Railway GK Questions 2026

These six ceremonial gates belong to the new Parliament House of India in New Delhi. The new Parliament building, part of the Central Vista project, was inaugurated in May 2023.

The Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro proposed in 1811 that equal volumes of all gases, at the same temperature and pressure, hold the same number of molecules.

A plane mirror always forms an image that stands upright, cannot be caught on a screen, and has its left and right sides swapped.

A black hole forms when a very massive star collapses under its own gravity, and its pull becomes so strong that not even light can escape.

Article 46 asks the State to promote with special care the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections, in particular the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

In uniform circular motion the speed stays the same, but the direction changes at every point, so the velocity keeps changing.

Antibodies are made by B-lymphocytes, a kind of white blood cell, after they meet a foreign antigen. When a germ or other foreign substance enters the body, B-lymphocytes that recognise its antigen multiply and turn into plasma cells.

Vitamin B1 is the chemical called thiamin (also spelt thiamine), the first of the B-complex vitamins to be identified. Thiamin is a water-soluble vitamin that helps the body turn carbohydrates into energy and keeps nerves and the heart working properly.

The Caucasus Mountains run for about 1,100 kilometres from the eastern shore of the Black Sea to the western shore of the Caspian Sea, forming a wall across the isthmus between the two seas.

Ayodhya is not counted among the centres of the Revolt of 1857; in Awadh the rising was centred on Lucknow, the capital.

Mercury is small and very close to the Sun, so its weak gravity and the intense solar heat and wind have stripped away almost all gas; it has only a trace exosphere, which is why it is described as having no atmosphere.

The winter solstice of the Northern Hemisphere falls on about 22 December. On that day the Sun's rays fall vertically on the Tropic of Capricorn, and the North Pole is tilted away from the Sun.

Colostrum is the thick, yellowish first milk a mother produces in the first few days after childbirth.

When a magnet moves inside a coil, the magnetic flux linked with the coil changes, and this change produces an electromotive force and a current.

The Karachi Session of March 1931, presided over by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, passed the resolution on Fundamental Rights and Economic Policy.

The United Nations Security Council has fifteen members: five permanent members and ten non-permanent members elected by the General Assembly for two-year terms.

A cumulonimbus cloud is the final stage of a growing cumulus cloud. On a hot day, rising warm air forms small fair-weather cumulus.

An avalanche is a mass of snow and ice sliding suddenly down a mountain slope. It is driven by gravity acting on the snowpack, so it is grouped with landslides as a terrestrial or mass-movement disaster, not an atmospheric one.

Shipki La is the pass through which the Satluj river enters India from Tibet. It lies in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh, on the border with the Tibet region of China.

Cooking soda, also called baking soda, is sodium hydrogen carbonate, also known as sodium bicarbonate. It is a mild base made from one sodium, one hydrogen, one carbon and three oxygen atoms.