RRB ALP 2018 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

The ball falls from 10 m but rises back only 2.5 m, so it keeps one quarter of its energy and loses three quarters.

The Vyas Samman for 2017 went to the Hindi writer Mamta Kalia for her novel 'Dukham Sukham'. The Vyas Samman is given every year by the K.K.

Kambala is a traditional buffalo race of coastal Karnataka, held mainly in the Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts, the Tulu Nadu region.

The Manipur Sangai Festival is held every year from 21 to 30 November to showcase the state's culture and tourism.

In 2018 the Union Environment Ministry started a pilot project to clean up and develop selected beaches so that they could win the Blue Flag.

France was the first country to introduce GST, in 1954. The idea came from Maurice Lauré, a French tax official, who designed a tax charged at every stage of production and sale but only on the value added at that stage.

Assam became the first state to ratify the GST Constitution Amendment Bill, on 12 August 2016, soon after Parliament passed it.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Mission on 2 October 2014, Mahatma Gandhi's 145th birth anniversary, at Rajpath in New Delhi.

The Orange River is the longest river of South Africa, about 2,200 km long. It rises in the Drakensberg mountains of Lesotho, flows west across South Africa and falls into the Atlantic Ocean at Alexander Bay.

The Panama Canal cuts across the narrow Isthmus of Panama in Central America and joins the Atlantic Ocean, through the Caribbean Sea, with the Pacific Ocean.

Indira Point, the southernmost point of India, lies at the southern tip of Great Nicobar Island in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Guru Shikhar, about 1,722 m high on Mount Abu in the Sirohi district of Rajasthan, is the highest peak of the Aravalli Range.

King George V announced at the Delhi Durbar on 12 December 1911 that the capital of British India would move from Calcutta to Delhi.

The Jama Masjid of Delhi was built by Shah Jahan between 1650 and 1656 as the main mosque of his new capital, Shahjahanabad.

Under the tinkathiya system, European planters forced the peasants of Champaran in Bihar to grow indigo on 3 out of every 20 katthas (one bigha) of their land.

The nucleus is called the master or control centre of the cell because it directs all the activities of the cell.

Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, usually about 70 per cent copper and 30 per cent zinc. Adding zinc makes brass harder than pure copper, gives it a golden-yellow shine and helps it resist corrosion.

Bleaching powder gives off chlorine when it reacts with water, and this chlorine does the bleaching and kills germs. Bleaching powder is calcium oxychloride, CaOCl2, made by passing chlorine gas over dry slaked lime, Ca(OH)2.

Carbon dioxide reacts with lime water to form calcium carbonate, which does not dissolve, and its fine white particles make the water look milky.

Vitamin K is needed to make the clotting proteins, so without it even a small cut keeps bleeding. The liver uses vitamin K to make prothrombin and other clotting factors that turn blood into a clot at a wound.