. Each note is written as short facts and tables so that a topic can be revised in one sitting, and each ends with multiple-choice questions and explanations. The level is what changes between exams: read MTS and GD topics at Class 10 depth, CHSL at Class 12 depth, and CGL and CPO at graduate depth, where questions ask for the article number or the year rather than the broad idea. Start with Polity, History and Geography, which fill the most questions in past papers in GK24's reading, then move to the Economy and Science. After each note, solve its questions here and your exam's previous-year questions on its own page.
By which title is the poet Vidyapati of Mithila remembered?
Vidyapati was the poet of the Mithila court in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and his Maithili padavali of songs about Radha and Krishna is still sung in north Bihar.
Read the full explanation →Maithili was included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution by which amendment?
This amendment added four languages to the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, namely Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali, and raised the total number of scheduled languages from eighteen to twenty-two.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Pant headed the government of the United Provinces from 1937 and continued as the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh when the state took its present name in 1950, holding the office until 1954, after which he became Union Home Minister.
Read the full explanation →Begum Akhtar, honoured as Mallika-e-Ghazal, belonged to which city of Uttar Pradesh?
Begum Akhtar was born at Faizabad in 1914 and made her name at Lucknow as a singer of ghazal, dadra and thumri; she was called Mallika-e-Ghazal, the queen of the ghazal, and her voice shaped the way Urdu poetry is sung in the subcontinent.
Read the full explanation →Birju Maharaj, the celebrated Kathak dancer, belonged to which gharana?
Birju Maharaj belonged to the Kalka and Bindadin line of the Lucknow gharana of Kathak, the school that grew under the patronage of the Nawabs of Awadh and is known for expression, abhinaya and grace rather than for sheer footwork.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first woman Chief Minister of an Indian state, heading the government of Uttar Pradesh from 1963?
Sucheta Kripalani became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1963 and held the office until 1967, which made her the first woman to head the government of any Indian state.
Read the full explanation →Major Dhyan Chand, born at Allahabad, won Olympic gold medals with the Indian hockey team in which years?
Dhyan Chand was born at Allahabad on 29 August 1905, grew up at Jhansi and played in the Indian teams that won the hockey gold at Amsterdam in 1928, Los Angeles in 1932 and Berlin in 1936, the last as captain.
Read the full explanation →Chandra Shekhar Azad died in a gunfight with the police at which place?
Azad, the leader of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association after the Kakori case, was surrounded by the police at Alfred Park in Allahabad on 27 February 1931 and died fighting there.
Read the full explanation →Who founded the Banaras Hindu University at Varanasi in 1916?
Born at Allahabad in 1861 and known as Mahamana, Malaviya founded the Banaras Hindu University in 1916, collecting donations across the country for it, served four times as President of the Congress and edited the newspaper Leader.
Read the full explanation →Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaqullah Khan, the revolutionaries of the Kakori action, belonged to which district?
Both men came from Shahjahanpur and were members of the Hindustan Republican Association.
Read the full explanation →Mangal Pandey, the sepoy whose action began the Revolt of 1857, belonged to which district of Uttar Pradesh?
Mangal Pandey came from Nagwa village in Ballia district and was a sepoy of the 34th Bengal Native Infantry.
Read the full explanation →Rani Lakshmibai, the queen of Jhansi, was born in which city?
She was born at Varanasi in 1828 and was named Manikarnika, called Manu in the family; after her marriage to Gangadhar Rao she became the Rani of Jhansi.
Read the full explanation →Which Prime Minister of India was born at Mughalsarai in Uttar Pradesh?
Shastri was born on 2 October 1904 at Mughalsarai in the Chandauli tract, a station town now named Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar.
Read the full explanation →Which poet of the Riti period, born at Tikwapur in Kanpur district, wrote the Shivraj Bhushan and Shivabavani?
Bhushan belonged to Tikwapur in the present Kanpur district and wrote the Shivraj Bhushan, Shivabavani and Chhatrasal Dashak in Braj Bhasha, praising Shivaji and Chhatrasal Bundela in the veer rasa at a time when most Riti poets wrote love poetry for courts.
Read the full explanation →Firaq Gorakhpuri, the first Urdu writer to receive the Jnanpith Award, was honoured in 1969 for which collection?
Firaq Gorakhpuri, whose real name was Raghupati Sahay, was born at Gorakhpur in 1896 and received the Jnanpith Award in 1969 for the Urdu collection Gul-e-Naghma, becoming the first Urdu writer to win the prize.
Read the full explanation →The Nagari Pracharini Sabha, founded in 1893 to promote the Devanagari script, is located in which city?
The Nagari Pracharini Sabha was founded at Varanasi in 1893 by students of the Queens College to press for the use of Devanagari and Hindi in the courts and offices, and it went on to publish dictionaries, manuscripts and the Hindi Shabdasagar.
Read the full explanation →Mahadevi Verma received the Jnanpith Award in 1982 for which work?
Mahadevi Verma, born at Farrukhabad in 1907, was given the Jnanpith Award in 1982 for Yama, a collection that brings together her lyric poetry.
Read the full explanation →Who wrote Kamayani, the best known long poem of the Chhayavad school?
Prasad, who lived at Varanasi from 1889 to 1937, published Kamayani in 1936; it retells the story of Manu, Shraddha and Ida as an allegory of feeling and intellect and is treated as the chief long poem of Chhayavad.
Read the full explanation →Munshi Premchand, the novel emperor of Hindi, was born at which place?
Premchand, whose real name was Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, was born at Lamhi village near Varanasi in 1880 and died in 1936.
Read the full explanation →Bhojpuri, spoken in eastern Uttar Pradesh, is classed under which group of Indo-Aryan speech?
Bhojpuri descends from Magadhi Apabhramsha and is grouped with Magahi and Maithili in the Bihari group of the Eastern Indo-Aryan family, a classification made by George Abraham Grierson in the Linguistic Survey of India.
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