Static GK is the largest part of General Studies in every state exam, and most of it is national. Indian polity, history and the national movement, geography of India, the Indian economy and general science appear in the syllabus of UPPSC PCS and PET, BPSC and BSSC, RPSC and RSSB, MPPSC and MPESB, HPSC and HSSC, and DSSSB and Delhi Police. The level changes from exam to exam. PET sets its subjects at NCERT secondary and senior secondary level, BSSC asks matric-level science, and RPSC sets the RAS Prelims at Bachelor's degree standard. This page brings together GK24's topic-wise GK notes tagged for state exams. Each note covers one topic in English and Hindi, as short facts and tables that can be revised in one sitting, and ends with multiple-choice questions and explanations. Start with Polity, History and Geography, then move to the Economy and Science. GK24 does not have state GK sections. As guidance, use these notes for the national part and prepare your state's history, geography, culture, economy and schemes from state board textbooks, the state budget and economic survey, and the commission's past papers. After each note, take its topic quiz and mark what you got wrong.
The headquarters of the North Eastern Railway zone is located at which city?
The correct answer is B, Gorakhpur, in eastern Uttar Pradesh, which is the headquarters of the North Eastern Railway and has one of the longest railway platforms in the country.
Read the full explanation →Which is the only riverine major port of India?
Because the river silts up, the port needs continuous dredging and large ships are handled at the Haldia dock complex downstream.
Read the full explanation →Which is the longest national highway in India?
The correct answer is C, NH-44, which runs from Srinagar to Kanyakumari over about 3,745 kilometres through Jammu, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Madurai, and was formed by merging several older highways at the time of renumbering.
Read the full explanation →India's first passenger train in 1853 ran between which two places?
The train ran on 16 April 1853 over about 34 kilometres, pulled by three locomotives named Sahib, Sindh and Sultan, and the day is counted as the birth of the Indian Railways.
Read the full explanation →Which is the longest nerve in the human body?
It is formed from the roots of the lower spine, passes through the buttock and runs down the back of the thigh to the leg and foot, and its compression by a slipped disc causes the pain called sciatica.
Read the full explanation →Involuntary actions such as the heartbeat, breathing and blood pressure are controlled by which part of the brain?
An injury here is fatal because these actions cannot be done at will.
Read the full explanation →Which hormone is called the emergency hormone or the fight-and-flight hormone?
It quickens the heartbeat, raises the blood pressure, widens the air passages, sends more blood to the muscles and releases glucose from the liver, so that the body is ready to fight or to run.
Read the full explanation →How many pairs of cranial nerves are present in the human body?
The cranial nerves arise from the brain and serve the head and neck, among them the optic nerve of sight, the auditory nerve of hearing, the olfactory nerve of smell and the vagus, which is the longest cranial nerve and reaches down to the heart, lungs and stomach.
Read the full explanation →Deficiency of iodine in the diet causes which of the following diseases?
Iodine is needed to make thyroxine, so when the diet is short of it the thyroid gland works harder and enlarges into a visible swelling of the neck called goitre; a severe shortage in a growing child causes cretinism and in an adult myxoedema, and iodised salt is the standard…
Read the full explanation →Insulin is secreted by which cells of the human body?
Insulin lowers the level of glucose in the blood by helping the cells take it in and by having the liver store it as glycogen, and a want of insulin or a failure of the body to respond to it causes diabetes mellitus.
Read the full explanation →Which endocrine gland is known as the master gland of the human body?
It is called the master gland because its secretions control other glands: thyroid stimulating hormone drives the thyroid, adrenocorticotropic hormone the adrenal cortex, and the gonadotropins the testes and ovaries, besides its own growth hormone.
Read the full explanation →Which part of the human brain controls balance and coordination of muscular movement?
The correct answer is B, the cerebellum, which lies below and behind the cerebrum and coordinates the work of the muscles so that movement is smooth and the body stays balanced; this is why a person whose cerebellum is affected by alcohol staggers.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest endocrine gland in the human body?
The correct answer is B, the thyroid gland, a butterfly-shaped gland in front of the windpipe in the neck, which is the largest purely endocrine gland in the body and secretes thyroxine, triiodothyronine and calcitonin.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following organs will not feel any pain on being pricked by a needle?
The brain is the organ that interprets pain, but its own tissue has no pain receptors, so cutting or pricking it causes no sensation; the covering membranes, the blood vessels and the scalp do have receptors, which is why a headache hurts.
Read the full explanation →The 'Ecowrap report' was published in May 2020 by which of the following banks?
Ecowrap is the research report of the State Bank of India, brought out by its economic research department. Ecowrap is written by the team of the group chief economic adviser at SBI and comments on growth, inflation, bank credit, government finances and the state of households.
Read the full explanation →Who wrote 'Nyaya Sutra'?
The Nyaya Sutra was composed by the sage Gautama, also called Akshapada Gautama, who founded the Nyaya school of Indian philosophy.
Read the full explanation →What are the three parts of bacterial flagellum?
A bacterial flagellum is built of exactly these three parts. The filament is the long thread outside the cell, made of the protein flagellin coiled into a hollow helix, and it acts like a propeller.
Read the full explanation →Puhar or Kaveripattinam, was the port of which of the following dynasty?
Puhar, also called Kaveripattinam, was the great port of the early Cholas of the Sangam age. The town stood where the Kaveri meets the Bay of Bengal, and Karikala, the best known early Chola ruler, is credited with developing it.
Read the full explanation →The UN's Sustainable Development Goal 6 aims to ______.
That is the wording of Sustainable Development Goal 6, the water and sanitation goal. The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals were adopted by the United Nations in September 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda, and they replaced the eight Millennium Development Goals.
Read the full explanation →What is the final product of photosynthesis?
Photosynthesis makes carbohydrate and gives out oxygen, and of the four choices here only oxygen is something the plant produces.
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