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Railway GK Questions 2026

Static GK in railway exams starts with one shared block: Class 10 science. Every RRB exam on GK24 tests it. Group D has 25 questions on Physics, Chemistry and Life Sciences of 10th CBSE level. JE has 30 in CBT-1 and another 15 on Physics and Chemistry in CBT-2. ALP tests General Science in CBT-1 and Basic Science and Engineering in CBT-2, and NTPC lists general science up to 10th inside General Awareness. Beyond science, the lists differ. NTPC names history and the freedom struggle, geography, polity, the economy, art and culture, environment, computers, abbreviations, transport systems in India, world organisations and government bodies. JE names geography, history and culture, polity, the economy and environmental issues, and adds computers and pollution control in CBT-2. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for railway exams in English and Hindi: General Science, History, Geography, Polity, Economy, Art and Culture, Environment, Computers and static GK, including Indian Railways. Each note is short facts and tables that can be revised in one sitting. Begin with the science notes, since they serve every railway exam, then add the static topics your exam lists, and test each note with its quiz.

Railway GK Questions with Answers

Q8722.Computer AwarenessEasy

Which of the following is an empty tag in HTML?

  1. A.The paragraph tag
  2. B.The line break tag
  3. C.The table tag
  4. D.The anchor tag
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Correct answer: B. The line break tag

An empty or void tag has no closing tag because it encloses no content; it simply performs an action at the point where it is written, and the line break tag, written as br, moves the following text to a new line.

Q8723.Computer AwarenessEasy

Who is credited with developing HTML and the World Wide Web?

  1. A.Charles Babbage
  2. B.Tim Berners-Lee
  3. C.Dennis Ritchie
  4. D.Vint Cerf
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Correct answer: B. Tim Berners-Lee

Working at CERN, the European nuclear research organisation, he proposed a hypertext system in 1989 and by 1991 had written HTML, the first web browser and the first web server, and he went on to found the World Wide Web Consortium, which maintains the standards.

Q8724.Computer AwarenessEasy

HTML stands for

  1. A.HyperText Markup Language
  2. B.HighText Machine Language
  3. C.HyperTransfer Markup Language
  4. D.Hyperlink Text Making Language
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Correct answer: A. HyperText Markup Language

Hypertext means text that carries links to other text, so that a reader can jump from one document to another instead of reading in a fixed order, and markup means the system of tags that labels each part of the content for the browser.

Q8725.Computer AwarenessAsked in: Rajasthan · RSSB Informatics Assistant 2018 OfficialEasy

The basic elements of a form are called

  1. A.objects
  2. B.table
  3. C.record
  4. D.controls
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Correct answer: D. controls

A form is the part of a page that collects information from the visitor, and the individual items placed in it to receive that information are called controls, or form controls: the text box, password box, radio button, check box, drop-down list, text area, submit button and reset button.

Q8727.Computer AwarenessAsked in: Delhi · 7 Aug 2021, Shift 2Medium

Which CSS property allows you to set multiple list properties at once?

  1. A.list-style-type
  2. B.list-style
  3. C.list-style-position
  4. D.list-style-image
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Correct answer: B. list-style

It is a shorthand property, which means it sets several related properties in a single declaration: the type of the marker, its position and an image to use as the marker, in any order and with the omitted ones falling back to their default values.

Q8728.Indian PolityHard

Which pair of parliamentary committees is popularly described as the twin sisters of financial control?

  1. A.Public Accounts Committee and Estimates Committee
  2. B.Estimates Committee and Business Advisory Committee
  3. C.Committee on Public Undertakings and Rules Committee
  4. D.Committee of Privileges and Committee on Petitions
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Correct answer: A. Public Accounts Committee and Estimates Committee

The Public Accounts Committee and the Estimates Committee are called the twin sisters of financial control because together they cover both ends of the spending cycle.

Q8729.Indian PolityMedium

The salaries and allowances of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha are

  1. A.voted upon by Parliament every year
  2. B.charged on the Consolidated Fund of India
  3. C.paid out of the Contingency Fund of India
  4. D.fixed by the President from time to time
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Correct answer: B. charged on the Consolidated Fund of India

Article 97 provides that the salaries and allowances of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the House of the People and of the Chairman and the Deputy Chairman of the Council of States shall be such as Parliament may by law determine, and these are charged on the Consolidated…

Q8730.Indian PolityEasy

Who was the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha, often called the Father of the Lok Sabha?

