Static GK decides most of the General Studies score in the Madhya Pradesh exams. The SSE Prelims General Studies paper of 300 marks has ten units: History of India, Geography of India, the Constitutional System, the Economy, Science, Environment and Health, and Information and Communication Technology on the national side, and History, Culture and Literature, Geography, and Tribes of Madhya Pradesh on the state side, with MP parts inside the polity and economy units too. The Mains General Studies papers go deeper into the same areas, and the MPESB Group-2 test asks General Knowledge and Aptitude alongside General Science. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes, written as short facts and tables in English and Hindi so a topic can be revised in one sitting. They cover national GK: Indian Polity, Ancient, Medieval and Modern History, Geography, the Economy and General Science. GK24 does not have a separate Madhya Pradesh GK section. As guidance, read the national notes here, and study MP dynasties, tribes, rivers, districts, schemes and the state economy from state government sources, using the MPPSC syllabus as a checklist. After each topic, solve its quiz and previous-year questions on this site to test what you retained.
The temples of Khajuraho were built by rulers of which dynasty?
The Chandelas of Jejakabhukti built the temples of Khajuraho between roughly the middle of the tenth and the middle of the eleventh century, in the Nagara style, with clustered spires rising over a shrine set on a high platform.
Read the full explanation →The Sanskrit work Samarangana Sutradhara, a treatise on architecture, is ascribed to which ruler?
Bhoja, the Paramara king of Dhar in the first half of the eleventh century, is credited with a long list of works, of which the Samarangana Sutradhara on architecture and town planning and the Saraswatikanthabharana on poetics are the best known.
Read the full explanation →Dhar was the capital of which dynasty of Malwa?
The Paramaras ruled Malwa from Dhar from about the ninth century until Alauddin Khalji's army took the country in 1305.
Read the full explanation →The famous rock-cut panel of Varaha lifting the earth, together with an inscription of the reign of Chandragupta II, is found at:
The Udayagiri caves near Vidisha are Gupta rock-cut shrines of the late fourth and early fifth centuries, and the largest panel there shows Varaha, the boar incarnation of Vishnu, raising the earth goddess on his tusk.
Read the full explanation →The Heliodorus pillar, the earliest inscriptional evidence of the Bhagavata faith, stands near which town of Madhya Pradesh?
The pillar stands at Besnagar beside Vidisha. It was set up in the second century before Christ by Heliodorus, a Greek ambassador sent by Antialcidas, the Indo-Greek king of Taxila, to the court of king Bhagabhadra.
Read the full explanation →Mahakaleshwar, one of the twelve jyotirlingas, is situated in which city?
The Mahakaleshwar temple at Ujjain is one of the twelve jyotirlingas, and it is singled out in every list because its lingam faces south, the only one of the twelve to do so; the bhasma aarti performed there before dawn is equally famous.
Read the full explanation →Ujjain was the capital of which mahajanapada?
Avanti was one of the sixteen mahajanapadas of the sixth century before Christ, and it was divided into two parts: the north, ruled from Ujjayini or Ujjain, and the south, ruled from Mahishmati, which is identified with Maheshwar on the Narmada.
Read the full explanation →Ujjain is situated on the bank of which river?
Ujjain stands on the Shipra, also written Kshipra, a tributary of the Chambal, and it is on the ghats of this river that the Simhastha, the Kumbh of Ujjain, is held every twelve years.
Read the full explanation →Relics of Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, two chief disciples of the Buddha, were recovered from which structure at Sanchi?
The relic caskets of Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, the two chief disciples of the Buddha, were found in Stupa 3 at Sanchi, which stands a short distance north-east of the Great Stupa and has a single gateway.
Read the full explanation →The four carved gateways or toranas of the Great Stupa at Sanchi were added under which dynasty?
The four toranas that stand at the cardinal points of the Great Stupa were carved in the first century before Christ in the Satavahana period, and an inscription on one of them records the gift of ivory carvers of Vidisha.
Read the full explanation →The Great Stupa at Sanchi was originally built during the reign of which ruler?
The Great Stupa, Stupa 1 at Sanchi, was raised in brick in the third century before Christ in the reign of Ashoka, who also set up a pillar at the site bearing the schism edict and crowned by a lion capital.
Read the full explanation →Who brought the Bhimbetka rock shelters to the notice of scholars in 1957?
Vishnu Shridhar Wakankar, an archaeologist from Ujjain, noticed the rocky outcrops from a train in 1957 and went on to explore and record the shelters and their paintings.
Read the full explanation →The rock shelters of Bhimbetka are located in which district of Madhya Pradesh?
The Bhimbetka rock shelters lie in Raisen district, in the foothills of the Vindhyan range south of Bhopal, within the forest now protected as Ratapani.
Read the full explanation →How many additional houses were found to be needed in the Sanchi assembly segment in a recent survey?
A recent survey showed that this many more houses are required in the Sanchi assembly segment, and the Minister assured that surveyed families living in kuchcha houses would be helped to build permanent homes, since providing pucca houses to the poor is a priority of his department.
Read the full explanation →In which two districts is the pilot project to link every family to a livelihood being launched?
The Minister announced that a pilot would begin in these two districts with the goal of connecting every family in every village to at least one source of livelihood, so that the villages concerned can become free of poverty.
Read the full explanation →Under which scheme were the 46 rural roads at Sanchi given bhoomi pujan?
The Union Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development performed the foundation ceremony for forty-six village roads sanctioned under this rural roads programme during his visit to Sanchi, and said better roads would make movement easier for villagers.
Read the full explanation →Under PM-SETU, what does the full form of the scheme's name stand for?
The scheme's purpose is contained in its name: it upgrades government Industrial Training Institutes so that they become modern, industry-aligned and future-ready skilling institutions, and it works through Strategic Investment Plans drawn up jointly by state governments, industry partners and the institutes themselves.
Read the full explanation →Which industry partner will upgrade the Kataka ITI cluster in Odisha under PM-SETU?
The Kataka cluster in Odisha was approved with a Strategic Investment Plan in partnership with the foundation, and the plan is meant to strengthen infrastructure, bring in new-age training programmes and deepen industry linkages so that training matches the skill needs of the region.
Read the full explanation →How much investment did the 6th National Steering Committee of PM-SETU approve for five ITI clusters?
The committee approved five Strategic Investment Plans of that combined value for ITI clusters spread across Maharashtra, Odisha and Jammu and Kashmir.
Read the full explanation →The Sahariya, one of the particularly vulnerable tribal groups, live mainly in which region of Madhya Pradesh?
The Sahariya live in Sheopur, Shivpuri, Morena and Gwalior in the north of the state, a dry, ravine-cut forest country, and they also extend into the Baran district of Rajasthan.
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