RRB Group D GK Questions 2026

Known as the Haryana Hurricane, he played his domestic cricket for Haryana, led India to the World Cup in 1983 and captained the state side to its Ranji Trophy title in the season of 1990 and 1991, which remains the great achievement of Haryana cricket.

Shahabad Markanda, a small town in Kurukshetra district, is called the nursery of Indian women hockey; Rani Rampal, who captained the national team and has received both the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna and the Padma Shri, learnt the game on its astroturf, and the former men team captain and…

He comes from Nahri village in Sonipat district and won the silver medal in the 57 kg freestyle class at the Tokyo Olympics, losing only the final; his silver was the better of the two wrestling medals India won at those Games.

Sakshi Malik, from Mokhra village in Rohtak district, won the bronze medal in the 58 kg freestyle event at the Rio Olympics and became the first Indian woman wrestler to win an Olympic medal; hers was also the first medal India won at those Games.

The town is called the little Cuba or mini Cuba of India because of the Bhiwani Boxing Club, where a stream of boxers trained under the coach Jagdish Singh and from which several reached the Beijing Olympics of 2008, including the bronze medallist Vijender Singh.

He won a bronze medal in the 75 kg middleweight class at the Beijing Olympics of 2008, the first Olympic medal won by an Indian boxer, and he came from the Bhiwani Boxing Club in Bhiwani district.

Neeraj Chopra comes from Khandra village in Panipat district and won the gold medal in the javelin throw at the Tokyo Olympics, the first Olympic gold for India in a track and field event; he later added an Olympic silver at Paris and a world championship title in the same…

Men of the Shekhawati region strap on a horse made of bamboo and cloth, dress in bright costume with a sword in hand and enact the tales of local bandits and heroes to the fife and the dhol, and the dance is a regular feature of wedding processions.

Rammat is staged in the open during Holi in these cities, with troupes singing the heroic and devotional stories of the desert to the dhol and the nagara, and it is one of the oldest theatre forms of western Rajasthan.

Khyal is the chief folk drama of Rajasthan, a sung play performed through the night on an open stage, and its schools are named after their artists or their places; the Kuchamani Khyal of Kuchaman is the best known of them and is associated with Lachhiram.

The Bhils of Mewar perform Gavari for about forty days after Rakshabandhan in honour of the goddess, moving from village to village with fixed characters and episodes while the performers keep strict vows for the whole period, which makes it the longest and most elaborate folk performance of Rajasthan.

In this dance of acrobatic skill a woman places one earthen or brass pot upon another in a tall column on her head and then dances on the narrow rim of a brass thali, on the edge of a sword or on a heap of broken glass, keeping the column…

Men of the Bhil and other communities of Mewar and Marwar dance Gair in a large circle during Holi, striking long sticks together in time with the dhol and the thali, and where women join the circle the form is called Gair Ghoomar.

Followers of Jasnath, whose centres lie in the Bikaner and Churu area, perform the fire dance by stepping on and dancing over a bed of burning embers to the beat of the dhol, the dance being an act of faith at their fairs.

The Chari dance is performed by Gujjar women of this belt, who balance on the head a brass pot, the chari, filled with cotton seeds soaked in oil and set alight, so the dance goes on beneath a flame; it marks weddings and the birth of a son.

Women of the Kamad community perform Terah Taali seated on the ground as an act of devotion to Baba Ramdev, with thirteen small brass cymbals called manjiras tied to the wrists, elbows, waist and ankles and struck in rhythm, while the men of the troupe play the tandoora.

The songs and dances of the Kalbelia community, the traditional snake charmers of Rajasthan, were added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010; the women dance in a flowing black skirt worked with silver ribbon to the been and the khanjari, with movements…

The correct answer is A, Sikandar Shah, the son and successor of Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah, who raised the Adina Mosque at Pandua in the later fourteenth century on a scale unmatched in eastern India.

The great exponent of Krishna bhakti in Bengal lived during the reign of Alauddin Hussain Shah, who patronised Bengali literature and under whose rule Vaishnava devotion spread widely in the province.

The founder of the Lodi dynasty spent much of his reign subduing the Sharqi kingdom, defeated Hussain Shah Sharqi, who fled to Bengal, and annexed Jaunpur in 1484.