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.
The beaver is the national animal of which country?
The beaver was given official standing as a symbol of Canada because the fur trade in beaver pelts drove the early European exploration and settlement of the country, and the animal appears on the five-cent coin.
Read the full explanation →The king protea is the national flower of which country?
The king protea is the largest flower of the protea family, which grows in the fynbos vegetation of the Cape, and South Africa's national cricket team takes its name from it.
Read the full explanation →The markhor, a wild goat with spiralled horns, is the national animal of which country?
The markhor lives in the mountain ranges of the north and west of the country, and its spiralled horns make it easy to recognise in a picture-based question.
Read the full explanation →The takin is the national animal of which country?
The takin is a heavily built goat-antelope of the eastern Himalayas, and Bhutan ties it to a legend about a saint who joined the head of a goat to the bones of a cow.
Read the full explanation →Which is the national animal of Nepal?
Nepal declares the cow its national animal, and the choice follows from its religious standing in the country.
Read the full explanation →The bald eagle is the national bird of which country?
The bald eagle has been the national bird and the central figure of the Great Seal of the United States since 1782, and the bison was later adopted as the national mammal.
Read the full explanation →Which animal is the national animal of Australia?
It is the largest marsupial of the continent and appears on the coat of arms of Australia along with the emu, the two chosen because neither animal can easily walk backwards, which was read as a country always moving forward.
Read the full explanation →Mrs Funnybones, a collection of humorous columns, was written by which film personality?
The former actress turned columnist published Mrs Funnybones as her first book and followed it with the fiction of The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad and Pyjamas Are Forgiving.
Read the full explanation →The Sangita Ratnakara, a classical treatise on Indian music, was written by whom?
He wrote the Sangita Ratnakara in the thirteenth century at a Yadava court in the Deccan, and because it describes practice as it stood before the Hindustani and Carnatic systems drew apart, both traditions treat it as authoritative.
Read the full explanation →Raga Mala is the autobiography of which Indian musician?
The sitar player wrote two books about his own life and art: My Music, My Life, an early introduction to Hindustani music written for readers abroad, and Raga Mala, the autobiography edited by his student George Harrison of the Beatles.
Read the full explanation →Who wrote the essay collection Our Films, Their Films and created the detective Feluda?
Besides directing, Ray wrote constantly in Bengali and in English: the essays of Our Films, Their Films, the memoir My Years with Apu on the making of Pather Panchali, the childhood recollections of Jakhan Chhoto Chhilam, the Feluda detective stories and the Professor Shonku science fiction.
Read the full explanation →Lava, the Urdu poetry collection that won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2013, was written by whom?
The lyricist and screenwriter published the collection Tarkash earlier and followed it with Lava, for which the Sahitya Akademi honoured him in Urdu in 2013.
Read the full explanation →Which film lyricist received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2002 for the Urdu short-story collection Dhuan?
He is among the few figures honoured both by the film world and by the Sahitya Akademi, and the award of 2002 was for Dhuan, a collection of Urdu short stories; his poetry collections include Raat Pashmine Ki and Pluto.
Read the full explanation →And Then One Day: A Memoir was written by which actor?
His 2014 memoir runs from a childhood in Uttar Pradesh through the National School of Drama and the Film and Television Institute of India to the parallel cinema of the nineteen seventies.
Read the full explanation →The Substance and the Shadow is the autobiography of which actor?
The book came out in 2014 and was narrated by the actor to the journalist Udayatara Nayar, which is why it is described as an autobiography rather than a biography.
Read the full explanation →The memoir An Unsuitable Boy was written by which director?
The director of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai wrote this memoir with the journalist Poonam Saxena, and its title plays deliberately on Vikram Seth's novel A Suitable Boy, which is the trap most often set with this question.
Read the full explanation →Romancing with Life is the autobiography of which Indian film personality?
Romancing with Life appeared in 2007, timed to the actor's eighty-fourth birthday, and covers his arrival in Bombay, the founding of Navketan Films with his brother Chetan Anand, and the making of films such as Guide and Hare Rama Hare Krishna.
Read the full explanation →Muhammad Yunus, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize of 2006 with the bank he founded, is associated with which institution?
Muhammad Yunus built the bank on the idea that very small loans without collateral, given mostly to women organised in groups that guarantee one another, are repaid reliably, and the Nobel Peace Prize of 2006 was awarded jointly to him and to the bank.
Read the full explanation →The Self Help Group and Bank Linkage Programme was launched in 1992 by which institution?
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development launched the programme as a pilot in 1992, connecting savings groups, mostly of women, directly to bank branches for credit, and by the number of households covered it became the largest microfinance programme in the world.
Read the full explanation →Under the microfinance framework, the monthly loan repayment obligations of a household are capped at what share of its monthly household income?
The cap covers the repayment of all loans of the household taken together, not only the microfinance loan being considered, and the lender must assess household income and existing debt before sanctioning, which is the framework's main protection against over-indebtedness.
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