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.
Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize in 1997 for which novel?
It won the Booker Prize in 1997, the fiftieth year of India's independence, and made her the first Indian woman to win the award.
Read the full explanation →In which year did C. V. Raman win the Nobel Prize in Physics?
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was given the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his work on the scattering of light and for the effect that carries his name, by which light passing through a transparent medium changes in wavelength.
Read the full explanation →Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for which work?
The Nobel Prize for Literature came to him in 1913 for these verses, the citation praising their sensitive and beautiful language, and it made him the first Asian Nobel laureate.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following was the first female from India to receive the Nobel Peace prize?
She was born at Skopje, came to India as a nun, took Indian citizenship in 1948 and founded the Missionaries of Charity at Kolkata in 1950.
Read the full explanation →Who is the first ever Indian recipient of a Nobel Prize?
He was the first Indian and also the first person from Asia to be awarded a Nobel Prize in any category, and the prize brought Indian writing to the notice of readers across Europe.
Read the full explanation →How many categories Nobel Prize Awards are awarded each year?
The Nobel Prize is awarded every year in six categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences.
Read the full explanation →The BAFTA awards are given in which country?
BAFTA stands for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and its awards are given for films, television programmes and games made or shown in Britain.
Read the full explanation →Which Indian film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1957?
The trilogy follows the boy Apu from his village childhood to his life in the city, and Aparajito is the middle part of it.
Read the full explanation →The song Naatu Naatu, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2023, is from which film?
Its song Naatu Naatu, composed by M. M. Keeravani with words by Chandrabose, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2023, the first time a song from an Indian production had taken that award.
Read the full explanation →The Academy Awards are presented every year by which organisation?
Its members vote on the awards, the first ceremony was held in 1929 for the films of 1927 and 1928, and the golden statuette given to a winner is universally called the Oscar.
Read the full explanation →The Golden Bear is awarded at which of the following film festivals?
The Berlin International Film Festival, held in Germany early in the year, gives the Golden Bear to the best film and Silver Bears for direction, acting and screenplay.
Read the full explanation →The Palme d'Or is the highest award of which film festival?
Its highest award is the Palme d'Or, the Golden Palm, given to the best film of the main competition, and below it comes the Grand Prix, which Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine as Light won in 2024.
Read the full explanation →Satyajit Ray received an Honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement in which year?
The Academy gave Satyajit Ray an honorary award for his lifetime of work in cinema, and it was handed to him in a Kolkata hospital as he was too ill to travel.
Read the full explanation →A. R. Rahman won two Academy Awards in 2009 for the music of which film?
A. R. Rahman won the Academy Award for Best Original Score and, with the lyricist Gulzar, for the Best Original Song Jai Ho.
Read the full explanation →Bhanu Athaiya won her Academy Award in which category?
Bhanu Athaiya designed the costumes for Gandhi, the film Richard Attenborough made in 1982, and shared the Academy Award of 1983 in that category with the British designer John Mollo.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following is the first female from India to win a Grammy award?
She sang the Spanish lines of Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire and also wrote them, and when the song won the Grammy for Best Song Written for Visual Media in 2010 she became the first Indian woman to win a Grammy award.
Read the full explanation →The Emmy Awards, seen in the news, are presented for excellence in which of the following fields?
The Emmy awards are the American honours for work made for television, covering drama series, comedy, news and documentary programmes, and they stand in the same relation to television as the Oscars do to cinema.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following is the first Indian to get an Oscar Award?
She won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design in 1983 for Richard Attenborough's film Gandhi, sharing the award with John Mollo, and became the first Indian of any kind to receive an Oscar.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is an early example of the Nagara style stone temple built in the Gupta period?
Built in the early sixth century, it is one of the first stone temples to carry a shikhara over the sanctum, the feature that defines the Nagara style, and its panels of Vishnu reclining on Shesha and of Nara-Narayana are standard illustrations of Gupta sculpture.
Read the full explanation →In Gupta administration, a province was called a bhukti and was headed by an officer titled:
The Gupta empire was divided into provinces called bhuktis, each placed under a governor called an uparika who was often a prince of the royal family.
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