RRB Group D GK Questions 2026

His 2014 memoir runs from a childhood in Uttar Pradesh through the National School of Drama and the Film and Television Institute of India to the parallel cinema of the nineteen seventies.

The book came out in 2014 and was narrated by the actor to the journalist Udayatara Nayar, which is why it is described as an autobiography rather than a biography.

The director of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai wrote this memoir with the journalist Poonam Saxena, and its title plays deliberately on Vikram Seth's novel A Suitable Boy, which is the trap most often set with this question.

Romancing with Life appeared in 2007, timed to the actor's eighty-fourth birthday, and covers his arrival in Bombay, the founding of Navketan Films with his brother Chetan Anand, and the making of films such as Guide and Hare Rama Hare Krishna.

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was instituted in 1969 to mark the birth centenary of Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, who made Raja Harishchandra in 1913, and the actress Devika Rani received it first.

The medal is given at IFFI by the International Council for Film, Television and Audiovisual Communication, based in Paris and associated with UNESCO, to a film that reflects the ideals of peace, tolerance and non-violence that Mahatma Gandhi stood for.

The Golden Peacock, or Swarna Mayur, goes to the best film of the international competition at IFFI, and the cash prize is shared between the director and the producer; Silver Peacock awards go to the best director, the best actor and the best actress.

The thirty-fifth edition of 2004 was the first held in Goa, and the state has been the permanent venue since then, with the festival normally taking place in the last week of November.

The first edition was organised on behalf of the Government of India and travelled through Bombay, Madras, Delhi, Calcutta and Trivandrum, which made it the first international film festival held anywhere in Asia.

She received the first Filmfare Award for Best Actress for Baiju Bawra, and the first Best Actor award of the same year went to Dilip Kumar for Daag.

Bimal Roy's film about a farmer who goes to Calcutta to pull a rickshaw took the first Filmfare Award for Best Film, and Bimal Roy took the first award for Best Direction for the same film.

At their start in 1954 the awards carried the name of Clare Mendonca, a critic associated with The Times of India, and only later did they come to be called the Filmfare Awards after the magazine.

The Filmfare statuette, designed by the sculptor N. G. Pansare, shows a female figure and the dark finish gave it its popular name, which the magazine itself uses.

The magazine Filmfare, published by The Times Group, held its first award ceremony in 1954 for the films released in 1953, which makes these the oldest film awards in India.

The name means the four limbs, standing for the four divisions of the ancient army, elephants, chariots, cavalry and infantry, which survive as the bishop, the rook, the knight and the pawn of the modern board.

The correct answer is B, Sri Lanka, which declared volleyball its national sport in 1991.

The correct answer is A, Manipur, where the horseback game sagol kangjei was played and from which British planters and officers took up the modern form; the earliest clubs of the modern game were founded at Silchar and Calcutta.

British officers stationed there are credited with adding coloured balls to the existing game of black pool in 1875, and the new game took the name snooker, then army slang for a first-year cadet.

The correct answer is B, Argentina, which declared pato its national sport in 1953; the game is played by riders who must carry a handled ball and throw it through a vertical ring.

Jigoro Kano founded judo in 1882 at the Kodokan in Tokyo, building a grappling sport of throws and holds out of the older jujitsu, and judo entered the Olympic programme at the Tokyo Games.