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.
In the United States Congress, the number of members of the Senate is
The Senate of the United States has two members from every state, and with fifty states that makes a hundred Senators, each elected for six years, with the Vice-President of the United States presiding over the house.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following pairs of a country and its legislature is incorrect?
The Eduskunta is the parliament of Finland; the parliament of Sweden is the Riksdag, a single house body.
Read the full explanation →Jatiya Sangsad is the parliament of
The Jatiya Sangsad, or National Parliament, is the single house legislature of Bangladesh and sits in the Sangsad Bhaban at Dhaka.
Read the full explanation →Which country’s parliament is known as the mother of parliaments?
The phrase comes from the nineteenth century reformer John Bright, who said that England is the mother of parliaments, and it stuck to the Parliament at Westminster because so many countries, India among them, took their form of government from it; that form is called the Westminster model.
Read the full explanation →The Oireachtas is the national parliament of
The Oireachtas is the Parliament of Ireland and consists of the President with two houses, Dail Eireann, the lower and elected house, and Seanad Eireann, the upper house.
Read the full explanation →The feature of ‘Joint Sitting of two houses of Parliament’ in the Indian Constitution is borrowed from the constitution of ____________.
The joint sitting of the two houses, provided for in Article 108 and summoned by the President to resolve a deadlock on an ordinary Bill, was taken from the Australian Constitution, along with the concurrent list and the freedom of trade and commerce between the units.
Read the full explanation →The two houses of the Parliament of Malaysia are
The Malaysian Parliament has the Dewan Rakyat, the house of the people, as its elected lower house, and the Dewan Negara, the house of the nation, as its upper house, which represents the states and holds appointed members.
Read the full explanation →The State Duma is a house of the legislature of
The Russian legislature is the Federal Assembly, and it has two houses: the State Duma, the lower house, whose members are elected, and the Federation Council, the upper house, which represents the regions of the federation.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is the largest legislature in the world by number of members?
It is a single house body with close to three thousand members, chosen indirectly by the provincial congresses and the armed forces, and no other legislature comes near that size.
Read the full explanation →The oldest surviving parliament in the world, founded in the year 930, is the
The Althing was founded in 930 at Thingvellir, where free men gathered in the open to settle disputes and declare law, and it still functions as the legislature of Iceland, which makes it the oldest surviving parliament in the world.
Read the full explanation →The Diet is the name of the national legislature of
The Japanese legislature is the Diet, called Kokkai in Japanese, and it is bicameral: the House of Representatives is the lower house and the House of Councillors the upper.
Read the full explanation →The Knesset is the parliament of which country?
The Knesset is the single house legislature of Israel and has a fixed strength of 120 members elected by proportional representation; it sits at Jerusalem and its name comes from the assembly of the same size in ancient Jewish tradition.
Read the full explanation →World Food Day is observed on 16 October because the Food and Agriculture Organization was founded on that day in
The Food and Agriculture Organization was founded on 16 October 1945 at Quebec in Canada, and the day has been observed as World Food Day since 1981; its headquarters are at Rome.
Read the full explanation →National Milk Day is observed in India on 26 November to mark the birth anniversary of the man who led the dairy co-operative movement. He is
International Customs Day is observed on 26 January every year because on that date in 1953
That inaugural session took place in Brussels on 26 January 1953; the Council took the working name World Customs Organization in 1994, and 26 January is kept as International Customs Day, a date Indian students remember easily because it is also Republic Day.
Read the full explanation →National Farmers Day, Kisan Diwas, is observed in India on 23 December as the birth anniversary of
The correct answer is B, Chaudhary Charan Singh, who was born on 23 December 1902, served as Prime Minister of India and is remembered for the laws and the politics that put the peasant at the centre of Indian public life.
Read the full explanation →Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day, declared by the United Nations, falls on
The United Nations General Assembly declared 27 June as Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day in 2017, in recognition of the share of such enterprises in employment and in world output.
Read the full explanation →World Savings Day, also known as World Thrift Day, is observed on
The day goes back to the First International Thrift Congress, held in Milan in 1924, whose closing day was 31 October; savings banks across the world have marked it since, and in India banks use it to promote small savings and deposit habits.
Read the full explanation →The International Day of Banks, declared by the United Nations General Assembly, is observed on
The United Nations General Assembly declared 5 December as the International Day of Banks in 2019, to recognise the part that banks, and especially development banks, play in financing sustainable development.
Read the full explanation →National Statistics Day is observed in India on 29 June, the birth anniversary of
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis was born on 29 June 1893, founded the Indian Statistical Institute, gave the country its large-scale sample survey system and the statistical distance known by his name, and shaped the Second Five Year Plan.
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