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RRB Group D GK Questions 2026

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.

RRB Group D GK Questions with Answers

Q921.General ScienceAsked in: NDA · NDA-I 2026, GATMedium

1.7 g of silver nitrate is dissolved in 100 g of water, and 0.585 g of sodium chloride is dissolved in 100 g of water. Both are mixed and a chemical reaction occurs. 1.435 g of silver chloride and 0.85 g of sodium nitrate are formed. Which law of chemical combination is shown by the above reaction?

  1. A.Law of multiple proportions
  2. B.Law of conservation of mass
  3. C.Law of reciprocal proportions
  4. D.Law of constant proportions
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Correct answer: B. Law of conservation of mass

The total mass of the reactants equals the total mass of the products, which is exactly what this law states.

Q923.Static GKHard

Which of the following statements about birthplaces is correct?

  1. A.Lal Bahadur Shastri was born at Mughalsarai in Uttar Pradesh
  2. B.Lala Lajpat Rai was born at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra
  3. C.Sarojini Naidu was born at Chennai
  4. D.Maharana Pratap was born at Chittorgarh
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Correct answer: A. Lal Bahadur Shastri was born at Mughalsarai in Uttar Pradesh

Lal Bahadur Shastri was born on 2 October 1904 at Mughalsarai in the Varanasi region of Uttar Pradesh, a town now named Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar; he shares his birthday with Mahatma Gandhi, which is why both are remembered on 2 October.

Q927.Static GKMedium

The physicist C. V. Raman, the first Indian to win a Nobel Prize in science, was born in which present-day state?

  1. A.Kerala
  2. B.Andhra Pradesh
  3. C.Tamil Nadu
  4. D.Karnataka
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Correct answer: C. Tamil Nadu

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born in 1888 at Tiruchirappalli in present-day Tamil Nadu and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his work on the scattering of light, the discovery announced on 28 February 1928 that is remembered every year as National Science Day.

Q928.Static GKHard

Which pair of leaders was born in the same city?

  1. A.Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi
  2. B.Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel
  3. C.Tilak and Gokhale
  4. D.Vivekananda and Tagore
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Correct answer: A. Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi

Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 and his daughter Indira Gandhi on 19 November 1917, both at Allahabad, now Prayagraj, in the family home that Motilal Nehru named Anand Bhavan.

Q935.Indian HistoryHard

The Brihat-trayi, the three great texts of Ayurveda, consists of the Charaka Samhita, the Sushruta Samhita and which third work?

  1. A.Madhava Nidana
  2. B.Bhavaprakasha
  3. C.Ashtanga Hridaya
  4. D.Sharngadhara Samhita
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Correct answer: C. Ashtanga Hridaya

The Brihat-trayi or great triad of Ayurveda is made up of the Charaka Samhita on internal medicine, the Sushruta Samhita on surgery and the Ashtanga Hridaya of Vagbhata, who also wrote the Ashtanga Sangraha.

Q936.Indian HistoryHard

Madhava of Sangamagrama, who obtained infinite series for pi and for the sine and cosine functions, is associated with which school of mathematics and astronomy?

  1. A.The Ujjain school
  2. B.The Kerala school
  3. C.The Nalanda school
  4. D.The Kashmir school
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Correct answer: B. The Kerala school

Madhava of Sangamagrama, who lived around the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, founded the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics, whose members obtained infinite series expansions for pi and for the sine and cosine, anticipating results that Europe reached much later; Nilakantha Somayaji of the same school wrote the Tantrasamgraha in…

Q937.Indian HistoryMedium

The iron pillar at Mehrauli in Delhi, famous for resisting rust, carries an inscription of a king named Chandra, usually identified with which ruler?

  1. A.Chandragupta Maurya
  2. B.Chandragupta I
  3. C.Chandragupta II
  4. D.Chandra Gupta of the Later Guptas
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Correct answer: C. Chandragupta II

The Sanskrit inscription on the Mehrauli pillar praises a king called Chandra, whom historians identify with the Gupta ruler Chandragupta II Vikramaditya, and the pillar's wrought iron has resisted corrosion for about sixteen centuries because of its phosphorus content and the protective film it forms, which is the standard example…

Q938.Indian HistoryMedium

Which ancient Indian thinker, the founder of the Vaisheshika school of philosophy, propounded the view that matter consists of indivisible particles called paramanu?

  1. A.Kapila
  2. B.Kanada
  3. C.Gautama
  4. D.Jaimini
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Correct answer: B. Kanada

Kanada founded the Vaisheshika school, which classified the categories of existence and held that material things are made of paramanu, indivisible atoms that combine in pairs and larger groups to form the objects we see; the doctrine was reached by reasoning about divisibility rather than by experiment.

Q939.Indian HistoryHard

The Ganita Sara Sangraha, a ninth-century work on arithmetic and algebra, was composed by which mathematician?

  1. A.Sridhara
  2. B.Mahaviracharya
  3. C.Bhaskara I
  4. D.Madhava of Sangamagrama
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Correct answer: B. Mahaviracharya

Mahaviracharya was a Jain mathematician of the ninth century associated with the Rashtrakuta court, and his Ganita Sara Sangraha is a systematic treatment of arithmetic operations, fractions, series and the areas and volumes of figures, and it was widely used in south India.

Q940.Indian HistoryMedium

The Panchasiddhantika and the Brihat Samhita were written by which ancient Indian scholar?

  1. A.Varahamihira
  2. B.Nilakantha Somayaji
  3. C.Charaka
  4. D.Kanada
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Correct answer: A. Varahamihira

Varahamihira, who lived in the sixth century, summarised five earlier astronomical schools in the Panchasiddhantika, wrote the encyclopaedic Brihat Samhita covering astronomy, omens, architecture, gems and the finding of underground water, and composed the Brihat Jataka on horoscopy.