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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

Q11081.Computer AwarenessEasy

What happens when a file on the hard disk is deleted by pressing Shift and Delete together?

  1. A.It is moved to the Recycle Bin
  2. B.It is deleted permanently without going to the Recycle Bin
  3. C.It is moved to the Documents folder
  4. D.It is compressed into a zip folder
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Correct answer: B. It is deleted permanently without going to the Recycle Bin

The Delete key alone moves a file from the hard disk to the Recycle Bin, where it occupies space until the Bin is emptied and from where it can be restored.

Q11093.Books & AuthorsMedium

Nirala was the pen name of:

  1. A.Sumitranandan Pant
  2. B.Suryakant Tripathi
  3. C.Mahadevi Verma
  4. D.Jaishankar Prasad
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Correct answer: B. Suryakant Tripathi

He is always written as Suryakant Tripathi Nirala, the pen name meaning the unique or the unlike-any-other, and he wrote Saroj Smriti, Ram ki Shakti Puja and the poem Bhikshuk.

Q11094.Books & AuthorsEasy

Premchand was the pen name of which writer?

  1. A.Dhanpat Rai Srivastava
  2. B.Suryakant Tripathi
  3. C.Ramdhari Singh
  4. D.Ayodhya Singh Upadhyay
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Correct answer: A. Dhanpat Rai Srivastava

He wrote first in Urdu as Nawab Rai, and after the colonial administration seized his collection Soz-e-Watan he adopted the name Premchand, under which he wrote Godan, Nirmala, Gaban, Rangbhoomi and the story Kafan.

Q11095.Awards & HonoursMedium

Which novel, originally written in Hindi, won the International Booker Prize in 2022?

  1. A.Tomb of Sand
  2. B.The White Tiger
  3. C.The God of Small Things
  4. D.The Inheritance of Loss
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Correct answer: A. Tomb of Sand

Geetanjali Shree's novel Ret Samadhi, translated into English by Daisy Rockwell as Tomb of Sand, won the International Booker Prize in 2022, becoming the first book originally written in Hindi, and in any Indian language, to receive that award.

Q11096.Awards & HonoursMedium

The Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, is given by:

  1. A.The Association for Computing Machinery
  2. B.The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  3. C.The Royal Society
  4. D.The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
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Correct answer: A. The Association for Computing Machinery

The Turing Award has been given by that body since 1966, is named after the British mathematician Alan Turing, and is widely described as the Nobel Prize of computing; Raj Reddy, of Indian origin, received it in 1994 for work in artificial intelligence.

Q11097.Awards & HonoursHard

Which of the following is NOT an international award?

  1. A.Pulitzer Prize
  2. B.Templeton Prize
  3. C.Gandhi Peace Prize
  4. D.Abel Prize
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Correct answer: C. Gandhi Peace Prize

The Gandhi Peace Prize was instituted by the Government of India in 1995, the one hundred and twenty-fifth birth anniversary year of Mahatma Gandhi, and although foreign nationals and institutions may receive it, it is an Indian national award given by the Government of India.

Q11098.Awards & HonoursMedium

The Right Livelihood Award, instituted in 1980, is popularly known as the:

  1. A.Green Nobel
  2. B.Alternative Nobel
  3. C.Nobel of Asia
  4. D.Oscars of Science
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Correct answer: B. Alternative Nobel

The Right Livelihood Award was instituted in 1980 in Sweden to honour work on the practical problems the Nobel Prizes were seen to overlook, and it is presented in Stockholm; the Chipko Movement received it in 1987 and Ela Bhatt of the Self Employed Women's Association in 1984.

Q11099.Awards & HonoursHard

Who was the first laureate of the World Food Prize, awarded in 1987?

  1. A.Norman Borlaug
  2. B.M. S. Swaminathan
  3. C.Verghese Kurien
  4. D.Rattan Lal
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Correct answer: B. M. S. Swaminathan

The World Food Prize was created in 1986 at the initiative of Norman Borlaug to honour work that improves the quality, quantity or availability of food, and the Indian agricultural scientist M. S. Swaminathan, a leader of the Green Revolution in India, received the very first prize in 1987.

Q11100.Awards & HonoursMedium

The Ramon Magsaysay Award, instituted in 1957, is given in the memory of a President of which country?

  1. A.Indonesia
  2. B.The Philippines
  3. C.Thailand
  4. D.Vietnam
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Correct answer: B. The Philippines

The award was instituted in 1957 by the trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in memory of Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, who died in an air crash that year, and it is presented at Manila to persons of Asia for greatness of spirit in service to the people.

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