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.
A handball match consists of:
The correct answer is B, two halves of thirty minutes each, making an hour of play with an interval between the halves.
Read the full explanation →Under FIBA rules, within how many seconds must a team attempt a shot at the basket?
The shot clock gives the attacking side twenty-four seconds from gaining control of the ball to release a shot that touches the ring, and failure to do so hands possession to the opponents.
Read the full explanation →The term libero is used in which of these games?
The libero is a defensive specialist introduced to make long rallies possible: the player wears a shirt of a different colour, plays only in the back row, may be replaced freely without counting against the team's substitutions, and may not serve in most competitions, block, or attack a ball lying…
Read the full explanation →In which Olympic Games was volleyball included for the first time?
The correct answer is C, Tokyo in 1964, where both the men's and the women's events were held, the hosts winning the women's gold.
Read the full explanation →Which international federation is the world governing body for volleyball?
It runs the World Championship, the Volleyball Nations League and the beach volleyball circuit.
Read the full explanation →How many players of one team are on the court in a handball match?
The correct answer is C, seven, that is six court players and one goalkeeper, with further players available as substitutes.
Read the full explanation →The height of a basketball basket above the floor is:
The gallery railing in the Springfield gymnasium from which James Naismith hung his peach baskets in 1891 happened to be ten feet above the floor, and the height has stayed the same ever since for men and women alike.
Read the full explanation →What are the dimensions of a volleyball court?
The net divides the court into two squares of nine metres by nine metres, and an attack line is drawn three metres back from the centre line, behind which a back-row player must take off when attacking.
Read the full explanation →By what name was volleyball first known when it was invented?
William G. Morgan gave the game that name in 1895 because he had borrowed the net and the light ball from badminton, and only afterwards did a watching professor suggest volleyball, from the volleying of the ball back and forth over the net.
Read the full explanation →Who is credited with inventing the game of basketball?
A Canadian physical instructor at the YMCA training school in Springfield, Massachusetts, he devised the game in 1891 to keep his class occupied indoors during a hard winter, nailed two peach baskets to the gallery railings and wrote thirteen rules, of which the ban on running with the ball survives…
Read the full explanation →The Palghat gap, the widest break in the Western Ghats, separates which two hill groups?
The Palghat gap, about thirty kilometres wide in Palakkad district of Kerala, is the broadest break in the whole chain and carries the road and the railway line that join Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu to Palakkad and Thrissur in Kerala.
Read the full explanation →Which authority, along with the State Coastal Zone Management Authorities, oversees the enforcement of the Coastal Regulation Zone rules?
It was constituted under the Environment (Protection) Act to advise the central government on coastal matters and to work with the State and Union Territory Coastal Zone Management Authorities, which examine proposals and prepare the Coastal Zone Management Plans that draw the High Tide Line and the zone boundaries on…
Read the full explanation →The suggestion that land up to ten kilometres around a protected area be treated as ecologically fragile came from which document?
That strategy asked that land falling within ten kilometres of the boundaries of National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries be notified as ecologically fragile, and the National Wildlife Action Plan carried the same thought forward, which is how the ten kilometre figure entered the discussion on Eco-Sensitive Zones.
Read the full explanation →The Coastal Regulation Zone notification was issued for the first time in which year?
The first Coastal Regulation Zone notification was issued in February 1991 under the Environment (Protection) Act, declaring the coastal stretches and the waters influenced by the tide as a regulated zone and classifying them for the first time.
Read the full explanation →Anamudi, the highest peak of the Western Ghats, lies in which state?
Anamudi rises to 2,695 metres in the Anaimalai or Elephant hills of Idukki district in Kerala and is the highest point not only of the Western Ghats but of the whole of peninsular India, higher than anything south of the Himalayas.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is a permitted activity inside a notified Eco-Sensitive Zone?
Eco-Sensitive Zone notifications sort activities into three lists, and the permitted list encourages exactly these practices along with the agriculture and horticulture that local people already carry on, the use of renewable energy and the adoption of green technology, because the purpose of the zone is to limit damaging industry…
Read the full explanation →Mangroves, coral reefs and turtle nesting grounds fall under which Coastal Regulation Zone category?
This category holds the ecologically sensitive stretches of the coast, and the notification lists mangroves, coral reefs and coral areas, sand dunes, salt marshes, mudflats, biologically active areas and the nesting grounds of turtles and birds in its sub-category CRZ-I-A, where construction is effectively barred.
Read the full explanation →Along the open sea coast, the Coastal Regulation Zone extends how far landward of the High Tide Line?
The Coastal Regulation Zone notification fixes the landward limit of the regulated belt at 500 metres from the High Tide Line along the sea, and that figure has stayed the same through the notifications of 1991, 2011 and 2019.
Read the full explanation →The Kasturirangan High Level Working Group recommended that roughly what share of the Western Ghats be declared an ecologically sensitive area?
The group that K. Kasturirangan headed reported in 2013 and used satellite imagery to separate the natural landscape of the Ghats from the cultivated and built-up land.
Read the full explanation →Which committee recommended that the whole of the Western Ghats be treated as an ecologically sensitive area and graded into three zones?
Its report of 2011 held that the whole range deserved protection and divided it into three graded zones, ESZ-1, ESZ-2 and ESZ-3, with the strictest ban on mining, quarrying and large projects in ESZ-1, and proposed a Western Ghats Ecology Authority to supervise the regime.
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