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.
India's first individual gold medal at the Olympic Games was won by which sportsperson?
India had won gold before that only in team hockey, so this was the first individual gold in the country's Olympic history.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Indian woman to preside over a session of the Indian National Congress?
She later became the first woman Governor of an Indian state, of Uttar Pradesh.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Indian to be selected for the Indian Civil Service?
The correct answer is A, Satyendranath Tagore, the elder brother of Rabindranath Tagore, who qualified in 1863 and became the first Indian member of the Indian Civil Service at a time when the examination was held only in England.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first recipient of the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest wartime gallantry award?
He was decorated after his death for the action at Badgam in which his company held back the advance on the Srinagar airfield in November 1947, and his is the first name on the roll of the Param Vir Chakra.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first woman Prime Minister of India?
Who was the first woman judge of the Supreme Court of India?
The correct answer is B, Justice M. Fathima Beevi, who was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1989, about four decades after the court began work, and later served as Governor of Tamil Nadu.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Indian to travel into space?
The Indian Air Force pilot flew aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz T-11 in 1984 under a joint programme and spent about a week on the Salyut 7 space station, becoming the first Indian citizen in space.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Indian to be awarded a Nobel Prize?
He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali and was the first Asian of any nationality to win a Nobel Prize, which is a second fact worth carrying.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first President of independent India?
He had presided over the Constituent Assembly that framed the Constitution and became the first President when the Constitution came into force in 1950.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT a gharana of Kathak?
Gwalior is the oldest gharana of Hindustani classical vocal music, not of Kathak, and it is placed among these options precisely because a candidate who remembers the word gharana without remembering the art form will pick it.
Read the full explanation →Sattriya dance originated in the monasteries established by which Vaishnava saint?
The Assamese saint of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries founded the sattras, the Vaishnava monasteries that give the form its name, and created the Ankiya Naat plays staged in the namghar, in which the dance developed.
Read the full explanation →Which classical dance is associated with the Raas Leela and with the barrel drum called the pung?
Its central theme is the Raas Leela of Radha and Krishna, the feet land softly, the face is held serene rather than expressive, and the dancer wears the stiff, barrel-shaped kumil skirt.
Read the full explanation →In Kathakali, which make-up type is worn by proud anti-hero characters such as Ravana?
The word means knife, and the make-up is marked by an upturned knife-shaped line drawn on a green base, worn by characters who are brave and powerful but arrogant, of whom Ravana and Duryodhana are the standard examples.
Read the full explanation →Kalakshetra, the institution founded at Madras in 1936 to teach Bharatanatyam, was established by whom?
She learned Bharatanatyam at a time when the form was losing its temple patronage, gave it a place on the public concert stage, and founded Kalakshetra in 1936 as a school where it could be taught systematically along with music and craft.
Read the full explanation →The tribhanga posture, in which the body is bent at three places, is a defining feature of which classical dance?
The form rests on two basic stances, the square chowk and the three-bent tribhanga, in which the head, the torso and the hips are deflected in opposite directions to produce the sculptural line seen in Odisha temple carving.
Read the full explanation →Which classical dance developed under both temple and Mughal court patronage and is known for its rapid chakkars?
It began with the kathakars, the story-tellers who narrated the epics in north Indian temples, and under Mughal patronage it moved into the court, took on Persian costume and turned towards abstract rhythm.
Read the full explanation →The tarangam, in which the dancer performs on the rim of a brass plate, is an item of which classical dance?
In the tarangam the dancer balances on the raised rim of a brass plate and moves it in rhythm, often with a pot of water carried on the head, which demonstrates the control over balance for which the Andhra form is famous.
Read the full explanation →In which year was Sattriya recognised as a classical dance form by the Sangeet Natak Akademi?
Sattriya of Assam was the eighth and last form to enter the Akademi list, and that single date is the fact papers ask most often about it.
Read the full explanation →The Natya Shastra, the foundational text of Indian classical dance and drama, is attributed to which author?
The Natya Shastra is the Sanskrit treatise that lays down the grammar every classical form follows, dividing performance into nritta, nritya and natya, naming the four kinds of abhinaya, and describing the rasas.
Read the full explanation →Which classical dance form of Kerala is a dance-drama performed with elaborately painted faces and towering headgear?
The name means story-play, and the form stages episodes from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Its characters are identified by make-up types, chiefly pacha for noble heroes, kathi for proud anti-heroes such as Ravana, thadi for fierce figures, kari for demonesses and minukku for gentle women and sages.
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