Static GK is not a separate section in RRB Group D, but it decides most of the paper's recall marks. General Science is 25 questions of Physics, Chemistry and Life Sciences at 10th standard (CBSE) level as per CEN 09/2025, and the 20 General Awareness questions lean on the standing facts behind the news: the sport, the award, the institution, the state, the river or the scientist an event touches. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for RRB Group D. The General Science notes go topic by topic through motion and force, work, energy and power, gravitation, heat, light, sound, electricity and magnetism, atomic structure and the periodic table, chemical reactions, acids, bases and salts, metals and non-metals, and carbon compounds, and the Life Sciences notes cover cells, the human body, nutrition, diseases, plants and genetics. The static GK notes cover Indian Railways zones and facts, national symbols, first and largest in India and the world, awards and honours, important days, books and authors, sports GK, art and culture, and the basics of Indian Polity, Geography, History and the Economy. Each note is short facts and tables that can be revised in one sitting. Read a note, then solve its quiz and the previous-year questions on this site to check what stayed.
Under Akbar, the Mahabharata was translated into Persian under which name?
Akbar set up a translation department in which Sanskrit works were rendered into Persian, and the Mahabharata was translated there as the Razmnama, a name that means the book of war.
Read the full explanation →The Tarikh-i-Firozshahi and the Fatwa-i-Jahandari were written by which historian of the Delhi Sultanate?
Barani lived at the court of Muhammad bin Tughlaq and wrote in the reign of Firoz Shah Tughlaq.
Read the full explanation →The Ain-i-Akbari, an account of the administration of Akbar's empire, was written by whom?
He was a minister and a close friend of Akbar and wrote the Akbarnama, of which the Ain-i-Akbari forms the third volume, setting out the departments of state, the revenue of the provinces, the ranks of the nobility, the coins, the crops and the customs of the country.
Read the full explanation →Khazain-ul-Futuh, a Persian work on the campaigns of Alauddin Khalji, was written by whom?
Khusrau served a line of Sultans at Delhi, was a disciple of the Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya, and was given the title Tuti-e-Hind, the parrot of India.
Read the full explanation →Under whose reign was the maximum number of books in Persian on classical Indian music written?
This is one of the striking facts of Mughal cultural history: the emperor who withdrew court patronage from musical performance presided over a reign in which the largest number of Persian treatises on Indian classical music was written, as scholars turned from the court to the book.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following wrote the biography of Jahangir known as Iqbalnama-i Jahangiri?
He was an officer of Jahangir's court who continued the record of the reign after the emperor stopped writing his own memoir, and his Iqbalnama-i-Jahangiri is one of the main Persian sources for the period.
Read the full explanation →Who wrote Humayun Nama?
She was a daughter of Babur and a sister of Humayun, and she wrote her account of the family at the request of her nephew Akbar, who wanted material for the Akbarnama.
Read the full explanation →Baburnama, the autobiography of Babur, was translated in _____.
Babur's memoir was written in Chagatai Turkish and was translated into Persian in Akbar's time by Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan, one of the nine jewels of the court, so that the book could be read by the Persian speaking nobility of the empire.
Read the full explanation →In which language was Tuzuk-i-Baburi written?
Babur wrote his memoirs in Chagatai Turkish, the language of his homeland in Central Asia, and the book is admired for its plain, observant prose about the men, fruits, animals and rivers of the countries he passed through.
Read the full explanation →The final of the 2011 Cricket World Cup, won by India, was played at which stadium?
India beat Sri Lanka there in the final of the 2011 tournament, which India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh had hosted together, and it was the first time a host country had won the World Cup final on its own ground.
Read the full explanation →The Kalinga Stadium, which hosted the Hockey World Cup in 2018, is situated in:
The Kalinga Stadium is the sports complex of the capital of Odisha and it staged the men's Hockey World Cup of 2018; the state has since become the main home of Indian hockey, and the Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium built at Rourkela in the same state hosted matches of the…
Read the full explanation →Camp Nou is the home ground of which football club?
Camp Nou stands in the city of Barcelona in Spain and is the home of that club and one of the largest football stadiums in Europe.
Read the full explanation →The Buddh International Circuit, which hosted the Formula One Indian Grand Prix, is located in:
The circuit was built there and held the Formula One Indian Grand Prix in 2011, 2012 and 2013, the only rounds of the world championship ever staged in India; it continues to be used for motorcycle racing and other motor sport events.
Read the full explanation →Which Delhi cricket ground was formerly known as the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium?
The ground of the Delhi and Districts Cricket Association was renamed in 2019 in memory of the former union minister who had led that association for many years; the playing area alone was renamed, and the older name Feroz Shah Kotla still attaches to the historic complex beside it.
Read the full explanation →Salt Lake Stadium, the largest football stadium in India, is located in which city?
The ground's formal name is Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan, it stands in the Salt Lake area of Kolkata, and it is the largest football stadium in the country and among the largest in the world; the city's clubs and the national team both play there, and it hosted the final…
Read the full explanation →The Wimbledon tennis championship is played on which surface?
Wimbledon is held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London, it is the oldest of the four Grand Slam tournaments and it is the only one still played on grass, a surface on which the ball keeps low and comes quickly on to the racket, so…
Read the full explanation →Lord's, the ground called the home of cricket, is situated in:
Lord's was founded by Thomas Lord and is owned by the Marylebone Cricket Club, the body that framed the laws of cricket and guarded them for two centuries; the final of the first Cricket World Cup in 1975 was played there, and the pavilion holds the game's most famous museum.
Read the full explanation →The Narendra Modi Stadium, the largest cricket stadium in the world, is located in which city?
The ground stands in the Motera area of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, inside the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Sports Enclave, and after rebuilding it became the largest cricket stadium in the world by seating capacity; it was given its present name in 2021, so papers of earlier years call it the Motera…
Read the full explanation →Which is the oldest cricket stadium in India?
The ground was laid out in 1864, which makes it the oldest cricket ground in the country by a wide margin; it is the home of the Cricket Association of Bengal, one of the largest cricket grounds in the world by seating and is often called the Lord's of the…
Read the full explanation →Increase in the girth of a stem is brought about by which meristem?
The lateral meristem, better known as the cambium, lies as a ring along the length of the stem and root and divides to add new xylem on its inner side and new phloem on its outer side, so the stem grows thicker year after year; this is secondary growth, and…
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