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.
Which of the following books was not written by Jawaharlal Nehru?
India Divided was written by Rajendra Prasad, who later became the first President of India, and it examines the demand for partition and the arguments made on either side.
Read the full explanation →The Diary of a Young Girl, a wartime record published after the writer's death, was written by
The Diary of a Young Girl is the diary kept by Anne Frank while her family was in hiding in Amsterdam during the Second World War.
Read the full explanation →The Accidental Prime Minister, an account of the working of the Prime Minister's Office, was written by
Sanjaya Baru served as media adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and wrote The Accidental Prime Minister as an insider's account of those years.
Read the full explanation →Playing It My Way is the autobiography of which sportsperson?
Playing It My Way is the autobiography of Sachin Tendulkar and was published shortly after he retired from international cricket.
Read the full explanation →The book India Wins Freedom was written by
India Wins Freedom is Azad's account of the last decade of the freedom struggle, of the Cabinet Mission and of the events that led to partition.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following books is a biography and not an autobiography?
The book was written by Robert Kanigel about the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, so the writer and the subject are two different people, which makes it a biography.
Read the full explanation →Wings of Fire, the autobiography of A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, was co-authored by
Wings of Fire was written by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam with Arun Tiwari, a scientist who had worked under Kalam in the missile programme.
Read the full explanation →The autobiography titled The Story of My Experiments with Truth was written by
The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, written originally in Gujarati and later translated into English.
Read the full explanation →The first set of National Film Awards, given in 1954, honoured films released in which year?
The National Film Awards were instituted in 1954 and the first set of awards honoured films released in 1953, which is why the first Best Feature Film award is recorded against the Marathi film Shyamchi Aai for that year.
Read the full explanation →The Dadasaheb Phalke Award consists of which of the following?
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award carries the Swarna Kamal, or Golden Lotus, along with a cash prize, a shawl and a certificate, and it is presented at the National Film Awards ceremony.
Read the full explanation →How many persons receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in a year?
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is given to a single person each year for a lifetime of outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian cinema, and it is presented along with the National Film Awards.
Read the full explanation →Which film won the first Best Feature Film award at the National Film Awards, for the year 1953?
The Marathi film Shyamchi Aai, directed by P. K. Atre and based on the writing of Sane Guruji, won the first Best Feature Film award at the National Film Awards for the year 1953.
Read the full explanation →Dadasaheb Phalke is popularly known by which title?
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke is called the father of Indian cinema because he made Raja Harishchandra in 1913, the first full length Indian feature film, and went on to make many more, building the craft of film making in the country almost from nothing.
Read the full explanation →The National Film Awards are conferred by the Government of India through which ministry?
The National Film Awards are conferred by the Government of India through the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, which appoints the juries for feature films, non feature films and writing on cinema and announces the results each year.
Read the full explanation →Dadasaheb Phalke, after whom the award is named, directed which film in 1913?
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke made Raja Harishchandra in 1913, and it is recognised as the first full length Indian feature film.
Read the full explanation →In the National Film Awards, the award for Best Feature Film carries which medallion?
The Swarna Kamal, or Golden Lotus, is the medallion awarded for the highest honours of the National Film Awards, and the Best Feature Film is the chief among them.
Read the full explanation →The National Film Awards in India were instituted in which year?
The National Film Awards were instituted in 1954, and the first set of awards was given for films released in the previous year.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?
Devika Rani received the first Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1969. She worked at Bombay Talkies and is often described as the first lady of Indian cinema, and the fact that the first award went to an actress is exactly what examiners like to test.
Read the full explanation →The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was instituted in which year?
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was instituted in 1969, which was the birth centenary year of Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, the father of Indian cinema.
Read the full explanation →Which trophy is contested as India's domestic Twenty20 championship?
It is the inter-state Twenty20 tournament run by the Board of Control for Cricket in India and is named after the batsman who scored the first century by an Indian in a Test abroad.
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