RRB Group D GK Questions 2026

Darjeeling tea of West Bengal was the first Indian product to be registered under the Geographical Indications of Goods, Registration and Protection, Act of 1999, and its logo of a woman holding a tea leaf is the mark of the Tea Board of India.

Undhiyu is a winter dish of Surat and south Gujarat in which surti papdi, yam, raw banana, brinjal, potato and muthia dumplings are cooked slowly with a green paste of coriander, coconut and green chilli.

Bebinca is the best known Goan sweet, baked layer upon layer from coconut milk, flour, egg yolk, sugar and ghee, one layer set before the next is poured, and it belongs to the Portuguese inheritance of Goan cooking along with vindaloo, sorpotel and xacuti.

The Mahaprasad of Puri is cooked in the temple's Rosaghara in unglazed earthen pots stacked one above the other over wood fires, so that the pot on top is said to cook first, and it is then offered to the deities and sold to pilgrims in the Ananda Bazaar within…

Litti is a wheat ball stuffed with roasted gram flour, that is sattu, flavoured with ajwain, mustard oil, lemon and pickle, roasted over coals and eaten with chokha, a mash of roasted brinjal, potato and tomato.

Dal baati churma is the signature meal of Rajasthan: hard wheat balls baked in embers, served with a spiced lentil preparation and with churma, the same baati crushed with ghee and sugar.

The Sadya is the grand vegetarian meal of Kerala, laid out on a fresh banana leaf in a fixed order of pickles, thorans, avial, sambar, rice and finally payasam, and it is eaten above all at the Onam harvest festival.

The Wazwan is the ceremonial banquet of the Kashmir valley, a meal of many courses that tradition puts at thirty six, cooked by a hereditary chef called the Waza under a head cook known as the Vasta Waza.

Muizzuddin Muhammad bin Sam, called Muhammad Ghori, came from Ghur in central Afghanistan, and the Ghurids displaced the house of Ghazni before turning on northern India.

Ghori returned to Ghazni after Tarain and Chandawar and left his trusted slave officer Qutbuddin Aibak in charge of the Indian territories; on the death of Ghori in 1206 Aibak made himself the ruler at Lahore and founded the dynasty that became the Delhi Sultanate.

The Hindu Shahi ruler Jaipal met Mahmud of Ghazni near Waihind, close to Peshawar, in 1001 CE, was defeated and taken prisoner, and the humiliation is said to have led him to end his own life, after which his son Anandpal continued the struggle.

After the second battle of Tarain, Muhammad Ghori turned east and defeated Jaichand, the Gahadavala ruler of Kanauj and Banaras, at Chandawar on the Yamuna in 1194, a victory that gave the Turks the upper Ganga valley.

One year after his defeat, Muhammad Ghori came back to Tarain, drew the Rajput cavalry out with a feigned retreat, surrounded it with mounted archers and destroyed it; Prithviraj Chauhan was captured and the road to Delhi lay open.

In the first battle of Tarain in 1191 the Rajput army of Prithviraj Chauhan III of Ajmer and Delhi broke the Ghurid centre, Ghori himself was wounded and carried away by a follower, and he withdrew to Ghazni.

The Central Asian scholar Abu Rayhan Alberuni came to India with Mahmud of Ghazni, learnt Sanskrit, and wrote Tahqiq i Hind, known as Kitab ul Hind, which describes Indian religion, society, astronomy and mathematics and is the most valuable account of eleventh century India.

The raid on the Somnath temple on the coast of Saurashtra was the richest of all the expeditions of Mahmud of Ghazni and the one for which he is most remembered in Indian history.

The Chach Nama, a Persian translation of an older Arabic account, narrates the rule of the Chach family of Sindh, the attack on the Arab ships at Debal and the campaign of Muhammad bin Qasim, and remains the main source for 712 CE.

He was the Brahman ruler of Sindh who refused to compensate the Arabs for the ships plundered by the pirates of Debal, and he fell fighting Muhammad bin Qasim at Raor in 712 CE, after which Sindh passed under Umayyad rule.

He was the young Arab commander sent into Sindh in 712 CE, who captured Debal, crossed the Indus and defeated and killed Dahir at the battle of Raor, and then took Brahmanabad, Alor and Multan.

The Galapagos Islands are a volcanic archipelago in the eastern Pacific, about a thousand kilometres west of the South American coast, and they form a province of Ecuador; the finches, tortoises and iguanas Charles Darwin observed there in 1835 led him towards the theory of natural selection, and the group…