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CTET GK Questions 2026

General knowledge is not a named section of CTET, but part of it sits inside two subjects. In Paper I, Environmental Studies has 30 questions: 15 on content and 15 on pedagogical issues. The content themes in the CTET September 2026 bulletin are Family and Friends (relationships, work and play, animals and plants), Food, Shelter, Water, Travel, and Things We Make and Do. In Paper II, Social Studies/Social Science has 60 questions: 40 on content from History, Geography and Social and Political Life, and 20 on pedagogy. Science in Paper II has 20 content questions on food, materials, the world of the living, how things work, natural phenomena and natural resources. The bulletin bases all of these on the NCERT syllabus, with difficulty up to the Secondary stage in Paper I and the Senior Secondary stage in Paper II. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes marked for CTET: geography, Indian history, Indian polity, general science, and environment and ecology, in English and Hindi. Use them as guidance to revise facts after reading the NCERT chapter, not in place of it. GK24 does not cover Child Development and Pedagogy, the languages, Mathematics or the pedagogy questions, which make up most of each paper.

CTET GK Questions with Answers

Q683.Government SchemesMedium

During the Swachhata Hi Seva Campaign 2026, the All India Institute of Ayurveda held a plantation drive under which initiative?

  1. A.Nagar Van Yojana
  2. B.Green India Mission
  3. C.Van Mahotsav
  4. D.Ek Pedh Maa Ke Naam
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Correct answer: D. Ek Pedh Maa Ke Naam

The plantation drive was organised in the NTPC area under this initiative by the Department of Swasthavritta and Yoga, and senior faculty members, deans and scholars of the Institute took part in it.

Q685.Government SchemesMedium

Special Campaign 6.0, which runs till 31 October 2026, is themed on the effective collection, segregation and disposal of which kind of waste?

  1. A.Plastic waste
  2. B.Biomedical waste
  3. C.E-waste
  4. D.Construction and demolition waste
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Correct answer: C. E-waste

After the Swachhata Hi Seva campaign ended, the All India Institute of Ayurveda moved on to Special Campaign 6.0, which was already under way and continues till 31 October 2026 with the theme of collecting, segregating and disposing of electronic waste effectively.

Q686.Government SchemesEasy

What was the theme of the Swachhata Hi Seva Campaign 2026 concluded at the All India Institute of Ayurveda?

  1. A.Swachh Bharat, Swasth Bharat
  2. B.Swachhata Mein Sabhag, Swachh Bharat, Viksit Bharat
  3. C.Clean India, Green India
  4. D.Sampoorna Swachhata Abhiyan
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Correct answer: B. Swachhata Mein Sabhag, Swachh Bharat, Viksit Bharat

This was the theme under which the fortnight-long campaign ran at the All India Institute of Ayurveda from 17 September to 2 October 2026, and it ties participation in cleanliness to the larger goals of a clean and a developed India.

Q687.Art & CultureHard

The bronze sculpture Triumph of Labour on the Marina at Chennai was made by the first chairman of the Lalit Kala Akademi. Who was he?

  1. A.Ramkinkar Baij
  2. B.Devi Prasad Roy Choudhury
  3. C.K. C. S. Paniker
  4. D.Nandalal Bose
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Correct answer: B. Devi Prasad Roy Choudhury

Roy Choudhury, a pupil of Abanindranath Tagore who became the first Indian principal of the Government School of Art at Madras, modelled Triumph of Labour, the group of four men straining at a rock that stands on the Marina beach at Chennai, and also the Martyrs' Memorial outside the Patna…

Q688.Art & CultureHard

Which Indian painter directed the short film Through the Eyes of a Painter, which won the Golden Bear for a short film at Berlin in 1967?

  1. A.F. N. Souza
  2. B.M. F. Husain
  3. C.Satish Gujral
  4. D.Krishen Khanna
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Correct answer: B. M. F. Husain

Maqbool Fida Husain, a founder member of the Progressive Artists' Group and often called the Picasso of India, made the short film Through the Eyes of a Painter, which took the Golden Bear for a short film at the Berlin festival in 1967; he later directed the feature Gaja Gamini.

Q689.Art & CultureMedium

The Cholamandal Artists' Village, founded in 1966 by K. C. S. Paniker, is located near which city?

  1. A.Chennai
  2. B.Bengaluru
  3. C.Kochi
  4. D.Hyderabad
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Correct answer: A. Chennai

Cholamandal Artists' Village was founded in 1966 on the coast south of Chennai by K. C. S. Paniker and other artists of the Madras art movement, and it is described as the first self-supporting artists' commune in India, where painters and sculptors lived together and sold batik and metalwork to…

Q691.Art & CultureMedium

Jamini Roy gave up academic oil painting for the flat figures and bold lines of which folk tradition?

  1. A.Madhubani of Mithila
  2. B.Kalighat pat of Bengal
  3. C.Warli of Maharashtra
  4. D.Phad of Rajasthan
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Correct answer: B. Kalighat pat of Bengal

Jamini Roy trained in the academic manner at the Government School of Art in Calcutta but abandoned it for the Kalighat pat, the cheap brush-drawn pictures sold to pilgrims near the Kalighat temple, and for Bengal scroll painting.

Q693.Art & CultureMedium

Which modern Indian painter built his later abstract work around the motif of the Bindu?

  1. A.S. H. Raza
  2. B.V. S. Gaitonde
  3. C.Tyeb Mehta
  4. D.Akbar Padamsee
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Correct answer: A. S. H. Raza

Raza, a founder member of the Progressive Artists' Group, moved to Paris, won the Prix de la critique there in 1956, and from the 1970s built his canvases around the Bindu, the black seed point from which, in his words, form and energy radiate, often combined with the triangle and…

Q696.Art & CultureMedium

The borders and page decorations of the original manuscript of the Constitution of India were made by which artist and his students?

  1. A.Prem Behari Narain Raizada
  2. B.Nandalal Bose
  3. C.Ramkinkar Baij
  4. D.Jamini Roy
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Correct answer: B. Nandalal Bose

Nandalal Bose, who headed Kala Bhavana at Santiniketan, was asked to illuminate the handwritten Constitution, and he and his students painted the borders and the headings of its pages with scenes from Indian history, from the Indus seals to Gandhi's march.

Q697.Art & CultureEasy

The 1905 painting Bharat Mata, showing a four-armed figure in saffron, was painted by whom?

  1. A.Nandalal Bose
  2. B.Abanindranath Tagore
  3. C.Jamini Roy
  4. D.Gaganendranath Tagore
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Correct answer: B. Abanindranath Tagore

He painted Bharat Mata in 1905, during the Swadeshi movement that followed the partition of Bengal, showing the motherland as a calm four-armed figure in saffron robes holding a book, sheaves of paddy, a piece of white cloth and a rudraksha garland, the four gifts of learning, food, clothing and…

Q699.Art & CultureHard

The modern school of Gond painting in Madhya Pradesh, known as Jangarh Kalam, is named after

  1. A.Jangarh Singh Shyam
  2. B.Bhuri Bai
  3. C.Sita Devi
  4. D.Ganga Devi
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Correct answer: A. Jangarh Singh Shyam

Jangarh Singh Shyam of Patangarh in Madhya Pradesh took the Gond wall and floor decoration on to paper and canvas, filling his animals, trees and deities with dots and dashes, and the manner he created is called Jangarh Kalam after him; a generation of Gond painters followed it.