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🔒 Log in to trackBooks and authors, sports, awards, important days, national symbols and firsts, and organisations with their headquarters, currencies and parliaments. These are facts that do not change year to year and add up to 2–4 GA questions in almost every shift. Learn them as tables and review often.
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Every formula on one printable page, grouped by subtopic.
4 exam-level questions worked step by step.
118 questions — untimed practice or a timed test with analysis.
Track record in the exam
Questions per shift in recent SSC CGL papers.
Test difficulty mix (118 questions)
Question patterns exams keep repeating
Taken from previous-year papers. If a pattern is marked "very common", expect to see it in your exam.
Book and its author
very common"Who wrote X?" or "X is the autobiography of..."
Learn by group: ancient (Arthashastra = Kautilya, Rajatarangini = Kalhana), freedom era (Hind Swaraj = Gandhi), autobiography (Wings of Fire = A.P.J. Abdul Kalam).
Booker winners: Rushdie 1981, Arundhati Roy 1997, Kiran Desai 2006, Aravind Adiga 2008.
Who wrote The Discovery of India?
It was written in jail in the 1940s
Its writer was India's first Prime Minister
He also wrote Glimpses of World History
Jawaharlal Nehru
Trophy or term and its sport
very common"The Ryder / Santosh / Davis trophy is for which sport?"
Cricket = Ranji and Ashes, football = Santosh and Durand, badminton = Thomas and Uber, tennis = Davis, golf = Ryder.
Team sizes: polo 4, basketball 5, volleyball 6, kabaddi 7.
The Ryder Cup is played in which sport?
The Ryder Cup is a team contest
It is played between Europe and the USA
The sport is golf
Golf
Awards: first winners
common"First Param Vir Chakra" or "the first Bharat Ratna".
Bharat Ratna began in 1954 (first: Rajagopalachari, Radhakrishnan, C.V. Raman).
First Param Vir Chakra = Major Somnath Sharma. Tagore = first Indian Nobel winner (1913).
Who received the first Param Vir Chakra?
The Param Vir Chakra is India's top wartime gallantry award
The first one was for the 1947-48 war
It went to Major Somnath Sharma
Major Somnath Sharma
Important day and its date
common"Which day is on 5 September?" or "World Environment Day is on..."
Person days: 12 Jan = Vivekananda, 29 Aug = Dhyan Chand, 5 Sep = Radhakrishnan, 14 Nov = Nehru, 22 Dec = Ramanujan.
World days: 22 Mar = Water, 22 Apr = Earth, 5 Jun = Environment, 21 Jun = Yoga, 10 Dec = Human Rights.
On which date is World Environment Day observed?
The Stockholm Conference on the environment began in 1972
It began on this same date
Earth Day is on 22 April, which is different
5 June
Headquarters of world bodies
occasional"Where is the ICC / WHO / UNESCO headquartered?"
Geneva = WHO, WTO, ILO. Paris = UNESCO. Rome = FAO. Vienna = IAEA and OPEC.
The Hague = ICJ. Manila = ADB.
Where is the headquarters of the International Cricket Council (ICC)?
The ICC runs world cricket
It moved from Lord's in London in 2005
Its new base is in the UAE
Dubai
Olympics and world tournaments
common"First modern Olympics" or "first Cricket World Cup".
First modern Olympics = Athens 1896. Motto = Citius, Altius, Fortius. Five rings = five continents.
First FIFA World Cup = 1930 (Uruguay). First Cricket World Cup = 1975 (England).
In which year was the first Cricket World Cup played?
It was hosted by England
The winner was the West Indies
The year was 1975
1975
Firsts in India
common"First woman IPS / Governor / Chief Minister / President".
Women: Sarojini Naidu = first Governor, Sucheta Kripalani = first Chief Minister, Pratibha Patil = first President, Kiran Bedi = first IPS.
Manekshaw = first Field Marshal, Rakesh Sharma = first Indian in space.
Who was India's first woman IPS officer?
She joined the Indian Police Service in 1972
She is a well-known police officer
Her name is Kiran Bedi
Kiran Bedi