Static GK decides the General Awareness score in SSC MTS. The 2025 notice keeps the syllabus at the 10th Standard: History, Geography, Art and Culture, Civics and Economics under Social Studies, General Science and Environmental Studies. Most of the 25 questions in Session-II come from these areas. History asks the Harappan sites, the Mauryas and Guptas, the Sultanate and Mughal rulers and the freedom movement. Geography asks rivers, soils, crops, minerals, national parks, States, capitals and neighbours. Civics asks the Constitution's Parts, Schedules and Articles, Fundamental Rights and Duties, the President, Parliament, the Supreme Court and local government. Economics asks basic terms, the RBI, taxes and schemes. General Science covers Class 6 to 10 Physics, Chemistry and Biology, and Environmental Studies asks ecosystems, pollution and conservation. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for SSC MTS, written as short facts and tables at exactly that level so a topic can be finished in one sitting and revised in ten minutes. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to see what stayed with you, and keep the notes for the last-week revision before the CBE.
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 →Who was the first recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was instituted in 1969 to mark the birth centenary of Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, who made Raja Harishchandra in 1913, and the actress Devika Rani received it first.
Read the full explanation →The ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Medal is awarded at which film event?
The medal is given at IFFI by the International Council for Film, Television and Audiovisual Communication, based in Paris and associated with UNESCO, to a film that reflects the ideals of peace, tolerance and non-violence that Mahatma Gandhi stood for.
Read the full explanation →The Golden Peacock award is given at which of the following?
The Golden Peacock, or Swarna Mayur, goes to the best film of the international competition at IFFI, and the cash prize is shared between the director and the producer; Silver Peacock awards go to the best director, the best actor and the best actress.
Read the full explanation →Since 2004, the International Film Festival of India has been held every year at which place?
The thirty-fifth edition of 2004 was the first held in Goa, and the state has been the permanent venue since then, with the festival normally taking place in the last week of November.
Read the full explanation →The International Film Festival of India was first held in which year?
The first edition was organised on behalf of the Government of India and travelled through Bombay, Madras, Delhi, Calcutta and Trivandrum, which made it the first international film festival held anywhere in Asia.
Read the full explanation →Who won the first Filmfare Award for Best Actress?
She received the first Filmfare Award for Best Actress for Baiju Bawra, and the first Best Actor award of the same year went to Dilip Kumar for Daag.
Read the full explanation →Which film won the first Filmfare Award for Best Film?
Bimal Roy's film about a farmer who goes to Calcutta to pull a rickshaw took the first Filmfare Award for Best Film, and Bimal Roy took the first award for Best Direction for the same film.
Read the full explanation →The Filmfare Awards were originally known by which name?
At their start in 1954 the awards carried the name of Clare Mendonca, a critic associated with The Times of India, and only later did they come to be called the Filmfare Awards after the magazine.
Read the full explanation →The trophy given to a Filmfare Award winner is popularly known as which of the following?
The Filmfare statuette, designed by the sculptor N. G. Pansare, shows a female figure and the dark finish gave it its popular name, which the magazine itself uses.
Read the full explanation →In which year were the Filmfare Awards instituted?
The magazine Filmfare, published by The Times Group, held its first award ceremony in 1954 for the films released in 1953, which makes these the oldest film awards in India.
Read the full explanation →Which body is the nodal agency in India for nominations to the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage lists?
The national academy for music, dance and drama is the nodal office for intangible cultural heritage under the Ministry of Culture, prepares India's nominations and maintains the national inventory of intangible heritage.
Read the full explanation →The UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage was adopted in which year?
The General Conference of UNESCO adopted the Convention in 2003; it entered into force in 2006 and India ratified it in 2005.
Read the full explanation →Sankirtana, the ritual singing, drumming and dancing inscribed in 2013, belongs to which state?
Sankirtana is the Vaishnava practice of the Meitei people, performed in the temple courtyard, in which narrative singing is accompanied by the pung drum and cymbals and the performance moves from song into dance; it was inscribed in 2013.
Read the full explanation →The traditional brass and copper utensil craft of the Thatheras of Jandiala Guru is an inscribed element of which state?
Jandiala Guru is a town near Amritsar where the Thathera community beats sheets of brass and copper into utensils entirely by hand, heating and hammering the metal in a sequence that has been passed down within families; the craft was inscribed in 2014.
Read the full explanation →Ramman, a religious festival and ritual theatre inscribed by UNESCO, is held in which state?
Ramman is celebrated in the twin villages of Saloor Dungra in Chamoli district, in the Garhwal Himalayas, in honour of the local deity Bhumiyal Devta, and it combines masked dances, recitation and episodes from the Ramayana over several days.
Read the full explanation →Kalbelia folk songs and dances, on the UNESCO list since 2010, belong to which state?
The Kalbelia are a community of the Thar region traditionally associated with handling snakes, and their dance, performed by women in flowing black skirts, imitates the movement of a serpent while the men play the been and the khanjari.
Read the full explanation →The Chhau dance, inscribed by UNESCO, is practised in which group of states?
Chhau is a masked dance built on martial movement and episodes from the epics, and it has three recognised styles: Seraikella in Jharkhand, Purulia in West Bengal and Mayurbhanj in Odisha, the last of which is danced without masks.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List in 2016?
Yoga was inscribed in 2016, and in the same year India joined the multinational element Nawrouz, the spring new year celebrated across a belt of countries, so 2016 carries two entries for India.
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