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.
Who was the first Governor of Haryana?
A senior civil servant, he took office as the first Governor of Haryana on 1 November 1966, the day the state was created, and swore in the first Chief Minister.
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He belonged to the Congress and was sworn in as the first Chief Minister of Haryana on 1 November 1966, the day the state came into being, heading a ministry formed from the Punjab legislators of the Haryana region.
Read the full explanation →Which commission, appointed in April 1966, demarcated the boundary between Punjab and Haryana?
It was appointed on 23 April 1966 under Justice J. C. Shah of the Supreme Court, took the tehsil as its unit and the language returns of the 1961 census as its test, and submitted its report on 31 May 1966, after which the Punjab Reorganisation Act was passed.
Read the full explanation →Haryana was carved out of the erstwhile State of Punjab under which law?
Parliament passed it as Act No. 31 of 1966 after the Shah Commission reported, and it created Haryana, made Chandigarh a Union Territory and joint capital, transferred the hill areas to Himachal Pradesh, kept a common High Court for both states and set up a board for the Bhakra-Nangal and…
Read the full explanation →On which date did Haryana come into existence as a separate state of the Indian Union?
On that day the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 came into force and the Hindi-speaking districts of the old State of Punjab became the new State of Haryana, with seven districts and Chandigarh as a shared capital.
Read the full explanation →The Prayag Prashasti, the inscription recording Samudragupta's conquests, was composed by whom?
Harisena, a court poet and officer of Samudragupta, composed the eulogy engraved on the Ashokan pillar now standing in the Allahabad fort at Prayagraj; it lists the kings uprooted in the north, those of the south who were defeated and reinstated, and the frontier rulers who submitted, and it is…
Read the full explanation →The Gupta-period Dashavatara temple at Deogarh is in which district of Uttar Pradesh?
The Dashavatara temple at Deogarh, on the Betwa in Lalitpur district, is one of the earliest stone temples with a surviving shikhara, and its panels of Vishnu lying on Shesha, of Nara and Narayana and of Gajendra-moksha are standard illustrations of Gupta sculpture.
Read the full explanation →The Atala Masjid, a leading example of the Sharqi style, stands in which city of Uttar Pradesh?
Jaunpur was the capital of the Sharqi sultans in the fifteenth century, and their architects worked out a style of their own, marked by huge pylon-like gateways in front of the prayer hall instead of slender minarets; the Atala Masjid and the Jama Masjid of Jaunpur are its best examples…
Read the full explanation →Which place in Uttar Pradesh is associated with the Mahaparinirvana of the Buddha?
The Buddha died, or attained Mahaparinirvana, at Kushinagar in the land of the Mallas, and the site keeps the Mahaparinirvana temple with its long reclining image of the Buddha and the Ramabhar stupa raised over the place of his cremation.
Read the full explanation →The Lion Capital adopted as the State Emblem of India comes from the Ashokan pillar at which place in Uttar Pradesh?
The polished sandstone capital of four addorsed lions, with its abacus of four animals and wheels and the Dharmachakra below, stood on the Ashokan pillar at Sarnath near Varanasi, where the Buddha preached his first sermon; the capital was adopted as the State Emblem of India, and the wheel from…
Read the full explanation →The tomb of Itmad-ud-Daulah at Agra, called the Baby Taj, was built by Nur Jahan for whom?
Ghiyas Beg, a Persian noble who rose to be Jahangir's treasurer with the title Itmad-ud-Daulah, was buried in a garden tomb across the Yamuna that Nur Jahan completed in the 1620s. It is the first Mughal building faced entirely in white marble and decorated with pietra dura inlay, techniques later…
Read the full explanation →The Agra Fort, in red sandstone, was built by which Mughal emperor?
He rebuilt the old fort of Agra in red sandstone between 1565 and 1573, and his successors added to it: the Jahangiri Mahal belongs to his own reign, while Shah Jahan raised the white marble Moti Masjid and the pavilions of the Khas Mahal and the Musamman Burj, where he…
Read the full explanation →Which of these monuments of Uttar Pradesh is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List?
Akbar's abandoned capital was inscribed in 1986, and the other two World Heritage properties of the state are the Taj Mahal and the Agra Fort, both inscribed in 1983.
Read the full explanation →The Bara Imambara of Lucknow was built in 1784 by which Nawab, and with what purpose?
A severe famine struck Awadh, and the Nawab set thousands to work on the Bara Imambara in 1784 so that wages reached the hungry, with the story that nobles worked at night to pull down part of the day's building and keep the work going.
Read the full explanation →The Buland Darwaza at Fatehpur Sikri was built in 1576 to commemorate Akbar's victory over which region?
Akbar's conquest of Gujarat gave the empire its western ports, and the gateway raised at Fatehpur Sikri in 1576 to mark it is one of the tallest in India, its height increased by the long flight of steps it stands on.
Read the full explanation →The Taj Mahal was built by which ruler, and for whom?
Work on the tomb began in 1632, a year after Mumtaz Mahal's death, on the right bank of the Yamuna at Agra, in white marble brought from Makrana in Rajasthan; tradition names Ustad Ahmad Lahauri as its chief architect, and the site was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List…
Read the full explanation →Which four princely states were joined to form Greater Rajasthan on 30 March 1949?
On 30 March 1949 these four large states joined the existing union to create Greater Rajasthan, Jaipur was made the capital and Maharaja Man Singh II of Jaipur was appointed Rajpramukh.
Read the full explanation →Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner is remembered for which of the following?
Ganga Singh ruled Bikaner from 1887 to 1943 and is called the maker of modern Bikaner.
Read the full explanation →The Hawa Mahal of Jaipur was built in 1799 by which ruler?
The Hawa Mahal, the screen of latticed windows on the eastern edge of the City Palace complex, was raised in 1799 by Sawai Pratap Singh so that the women of the household could watch processions in the street without being seen.
Read the full explanation →Which was the only Muslim princely state in Rajasthan?
Tonk was set up in 1817 for Amir Khan, a Pathan commander of the Pindari period, under a treaty with the East India Company, and it remained the one princely state of Rajputana with a Muslim ruling house.
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