Railway GK Questions 2026

Jhajharia won the javelin throw gold at Athens in 2004 and again at Rio in 2016, becoming the first Indian Paralympian with two gold medals.

Usha comes from Payyoli in Kozhikode district of Kerala, and the speed with which she ran the sprints and the 400 metres hurdles earned her the name Payyoli Express; she is also called the Golden Girl of Indian athletics for her long run of Asian Games and Asian Championships titles.

Instituted in 1985 and named after the teacher of archery in the Mahabharata, it is conferred on coaches who have produced medal winners in international competition.

India beat the West Indies in the final at Lord's in 1983 with Kapil Dev as captain, and the tournament is also remembered for his unbeaten 175 against Zimbabwe at Tunbridge Wells earlier in the competition.

Anand earned the Grandmaster title in 1988, the first Indian to do so, went on to become the world champion in 2000 and held the undisputed title from 2007 to 2013.

Padukone won the All England Open in 1980, the oldest and at that time the most prestigious badminton tournament in the world, and he was also the first Indian to be ranked world number one in the men's game.

Dhyan Chand played in the Indian hockey teams that won Olympic gold in 1928, 1932 and 1936, captaining the side in Berlin, and his control of the ball earned him the title of the wizard or the magician of hockey.

Malleswari won a bronze medal in the 69 kilogram weight class at Sydney in 2000 and so became the first Indian woman to win any Olympic medal, which is why she is remembered as the Iron Lady of Indian sport.

Bindra won the men's 10 metre air rifle shooting event at Beijing in 2008, and it remains India's first individual Olympic gold medal; he had already become a world champion in the same event in 2006.

India sent a hockey team to the Olympic Games for the first time in 1928 and won the gold medal without conceding a single goal in the tournament, beginning a run of six successive hockey golds that ran through 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952 and 1956.

Pritchard was the only competitor representing India at the Paris Games of 1900 and he finished second in both the 200 metres sprint and the 200 metres hurdles, so India's first two Olympic medals were silver and came in athletics.

The Earth's orbit is a slight ellipse, and it reaches aphelion, its greatest distance of about 152 million kilometres, in early July, while perihelion, its least distance of about 147 million kilometres, comes in early January.

The Gregorian cycle of 400 years contains 97 leap years, so it holds 146,097 days, and dividing that by 400 gives exactly 365.2425 days for the mean year.

The Calendar Reform Committee, set up under the chairmanship of the physicist Meghnad Saha, recommended a unified national calendar, and the Saka calendar was adopted with effect from 22 March 1957, which was the first day of Chaitra in the Saka year 1879.

Twice a year, about 21 March and about 23 September, the Sun's vertical rays fall on the Equator, the circle of illumination passes through both poles, and day and night are of equal length over the whole Earth, which is what the Latin root of the word equinox, meaning equal…

On this date, the June solstice, the Sun's rays fall vertically on the Tropic of Cancer at 23.5 degrees north, so the Northern Hemisphere receives its longest day and shortest night while the Southern Hemisphere has its shortest day.

Move forward one year at a time, adding one odd day for an ordinary span and two when a 29 February falls inside it.

A year repeats another year's calendar when the odd days between them add up to a multiple of seven and both years are of the same kind, ordinary or leap.

The Julian calendar, in use from 46 BC, assumed a year of exactly 365.25 days, which is about eleven minutes longer than the true tropical year of roughly 365.2422 days, so it gained a day about every 128 years and the equinox slid out of place.

Under the Gregorian rule a year divisible by four is a leap year, but a century year is a leap year only if it is also divisible by 400.