Railway GK Questions 2026

A cell whose nucleus is well organised and bounded by a nuclear membrane is called a eukaryotic cell. The word comes from the Greek eu, meaning true, and karyon, meaning kernel or nucleus.

Indian forces entered Goa in December 1961 in Operation Vijay, ending four and a half centuries of Portuguese rule. The Portuguese had held Goa since 1510, when Afonso de Albuquerque took it, and they refused to leave after 1947 even though the French had handed over their settlements.

Atomic number 59 is praseodymium, a lanthanide, and the lanthanides and actinides together make up the f-block. A block is named after the sub-shell that the last electron enters.

Silica, or silicon dioxide, is one of the chief mineral constituents of the continental crust of the earth. The continental crust is made largely of granitic rock, which geologists call sial because silica and alumina dominate it.

Jawaharlal Nehru hoisted the national flag over the Lahori Gate of the Red Fort on 15 August 1947, and every Prime Minister has addressed the nation from its ramparts on Independence Day since.

The Chinese pilgrim Hiuen Tsang reached Kanchi around 640 CE, when Narasimhavarman I was on the Pallava throne. Narasimhavarman I, who ruled about 630 to 668 CE, took the title Mamalla, meaning great wrestler, and gave his name to Mamallapuram.

Concrete is the building material made by mixing cement with coarse aggregate such as gravel, fine aggregate such as sand, and water.

These monsoon forests cover the largest part of India, so they are the most widespread forest type in the country.

Gandhi started Indian Opinion at Durban in 1903 to put the case of Indians settled in South Africa before the public.

Gautamiputra Satakarni was the greatest ruler of the Satavahana dynasty, which held the Deccan in the 2nd century CE. He ruled roughly from 106 to 130 CE, with Pratishthana (modern Paithan on the Godavari) as his capital.

On the east, India has a land boundary with Myanmar and Bangladesh. India shares land borders with seven countries.

The Garo, Khasi and Jaintia hills lie in Meghalaya and together form the Meghalaya plateau. This plateau is a detached block of the peninsular plateau, separated from the main Chota Nagpur plateau by the Malda gap.

Four Indian states touch Bhutan: Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. The India-Bhutan boundary is about 699 kilometres long.

The Khetri copper belt lies in the Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan, in the north-eastern part of the state. Khetri is the best known copper field of India and is worked by Hindustan Copper Limited.

Aluminium is the most abundant metal in the crust of the earth, making up about eight per cent of it by weight.

The Lucknow Pact of 1916 was an agreement between the Congress and the Muslim League. It was signed at the Lucknow session, where Ambika Charan Mazumdar presided for the Congress.

Every citizen of India who is eighteen years of age or more may vote, and the age is the same for men and women.

Sulphur dioxide is an air pollutant but it is not counted among the greenhouse gases. A greenhouse gas is one that lets sunlight through but absorbs the long wave infrared radiation the earth sends back, so it warms the lower atmosphere.

Under monopolistic competition a single firm faces a demand curve that is relatively elastic, so it slopes downward but is fairly flat.

Fuehrer is the German word for leader, and Adolf Hitler took it as his title in Germany. Hitler led the Nazi Party, became Chancellor in January 1933, and after the death of President Hindenburg in 1934 merged the two offices and styled himself Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor.