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Teaching GK Questions 2026

General knowledge is not a named section of any CTET paper, but part of it sits inside two subjects. As per the CTET-September 2026 bulletin, Environmental Studies in Paper I has 30 questions: 15 on content and 15 on pedagogical issues. Its content themes are Family and Friends, Food, Shelter, Water, Travel, and Things We Make and Do. In Paper II, Social Studies/Social Science has 60 questions: 40 on 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. All of these follow the NCERT syllabus. GK24's topic-wise GK notes cover geography, Indian history, Indian polity, general science, and environment and ecology, in English and Hindi. In GK24's guidance, they help you revise facts after reading the NCERT chapter, not in place of it. They do not cover Child Development and Pedagogy, the languages, Mathematics or the pedagogy questions, which together make up most of each paper. The CTET page of this section holds the GK notes GK24 marks for CTET. State TETs set their own syllabus, so check the one you plan to take before relying on this mapping.

Teaching GK Questions with Answers

Q1041.Important Days & DatesEasy

Human Rights Day is observed on 10 December because on that day in 1948 the United Nations General Assembly did which of the following?

  1. A.Adopted the United Nations Charter
  2. B.Adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  3. C.Created the Human Rights Council
  4. D.Adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child
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Correct answer: B. Adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The General Assembly adopted the Declaration in Paris on 10 December 1948, and the date has been observed as Human Rights Day since 1950.

Q1043.Important Days & DatesMedium

National Pollution Control Day is observed on 2 December in memory of which event?

  1. A.The Chernobyl nuclear accident
  2. B.The Bhopal gas tragedy
  3. C.The signing of the Kyoto Protocol
  4. D.The Stockholm Conference on the environment
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Correct answer: B. The Bhopal gas tragedy

On the night of 2 and 3 December 1984 methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal and killed thousands of people, in what remains the worst industrial disaster in India.

Q1045.Important Days & DatesHard

National Milk Day is observed in India on 26 November to mark the birth anniversary of which person?

  1. A.M. S. Swaminathan
  2. B.Verghese Kurien
  3. C.Tribhuvandas Patel
  4. D.Norman Borlaug
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Correct answer: B. Verghese Kurien

Born on 26 November 1921, Kurien is called the Father of the White Revolution in India. He built the Amul cooperative at Anand in Gujarat and led Operation Flood, the programme that made India the largest producer of milk in the world, and the day has been observed since 2014.

Q1046.Important Days & DatesEasy

Constitution Day is observed in India on 26 November because on that day in 1949 the Constituent Assembly did which of the following?

  1. A.Held its first sitting
  2. B.Adopted the Constitution of India
  3. C.Brought the Constitution into force
  4. D.Elected the Drafting Committee
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Correct answer: B. Adopted the Constitution of India

The Constituent Assembly adopted, enacted and gave to itself the Constitution on 26 November 1949, and the Government of India has observed the date as Constitution Day, or Samvidhan Divas, since 2015.

Q1047.Important Days & DatesMedium

National Education Day is observed in India on which date?

  1. A.5 September
  2. B.11 November
  3. C.14 November
  4. D.26 November
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Correct answer: B. 11 November

The date is the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, born in 1888, who was independent India's first Minister of Education and the moving spirit behind the founding of the University Grants Commission and the Indian Institutes of Technology.

Q1049.Indian PolityAsked in: Uttar Pradesh · 12 June 2022Medium

Which of the following is NOT a fundamental duty?

  1. A.To protect monuments and places of national importance
  2. B.To protect and improve the natural environment
  3. C.To safeguard public property
  4. D.To respect the National Anthem
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Correct answer: A. To protect monuments and places of national importance

Protecting monuments and places of national importance is not a fundamental duty; it is a directive principle under Article 49, which asks the State to protect monuments and objects of artistic or historic interest declared to be of national importance.

Q1050.Art & CultureAsked in: Madhya Pradesh · 3 July 2022Medium

Amritlal Vegad is related to

  1. A.Sculpture
  2. B.Painting
  3. C.Singing
  4. D.Music
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Correct answer: B. Painting

Amritlal Vegad, born in Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh in 1928, was a painter and collage artist who trained at Kala Bhavan in Santiniketan under Nandalal Bose, and later taught art in Jabalpur.

Q1052.EnvironmentEasy

In the awareness programme at the Ganesh pandal, which idols were people advised NOT to immerse in drinking water tanks?

