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.
How many different colours can a pixel of an 8-bit indexed image take?
The number of colours a pixel can hold is two raised to the power of its bit depth, so eight bits give two to the eighth, that is 256 possible values.
Read the full explanation →What does a MIDI file store?
MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface, a standard of the early nineteen eighties by which synthesisers, keyboards and computers exchange messages about which note begins, how hard it is struck, how long it lasts and which instrument voice should sound.
Read the full explanation →Which colour model is used in printing presses rather than on computer screens?
CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow and key or black, and it is a subtractive model: the inks sit on white paper and subtract wavelengths from the light falling on it, so adding all of them together moves the result towards black.
Read the full explanation →A scaling transformation changes the
In computer graphics the three basic two-dimensional transformations are translation, rotation and scaling.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is a vector graphics format rather than a raster format?
Scalable Vector Graphics stores a picture as mathematical descriptions of lines, curves and shapes written in XML, so the browser redraws it at whatever size is asked for and the edges stay perfectly sharp.
Read the full explanation →Which is the native file format in which Adobe Photoshop saves a layered working file?
PSD, the Photoshop Document, keeps every layer, mask, channel and adjustment separately so that the artist can go back and change any of them, which an exported JPEG or PNG cannot do because those flatten the picture into one grid of pixels.
Read the full explanation →MP3, the common compressed audio format, is short for which of the following?
MPEG stands for Moving Picture Experts Group, and the group defined three audio layers of rising complexity within its MPEG-1 standard; the third layer gave the file extension.mp3.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following image file formats supports simple animation?
The Graphics Interchange Format, introduced by CompuServe, can store several frames in one file together with the delay between them, which is why short looping animations on the web were long made as GIFs.
Read the full explanation →What is the full form of JPEG, the commonest format for photographs on a computer?
JPEG is named after the committee of the International Organization for Standardization and the International Telecommunication Union that drew up the standard for compressing continuous tone photographs.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first African writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?
The Nigerian dramatist, poet and novelist won the prize in 1986, the first African laureate in literature, and he is remembered for plays such as Death and the King's Horseman and A Dance of the Forests.
Read the full explanation →Who became the first songwriter to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?
The Swedish Academy awarded the prize to Dylan in 2016 for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition, the first time a songwriter had been honoured in the literature category, and the choice was widely debated because his words were written to be sung.
Read the full explanation →On which date are the Nobel Prizes presented every year?
Alfred Nobel died on 10 December 1896, and the prizes have been presented on the anniversary of his death ever since the first ceremony in 1901, with the literature, physics, chemistry, medicine and economics medals handed over at Stockholm and the peace prize at Oslo on the same day.
Read the full explanation →V. S. Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001, is the author of which of the following?
Naipaul was born in Trinidad to a family of Indian origin, settled in Britain and drew on both worlds in A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and the Indian travel books An Area of Darkness and India: A Million Mutinies Now.
Read the full explanation →Which Nobel laureate in literature was born in Bombay in 1865 and wrote 'The Jungle Book'?
Kipling was born in Bombay, where his father taught at an art school, and his Indian years shaped The Jungle Book, Kim and the Just So Stories; he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 and at forty-one remains the youngest laureate in the category.
Read the full explanation →'One Hundred Years of Solitude', a landmark novel of magical realism, was written by which Nobel laureate?
The Colombian writer published One Hundred Years of Solitude in 1967, the chronicle of the Buendia family in the imaginary town of Macondo, and he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982; his other celebrated novel is Love in the Time of Cholera.
Read the full explanation →Which writer refused the Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to him in 1964?
The French philosopher and novelist declined the prize of 1964, explaining that a writer must not allow himself to be transformed into an institution and that he had always refused official honours.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?
The Swedish writer won the prize in 1909, eight years after the prize was first given, and she was later also the first woman elected to the Swedish Academy itself.
Read the full explanation →Which institution selects the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Alfred Nobel's will of 1895 named a different body for each prize, and for literature it named the Academy in Stockholm, founded in 1786 to guard the Swedish language, which still announces the laureate each October.
Read the full explanation →Who wrote the book 'The Golden Boat'?
The Golden Boat is the English title of Sonar Tari, the Bengali collection of poems Tagore published in 1894, nineteen years before his Nobel Prize, and its title poem is among the best known in modern Bengali verse.
Read the full explanation →For which collection of poems was Rabindranath Tagore awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913?
The Swedish Academy cited the profoundly sensitive and beautiful verse of Gitanjali, which Tagore had himself rendered into English as Song Offerings and published in 1912 with an introduction by W. B. Yeats; the prize made him the first Asian and the first non-European laureate in any Nobel category.
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