RRB Group D GK Questions 2026

The shuttle-and-racket game was played at Poona, now Pune, where British officers took it up; it was long known simply as Poona, and they carried it home where its rules were later settled.

The National Sports of Canada Act of 1994 names lacrosse as the national summer sport and ice hockey as the national winter sport, which makes Canada one of the few countries whose national games rest on a statute rather than on custom.

The correct answer is B, Bhutan, where archery is the official national sport and village tournaments with song and dance are part of festival life.

Morgan, working in Holyoke in the United States, designed volleyball as a gentler indoor game than the newly invented basketball, and a team plays six players on court.

Naismith, a physical education instructor in Springfield in the United States, devised basketball in 1891 as an indoor game for the winter months, using two peach baskets fixed above the floor; a team plays five players on court.

CERT-In works under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and is the national nodal agency for collecting, analysing and issuing alerts on cyber security incidents such as intrusions, phishing campaigns and malware outbreaks; it was given statutory backing by Section 70B of the Information Technology Act.

VLSI is the technique of placing a very large number of transistors on a single silicon chip, and it made the microprocessor possible; the microprocessor in turn defines the fourth generation of computers, just as the integrated circuit defines the third, the transistor the second and the vacuum tube the…

C-DAC is a research and development organisation under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and developed the PARAM series of supercomputers, India's own high performance computing line.

The row of numerals printed at the foot of a cheque is set in magnetic ink, and a MICR reader senses the magnetic pattern rather than the shape of the figures, so the code is read correctly even when the cheque is stamped or soiled.

BASIC was designed as a teaching language with simple English-like statements, which is the reason the word Beginner appears in its name.

The family runs in a clear order: ROM is fixed when made, PROM is written once by the user, EPROM can be erased by exposing the chip to ultraviolet light, and EEPROM can be erased and rewritten by an electrical signal without removing it from the circuit.

The correct answer is B, SMTP, the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, which carries a message from the sender's programme to the mail server and onward between servers.

The BIOS is held in a read only memory chip on the motherboard; when the machine is switched on it tests the hardware through the power-on self test and then loads the operating system from the disc into main memory, a process called booting.

ASCII assigns a number to every letter, digit and punctuation mark so that text can be stored and sent as binary; in its original form it is a seven-bit code and therefore represents 128 characters.

A bit is a single binary digit, zero or one; four bits together form a nibble, and two nibbles, that is eight bits, form a byte.

ENIAC was built to compute artillery firing tables and is remembered as the first general-purpose electronic digital computer; it used thousands of vacuum tubes and belongs to the first generation of computers.

Jhootha Sach is a Hindi novel in two parts, the first on Lahore before the division and the second on the lives of those uprooted by it, and it is among the longest works of fiction on Partition.

The correct answer is C, Ayesha Jalal, whose study argues that the demand for Pakistan worked for a long while as a bargaining position in the politics of the 1940s, and it is the standard academic work on Jinnah's role.

Midnight's Children takes its title from the children born at the midnight of independence, its narrator Saleem Sinai being born at the very hour, and it won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was later voted the best of the Booker winners.

The correct answer is B, Urvashi Butalia, whose book is built out of interviews with survivors and is the standard work on Partition as remembered by ordinary people, especially women and children.