Railway GK Questions 2026

Neither of these belongs to the six orthodox systems, so this is the pair that stands outside. The six systems, called the Shad Darshanas, are Samkhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Mimamsa and Vedanta, and all six accept the authority of the Vedas.

A parliamentary system rests on the executive answering to the legislature, so the council of ministers stays in office only while it keeps the confidence of the House.

Every one of the three descriptions gets a detail wrong, so the fourth option is the only one left.

Upholding and protecting the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India is listed as a duty of every citizen, so the provision sits among the Fundamental Duties and not in any other part.

The Tenth Schedule carries the anti-defection provisions, so a legislator who deserts the party on whose ticket he or she was elected can be disqualified under it.

A block lying quietly on a table is in equilibrium, so the forces on it must add up to zero, but that does not mean there are no forces at all.

Mehrgarh, on the Bolan river in the Kachi plain of Baluchistan, is the earliest known farming village in the Indian subcontinent, occupied from about 7000 BCE.

When the British left in 1947, India had, besides the provinces under direct British rule, about 565 princely states whose rulers had accepted British paramountcy.

An echo is the sound heard when a wave is reflected from a distant obstacle and comes back, so in the time measured the sound covers the distance to the cliff and then the same distance back again.

Plant tissues are first divided into meristematic tissue, whose cells keep dividing, and permanent tissue, whose cells have stopped dividing and have taken a fixed shape and job.

The middle ear holds three tiny bones, the smallest in the human body, called the malleus, the incus and the stapes, which in everyday English are the hammer, the anvil and the stirrup.

The force on a current-carrying conductor placed in a magnetic field is found with Fleming's left-hand rule.

Sound is a mechanical wave: it travels only when the particles of a medium push against their neighbours, so the closer and more tightly bound those particles are, the faster the disturbance is passed on.

Electrical energy is power multiplied by time, so the unit follows directly from the units you put in. The oven is rated 2500 W, which is 2500 divided by 1000, that is 2.5 kilowatts.

A unisexual flower carries only one kind of reproductive organ, either stamens or a pistil, while a bisexual flower carries both.

Power is the work done divided by the time taken, and here the work is the potential energy the boy gains while climbing the staircase.

A microphone is a transducer: sound waves strike a thin diaphragm, the diaphragm vibrates, and that mechanical vibration is turned into a varying electric signal.

At sunset the Sun is close to the horizon, so its light travels through a much thicker layer of atmosphere before it reaches the eye.

Fly ash is the fine, powdery residue that rises with the flue gases when pulverised coal is burnt to raise steam in a coal-fired power station.

The correct answer is Monika Juma, named as the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, met by the minister to discuss cooperation against narcotics and organised crime and stronger legal and judicial partnerships.