  1. A.Idols made of clay
  2. B.Idols of Plaster of Paris and those with harmful chemical colours
  3. C.Idols made of paper pulp
  4. D.Idols made of turmeric
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Correct answer: B. Idols of Plaster of Paris and those with harmful chemical colours

Participants at the programme were sensitised about the use of eco-friendly clay idols and were advised to avoid immersing idols made of Plaster of Paris, or carrying harmful chemical colours, in drinking water tanks.

Q1053.EnvironmentEasy

The ICAR awareness and cleanliness activities after Ganesh Visarjan were organised as part of which campaign?

  1. A.Namami Gange
  2. B.Mission LiFE
  3. C.Swachhata Hi Seva
  4. D.Jal Jeevan Mission
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Correct answer: C. Swachhata Hi Seva

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research organised its awareness and cleanliness initiatives at its institutions as part of these activities, with the focus placed on cleanliness after Ganesh Visarjan, clean public spaces and responsible waste management.

Q1054.EnvironmentMedium

At which two ICAR institutes were biodegradable offerings from Ganesh Visarjan collected and processed into organic manure?

  1. A.ICAR-CIRB, Hisar and ICAR-IARI, New Delhi
  2. B.ICAR-NISA, Ranchi and ICAR-CIRCOT, Mumbai
  3. C.ICAR-NDRI, Karnal and ICAR-CIFT, Kochi
  4. D.ICAR-IIHR, Bengaluru and ICAR-CICR, Nagpur
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Correct answer: B. ICAR-NISA, Ranchi and ICAR-CIRCOT, Mumbai

At these two institutes, one in Jharkhand and the other in Maharashtra, biodegradable offerings such as flowers and other puja samagri were collected and segregated from the rest of the festival waste, and the compostable material was then processed at composting facilities to prepare organic manure.

Q1055.General ScienceAsked in: CTET · 18th Jan 2023Easy

Bags with wide straps are preferred to carry heavy loads. The reason for this is :

  1. A.Increase in area of contact increases the pressure exerted
  2. B.Increase in area of contact increases the force exerted
  3. C.Increase in area of contact reduces pressure exerted
  4. D.Increase in area of contact reduces the force exerted
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Correct answer: C. Increase in area of contact reduces pressure exerted

Pressure is the force acting on unit area, that is P equals F divided by A, so for the same force a larger area of contact means smaller pressure.

Q1056.Indian HistoryAsked in: CTET · CTET Feb 2016 Paper 2 Social Studies (L Medium

Who among the following propounded the doctrine of 'Vishishtadvaita'?

  1. A.Allama Prabhu
  2. B.Shankara
  3. C.Ramanuja
  4. D.Basavanna
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Correct answer: C. Ramanuja

Ramanuja, born at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu in the eleventh century, taught Vishishtadvaita, or qualified non-dualism. He held that the soul, even when it becomes one with the supreme God Vishnu, keeps its own separate existence, and that the surest way to salvation is intense devotion, bhakti, to Vishnu.

Q1058.Indian HistoryAsked in: CTET · 1st Jan 2022Easy

Read statements A, B and C and select correct answer. Why Magadha became the most important Mahajanpada in about two hundred years? A. Many rivers such as Ganga and Son flowed through Magadha. B. Parts of Magadha were forested. C. There were iron ore mines in the region.

  1. A.A and B
  2. B.B and C
  3. C.C and A
  4. D.A, B and C
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Correct answer: D. A, B and C

All three reasons together made Magadha the strongest mahajanapada in about two hundred years. Rivers such as the Ganga and the Son gave water for the fields, made the plain fertile and served as cheap routes for moving men and goods.

Q1059.General ScienceAsked in: CTET · 29th Jan 2023Easy

Which one of the following options is incorrect about pressure?

  1. A.The smaller the area, larger the pressure on a surface for the same force
  2. B.Liquids exert pressure on the walls of the container
  3. C.Air exerts atmospheric pressure on us
  4. D.We don't feel atmospheric pressure as it is negligible in quantity
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Correct answer: D. We don't feel atmospheric pressure as it is negligible in quantity

Atmospheric pressure at sea level is about 1.013 into 10 to the power 5 pascal, which presses with roughly the weight of one kilogram on every square centimetre of our body, so it is very large and not negligible at all.

Q1060.Books & AuthorsAsked in: CTET · 21st Dec 2021Easy

Who has written the book named 'Gulamgiri'?

  1. A.Jyotirao Phule
  2. B.B. R. Ambedkar
  3. C.E. V. Ramaswamy
  4. D.Narayanaguru
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Correct answer: A. Jyotirao Phule

Phule wrote Gulamgiri, meaning slavery, in Marathi in 1873, and dedicated it to the people of America who had fought to free slaves, drawing a line between their struggle and the condition of the lower castes in India.

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