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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

Q13421.General ScienceAsked in: Bihar · Nov 2015 (Advt. 22/2014Hard

A cylinder of mass m rolls down an inclined plane from a height h above a horizontal level. If the velocity of the axis of the cylinder is v when it reaches the lower level, then

  1. A.v = gh
  2. B.v = mgh
  3. C.v = √(2gh)
  4. D.v < √(2gh)
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Correct answer: D. v < √(2gh)

A body that slides down a smooth slope turns all of its potential energy mgh into translational kinetic energy and reaches the bottom with a speed equal to the square root of 2gh.

Q13422.General ScienceAsked in: Bihar · 25 Mar 2022Medium

If a wire is placed parallel to the lines of force in a magnetic field and a current flows in the wire, then

  1. A.the wire will experience a force in the direction of the magnetic field
  2. B.the wire will not experience any force at all
  3. C.the wire will experience a force in the direction opposite to the field
  4. D.it will experience a force in the direction perpendicular to the lines of force
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Correct answer: B. the wire will not experience any force at all

The force on a current carrying conductor kept in a magnetic field is given by F equal to B I L sin theta, where theta is the angle between the direction of the current and the direction of the field.

Q13423.GeographyAsked in: Bihar · 29th Jan 2017Medium

The main tribe found in Tamil Nadu is

  1. A.Irula
  2. B.Pong
  3. C.Garos
  4. D.khaud
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Correct answer: A. Irula

The Irula, also written Irular, are one of the main tribal communities of Tamil Nadu and live mostly in the Nilgiri hills and in the districts along the border with Kerala.

Q13424.General ScienceAsked in: Bihar · Nov 2015 (Advt. 22/2014Medium

The linear momentum of a system of rigid bodies will be conserved, if

  1. A.the system is in a gravitational field
  2. B.no external forces act on the system
  3. C.kinetic energy is conserved
  4. D.none of the above
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Correct answer: B. no external forces act on the system

The law of conservation of linear momentum follows straight from Newton's second law: the rate of change of the momentum of a system equals the net external force acting on it, so when that force is zero the total momentum stays the same in size and in direction.

Q13425.General ScienceAsked in: Bihar · Nov 2015 (Advt. 22/2014Medium

In C.G.S unit, dynamic viscosity is expressed as:

  1. A.Poise
  2. B.Pa-s
  3. C.Stoke
  4. D.None of the above
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Correct answer: A. Poise

Dynamic viscosity measures how strongly a fluid resists flowing, and in the centimetre gram second system it is measured in poise, a unit named after the French physician Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille, who studied the flow of blood in narrow tubes.

Q13426.General ScienceAsked in: Bihar · 25 March 2022Easy

The magnetic effect of current was discovered by

  1. A.Maxwell
  2. B.Fleming
  3. C.Oersted
  4. D.Faraday
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Correct answer: C. Oersted

In 1820 the Danish scientist Hans Christian Oersted saw that a compass needle kept near a wire swung aside the moment a current flowed through the wire, and swung the other way when the current was reversed.

Q13428.General ScienceAsked in: Bihar · Nov 2015 (Advt. 22/2014Easy

To take the longest possible jump, an athlete should make an angle of _____

  1. A.90 degree with the ground
  2. B.60 degree with the ground
  3. C.45 degree with the ground
  4. D.30 degree with the ground
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Correct answer: C. 45 degree with the ground

Once the athlete's feet leave the ground they move as a projectile, and the horizontal distance covered, called the range, is given by R equal to u squared into sin 2 theta divided by g. The range is largest when sin 2 theta has its greatest value of one, which…

Q13430.General ScienceAsked in: Bihar · BPSC AE Paper 3 (General Studies) 2019 OEasy

The unit of sound is

  1. A.hertz
  2. B.wave number
  3. C.decibel
  4. D.cm -1
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Correct answer: C. decibel

The loudness or intensity level of sound is measured in decibels (dB), a unit named after Alexander Graham Bell.

Q13431.Static GKHard

The title 'Deshbandhu' is associated with which national leader?

  1. A.Rajendra Prasad
  2. B.Chittaranjan Das
  3. C.Jayaprakash Narayan
  4. D.Madan Mohan Malaviya
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Correct answer: B. Chittaranjan Das

C. R. Das was the Calcutta barrister who defended Aurobindo Ghosh in the Alipore bomb case, gave up a large practice for the non-cooperation movement, and founded the Swaraj Party with Motilal Nehru to contest the legislative councils.

Q13432.Static GKEasy

The athlete nicknamed the 'Flying Sikh' is:

  1. A.Milkha Singh
  2. B.Gurbachan Singh Randhawa
  3. C.Balbir Singh Senior
  4. D.Ajit Pal Singh
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Correct answer: A. Milkha Singh

Milkha Singh was a sprinter who won the four hundred metres gold at the Commonwealth Games of 1958 and at the Asian Games, and who finished fourth in the four hundred metres final at the Rome Olympics of 1960.

Q13434.Static GKEasy

Who is regarded as the father of the Indian space programme?

  1. A.Vikram Sarabhai
  2. B.C. V. Raman
  3. C.Meghnad Saha
  4. D.Jagadish Chandra Bose
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Correct answer: A. Vikram Sarabhai

Sarabhai set up the Physical Research Laboratory at Ahmedabad, persuaded the government that a developing country needed space technology for communication and weather, and built the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station in Kerala, so he is called the father of the Indian space programme.

Q13435.Static GKEasy

Who is known as the 'Missile Man of India'?

  1. A.Homi Jehangir Bhabha
  2. B.Satish Dhawan
  3. C.A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  4. D.Raja Ramanna
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Correct answer: C. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Kalam worked on the SLV-3 launch vehicle and then led the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme, out of which the Agni, Prithvi, Trishul, Akash and Nag missiles came, and that work gave him the name Missile Man of India.

Q13436.Static GKMedium

Which ruler is described as the 'Napoleon of India'?

  1. A.Chandragupta Maurya
  2. B.Samudragupta
  3. C.Harshavardhana
  4. D.Ashoka
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Correct answer: B. Samudragupta

The historian V. A. Smith first described Samudragupta as the Napoleon of India, because of the long list of kings and republics he subdued, recorded in the Allahabad pillar inscription, or Prayag Prashasti, composed by his court poet Harisena.

Q13437.Static GKEasy

Who is popularly called the 'Frontier Gandhi'?

  1. A.Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
  2. B.Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
  3. C.Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  4. D.Hakim Ajmal Khan
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Correct answer: A. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

He organised the Khudai Khidmatgar, the servants of God, also known as the Red Shirts, in the North West Frontier Province, and he held to non-violence so completely that he became known as the Frontier Gandhi, or Sarhadi Gandhi.

Q13440.Static GKEasy

Who is known as the 'Nightingale of India'?

  1. A.Lata Mangeshkar
  2. B.Sarojini Naidu
  3. C.Annie Besant
  4. D.Kamala Nehru
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Correct answer: B. Sarojini Naidu

Naidu was a poet in English whose collections include The Golden Threshold and The Bird of Time, and the lyrical quality of her verse earned her the name Nightingale of India, or Bharat Kokila.

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