  1. A.Sachchidananda Sinha
  2. B.G. V. Mavalankar
  3. C.M. Ananthasayanam Ayyangar
  4. D.Hukam Singh
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Correct answer: B. G. V. Mavalankar

Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar was the Speaker of the Constituent Assembly when it sat as a legislature and then became the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha in 1952, which is why he is remembered as the Father of the Lok Sabha; many of the conventions of the chair were laid…

Q8731.Indian PolityHard

Under which Schedule of the Constitution does the Speaker decide questions of disqualification of members on the ground of defection?

  1. A.Eighth Schedule
  2. B.Ninth Schedule
  3. C.Tenth Schedule
  4. D.Twelfth Schedule
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Correct answer: C. Tenth Schedule

The Tenth Schedule, inserted by the Fifty-second Amendment Act of 1985, carries the anti-defection provisions, and Paragraph 6 of that Schedule says that a question of disqualification on the ground of defection shall be decided by the Chairman or the Speaker of the House concerned, whose decision is final.

Q8732.Indian PolityMedium

Which of the following statements about the chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee is correct?

  1. A.The chairperson is elected by the members of the committee
  2. B.The chairperson is appointed by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha
  3. C.The chairperson is nominated by the Prime Minister
  4. D.The Deputy Speaker is the ex officio chairperson
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Correct answer: B. The chairperson is appointed by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha

The chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee is appointed by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha from among the Lok Sabha members of the committee, and since 1967 the settled convention has been to appoint a member belonging to the Opposition, which strengthens the committee as an instrument of accountability.

Q8735.Indian PolityMedium

What is the total membership of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament?

  1. A.15 members, all from the Lok Sabha
  2. B.22 members, 15 from the Lok Sabha and 7 from the Rajya Sabha
  3. C.30 members, all from the Lok Sabha
  4. D.31 members, 21 from the Lok Sabha and 10 from the Rajya Sabha
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Correct answer: B. 22 members, 15 from the Lok Sabha and 7 from the Rajya Sabha

The Public Accounts Committee has twenty-two members, fifteen elected by the Lok Sabha and seven by the Rajya Sabha, each by proportional representation through the single transferable vote, for a term of one year.

Q8736.Indian PolityEasy

The Speaker of the Lok Sabha exercises a vote in which situation?

  1. A.In the first instance on every question put to the House
  2. B.Only a casting vote when the votes are equally divided
  3. C.Only on Money Bills
  4. D.The Speaker never votes in the House under any circumstance
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Correct answer: B. Only a casting vote when the votes are equally divided

Article 100(1) provides that the Speaker or the person acting as Speaker shall not vote in the first instance, but shall have and exercise a casting vote in the case of an equality of votes.

Q8737.Indian PolityMedium

What happens to the office of the Speaker when the Lok Sabha is dissolved?

  1. A.The Speaker vacates office on the day of dissolution
  2. B.The Speaker continues in office until immediately before the first meeting of the next Lok Sabha
  3. C.The President appoints a caretaker Speaker for the interval
  4. D.The Chairman of the Rajya Sabha takes over the duties of the Speaker
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Correct answer: B. The Speaker continues in office until immediately before the first meeting of the next Lok Sabha

The proviso to Article 94 states that the Speaker shall not vacate office on the dissolution of the House of the People but shall continue to hold it until immediately before the first meeting of the next Lok Sabha.

Q8738.Indian PolityMedium

The Speaker of the Lok Sabha can be removed from office by a resolution of the House passed by which majority?

  1. A.A simple majority of members present and voting
  2. B.A majority of all the then members of the House
  3. C.A two-thirds majority of members present and voting
  4. D.A two-thirds majority of the total membership of the House
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Correct answer: B. A majority of all the then members of the House

Article 94(c) says the Speaker or Deputy Speaker may be removed from office by a resolution of the House of the People passed by a majority of all the then members of the House, and the proviso requires fourteen days notice of the intention to move such a resolution.

Q8739.Indian PolityEasy

Under which Article of the Constitution does the Lok Sabha choose a Speaker and a Deputy Speaker from among its members?

  1. A.Article 89
  2. B.Article 93
  3. C.Article 97
  4. D.Article 100
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Correct answer: B. Article 93

Article 93 of the Constitution provides that the House of the People shall, as soon as may be, choose two members of the House to be respectively Speaker and Deputy Speaker, and that whenever either office becomes vacant the House shall choose another member to fill it.

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