Railway GK Questions 2026

The Sangeet Natak Akademi, the national academy for music, dance and drama set up by a government resolution in 1952 and inaugurated in January 1953, gives its annual awards widely but reserves the Fellowship as its highest distinction, limited to a small fixed number of living artists at any one…

The Recording Academy held its first Grammy ceremony on 4 May 1959 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, and it honoured the recordings released during 1958.

Planet Drum, a percussion project led by Mickey Hart with Zakir Hussain among its players, won in 1992 the very first Grammy ever given in that newly created category.

Rahman took one Grammy for the compilation soundtrack album of the film and a second, shared with the lyricists Gulzar and Tanvi Shah, for the song Jai Ho; through that second award Tanvi Shah became the first Indian woman to win a Grammy.

This category honours the composition itself, that is the words and the music, so the trophy goes to the songwriter or composer rather than to the person who sang or produced the track.

Its formal name is the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and its voting members are musicians, producers, recording engineers and other professionals of the American recording industry.

The sitar maestro won the Grammy in 1968 for Best Chamber Music Performance for the album West Meets East, which he recorded with the violinist Yehudi Menuhin, making him the first Indian to receive the award.

Murlikant Petkar won the 50 metre freestyle at the 1972 Heidelberg Paralympic Games, and that remained India's only Paralympic gold for thirty-two years.

World Aquatics recognises six disciplines, namely swimming, diving, water polo, artistic swimming, open water swimming and high diving. Rowing is played on water but is governed by a separate international body, World Rowing, long known as FISA, and its Olympic events are listed under rowing, not aquatics.

The body was founded in 1908 in London during that year's Olympic Games, as the Federation Internationale de Natation, and the shortened form FINA stayed in use until it was renamed World Aquatics in 2023.

The American swimmer won eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics of 2008, the most won by any athlete at one Games, and he closed his career as the most decorated Olympian in history with 28 medals, 23 of them gold.

The correct answer is C, seven: six field players and one goalkeeper, who is distinguished by a red cap while the two teams wear white and dark caps.

The correct answer is B, the 1500 metre freestyle, often called the metric mile, which covers thirty lengths of a 50 metre pool and is the longest event on the Olympic pool programme.

A lawyer from Bengal, he swam the English Channel in 1958 and went on to cross five major seas and straits in a single year, 1966, including the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Dardanelles, the Bosphorus and the Panama Canal.

The Bengali swimmer crossed the English Channel in September 1959, becoming the first woman from Asia to do so, and in 1960 she became the first Indian sportswoman to be awarded the Padma Shri. Option A is wrong but close enough to be the standard distractor: Bula Choudhury, also from…

The medley relay order is backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle, and the reason the sequence differs from the individual medley is practical.

One swimmer covers all four strokes in that fixed sequence over 200 or 400 metres, and freestyle is always last.

A pool built to the long course standard is marked into ten lanes of 2.5 metres each across its 25 metre width.

An Olympic-size or long course pool measures 50 metres in length and 25 metres in width, and all Olympic pool races are swum in it, so a 100 metre race means two lengths and the 1500 metre freestyle means thirty.

The Ministry of Home Affairs issued a notification in 2024 declaring 25 June as Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas, to pay tribute to those who suffered during the Emergency, which was proclaimed on 25 June 1975 and withdrawn on 21 March 1977.